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When Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- By: Joshua D. Mezrich
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....
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Memoir and history, beautifully written
- By Bonny on 01-22-19
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21. When Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-15-19
- Language: English
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- By: S. Frederick Starr
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....
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Subject worthwhile but repetative narrative
- By F-M on 04-10-14
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22. Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-12-13
- Language: English
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Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....
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Can’t listen to the reader
- By Doug Clyde on 07-21-22
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23. Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-15-22
- Language: English
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....
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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- By C. White on 03-08-19
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24. Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- By Terry A. Gray on 10-21-11
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25. The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-12-10
- Language: English
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....
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Ambitious
- By Roy on 12-08-10
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26. Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-05-10
- Language: English
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
- How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
- By: Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Cara Santa Maria - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction"....
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Condescending & ridiculing to those who differ
- By Bookworm on 04-15-19
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27. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
- How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-02-18
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon
- Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....
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FANTASTIC! & What’s up with all these naysayers (negative reviewers)?!
- By H. Zophie Leslea on 08-19-21
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28. The Icepick Surgeon
- Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-13-21
- Language: English
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....
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You won't learn anything you didn't know
- By Dennis E. Alwine on 12-26-20
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29. Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- By Adrian on 05-06-19
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30. Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- By: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes listeners on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played....
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Bright and Woke.
- By Elliot on 06-02-24
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31. Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-16-24
- Language: English
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The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- By: David Schneider MD
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
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Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....
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Yup, this is the one you’re looking for...
- By richard clark on 07-19-20
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32. The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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The Glass Universe
- How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Dava Sobel returns with the story of a group of women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe....
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But the seeing, which was everything, was better
- By Cynthia on 01-07-17
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33. The Glass Universe
- How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-06-16
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
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The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....
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Abridged??
- By Delano on 04-17-13
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34. Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 03-01-10
- Language: English
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
- By: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....
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Poison, Murder, and So Much More!
- By Rebecca Hill on 02-12-22
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35. A Taste for Poison
- Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-01-22
- Language: English
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- By A reader on 03-12-11
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36. The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-01-11
- Language: English
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....
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Great book but very disturbing...
- By Tim on 01-15-09
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37. The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....
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Detailed but not overly Technical
- By Michael on 05-06-15
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38. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-27-14
- Language: English
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Chamber Divers
- The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
- By: Rachel Lance
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The previously classified story of the eccentric researchers who invented cutting-edge underwater science to lead the Allies to D-Day victory.
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Chapter 9. Still no story.
- By Phil In Denver on 05-30-24
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39. Chamber Divers
- The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-16-24
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Not the best from Vaclav, but near the top
- By Tan on 07-19-23
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40. Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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