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No One’s Coming

The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn

by Kevin Hazzard ...

Narrated by Nick Mills ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history.JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus kills in just over a week and they’re trapped in a hot zone with the clock ticking. If ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history.JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus kills in just over a week and they’re trapped in a hot zone with the clock ticking. If
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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green ...

Narrated by John Green ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

**#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun ... Read more

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**#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun
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The Great Shadow

A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy

by Susan Wise Bauer ...

Narrated by Jennifer Pickens ...

Unabridged

11 hours 12 min

"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history...necessary and timely...engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended."―Library Journal, starred"[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful if unsettling."―KirkusAnti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history...necessary and timely...engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended."―Library Journal, starred"[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful if unsettling."―KirkusAnti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be...
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What If The Black Death Never Occurred?

Rethinking European Progress: From Population Booms to Unaltered Traditions

by Viruti Shivan ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series series WHAT IF SERIES
Unabridged

22 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Journey through an alternate timeline of Europe – one untouched by the devastating Black Death. This book delves deep into a hypothetical world, exploring how the absence of such a catastrophic event might have steered Europe's socio-economic and cultural trajectory. From potential demographic surges to the intricacies of a possibly delayed or ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Journey through an alternate timeline of Europe – one untouched by the devastating Black Death. This book delves deep into a hypothetical world, exploring how the absence of such a catastrophic event might have steered Europe's socio-economic and cultural trajectory. From potential demographic surges to the intricacies of a possibly delayed or
... Read more
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Epidemics

Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

by Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr. ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

29 hours 39 min

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other," and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly ... Read more

$34.99 USD

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other," and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly
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Infection Prevention Analyst – The Comprehensive Guide

by DEAN STRATTON ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Step into the vital world of infection prevention and control with Infection Prevention Analyst – The Comprehensive Guide. Designed for healthcare professionals, epidemiologists, data analysts, and public health practitioners, this comprehensive resource unites scientific rigor with real-world application. From hospital surveillance and antimicrobial ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Step into the vital world of infection prevention and control with Infection Prevention Analyst – The Comprehensive Guide. Designed for healthcare professionals, epidemiologists, data analysts, and public health practitioners, this comprehensive resource unites scientific rigor with real-world application. From hospital surveillance and antimicrobial
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Surviving the Hidden Plague: Unmasking Tuberculosis's Deadly Legacy

"Discover tuberculosis’s hidden truths through powerful audio lessons for a transformative journey of knowledge!"

by Forrest Caldecott ...

Narrated by Nick Porter ...

Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Surviving the Hidden Plague: Unmasking Tuberculosis's Deadly Legacy⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you eager to advance in your career and enhance your knowledge about the realities of tuberculosis?Looking for a thorough guide that covers all the essential elements to understand tuberculosis and its impact?Your search ends here!This audiobook serves... ... Read more

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Surviving the Hidden Plague: Unmasking Tuberculosis's Deadly Legacy⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you eager to advance in your career and enhance your knowledge about the realities of tuberculosis?Looking for a thorough guide that covers all the essential elements to understand tuberculosis and its impact?Your search ends here!This audiobook serves...
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Siete ensayos sobre la peste

by Carlos Gamerro ...

Narrated by Tomás Cortés ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

La primera historia cultural de la peste: un recorrido erudito y reflexivo por epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes, de la mano de Carlos Gamerro, uno de los novelistas y ensayistas más prestigiosos de la actualidad.Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y pandemias acompañó a la humanidad desde siempre; conocer su ... Read more

$17.99 USD

La primera historia cultural de la peste: un recorrido erudito y reflexivo por epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes, de la mano de Carlos Gamerro, uno de los novelistas y ensayistas más prestigiosos de la actualidad.Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y pandemias acompañó a la humanidad desde siempre; conocer su
... Read more
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COVID-19 and World Order

The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

17 hours 45 min

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order."What will be the consequences of ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order."What will be the consequences of
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The End of Violence

A Prescription for a Peaceful Society

by Dr. Gary Slutkin, MD ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas KristoffViolence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or a universal human instinct. But in fact, argues epidemiologist and ... Read more

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A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas KristoffViolence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or a universal human instinct. But in fact, argues epidemiologist and
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds

Ebola and the Ravages of History

by Paul Farmer ...

Narrated by Pete Cross ...

Unabridged

22 hours 5 min

In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Paul Farmer, the ... Read more

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In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Paul Farmer, the
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Bitten

The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

by Kris Newby ...

Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

Unabridged

5 hours 1 min

A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick ... Read more

$23.99 USD

A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick
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After Life

A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

Narrated by LaNecia Edmonds, Leon Nixon, Eric Jason Martin, David Lee Huynh, Kim Ramirez, Rebecca Mitchell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 9 min

After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration ... Read more

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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration
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Infectious Madness

The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

by Harriet A. Washington ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious ... Read more

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A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious
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On Pandemics

Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus

by David Waltner-Toews ...

Narrated by David Godfrey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future.“A quiet little gem of understanding in a cacophony of panic and fear.”—Quill & Quire, STARRED reviewAuthored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions ... Read more

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Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future.“A quiet little gem of understanding in a cacophony of panic and fear.”—Quill & Quire, STARRED reviewAuthored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions
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Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

by Arup K. Chakraborty, Andrey S. Shaw ...

Narrated by Donald Corren ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics, but the devastation wrought by them had been largely forgotten by the twenty-firstcentury. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics areone of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics, but the devastation wrought by them had been largely forgotten by the twenty-firstcentury. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics areone of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how
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Carl Zimmer: Planet of Viruses

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

7 min

Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer’s book, A Planet of Viruses: If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, “they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies.”In 17th century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or the common cold, included a blend of gunpowder and ... Read more

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Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer’s book, A Planet of Viruses: If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, “they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies.”In 17th century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or the common cold, included a blend of gunpowder and
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Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

by Kathryn Olivarius ...

Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

Unabridged

13 hours 51 min

Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. About half of those who contracted yellow fever died.Repeated ... Read more

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Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. About half of those who contracted yellow fever died.Repeated
... Read more
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Pandemics

A Very Short Introduction

by Christian W. McMillen ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

4 hours

Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics—plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS—highlighting how each disease's ... Read more

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Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics—plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS—highlighting how each disease's
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Vild virus

by Jens Lundgren, Lars Igum Rasmussen ...

Narrated by Jesper Bøllehuus ...

Unabridged

16 hours 32 min

Virus har sat dagsordenen i Jens Lundgrens arbejdsliv, lige siden han som helt ung læge stod ved sygesengen hos dødsmærkede aidspatienter og forskede i at finde en effektiv medicinsk mehandling til dem. Resultatet kan alverdens hiv-patienter takke ham for i dag.Siden coronapandemiens start har han knoklet for at hjælpe livstruede patienter og udvikle nye behandlinger med videnskabeligt ... Read more

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Virus har sat dagsordenen i Jens Lundgrens arbejdsliv, lige siden han som helt ung læge stod ved sygesengen hos dødsmærkede aidspatienter og forskede i at finde en effektiv medicinsk mehandling til dem. Resultatet kan alverdens hiv-patienter takke ham for i dag.Siden coronapandemiens start har han knoklet for at hjælpe livstruede patienter og udvikle nye behandlinger med videnskabeligt
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The Rules of Contagion

Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop

by Adam Kucharski ...

Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

One of the Best Books of 2020 — Financial TimesOne of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" — Washington PostOne of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The Times of LondonOne of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The GuardianFrom ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern lifeThese days, whenever anything... ... Read more

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One of the Best Books of 2020 — Financial TimesOne of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" — Washington PostOne of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The Times of LondonOne of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The GuardianFrom ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern lifeThese days, whenever anything...
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American Pandemic

The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic

by Nancy Bristow ...

Narrated by Karen White ...

Unabridged

12 hours 35 min

Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past.American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It ... Read more

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Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past.American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It
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Hot Spot

A Doctor's Diary From the Pandemic

by Dr. Alex Jahangir ...

Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

Unabridged

5 hours 36 min

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it ... Read more

$19.99 USD

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it
... Read more
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How To Get Rid of Acne

Your Step By Step Guide To Getting Rid of Acne

by HowExpert, Elda Watulo ...

Narrated by Marenn Davis ...

Unabridged

1 hour 17 min

If you want to get rid of your acne, then get "How To Get Rid of Acne" by a person with real life experience doing this.This step by step guide mainly focuses on acne. It talks about the main causes of acne, its types as well as various ways through which one can get rid of it completely. Further, the guide looks at the various methods one can use to remove scars left behind by acne. The main ... Read more

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If you want to get rid of your acne, then get "How To Get Rid of Acne" by a person with real life experience doing this.This step by step guide mainly focuses on acne. It talks about the main causes of acne, its types as well as various ways through which one can get rid of it completely. Further, the guide looks at the various methods one can use to remove scars left behind by acne. The main
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