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You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony. Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and becoming a healthy human is impossible without them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for anyone that wants to be healthy
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De: Alanna Collen
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- De: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,975
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
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De: Nathan H. Lents
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Queen of Fats
- Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
- De: Susan Allport
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids know as omega-3s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opener about fats, weight and health!
- De Eric en 12-22-11
De: Susan Allport
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- De: Daniel Lieberman
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,456
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,456
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could Have Been Good, but...
- De Trebla en 04-08-18
De: Daniel Lieberman
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The Fat Switch
- De: Richard J. Johnson MD
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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If you've ever struggled with losing weight and keeping it off, I don't have to tell you it's a challenge. You already know. What if losing weight could be as easy as flipping a switch? I know that sounds incredible. But now there's an abundance of research telling us that may be possible. In his new book, The Fat Switch, Dr. Richard J. Johnson, presents news-breaking, science-based studies that will reverse current thinking on both the cause and treatment of obesity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want to understand weight gain?
- De Programming Dragon en 02-01-16
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Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- De: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances-antibiotics-threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enlightening and information well supported
- De James en 05-03-15
De: Martin J. Blaser
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Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox
- How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life
- De: Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND
- Narrado por: Virginia Wolf
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 155
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Are you taking calcium or vitamin D? This book could save your life! Learn the secret to avoiding osteoporosis and heart disease. Millions of people take calcium and Vitamin D supplements thinking they're helping their bones. The truth is, without the addition of Vitamin K2, such a health regimen could prove dangerous. Without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium to the bones where it's needed; instead, the calcium resides in soft tissue, like the arteries, leading to a combination of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis, or the dreaded "calcium paradox".
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5 out of 5 stars
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I CANNOT APPLAUD THIS BOOK ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!
- De @THEROOTMATTERS en 03-22-19
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Superfuel
- Ketogenic Keys to Unlock the Secrets of Good Fats, Bad Fats, and Great Health
- De: Dr. James DiNicolantonio
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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Should you cook with coconut oil or vegetable oil? Eat butter, cream, or olive oil? Supplement with fish oil or flax oil? Sometimes it seems as if everyone has a different opinion on these crucial questions - but this audiobook holds real answers. Best-selling author and teacher Dr. Joseph Mercola teams up with cardiovascular expert Dr. James DiNicolantonio to cut through the confusion about how dietary fats affect our bodies and set the record straight on how to eat for optimal well-being.
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There IS a PDF (now)
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Evolving Ourselves
- How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
- De: Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin were alive today, how would he explain this new world?
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fascinating ideas and science
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The Truth About Cancer
- De: Ty M. Bollinger
- Narrado por: Ty M. Bollinger
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One out of three women alive today, and one out of two men, will face a cancer diagnosis, according to the World Health Organization. Ty Bollinger takes this personally: in the course of a decade, he says, "I lost my entire family to cancer. I don't believe I had to lose them." The Truth about Cancer has been written for one simple reason: to share the knowledge we need to protect ourselves, treat ourselves, and in some cases save our lives or the lives of those we love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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save a life with this valuable information.
- De edwin matias en 12-30-16
De: Ty M. Bollinger
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KetoFast
- Rejuvenate Your Health with a Step-by-Step Guide to Timing Your Ketogenic Meals
- De: Dr. Joseph Mercola
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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In this in-depth yet accessible guide, Dr. Joseph Mercola explores the profound health benefits that result when ketogenic living and well-planned fasting are combined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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BUY THE HARDCOPY - not the Audio
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An Epidemic of Absence
- A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
- De: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with parasites. Against much of his better judgment, he joins these do-it-yourselfers and reports his surprising results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The point of view from a Veterinarian immunologist
- De rtgymnast en 11-03-17
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100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's
- De: Jean Carper
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After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 surprisingly simple, scientifically tested ways to radically cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will the real cause please stand up
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De: Jean Carper
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The Cancer Chronicles
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- De: George Johnson
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
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When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A quick read - hard to put down
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The Longevity Code
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Medical doctor and researcher Dr. Kris Verburgh is quickly emerging as one of the world's leading research authorities on the science of aging. The Longevity Code is his authoritative guide on why and how we age and on the four most crucial areas we have control over in order to slow down - and even reverse - the aging process. We learn why some animal species hardly age at all while others age and die very quickly and about the mechanisms at work that slowly but definitely cause our bodies to age, making us susceptible to heart attack, stroke, cancer, pneumonia, and dementia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen
- De Calum en 04-14-21
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Regenerate
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- De: Sayer Ji
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Combining analysis of cutting-edge scientific findings with our deepest ancestral wisdom and health-promoting practices, Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo, offers a time-tested program to help prevent and manage the most common health afflictions of our day-cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic syndrome. Antiquated thinking and scientific dogma have long obstructed our understanding of our innate untapped potential for self-regeneration and radical healing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Factually Informative!
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De: Sayer Ji
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Ravenous
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- De: Sam Apple
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
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The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the 20th century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended, a must read.
