Industrial History

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • De: Stacy Horn
    • Narrado por: Pam Ward
    • Duración: 10 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-15-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 409 calificaciones
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • De: Fred Anderson
    • Narrado por: Paul Woodson
    • Duración: 29 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-27-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 657 calificaciones
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • De: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrado por: Perry Daniels
    • Duración: 9 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-27-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
    • De: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
    • Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Duración: 9 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-29-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 calificaciones
    • Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrado por: Hillary Huber
    • Duración: 10 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-26-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 calificaciones
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • With the OSS in Burma
    • De: Richard Dunlop
    • Narrado por: David Baker
    • Duración: 13 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-14-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 calificaciones
    • The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • De: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
    • Duración: 13 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-13-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 571 calificaciones
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • De: Rose George
    • Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
    • Duración: 9 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-25-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 196 calificaciones
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • De: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrado por: Johnny Heller
    • Duración: 8 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-19-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,406 calificaciones
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • De: Kyle Harper
    • Narrado por: Tim Fannon
    • Duración: 19 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-15-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 calificaciones
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • De: William Knox PhD
    • Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
    • Duración: 12 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-30-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 calificaciones
    • Scottish History for Dummies pulls back the curtain on how the story of Scotland has shaped the world far beyond its borders. From its turbulent past to the present day, this informative guide sheds a new and timely light on the story of Scotland and its people....

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    • De: Thomas Hager
    • Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
    • Duración: 12 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-27-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,500 calificaciones
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • De: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrado por: Kyle Munley
    • Duración: 11 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-01-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 calificaciones
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • De: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrado por: Joe Barrett
    • Duración: 6 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-18-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 calificaciones
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • Life and Death in the Middle Ages
    • De: Jack Hartnell
    • Narrado por: Michael Page
    • Duración: 8 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-12-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 calificaciones
    • Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages....

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • De: William Rosen
    • Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
    • Duración: 11 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-22-07
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 446 calificaciones
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • De: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
    • Duración: 8 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-28-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 calificaciones
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar
    • De: Peter Macinnis
    • Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
    • Duración: 7 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-24-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 calificaciones
    • A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest....

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    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • De: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrado por: Julie McKay
    • Duración: 9 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-01-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 calificaciones
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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