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“ben goldacre”

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  • Bad Science

    Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 54 min

    Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Bad Science

    Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    No One Cares About Crazy People

    The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

    by Ron Powers ...
    Narrated by Ron Powers ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 49 min

    New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Nagasaki

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Embers

    Unabridged

    14 hours 48 min

    The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural worldA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Why the West Rules---for Now

    The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    by Ian Morris ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first ... Read more

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    The Physics of Wall Street

    A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

    by James Owen Weatherall ...
    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    On Fascism

    12 Lessons from American History

    by Matthew C. MacWilliams ...
    Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, Matthew C. MacWilliams' On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through American history and compete with our egalitarian, democratic aspirations. Trumpism isn’t new, ... Read more

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  • Nagasaki

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Series Book 2 - Embers
    The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook