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Using the most common postmortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the listener through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings toward death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull
- De Leah en 08-19-17
De: Carla Valentine
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Severed
- A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
- De: Frances Larson
- Narrado por: Reay Kaplan
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, anthopologist Frances Larson here explores our macabre fixation with severed heads.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good narrator
- De Caitlin kestell en 04-27-24
De: Frances Larson
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Birth
- The Surprising History of How We Are Born
- De: Tina Cassidy
- Narrado por: Angela Starling
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth?
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4 out of 5 stars
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important historical work, fascinating and fun
- De RT en 02-24-16
De: Tina Cassidy
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Written in Bone
- Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
- De: Sue Black
- Narrado por: Sue Black
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 137
In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence. Now in this book, Black builds on that memoir, taking us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very human story by a very believable human
- De Gary en 09-21-21
De: Sue Black
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Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- De: Arnold van de Laar, Andy Brown - translator
- Narrado por: Rich Keeble
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
From the story of the desperate man from 17th-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell, or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why did a surgeon need a fast horse?
- De India Clamp en 10-18-18
De: Arnold van de Laar, y otros
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Phineas Gage
- A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
- De: John Fleischman
- Narrado por: Kevin Orton
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
In 1848 Vermont, railroad foreman Phineas Gage sat above a hole, preparing to blast through some granite. A 13-pound iron rod fell from his hands into the hole, triggering the explosion and sending the rod straight through Phineas' head. Thirty minutes after this terrible accident, Phineas sat on the steps of a hotel, patiently waiting for the town doctor to arrive. He chatted with his amazed coworkers as if nothing had happened. But something terrible had happened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compact &view of the roots of brain science
- De D. Littman en 03-03-09
De: John Fleischman
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,744
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,033
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,000
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon 34 more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-19th-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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Birth Day
- A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
- De: Mark Sloan MD
- Narrado por: Mark Sloan MD
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned 24 and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly 3000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book - Heavy on the History
- De Robert Ingalls en 03-16-17
De: Mark Sloan MD
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
- And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- De: Thomas Morris
- Narrado por: Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 624
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 536
A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the 19th century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers one of the most remarkable, cringe-inducing collections of stories ever assembled.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring Toilet Humor
- De Nemo en 01-30-20
De: Thomas Morris
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- De: Anne Fadiman
- Narrado por: Pamela Xiong
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,079
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,768
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,765
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- De Kate en 06-04-15
De: Anne Fadiman
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Medieval Bodies
- Life and Death in the Middle Ages
- De: Jack Hartnell
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to love this book, but...
- De Annie Fitt en 05-18-21
De: Jack Hartnell
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The Old Way
- A Story of the First People
- De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots and the roots of life as we know it. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari bushmen, she was 19, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had for 15,000 centuries. After a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting first hand experience
- De Victor en 05-25-07
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Red Land, Black Land
- Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
- De: Barbara Mertz
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 430
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Elizabeth en 04-03-10
De: Barbara Mertz
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Corsets and Codpieces
- A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
- De: Karen Bowman
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors. In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment their figures, painted their faces with poisonous concoctions, and doused themselves with scent to cover body odor.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poorly researched and weirdly sexist read
- De Interregnum Rex en 08-26-17
De: Karen Bowman
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Ungovernable
- The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
- De: Therese Oneill
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg, Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 166
Feminist historian Therese Oneill is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting...a Victorian baby! In Ungovernable, Oneill conducts an unforgettable tour through the backward, pseudoscientific, downright bizarre parenting fashions of the Victorians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and Hilarious
- De M. Huber en 05-21-19
De: Therese Oneill
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I Can Read You Like a Book
- De: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch
- Narrado por: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
I Can Read You Like A Book features a system for scanning and interpreting anyone's body language, enabling you to figure out what they are really saying or feeling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous in every way!
- De Minny en 07-11-21
De: Gregory Hartley, y otros
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Who Was King Tut?
- De: Roberta Edwards
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was...? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb’s discovery, as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Side bars Not Read - Timeline too!
- De Nicole West en 10-21-23
De: Roberta Edwards