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Influenza
- The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
- Catégories: Santé, forme physique et régime, Troubles et maladies
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Auteur(s): John M. Barry
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 19 h et 26 min
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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a story of censorship propaganda
- Écrit par Richard le 2020-12-01
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Flu
- The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
- Auteur(s): Gina Kolata
- Narrateur(s): Gina Kolata
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and considers what can be done to prevent it.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- Auteur(s): Fareed Zakaria
- Narrateur(s): Fareed Zakaria
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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a must read, extremely informative,
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2020-10-18
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- Auteur(s): Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 38 min
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Infectious!
- Écrit par Trailbender le 2020-12-25
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Durée: 17 h et 4 min
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Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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Switch
- How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Auteur(s): Dan Heath, Chip Heath
- Narrateur(s): Charles Kahlenberg
- Durée: 7 h et 43 min
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In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
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Terrible narrator
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-01-15
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Auteur(s): John M. Barry
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 19 h et 26 min
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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a story of censorship propaganda
- Écrit par Richard le 2020-12-01
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Flu
- The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
- Auteur(s): Gina Kolata
- Narrateur(s): Gina Kolata
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and considers what can be done to prevent it.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- Auteur(s): Fareed Zakaria
- Narrateur(s): Fareed Zakaria
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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a must read, extremely informative,
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2020-10-18
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- Auteur(s): Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 38 min
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Infectious!
- Écrit par Trailbender le 2020-12-25
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Durée: 17 h et 4 min
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Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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Switch
- How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Auteur(s): Dan Heath, Chip Heath
- Narrateur(s): Charles Kahlenberg
- Durée: 7 h et 43 min
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In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
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Terrible narrator
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-01-15
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Deadliest Enemy
- Our War Against Killer Germs
- Auteur(s): Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Renell
- Durée: 11 h et 26 min
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We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan - before it's too late. Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their families, infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a grinding halt.
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loved it + will listen to again.
- Écrit par Zita K. Ranics le 2020-08-31
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The Next Pandemic
- On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
- Auteur(s): Ali Khan, William Patrick
- Narrateur(s): Ben Sullivan
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others - and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.
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Outbreaks and Epidemics
- Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus
- Auteur(s): Meera Senthilingam
- Narrateur(s): Deirdra Whelan
- Durée: 5 h et 32 min
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For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease - smallpox - has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite.
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Freedom's Forge
- How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
- Auteur(s): Arthur Herman
- Narrateur(s): John McDonough
- Durée: 16 h et 58 min
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New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of “Liberty ships” - vessels that came to symbolize America’s great wartime output.
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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- Auteur(s): Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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Demagogue
- The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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- Narrateur(s): Ben Jaeger-Thomas
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In the long history of American demagogues from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use "McCarthyism" to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a weapon of polarizing slander. From 1950 to 1954, McCarthy destroyed many careers and even entire lives, whipping the nation into a frenzy of paranoia, accusation, loyalty oaths, and terror. When the public finally turned on him, he came crashing down, dying of alcoholism in 1957.
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
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- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
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In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, was actually a part of a vast, deadly conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than 14 million dead - victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history.
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
- How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
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- Narrateur(s): Steven Menasche
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In this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.
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Pandemic 1918
- Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
- Auteur(s): Catharine Arnold
- Narrateur(s): Peter Wickham
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In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but worldwide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish flu”. Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled more than two million.
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The Gestapo
- The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
- Auteur(s): Frank McDonough
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Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. His work has been described as 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this audiobook relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime.
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Twilight of Empire
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- Auteur(s): Greg King, Penny Wilson
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On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours, and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy, but Mayerling is also the story of family secrets
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- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
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On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
While influenza is now often thought of as a common and mild disease, it still kills over 30,000 people in the US each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, currently director of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, expounds on the flu's deadly past to solve the mysteries that could protect us from the next outbreak. In Influenza, he talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a roadmap for understanding what’s to come.
Dr. Brown digs into the discovery and resurrection of the flu virus in the frozen victims of the 1918 epidemic, as well as the bizarre remedies that once treated the disease, such as whiskey and blood-letting. Influenza also breaks down the current dialogue surrounding the disease, explaining the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and the federal government’s role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Though 100 years of advancement in medical research and technology have passed since the 1918 disaster, Dr. Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts.
Influenza is an enlightening and unnerving look at a shapeshifting deadly virus that has been around long before people - and warns us that it may be many more years before we are able to conquer it for good.
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- Kathryn C.
- 2018-12-21
Important read
A complex problem clearly explained with suggestions for further research and solutions. Surprisingly very entertaining.
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- Rodney
- 2020-03-01
So-so
The book starts off well enough, but goes off the rails as you get deeper into the book. The author rails against Tamiflu for a ridiculous period of time - and in the end the data is still mixed - so what was the point? Also the author says the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic wasn't a big deal at all - yet when you do a simple search for the stats it says up to 1.4-billion people were infected and up to 575,000 were killed. The author never acknowledges the published stats and doesn't explain why they're supposedly wrong. Don't get me wrong, I think the WHO is corrupt and dishonest in many of its findings, but if you're writing a book, explain why you're so certain they are wrong and where you get your facts. At times, when the book is telling a story, it's pretty good. But a lot of the book is just like reading a bunch of magazine articles put together. It's by no means all bad - it's just very mediocre, middle of the road, completely average. The read was acceptable - didn't really have the right tone at times, but listen at 1.25x speed and he'll sound a lot better. Oh, and a WOKE bonus, the author repeatedly calls doctors "she"... Why? Because the author is WOKE man. Actually the politics here aren't all that bad, but rather than say they, the author repeatedly says she as a doctor because, well, he's better than you.
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- Patrick
- 2020-04-03
Very Interesting and Informative
If you are here during the COVID19 pandemic seeking answers then you have come to the right place. No it doesn’t discuss the current pandemic but it does explain a lot of underlying issues and how these types of illnesses remain uncured and why they are so deadly.
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- Doc
- 2020-05-01
Prophetic
Not every author gets to hear their prophecies fulfilled, but Dr. Brown certainly has. This is a great read to fill in the background on how we got to where we are in April 2020.
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- BirderMame
- 2020-04-11
Very timely thing to read right now
As the 100th anniversary of the 1918 pandemic approached, this public health doctor researched the more general subject of pandemics and influenza, and his book frequently touches on the question of prediction of pandemics (versus the regular appearance of mutating flu viruses) and preparedness (or lack of need to do so) for a new pandemic. Well, we know how that turned out. A very interesting and timely thing to be reading right now.
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- Richard Dine
- 2019-01-11
Excellent exploration of the topic from all angles
Excellent exploration of the topic from all angles, and useful reminders of how to think honestly about how science and government should interact.
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- Jennie Byers
- 2019-03-02
Disappointing
Fairly poorly written, poorly thought out in places, repetitive and drags in long spots. Lots of interesting information, of course, but hardly worth the pain. Found myself skipping sections and, once or twice, actually yelling in frustration at the author’s poor reasoning.
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- Rnmedic1180
- 2019-01-30
great
great history on the flu, and the quest to find a workable treatment. I did this book in 1.5 days.
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- John H.
- 2020-09-24
Gave me a new perspective on C19 chaos.
easy to grasp...like a mini series of seminars. the narrator was well animated....non biased composition
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- William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and camptalized M)
- 2020-09-03
Interesting and informative
Narration: clear although slightly over dramatic Content: much interesting information, including informative description of the controversy over current vaccinations’ effectiveness Barry’s audio book on this subject is a somewhat more current and less dramatically rendered. Recommended