Commentary Philosophy

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    • 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel
    • Auteur(s): Rolf Potts
    • Narrateur(s): Rolf Potts
    • Durée: 12 h
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For listeners who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long....

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    • A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
    • Auteur(s): Phil Jaekl
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Kugler
    • Durée: 8 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation....

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    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hager
    • Narrateur(s): Angelo Di Loreto
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • 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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    • 2nd Edition
    • Auteur(s): Owen Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Will Stauff
    • Durée: 6 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Book of Job is about a question for all of us. Why is there suffering? Job is a personal book that speaks to each of us as we face suffering and meaninglessness....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • Auteur(s): Sam Kean
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Leyva
    • Durée: 12 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Posture Panic in Modern America
    • Auteur(s): Beth Linker
    • Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
    • Durée: 11 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This audiobook recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Jim Downs
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 9 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Thomas Merton
    • Narrateur(s): Greg Chun
    • Durée: 4 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the listener a strong taste of the mature Merton....

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    • Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
    • Auteur(s): Joshua D. Mezrich
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • Auteur(s): Jack El-Hai
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • Auteur(s): Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
    • Durée: 8 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-07-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 évaluations
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts
    • Auteur(s): Dave Lowry
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Nishii
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In the Dojo provides a wealth of information that beginning students will pore over and advanced students will treasure....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
    • Auteur(s): Sherwin B. Nuland
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....

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    • A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Klein
    • Narrateur(s): James Jenner
    • Durée: 4 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age....

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    • Auteur(s): Adam Harkus
    • Narrateur(s): Chiquito Joaquim Crasto
    • Durée: 3 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Back in August 2006 I visited Goa, India. A trip that affected my outlook on life, views on my country, and my attitude towards others of all backgrounds....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Wapner
    • Narrateur(s): Heather Henderson
    • Durée: 9 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

    Prix courant: 27,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
    • Auteur(s): Luke Dittrich
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1953, a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison - who suffered from severe epilepsy - received a radical new version of the then-common lobotomy, targeting the most mysterious structures in the brain....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
    • Auteur(s): Clifford D. Conner
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 17 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
    • Auteur(s): Sean B. Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Byron Wagner
    • Durée: 17 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius....

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