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Bestsellers
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- By Dalton on 06-06-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- By: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- By Samuel Mebane on 11-25-23
By: Jennifer Pahlka
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Turtles All the Way Down
- Vaccine Science and Myth
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tim Bodnar
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
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If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and looking for information that will allow you to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones....
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Wow!
- By Mike Gaytan on 05-22-24
By: Anonymous
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- By Ken Vanden branden on 07-23-23
By: Scott J. Shapiro
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- By Dalton on 06-06-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- By: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- By Samuel Mebane on 11-25-23
By: Jennifer Pahlka
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Turtles All the Way Down
- Vaccine Science and Myth
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tim Bodnar
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
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If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and looking for information that will allow you to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones....
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Wow!
- By Mike Gaytan on 05-22-24
By: Anonymous
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- By Ken Vanden branden on 07-23-23
By: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- By R. Carr on 02-03-24
By: Kelly Weinersmith, and others
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- By Russ on 05-08-21
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- By Kevin on 09-17-18
By: Avis Lang, and others
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The Conservative Futurist
- How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised
- By: James Pethokoukis
- Narrated by: Séan Marrinan
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer....
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well-researched and interesting point of view
- By Jonah on 01-21-24
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Tyranny, Inc.
- How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
- By: Sohrab Ahmari
- Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....
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Doesn't address the whole picture
- By Penelope M on 09-18-23
By: Sohrab Ahmari
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....
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Very good
- By Brad on 07-04-19
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- By: Judith Curry
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change.
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Fantastically balanced and optimistic.
- By aaron on 04-02-24
By: Judith Curry
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Manipulated
- Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth
- By: Theresa Payton
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane, Theresa Payton
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes....
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awesome book
- By John Hill on 06-05-20
By: Theresa Payton
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You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late
- The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches
- By: Josephine Wolff
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs
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Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn't forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures....
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Good primer
- By Amazon Customer on 02-13-21
By: Josephine Wolff
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....
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The least helpful review of Space Chronicles.
- By Joshua Kring on 06-17-15
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When Science Meets Power (1st Edition)
- By: Geoff Mulgan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding—and unsolicited—authority being heaped upon science....
By: Geoff Mulgan
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Pandemic Politics
- The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
- By: Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, with disastrous consequences for all of us....
By: Shana Kushner Gadarian, and others
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The Fifth Domain
- Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
- By: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....
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The Author Lacks Critical Thinking
- By Thomas Rose on 08-08-20
By: Richard A. Clarke, and others
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The Next Pandemic
- On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
- By: Ali Khan, William Patrick
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse....
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Many Outstanding Stories about Many Scary Microbes
- By aaron on 01-24-17
By: Ali Khan, and others
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Atomic Days
- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
- By: Joshua Frank
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl....
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this is more political than I thought it should be
- By Dean on 09-29-23
By: Joshua Frank
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AI Needs You
- How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
- By: Verity Harding
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good.
By: Verity Harding
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The Leak
- Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- By: Robert P. Crease, Peter D. Bond - contributor
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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The authors reveal how the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility....
By: Robert P. Crease, and others
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Lessons from the Covid War
- An Investigative Report
- By: COVID Crisis Group
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s COVID response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times....
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Great, but more is needed...
- By Michael on 06-28-23
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Physics for Future Presidents
- The Science Behind the Headlines
- By: Richard A. Muller
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....
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must read for all open minded people
- By John Burrus on 06-23-11
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Antisocial Media
- How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
- By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging....
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a modest look at what Facebook can repair
- By Elkobri on 01-19-21
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The Handover
- How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
- By: David Runciman
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society....
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States and corporations as AIs, before AI
- By W. P. Gardner on 11-21-23
By: David Runciman
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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
- By: Cyd Harrell
- Narrated by: Taylor Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. Cyd Harrell outlines the types of projects, partnerships, and people that civic technologists encounter, and the methods they can use to make lasting change....
By: Cyd Harrell
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Crisis and Chaos
- Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against Covid-19
- By: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, Nancy Peske - contributor
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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The former Surgeon General of the United States—freed from the many constraints he worked under in public office—reveals critical lessons learned from both mistakes and successes overlooked during the pandemic....
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Very insightful- good read
- By DER on 02-20-24
By: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, and others
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Uncontrolled Spread
- Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations....
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Save yourself the time and $
- By Travis on 09-21-21
By: Scott Gottlieb