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Books narrated by John Agar

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  • Science and Spectacle

    The Work of Jodrell Bank in Postwar British Culture

    by John Agar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of scientific revolution, science formed a cultural resource from which post-war careers and a national identity could be built. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope was once a symbol of British ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    On the Good Ship Hollywood

    by John Agar, L. C. Van Savage ...
    Narrated by Nat Segaloff ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 47 min

    For over twenty years, the name John Agar on a marquee meant action to moviegoers—from World War II land, sea, and air battles, to the frontier West, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era’s most memorable movie monsters.Agar’s rise to fame was meteoric: during World War II, the eighty-three-dollar-a-month buck sergeant met and later married ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    N B C University Theater - The Red Badge of Courage

    by Stephen Crane ...
    Narrated by John Agar ...

    Abridged

    1 hour

    'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Kidney Life: A New Direction

    by Dori Schatell, MS, John Agar, MD, George Coritsidis, MD, Eric Weinhandl, PhD ...
    If your kidneys - or loved ones' - don't work well, you may be angry, sad, scared. Or, you feel all three ways at the same time. This is 100% normal! When you can move past fear to HOPE, you can make the rest of your life as good as it can be. At the non-profit Medical Education Institute (MEI), we are here to help you. We've learned from tens of thousands of people with kidney disease and their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

    by Nicholas Agar, Miguel Altieri, American Association for the Advancement of Science, F H. Bach et. al, eds., Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, Carl Cohen, Ronnie Cummings, Joyce D'Silva, H T. Englehardt, Ron Epstein, J.R.S Fincham, Mira Fong, R G. Frey, Jean Halloran, Michael Hansen, Heta Hayry, Bette Hillman, A Holland, Leon Kass, D A. Kessler et. al, Andrew Linzey, Miriam McGillis, Martina McGloughlin, National Academy of Sciences, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Organization for Economic Cooperation, Development, Julie Palmer, Steven Palumbi, Madison Powers, J R. Ravetz, Rosamond Rhodes, B E. Rollin, Peter M. Rosset, Paul Thompson, Harold Vanderpool, Allen Verhey, Robert Wachbroit, Leroy Walters ...
    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • How to Think about Progress

    A Skeptic's Guide to Technology

    by Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley, Dan Weijers ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors show that techno-hype is all too often accepted because of the horizon bias, i.e. the modern ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dialogues on Human Enhancement

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems
    We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. There are nootropic smart drugs and gene editing that influence the development of the brain. The near future promises cybernetic technologies that can be grafted onto our brains and bodies. The challenge for readers of Dialogues on Human Enhancement is to decide how to respond to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • How to Be Human in the Digital Economy

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Truly Human Enhancement

    A Philosophical Defense of Limits

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Humanity's End

    Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Sceptical Optimist

    Why technology isn't the answer to everything

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    by Robin Maxwell ...
    Narrated by Suzan Crowley ...

    Unabridged

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    Robin Maxwell’s debut novel introduces Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth: one was queen for a thousand days, the other for more than forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII.At the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign, her mother’s private diary is given to her by a mysterious lady. In reading it, the young ruler — herself embroiled in a dangerous love ... Read more

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