Examines the link between prions, ordinary proteins that go wrong, and a wide range of strange neurological illnesses that strike people and animals around the world, and explains how the rise in...
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Auteur: Max, D. T.Sommaire:Genre: Medicine, health and fitness
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Auteur: Sinclair, UptonSommaire:
Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including...
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Auteur: Brown, DeeSommaire:
Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Auteur: Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSommaire:
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and...
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Auteur: Bellow, SaulSommaire:
Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man...
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Auteur: Durant, WillSommaire:
This volume chronicles the history of Roman civilization and of Christianity. Listeners will learn about the Etruscan civilization, the rise of Christianity, and more.
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Written by the most beloved Western authors of all time, these classic stories tell of love, adventure, and treachery on the wild frontier. Stories include "Cañon Walls" by Zane Grey, "Black Sheep...
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Auteur: Durant, WillSommaire:
This volume chronicles the history of Italy from 1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter Italy's early poets, art, politics, religion, wars, Da Vinci, the Borgias, and much...
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Auteur: King, CharlesSommaire:
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet...
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Auteur: Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSommaire:
In this volume, Will and Ariel Durant explore Europe's bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs and greater artists, as well the heyday of modern science and...
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Auteur: De Giovanni, MaurizioSommaire:
Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Ricciardi must...
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Auteur: Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSommaire:
This volume presents an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the salons of Paris, the...
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Auteur: De Giovanni, MaurizioSommaire:
Commissario Ricciardi is investigating the death of one of the many street urchins who live in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. His sixth sense is no help to him this time. Has his unwelcome gift...
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Auteur: Steigerwald, BillSommaire:
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist...
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Auteur: Shinkle, PeterSommaire:
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our...