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Almost Neuroanatomy 101 with world class professor

Revisado: 03-27-25 El oyente recibió este título gratis

This book is a gem. If you're curious about how a person feels pain you will be more than happy with this book. The details of receptors and pathways are carefully explained in ways which are easily understood. You'll find out about how pain is 'felt' and how the sensations get from here to there - the anatomy of it and the physiology of it. Fascinating! Well written and read at a pace by a narrator with a clarity that will allow anyone to follow along. Everything from pricking your finger on the thorn of a rose to our most modern understandings of chronic pain: you'll understand how it all fits together. By the end you will also understand the miraculous findings in the field of pain control over the years, and what mysteries and challenges are still yet to be overcome.

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A classic. Deserves all the praise it gets.

Revisado: 03-03-25

If you think you know the story because you saw the movie, let me tell you something: The movie as pretty good - Robert Redford and Nick Nolte being two talented actors - but the book is that and much more. Highly recommended.

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Interesting material

Revisado: 03-03-25

Behind the scenes into the world of the 'topless bar'. The mechanical AI voice really hurts this production, as it does any production. I'd rather hear this story from a person than from a bloodless, soul-less machine. Wouldn't you?

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Complex issues of science & ethics well explained!

Revisado: 03-03-25 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The several authors, all well regarded experts in their respective specialties, delve deep into the past, present and the possible futures of human genome editing, made easily available to the world via the new CRISPR technology. Since there are several authors they cover the subject from different points of view, making the book very engaging and rewarding. The narrator does a fine job with this sometimes complex material, helping to make it more easily accessible.

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Compelling story of activist citizenry, well done!

Revisado: 12-09-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Scott Seligman's true story shows the power of corporate combination - what we now call trusts or monopolies - to distort a market and exact millions upon millions of extra dollars for essential food (a lot of money in those days) from hard working and struggling immigrants who they presumed to be powerless. The women in the community decide to band together and fight back exerting the lawful (and, usually peaceful) means available to them. The immigrant women were poorly educated, had little command of the English language and struggled everyday to manage the household, mind the children and put food on the table. Husbands were working in factories and sweatshops for a couple of dollars a day, 12 or more hours a day. Families were living in miserable, run down unheated tenements - sleeping five or six in a room. Still, the women who began by feeling powerless found the power they needed by locking arms and insisting their voices be heard and their exploitation be addressed by their government. It's an inspiring story, read with care, compassion and understanding by narrator Peter Lerman. (He even manages to do a good job with the Yiddish and Hebrew words and names woven into the text!) Excellent job all around.

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three bad narratirs

Revisado: 12-03-24

this is a gigantic history of the world in great detail. it is narrated by one good narrator who reads about 1/3 of the book plus two other very amateurish narrators, all in rotation, one chapter each in some unpredictable sequence. listening to the amateurs is particularly frustrating. the text is occasionally engaging, almost fun. then we switch narrators again and it becomes unbearable once more.

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wonderful!

Revisado: 09-29-24

It is just exactly what I was hoping to learn. The narrator's voice was so soft and calm I felt as if she was just talking to me alone, wanting me to understand everything. Highly recommended.

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Major Supreme Court Decisions in American History

Revisado: 08-13-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Arranged and presented by 'eras' during which a particular Chief Justice reigned the author tells the story of the pendulum swinging back and forth between more liberal to more conservative courts. There is discussion and analysis of the abhorrent decisions - such as Dred Scott and Dobbs - and the more liberating decisions - such as Brown v Bd. of Ed. and Obergefell v. Hodges. Well written and well presented by narrator.

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Great research and analysis, well told

Revisado: 08-11-24

New and cogent analysis of the history of the period, drawing together many story lines which ran through this tumultuous period. Author does an excellent job of weaving all these threads together. Narrator does a fine job with the material.

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Good material, challenging to understand

Revisado: 06-21-24

I do like this book very much. However there are a ton of footnotes - which obviously are not in the audiobook. The footnotes are in an accompanying PDF, as the narrator tells us about three times per page. The narrator is quite good. However, he is compelled so frequently to announce "see the footnote in the accompanying PDF" so many times you begin to wonder if the PDF is bigger than the book you just bought. There's got to be a better way.

Overall: very good book (but dense) and very good narrator.

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