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“jimmy soni”

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  • A Mind at Play

    How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman ...
    Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics“A charming account of one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scientists…Readers will enjoy this portrait of a modern-day Da Vinci.” —FortuneFrom the award-winning duo who coauthored Rome’s Last Citizen comes an exploration of the life of one of the foremost intellects of the 20th century Claude Shannon, the neglected major architect ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Founders

    The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

    by Jimmy Soni ...
    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKERNational Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022”A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST“A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible” (The Wall Street Journal)—including Elon M... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rome's Last Citizen

    The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

    by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni ...
    " Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Founders

    The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

    by Jimmy Soni ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 25 min

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKERNational Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022”A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALISTA “deeply reported…bracingly written” (Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Code Breaker) and “gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks a... ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    A Mind at Play

    How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rome's Last Citizen

    The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

    by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Beijing Rules

    How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

    by Bethany Allen ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal influence worldwide.Bethany Allen, the award-winning China reporter for Axios, shows that by tying profits to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Madison's Gift

    Five Partnerships That Built America

    by David O. Stewart ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 29 min

    Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander Hamilton, political ally Thomas Jefferson, successor James Monroe, and his wife, Dolley. Stewart makes a compelling case for Madison's centrality and tells an ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

    by Carl Zimmer, Jaime Green ...
    Narrated by Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, Jeena Yi, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.“What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 32 min

    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    AIQ

    How People and Machines Are Smarter Together

    by Nick Polson, James Scott ...
    Narrated by Nick Polson, Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    **"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines." — Steven Levitt, co-author of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    For the Culture

    The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be

    by Marcus Collins ...
    Narrated by Cary Hite ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    In this illuminating book, the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade reveals how our perspective can be influenced by culture.In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues that true cultural engagement is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior. If you want to get people to move, you must first understand the underlying cultural forces that make them tick ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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