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The Knife Man

by Wendy Moore ...

WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skills might well save their lives �but if he failed, their corpses could end up on his dissecting table, their bones and organs destined for display in his ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skills might well save their lives �but if he failed, their corpses could end up on his dissecting table, their bones and organs destined for display in his
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Wedlock

The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary EleanorBowes, Countess of Strathmore

by Wendy Moore ...

A cinematic and thrilling true story exploring the life and catastrophic marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore—“a tale of wealth, status, and privilege, laced with lust, greed, [and] pride” (The Times)“Spectacular . . . Serious, perceptive, thoughtful and—by no means least—compulsively readable.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostWith the death of her fabulously wealthy coal ... Read more

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A cinematic and thrilling true story exploring the life and catastrophic marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore—“a tale of wealth, status, and privilege, laced with lust, greed, [and] pride” (The Times)“Spectacular . . . Serious, perceptive, thoughtful and—by no means least—compulsively readable.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostWith the death of her fabulously wealthy coal
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No Man's Land

The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

by Wendy Moore ...

The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's ... Read more

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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's
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No Man's Land

The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

by Wendy Moore ...

Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

Unabridged

12 hours 13 min

The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's ... Read more

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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's
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Integrated management of insect pests: Current and future developments

by Emeritus Prof. Marcos Kogan, Dr Amy Morey, Professor Michael J. Stout, Emeritus Prof. E. A. Heinrichs, Dr John E. Foster, Dr Steven E. Naranjo, Dr Richard L. Hellmich, Dr Jörg Romeis, Dr Anthony M. Shelton0, Dr Ana M. Vélez1, Dr Ruth Mbabazi2, Dr Karim Maredia3, Dr Charles Vincent4, Dr Guy Hallman5, Dr Phyllis Weintraub6, Dr Francis Fleurat-Lessard7, Prof. Linton Winder8, Dr Rory Flemmer9, Dr Mark S. Hoddle0, Dr Prisila A. Mkenda1, Emeritus Prof. Michael E. Irwin2, Dr Sunita Pandey3, Dr Anne C. Johnson4, Prof. Geoff Gurr5, Emeritus Prof. Joop C. van Lenteren6, Dr Vanda H. P. Bueno7, Prof. Margaret Skinner8, Dr Cheryl Frank Sullivan9, Dr Bruce L. Parker0, Dr Aimee C. McKinnon1, Dr Wendy Moore2, Dr Roma Gwynn3, Dr Michael Brownbridge4, Dr Sean Moore5, Dr Michael Jukes6, Dr David Shapiro-Ilan7, Dr Selcuk Hazir8, Dr Itamar Glazer9, Emeritus Prof. Graham Matthews0, Dr Linda J. Thomson1, Dr Ary A. Hoffmann2, Dr Leonard Coop3, Dr Keith Tyrell4, Dr Sheila Willis5, Dr Stephanie Williamson6, Dr Davo Simplice Vodouhe7, Prof. Anthony Youdeowei8, Dr Rob Liskamp9, Dr Julian Dow0, Prof Hendrika Fourie1, Dr Dirk De Waele2, Dr Brittany S. Barker3, Prof Oscar E. Liburd4, Dr Lorena Lopez5, Dr Daniel Carrillo6, Dr Alexandra M. Revynthi7, Dr Omotola Olaniyi8, Dr Rana Akyazi9, Dr George B. Frisvold0, Prof. Keizi Kiritani1, Prof. Casey Hoy2, Dr Robert Venette3, Dr Ivan Milosavljević4, Professor Travis R. Glare5, Professor Shireen-Anne Davies6 ...

Series Book 69 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Particular focus on advances in understanding insect species and landscape ecology, which provide the foundations for effective IPMCovers latest research on classical, conservation and augmentative biological controlReviews key developments in use of entomopathogenic fungi, viruses and nematodes ... Read more

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Particular focus on advances in understanding insect species and landscape ecology, which provide the foundations for effective IPMCovers latest research on classical, conservation and augmentative biological controlReviews key developments in use of entomopathogenic fungi, viruses and nematodes
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Digital Madness

How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity

by Nicholas Kardaras ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

11 hours 14 min

From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices our driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates—and offers a way out.Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on ... Read more

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From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices our driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates—and offers a way out.Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on
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Bad Call

A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

by Mike Scardino ...

Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, Bad Call is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable" memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s (James Patterson).Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late-1960s ... Read more

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An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, Bad Call is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable" memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s (James Patterson).Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late-1960s
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Escape from Paris

A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France

by Stephen Harding ...

Narrated by Maxwell Hamilton ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, ... Read more

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This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943,
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Trailblazer

A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

by Dorothy Butler Gilliam ...

Narrated by January LaVoy ...

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, ... Read more

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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage,
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You Don't Belong Here

How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

by Elizabeth Becker ...

Narrated by Lisa Flanagan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering warKate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of ... Read more

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The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering warKate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones

A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy

by Connor Towne O'Neill ...

Narrated by Geoffrey Cantor ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyConnor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan ... Read more

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“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyConnor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan
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War of Shadows

Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

by Gershom Gorenberg ...

Narrated by Fred Berman ...

Unabridged

14 hours 22 min

In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis ... Read more

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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis
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