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The Bad Food Bible
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- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings, Kate Rudd
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Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients - often the most enjoyable ones - are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love the smell of evidence in the morning
- De Tara Daves en 04-22-19
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- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- De: Dan Levitt
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. But how did these elements combine to make us human?
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One of the Very Best Science Books I have Read
- De TStair en 03-20-23
De: Dan Levitt
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The Power of Storytelling with Ari Shapiro
- De: Ari Shapiro, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ari Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Grabación Original
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As an award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered, Ari Shapiro knows the power of storytelling better than most. And the longer he’s worked in the field, the more convinced he’s become of storytelling’s primal importance. In 12 fascinating lessons, this master of the craft reveals the storytelling secrets he’s learned over the course of his career as a reporter and performer, from finding a good story and choosing the right characters to conducting interviews and even delivering a story effectively out loud.
De: Ari Shapiro, y otros
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A History of the Human Brain
- From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
- De: Bret Stetka
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. The human brain, and its evolutionary journey, is unlike anything else in history. In A History of the Human Brain, Bret Stetka takes listeners through that far-reaching journey. He also tackles the question of where the brain will take us next, exploring the burgeoning concepts of epigenetics and new technologies like CRISPR.
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Fascinating survey of the evolution of the human brain
- De Cosmos en 03-30-21
De: Bret Stetka
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Ed Yong
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- De MediaBaron en 06-27-22
De: Ed Yong
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Age Later
- Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity
- De: Nir Barzilai, Toni Robino
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers decades earlier? Are they just lucky? Or do they know something the rest of us don’t? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? What if you could look and feel 50 through your 80s and 90s? Founder of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the leading pioneers of longevity research, Dr. Nir Barzilai’s life’s work is tackling the challenges of aging to delay and prevent the onset of all age-related diseases.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang on, help is coming!
- De RealWoman8 en 01-06-21
De: Nir Barzilai, y otros
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Chasing Shadows
- My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
- De: Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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With its quaint villages, local restaurants serving up lobster rolls, and miles and miles of warm, sandy beaches, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is famous for being America’s carefree seaside getaway. But in August 2012, the first confirmed shark attack in almost eighty years occurred in the region. As shark sightings quickly began to increase on Cape Cod and elsewhere and large beachside billboards warning about the growing shark population became a common sight, a boogie boarder died after being attacked by a great white shark in Cape Cod’s shallow waters.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not so much a book about sharks...
- De Jarad en 09-14-23
De: Greg Skomal, y otros
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Your Inner Fish
- A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
- De: Neil Shubin
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Your Inner Fish
- De Mel en 02-03-08
De: Neil Shubin
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- De: Dan Egan
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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The Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior - hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's engaging portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Crucial, Get it! Then Enjoy Your Water
- De Meg en 08-05-19
De: Dan Egan
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The Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Works
- De: Helen Czerski
- Narrado por: Helen Czerski
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
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All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes. Timely, elegant, and passionately argued, The Blue Machine presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a citizen of an ocean planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful knowledge locked into much detail
- De S Bell en 11-07-23
De: Helen Czerski
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Jellyfish Age Backwards
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- linda berry
- 03-03-24
Terrific book
How entertaining! So much to know expertly presented in a light hearted often funny way. Worth the listen
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- Ghengis Khan
- 12-14-23
Great Read to Repeat
The author draws together a lot of useful as well as interesting information among all living creatures that point to potential understanding of aging in humans. I will be recommending this to others as well as re-reading myself.
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- Kristy Madden
- 01-11-24
Very Engaging
I found this book to be both interesting and fun. The author is very gifted at describing incredible scientific facts.
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- Noah
- 04-11-24
learned a lot
this book covered a lot of material in an easy to understand but scientific manor. well spoken
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- Sean1310
- 01-10-24
Very good
Starts out really good with many engaging facts and then transitions into some interesting science. I wanted more from the ending, a call to action or where the future may take us; just a little more of something. Overall very good.
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- Ohmma
- 01-26-24
Worthwhile listen
The information is very accessible for lay people. And though it’s easy to understand, it is well-presented, without repetition or redundancy. Lots of interesting information about the aging process, including a handful of practical tips. The narrator is excellent!!
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- Jacob Brenner
- 04-14-24
Concise, interesting, and accessible for non-scientists
Great explanation of aging science. Both interesting science, and also practical advice. And funny! Best in the aging genre for non-scientists.
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- Robert
- 12-09-23
Uniquely interesting and informative.
This is a brilliant work that is well presented and will keep you listening until the end. I enjoyed it and learned a lot.
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- Jane B Nurnberg
- 01-12-24
Fascinating and well told
Many facets of aging told in interesting ways. Initially I was skeptical I would like this, but I enjoyed it and listened much of it twice. Good one!
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- Michael & Cora
- 01-10-24
Like a Documentary on Aging
This book contained a plethora of interesting and fascinating facts about the aging processes of different species. Highly recommend.
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