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  • The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

    How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

    de Arthur Allen ...
    “Thought-provoking…[Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises." —Wall Street JournalFew diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed—refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples—causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Vaccine

    The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

    de Arthur Allen ...
    "A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book ReviewVaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Ripe

    The Search for the Perfect Tomato

    de Arthur Allen ...
    The tomato. As savory as any vegetable, as sweet as its fellow fruits, the seeded succulent inspires a cult–like devotion from food lovers on all continents. The people of Ohio love the tomato so much they made tomato juice the official state beverage. An annual food festival in Spain draws thousands of participants in a 100–ton tomato fight. The inimitable, versatile tomato has conquered the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Brotherhoods

    Inside the outlaw motorcycle clubs

    de Arthur Veno, Edward Gannon ...
    Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens. Yet they have strict joining rules and jealously guard their privacy. The twenty-first century has seen bikie culture move from secretive disorganised crime to far more threatening organised criminal activities that led to the death of a Hells Angel's associate at Sydney airport in ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    Prairie Mother, The

    Resilience, Romance, and Family in the Untamed Canadian West

    de Arthur Stringer ...
    Narrado por Keith Allen Jarema ...

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    7 hora 16 minutos

    Step into the untamed Canadian West with Arthur Stringer's captivating classic, The Prairie Mother. In this stirring sequel to The Prairie Wife, we reunite with the irrepressible Chaddie as she faces her greatest frontier adventure yet: motherhood. But the sweeping plains are unforgiving, and the arrival of a new baby is only the beginning of her trials. Unexpected financial ruin threatens their ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Arthur Ashe

    Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

    de Eric Allen Hall ...
    The first scholarly biography of one of the most famous athletes of our time shows how Ashe worked for civil rights while playing a country-club sport in a white man’s world.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLArthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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    The John Varley Reader

    Thirty Years of Short Fiction

    de John Varley ...
    Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki, Susan Hanfield, Arthur Morey, Paul Boehmer, various narrators, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre ...

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    26 hora 37 minutos

    From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.Now, The John ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Prairie Wife, The

    Trading High Society for Survival on the Rugged Frontier

    de Arthur Stringer ...
    Narrado por Keith Allen Jarema ...

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    4 hora 44 minutos

    What happens when a pampered society woman trades her luxurious life for the unforgiving expanse of the Canadian frontier? In Arthur Stringer's captivating classic, The Prairie Wife, listeners are transported into the intimate diary entries of a newlywed who follows her husband to the rugged wilderness of the early twentieth century. Accustomed to ballgowns and high society, she suddenly finds ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Man Who Couldn't Sleep, The

    A Midnight Descent Into New York's Deadly Criminal Underworld

    de Arthur Stringer ...
    Narrado por Keith Allen Jarema ...

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    8 hora 28 minutos

    What happens when the city sleeps, but you cannot? In Arthur Stringer's gripping thriller, The Man Who Couldn't Sleep, we follow the restless footsteps of Witter Bivens, a struggling writer plagued by agonizing insomnia. Desperate for relief, he abandons his stifling apartment to wander the shadow-drenched streets of midnight New York City. But what begins as a solitary quest for exhaustion ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Red-Headed League

    de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Narrado por A. Cromwell, James Allen ...

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    59 minutos

    "The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories. It depicts the peculiar situation of Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker who claims to have been offered a highly paid job because of his unique flame coloured hair. When his employer suddenly vanishes- leaving Wilson frustrated and confused- Holmes promises to get to the bottom of the mystery. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Understanding America's Gun Culture

    de Craig Hovey, Craig Hovey, Lisa Fisher, Lisa Fisher, Rachel Boaz, Garrison Allen Crews, Gordon Arthur Crews, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, Binod Kumar, Corinne Renguette0, Mark Ryan1, Matt Stolick2, David Yamane3 ...
    Understanding America’s Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with US gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a wide variety of disciplines and presents perspectives on both sides of the debate. Contributors hail from the academic disciplines of history, social work, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    de Arthur Conan Doyle, Dale Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin, Charles F. Haanel, Florence Scovel Shinn, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Lao Tzu, Khalil Gibran, Abner Bayley, P.T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Henry Thomas Hamblin, Joseph Murphy, William Crosbie Hunter, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry H. Brown, Russell H. Conwell, William Atkinson, B.F. Austin, H.A. Lewis, L.W. Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Sun Tzu, Samuel Smiles ...
    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) ... Leer más

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