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Unstable Prototypes: Big Sigma, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1098min

Following his last adventure, Trevor "Lex" Alexander's life has managed to return to normal. He's back to splitting his time between delivering packages and transporting passengers, along with the occasional foray into testing highly experimental equipment. He's even gotten back together with his girlfriend, Michella Modane, who has been launched to stardom by her coverage of the Bypass Gemini incident. Yes, things are going quite well for Lex. But in his life, luck like this never lasts long. Sure enough, while he is preparing for a rare visit from Michella, he receives word that the reclusive inventor Karter Dee has been kidnapped. The eccentric and slightly deranged inventor's checkered past has made getting the authorities involved out of the question. That has left "Ma", the AI in charge of cooking his meals and reining in his insanity, with few options. She has reached out to Lex as one of the few people she can trust and needs him to help assemble a team of Karter's former allies to take him back before his latest contraptions can be put to work terrorizing the populace at the hands of his captors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Forbes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001567/bk_bimo_001567_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Engineer : Magic & Steam, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min

1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem. But even he’s taken aback by a run-in with the country’s most infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly. Gunner is also stalking Shallow Grave in search of Tinkerer, who will stop at nothing to take control of the town’s silver mines. Neither Gillian nor Gunner are willing to let Tinkerer hurt more innocent people, so they agree to a very temporary partnership. If facing illegal magic, Gatling gun contraptions, and a wild engineer in America’s frontier wasn’t enough trouble for a city boy, Gillian must also come to terms with the reality that he’s rather fond of his partner. But even if they live through this adventure, Gillian fears there’s no chance for love between a special agent and outlaw. Based on the short story, "Gunner the Deadly." Entirely revised, newly expanded, and book one in the exciting new steampunk series, Magic & Steam. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Declan Winters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209962/bk_acx0_209962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Double Take , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 254min

Double take: a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance has not been completely grasped at first. Kevin Michael Connolly is a 23-year-old man who has seen the world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Games on his mono-ski, Kevin Connolly has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was raised like any other kid (except, that is, for his father's MacGyver-like contraptions such as the "butt boot"). As a college student, Kevin traveled to 17 countries on his skateboard, including Bosnia, China, Ukraine, and Japan. In an attempt to capture the stares of others, he took more than 33,000 photographs of people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it is to truly see another person. We also get to know his quirky and unflappable parents and his girlfriend. From the home of his family in Helena, Montana, to the streets of Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur, Kevin's remarkable journey will change the way you look at others, and the way you see yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Michael Connolly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002018/bk_harp_002018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Arduino Programming : A Step by Step Guide to Learn Arduino Programming for Absolute Beginners , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min

If you are curious about programming and are in search of an open-source electronic touch point, Arduino programming will be the point to initiate!With a scope of Arduinos to look over and increasing, diversity of projects on the web or in-person that are built on Arduino technologies, the versatility they offer, and the simplicity of building contraptions with Arduino have pulled in numerous individuals who are both learners and experienced experts.At the moment, with this new and informative guide, Arduino Programming: A Step by Step Guide to Learn Arduino Programming For Absolute Beginners, you can learn all you need to get you started with this powerful support, with sections that probe into: What is Arduino?The advantages of ArduinoCritical terms in Arduino and understanding the choicesCoding for the ArduinoTurn your Arduino into a machine C language basics and functions Auduino logic statement Auduino for loopsAuduino operatorsDecision making Input, output, and sensorsComputer interfacing with an ArduinoMore in-depth computer science topicsArduino API librariesUsing the stream class (and working with strings)User-defined functionsYou will find a thorough guide to Arduino is all you will need to get you started and will equip you with sufficient information to conquer any fundamental restrictions you’ll face, meaning that you will be up and running before long and able to start programming quicker than with other popular offerings.Order your copy today to get started. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Tromp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210104/bk_acx0_210104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Baking for Dave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min

Iris Heller, a teenager with Sensory Processing Disorder, runs away to compete in a national bake-off contest. In order to get there, she steals her mom's car, travels along the East Coast, and does the most terrifying thing of all - interacts with actual people! Iris has never been like other girls, but she's not about to start letting that get in the way. Iris has this profound fascination for the musican Dave Matthews, and she feels a compelling need to compete in the bake-off for Dave. To compensate for nervousness, she has the habit of humming, beatboxing, and making musical contraptions out of items around her. It is this talent that gets noticed at several road stops along the way, which leads to her inevitable "gone viral" glory. At a donut shop, Iris sings like an angel. At a coffee shop, she plays a symphony using cups and the soda fountain. At a restaurant, she builds a glorious musical fountain out of dishes and pans. Iris is the kind of pure spirit who brings the best out of the world around her without knowing it. Iris' mom (Maisy) and her best friend Eric set out to find Iris. All lives converge at Happy World, the Disney-esque paradise, where the bake-off takes place. Iris, whose life has been one of isolation and misunderstanding, finds out just how much she is loved. It doesn't matter whether she wins the bake-off, she's already won the biggest contest of all, triumphing in life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Groberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081815/bk_acx0_081815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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What Is It? (Highchair U): (Educational Board Books for Toddlers, Lift-The-Flap Board Book)

Flip through history with this fun lift-the-flap board book challenging today's toddlers to identify everyday objects from the past and revealing how it looks today. Kids today are a whiz with cell phones and tablets and all sorts of technology. But what would happen if you showed them what those same gadgets looked like when you, your parents, or even your grandparents were kids? What Is It? presents images of early versions of everyday tools and technology we use today, such as phones, cameras, televisions, washing machines, with lift-the-flap prompts asking preschoolers to identify the item. Clues on each page provide hints to what the mystery item is. A simple lift of the flap will reveal the answer! Guaranteed giggles of delight will come from this look at some of the craziest changes over the decades of inventions we take for granted today. 10 FUN CHALLENGES: Young readers are challenged to identify 10 early versions of familiar objects and technologies including phones, cameras, televisions, washing machines, and more! POP CULTURE BONDING: Parents, grandparents, and entertaining aunts and uncles can introduce young readers to the technology of the past and prompt inter-generational storytelling and bonding. FUN PHOTOS: From the wildest designs to the craziest contraptions, kids will delight at the photos of the strangest-looking inventions from the past. BUILD EARLY LITERACY SKILLS: Reading together supports print motivation, print awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, and phonological awareness. GREAT GIFT: Be the most playful gift giver in the room at baby showers, gender reveals, and birthday parties.

