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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
- De: Henry Gee
- Narrado por: Henry Gee
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 91
In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place—in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor.
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1 out of 5 stars
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incredibly annoying
- De A reader en 12-22-21
- A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
- De: Henry Gee
- Narrado por: Henry Gee
Fascinatingly unique emphasis on life's existence
Revisado: 02-18-23
Great story that, I felt, focused on aspects not central to other books of this nature. Found the scientific explanations for the extinctions captivating and the interplay between plate tectonics, atmospheric composition, oceanic minerals and how life was influenced by what was available when evolving.
Focused on animal species that don't usually get the limelight, loved the Permian and Triassic chapters for this. If you're not familiar with these animals, google them while you listen because the description can only do so much.. they were funky.
4 stars on performance, not for narrator (they were great), but, as others have mentioned, the damn synthesizers, sound effects, and outright music scores that are arbitrarily and sporadically used. Wish they left those out. BUT STILL WORTH THE LISTEN REGARDLESS
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Maximum Insecurity
- A Doctor in the Supermax
- De: William Wright M.D.
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
After three decades as a successful ear surgeon, William Wright, MD is bored beyond belief. He dabbles with retirement, but finds idleness infuriating. He has to do something. Then he sees an ad for a doctor’s position from the Colorado Department of Corrections at a supermax prison. Now that, he thinks, would be different. His wife has some thoughts on the matter too. She thinks her husband just lost his mind and is on a collision course with a prison shiv.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and engaging
- De Ronda en 06-19-15
- Maximum Insecurity
- A Doctor in the Supermax
- De: William Wright M.D.
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
Narration makes it even better
Revisado: 10-31-19
Entertaining book with sarcastic humour. There's a couple workplace grievances that we can all relate to in some way. There's a chapter dedicated to his disdain for pharmacists because of the role they play in his job. I am a pharmacist and still find it funny, especially with his sarcastic overtones. I'm sure there's plenty of things you could look for to be offended by in the book. PC Principal might need to skip this one.
Narrator is phenomenal, really nails the performance and allows the humour to come out. 10/10.
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: William David Griffith
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's about time...
- De T.K. en 05-31-03
- Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: William David Griffith
Compilation of stories from surgery residency
Revisado: 03-10-19
Atul Gawande likes to wax philosophical in a lot of his works, which I usually enjoy. Complications, however, focuses more on specific cases and patients with the contemplation taking a back seat. A gifted storyteller, the imagery and description really put you there with him during the operations. I really enjoyed the heavier focus on medicine in Complications as compared to other works of his (Being Mortal).
Each chapter begins and ends with a musical interlude. While only lasting less than half of a minute, I hated it. Also, the chapters do not end with each patient case; certain patients bridge two chapters and there are multiple patients per chapter. This isn't an issue unless you want to replay a specific patient case, which leaves you scrolling through each chapter trying to find its beginning. These are issues with the medium and have nothing to do with the quality of the book itself.
In short, a great medical story book with a focus on surgical procedures yet enough introspection to keep you thinking about the implications for days later.
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