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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- By: John M Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI...
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Why do I not know this story already?!
- By Anonymous on 16-01-21
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- By: Sam Apple
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the...
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Detail
- By F Dee on 15-01-26
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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The Capsarius
- Legion XXII, Book 1
- By: Simon Turney
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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25 BC. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. A former surgeon from the city of Ancyra, he's now a capsarius—a combat medic. Cervianus is a pragmatist, a scientist and truly unpopular with his legion. The Twenty Second Deiotariana have been sent to deal with uprisings and chaos in Egypt. Yet the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion either. Founded as the private royal army of one of Rome's most devoted allies, the king of Galatia, their ways are not the same as the other legions, a factor that sets them apart and causes friction with their fellow soldiers.
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Worst narrator I've ever listened to.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-10-22
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The Capsarius
- Legion XXII, Book 1
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Series: Legion XXII, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance98
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Brought to you by Penguin. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely...
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Added impact given current context (read in 2020)
- By Cassandra on 27-05-20
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Blood on Their Hands
- Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
- By: Mandy Matney
- Narrated by: Mandy Matney
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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**Narrated by Mandy Matney** The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney. Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in...
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disappointing
- By Alexis on 18-11-23
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Blood on Their Hands
- Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
- Narrated by: Mandy Matney
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Medieval Bodies
- Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
- By: Jack Hartnell
- Narrated by: Jack Hartnell
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance55
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Dripping with blood and gold, fetishised and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves.
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Unquestioningly pro-christian
- By Marion W. on 23-01-24
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Medieval Bodies
- Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Jack Hartnell
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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The Face
- A Cultural History
- By: Fay Bound-Alberti
- Narrated by: Fay Bound-Alberti
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historian What’s in a face? The face is one of our quintessential features and is the only part of the body where all the senses come together: smell, taste...
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The Face
- A Cultural History
- Narrated by: Fay Bound-Alberti
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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The Medicine Book
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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How are illnesses diagnosed? When did the first successful organ transplant take place? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with pithy explanations of the most important milestones in medical history to untangle knotty concepts.
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The Medicine Book
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Wounded
- By: Emily Mayhew
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance53
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Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back to Blighty. We feel the calloused hands of the stretcher-bearers; we see the bloody dressings and bandages; we smell the nauseating gangrene and, at London’s stations, the gas clinging to the uniforms of the men arriving home.
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Wounded
- By Helen on 11-06-16
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Wounded
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-09-13
- Language: English
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Typhoid Mary
- An Urban Historical
- By: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is a tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century. By the late nineteenth century, it seemed that New York City had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had so frequently decimated the city's population. That is until 1904, when the disease broke out in a household in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Authorities suspected the family cook, Mary Mallon, of being a carrier. But before she could be tested, the woman, soon to be known as Typhoid Mary, had disappeared.
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Ok - but more of a social commentary than a factual account
- By Amazon Customer on 13-03-26
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Typhoid Mary
- An Urban Historical
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Epidemics and Society
- From the Black Death to the Present
- By: Frank M. Snowden
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.
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Excellent book, poor narration
- By J Snow on 12-01-26
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Epidemics and Society
- From the Black Death to the Present
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- By: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A...
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Fantastic Book
- By Kevin Gill on 04-10-23
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American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-09-22
- Language: English
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DSM
- A History of Psychiatry's Bible
- By: Allan V. Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past 70 years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder. Its nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote.
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Should be required reading for all mental health professionals
- By Dr. S. Webb on 17-11-23
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DSM
- A History of Psychiatry's Bible
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-12-21
- Language: English
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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- By: Abigail Shrier
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance165
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In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not stopped the trend. What has gone wrong with our youth? In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids - it's the mental health experts.
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poor pseudoscience
- By Molly Bedrock on 28-06-24
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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance135
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Upon it's first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international best seller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed.
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A real time capsule
- By Jim on 17-06-14
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Bad Influence
- How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
- By: Deborah Cohen
- Narrated by: Deborah Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When did we start trusting influencers over doctors? You used to see a doctor. Now you go online. Want to track your blood sugar? Your heart rate? Your sleep? You can. Need to focus? Want to lose weight fast? Everything is a click away. But who is regulating this? As hospital wait times grow ever longer and some patients are priced out of medical care altogether, influencers have filled the gap. From doctors promoting new therapies, to entrepreneurs selling solutions, these self-styled experts glow with good health and guarantee results.
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Everything I hoped it would be
- By Lynette on 20-02-26
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Bad Influence
- How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
- Narrated by: Deborah Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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The Fate of Rome
- Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- By: Kyle Harper
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.
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Fascinating history of the fall of Rome from another perspective
- By Fiona on 21-12-25
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The Fate of Rome
- Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-10-17
- Language: English
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The Roses of No Man's Land
- By: Lyn Macdonald
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD 'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First...
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Excellent
- By Ruth on 04-12-20
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The Roses of No Man's Land
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Tales from Neurosurgery
- By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.
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Good book
- By Santiago on 22-11-16
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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Tales from Neurosurgery
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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Plagues upon the Earth
- Disease and the Course of Human History
- By: Kyle Harper
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance31
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Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues all around us, in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality.
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Fascinating.
- By Sigrin on 26-03-25
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Plagues upon the Earth
- Disease and the Course of Human History
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-12-21
- Language: English
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