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Real Intelligence: The IntelliLearn System for Becoming Smarter and More Effective, Hörbuch, Digital, 550min

In Real Intelligence, Dr. Martel reveals this proven brain-expanding system to you and shows you how to quickly and easily implement it in the most important areas of your life so that you can experience similarly extraordinary results. First, he'll guide you through a series of straightforward questions designed to help you identify your unique learning style. You'll discover which factors increase your ability to effectively think, act, and process information - and you'll come to understand exactly why, over the course of your life, you have excelled in some areas and struggled in others. Then you'll be introduced to the Magic Learning Box - a storehouse of unexpected yet extremely potent and practical secrets, techniques, and strategies, all designed to help you ignite your brain's full power. At a moment's notice, you'll have any one of these incredible "tools" at your disposal, including: The Ergonomics of Learning: 16 subtle, almost invisible environmental factors that will make or break your performance and success. A series of strategies, tactics, and tools that will build your Real Intelligence. Theory R relationship-building strategies to enhance your learning. Keys to bridging the gap between your brain and your heart to achieve an incredible state of integrated, whole-mind learning. A simple remedy for "reading fatigue." Gadgets, gizmos, and contraptions you can build to increase your learning experience and make it fun! The story of seven letters that will lead to unfathomable increases in your performance. How to use your eight different intelligences you may never even have known you had! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Laurence Martel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000151/bk_ntgl_000151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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High-Tech LEGO Projects

A collection of 16 fascinating scientific and technical projects to build with parts from the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics set and other components. A great addition to any STEM curriculum or home library.High Tech LEGO® hijacks the MINDSTORMS® EV3 revolution, showing you how to build creative technical inventions with practical applications. You'll learn to build a dynamic array of working devices for outdoor research, home security, spycraft, and more.Among the book's 16 fascinating projects you'll find a motion-activated animal cam, a Morse code transmitter, a laser security fence, a motion-sensing radar detector, an automated insect trapper, and a heat-seeking infrared cannon. Welcome to a whole new world of building!Every project brings together science, mechanics, electronics, optics, and software to create complex instruments for studying and measuring the world around you, all while maintaining the playfulness of LEGO. Each easy-to-follow model combines illustrated instructions with step-by-step guidance on the engineering methods at play.As you build, you'll learn: "Illegal" modding techniques (that may include drilling, cutting and soldering -- Shh!) Different ways to work with diode laser modules Tricks for modifying EV3 sensors and motors The joy of hacking LEGO light bricks to make a flickering fireplace How to use MINDSTORMS to build your own contraptions!Experiment on your own, and expand on your finished creations. Make a few adjustments so the Critter Cam triggers an alarm to scare away pests, or modify the Doppler radar to detect flammable gases. The possibilities are endless!REQUIREMENTS: LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Home Edition Windows Vista or higher macOS 10.14 or earlier

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The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min

The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues are found anywhere else in the Pacific. How could the islanders possibly have moved so many multi-ton monoliths from the quarry inland, where they were carved, to their posts along the coastline? And most intriguing and vexing of all, if the island once boasted a culture developed and sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? Why was the island the Europeans encountered a sparsely populated wasteland? The prevailing accounts of the island’s history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. The island was dominated by a powerful chiefdom that promulgated a cult of statue making, exercising a ruthless hold on the island’s people and rapaciously destroying the environment, cutting down a lush palm forest that once blanketed the island in order to construct contraptions for moving more and more statues, which grew larger and larger. As the population swelled in order to sustain the statue cult, growing well beyond the island’s agricultural capacity, a vicious cycle of warfare broke out between opposing groups, and the culture ultimately suffered a dramatic collapse. When Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they fully expected to find evidence supporting these accounts. Instead, revelation after revelation uncovered a very different truth. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be availabl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003341/bk_adbl_003341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt: Frank Einstein, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 165min

More clever science experiments, funny jokes, and robot hijinks await listeners in book four of the New York Times best-selling Frank Einstein chapter book series from the mad scientist team of Jon Scieszka and Brian Biggs. The perfect combination to engage and entertain listeners, the series features real science facts with adventure and humor, making these books ideal for STEM education. This latest installment examines the quest to unlock the power behind the science of all connected life. Kid genius and inventor Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. In the series opener, an uneventful experiment in his garage lab, a lightning storm, and a flash of electricity brought Frank's inventions - the robots Klink and Klank - to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his inventions. In the fourth book in the series, Frank - along with his best friend, Watson, and Klink and Klank - once again finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival, T. Edison, and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank's newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt, which allows the user to evolve and devolve into other forms of life, blasting from one species to another. Integrating real science facts with wacky humor, a silly cast of characters, and science fiction, this uniquely engaging series is an irresistible chemical reaction for middle grade listeners. The Frank Einstein series encourages middle graders to question the way things work and to discover how they, too, can experiment with science. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews raves, "This buoyant, tongue-in-cheek celebration of the impulse to 'keep asking questions and finding your own answers' fires on all cylinders", while Publishers Weekly says tha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Scieszka, Brian Biggs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002106/bk_lili_002106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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