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The Apples, Amazons and Googles of the next few decades will be biotech companies. The tech companies of the last few years have changed how we do things but the businesses driving the biotech revolution are about making life better. These companies will solve many of our most intractable problems: cancer, dementia, diabetes, elderly care, mental health challenges, even power generation and agricultural production. The audiobook explains what biotech is, what is coming next, and in a final section, how interested investors can profit from it.

Roger Stringer grew up in rural Mississippi, hunting and eating everything from deer to rabbits. When he had two sons, Zac and Justin, he gave them guns and took them to the woods as well. Then one day when the boys were home alone, he got a call from Zac that Justin had been shot. What follows is an intimate and gripping memoir about the shooting’s aftermath. The story moves between the perspectives of Roger and Zac as they take us through their journey of betrayal, redemption, and ultimately confrontation with a company that had kept its corruption a secret for decades.

Performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “A coming–of–age masterpiece.” —Boston Globe ""It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal."" —USA Today The Bell Jar is...

Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the Cold War, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As a Topgun instructor, Bio was responsible for teaching the navy's and Marine Corps' best fighter pilots how to be even better. He schooled them in the classroom and then went head-to-head with them in the skies.

Psychiatry has made great advances in the past 50 years but needs a new direction. Today's emphasis on psychiatric drugs will not stand the test of time. Recent advances in epigenetics and the molecular biology of the brain have provided a roadmap for the development of effective, natural, drug-free therapies that do not produce serious side effects. Psychiatric medications have served society well over the last 50 years, but the need for drug therapies will fade away as science advances.

A New York Times Notable Book The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history. The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects...

Millions of people–looking to cheat on their partners–signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 2000s, seeking a private space to share their public desires. The promise of discretion was shattered in the summer of 2015, when anonymous hackers stole the company’s cache of user information and published it worldwide. The result? One of the most shocking data breaches of the internet age. Overnight, millions of unfaithful spouses had their real names, addresses and sexual preferences published online in a searchable database that anyone could browse.

Why are we the way we are? Who can we become? What stands in our way? In Dealing with the Devil, Tony Schwartz investigates these sweeping questions by fiercely reckoning with his own life choices, regrets, and aspirations. He confronts the shame that arose after he helped craft a persona for Donald Trump in The Art of the Deal that 30 years later aided in his election as president. He provides a window into understanding our complicated relationship with Trump, and the Trump in each of us.

READ FOR FREE with Prime, or Kindle Unlimited! What will you do when the world changes? When sex becomes an overwhelming addiction, like the best drug in the world, and if you don’t give in to the ecstasy, you die. That is the effect of the Alpha Sex Virus, and nobody is immune. Jack Moody is the best in the business in tracking infection vectors, and he’s hot on the trail of the new Alpha Virus. He’s also hiding a twelve-inch throbbing side-effect of the virus between his legs. But his secret is growing all out of proportion, and he can’t control it any longer. Jack has becoming an...

In 2075, humanity solves aging. Then everything begins to unravel. PSV Medical Labs has extended the human lifespan by twenty-five years, transforming society — for those who can afford it. Governments stabilize. Corporations consolidate power. The wealthy grow younger. The poor grow restless. Then a quiet junior scientist named Dean discovers something impossible. By altering mitochondrial energy at the cellular level, he doesn’t just slow aging. He reverses it. His breakthrough could free humanity from biological decline. Or lock the powerful into eternal rule. When Dean disappears ...

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s memoir is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is unique—and uniquely entertaining—and he tells...

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...

Ever dreamed of launching your own biotech company but felt overwhelmed by the science, the regulations, or the money maze? What if you could skip the years of confusion, expensive consultants, and trial-and-error, and get a step-by-step guide that shows you exactly how to turn your idea into a profitable business? How to Start a Biotech Company With AI Help: From Idea to Profitable Business is your founder-friendly roadmap to building a biotech startup that actually works. No PhD required, no jargon-heavy textbooks, no wasted time. You’ll learn how to validate ideas, map the market, ...

A controversial, frightening bio-thriller that blurs the line between truth and fiction, Upon A Pale Horse raises disturbing questions about the man-made origin of nightmare epidemics, and posits a conspiracy so plausible that it will linger long after the novel's shocking conclusion. When young attorney Jeffrey Rutherford's brother is killed in a plane crash minutes after takeoff from JFK, his life is turned upside down - especially when he discovers that his brother's career wasn't what it seemed. Jeffrey's staid existence is upended as he races to unravel a Gordian knot of deceit and ...

Anniversary Edition with special bonus - Part 1 of James Lee's brand new book – Better Living through Neurochemistry! Since the first edition was first published in 2014, The Methuselah Project has quickly gained almost “cult” status among life extension fanatics, biohacking enthusiasts, as well as anyone else who is interested in their own health and longevity. In what is by far his most comprehensive work to date, James Lee (author of "Better Living through Neurochemistry” and “The Biohacking Manifesto”) has painstakingly trawled through the latest research journals (and some ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson...

“My father is the kindest, gentlest soul I know. Nothing prepared me for the secret he kept for nearly 40 years.” Poland. There is a six-month gap in Adam Stern’s life. Six months during which he had to vanish from Warsaw, away from his wife and everything he knew, to protect them. To protect himself. To survive. Displaced and alone, Adam kept silent about what transpired over those six months, deep in the forests between Poland and Russia. But a chance meeting with another Holocaust survivor changes everything. Decades later, Adam finally reveals his full story to his son, Samson. A ...

A smart, funny, and refreshingly candid memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. Narrated in his own voice, the audiobook offers an intimate and immersive experience that fans won’t want to miss. This is the story of an angst-filled kid...

The Science Behind the Signal Bioactive peptides are reshaping medicine, fitness, metabolism, recovery, and longevity—but separating real science from marketing noise has never been more difficult. In The Bioactive Peptide Code, physician-scientist Harvey Jenkins, MD PhD delivers a clear, evidence-based guide to the peptides driving today’s most powerful conversations in muscle growth, GLP-1–based weight loss, tissue repair, metabolic health, and human performance. This book explains: • How growth hormone peptides (Sermorelin, Tesamorelin, CJC-1295, Ipamorelin) actually work • IGF...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Audible Best Nonfiction Listen of 2024 TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 A Best Book of the Year: Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of...