Quentin Cooper has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Prosperity Without Growth.
Prosperity Without Growth
Summary
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The publication of Prosperity Without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a ‘post-growth’ economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability. Seven years after it was first published, Prosperity Without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe, but an essential vision of social progress in a post-crisis world. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times.
©2016 Tim Jackson (P)2020 Taylor & Francis
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future
Summary
This audiobook narrated by Quentin Cooper explains the tricks behind nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphones Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers, and we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? John MacCormick answers this question in language anyone can understand, using vivid examples to explain the fundamental tricks behind nine computer algorithms that power our PCs, tablets, and smartphones. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2011 John MacCormick (P)2020 Princeton University Press
Eight Lessons on Infinity
Summary
A fun, nontechnical, and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity. In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira presents an introduction to mathematical theories which deal with the most beautiful concept ever invented by humankind: infinity. In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira presents an introduction to mathematical theories which deal with the most beautiful concept ever invented by humankind: infinity. Authored in clear, simple language and aimed at a lay audience, this book offers some strategies that will allow listeners to try their ability at solving truly fascinating mathematical problems. Infinity is a deeply counterintuitive concept that has inspired many great thinkers. In this book, we will meet many sages, both familiar and unfamiliar: Zeno and Pythagoras, Georg Cantor and Bertrand Russell, Sofia Kovalevskaya and Emmy Noether, al-Khwarizmi and Euclid, Sophie Germain and Srinivasa Ramanujan. The world of infinity is inhabited by many paradoxes, and so is this book: Zeno paradoxes, Hilbert's "Infinity Hotel", Achilles and the gods paradox, the paradox of heaven and hell, the Ross-Littlewood paradox involving tennis balls, the Galileo paradox, and many more. Aimed at the curious but nontechnical listener, this book refrains from using any fearsome mathematical symbols. It uses only the most basic operations of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, powers, and roots - that is all. But that doesn’t mean that a bit of deep thinking won’t be necessary and rewarding. Created with humor and lightness of touch, Haim Shapira banishes the chalky pallor of the schoolroom and offers, instead, a truly thrilling intellectual journey. Fasten your seatbelt. We are going to infinity, and beyond!
©2019 Haim Shapira (P)2020 Watkins Publishing