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  • Play The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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    • By Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
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    Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.

    Deborah Covington says: "Get This Book!!!"
  • Play The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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    • By Tim Wu
    • Narrated by Marc Vietor
    • Length:14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release Date: 11-02-10
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    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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    • By Tim Wu
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    Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.

    Neil says: "Very interesting history, biased conclusions"
  • Play The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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    • By Siddhartha Mukherjee
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    Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms our understanding of cancer and much of the world around us. Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a novelist's richness of detail, a historian's range, and a biographer's passion.

    Paul says: "Spectacular!"
  • Play The Grand Design
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    The Grand Design

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    • By Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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    The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.

    Brandi says: "Hawking succeeds in mind-blowing physics, real"
  • Play Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
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    Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

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    • By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
    • Narrated By Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan
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    Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....

    Mark says: "too much focus on academic in-fighting"
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