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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’
Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart
This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1.
About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen.
Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure.
After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research.
Created in association with The Amazing People Club.
About Collins ELT Readers:
Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels:
Level 1 – elementary (A2)
Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1)
Level 3 – intermediate (B1)
Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2)
Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.
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- De Rachel en 04-02-22
De: Jonathan Eig
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The Lives They Left Behind
- Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
- De: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
- Narrado por: Alex Paul
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not really the book I expected
- De B. Shaff en 11-09-17
De: Peter Stastny, y otros
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The Demon Under The Microscope
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,548
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,546
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic medication. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-08
De: Thomas Hager
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Rush
- Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
- De: Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 217
By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general. And as with the greatest Revolutionary minds, Rush was only just beginning his role in 1776 in the American experiment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narration problem can be corrected
- De Sandra L. en 09-27-18
De: Stephen Fried
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Rosalind Franklin
- A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Duración: 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were being showered with accolades for results they made at least partially based on her findings, Franklin would not be around to see it. Sadly, it’s believed that her use of X-ray equipment gave her terminal cancer, cutting her life short at age 37.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Covers the facts
- De Freda St en 08-21-24
De: Hourly History
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Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- De: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care - nearly 44 percent of all deaths - and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sadly, not very engaging.
- De Debra S. Long en 06-16-18
De: Sheila Himmel, y otros
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The Inheritance
- A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
- De: Niki Kapsambelis
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Every 69 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top 10 killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer's, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in 100 percent of cases, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto the next generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Cover-to-Cover Slug in the Gut, but Inspiring
- De Gillian en 04-16-17
De: Niki Kapsambelis
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A Warrior of the People
- How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
- De: Joe Starita
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice and then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Remarkable Woman
- De Jean en 11-27-16
De: Joe Starita
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American Spirit
- Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
- De: Taya Kyle, Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: Taya Kyle
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
From Taya Kyle, New York Times best-selling author of American Wife and widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, an inspiring collection of stories, both personal and drawn from American history, that showcase the resilience of the “American spirit”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just love Taya Kyle!
- De Rebecka R. Murray en 05-14-19
De: Taya Kyle, y otros
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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 8,752
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,041
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,008
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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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 357
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Scary, and still unsolved, medical mystery
- De joyce en 12-14-14
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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
- Revised and Expanded Edition
- De: Cokie Roberts
- Narrado por: Cokie Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
In this 10th anniversary edition, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles. From mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, Roberts reveals how much progress has now been made and how much further we have to go. Updated and expanded to include a diverse new cast of women, including Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Billie Jean King, and others, this collection of essays offers tremendous insight into the opportunities and challenges that women encounter today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read or “listen” for all women and girls!!
- De monica en 09-30-19
De: Cokie Roberts
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,858
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,357
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 424
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
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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 2,108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,793
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,790
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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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- De: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- De Susie en 05-14-13
De: Paul Farmer, y otros
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I Shall Not Hate
- A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
- De: Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish---now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"---captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece. By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A story worth reading, but terrible narration
- De BL Lucas en 04-11-12
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King of Hearts
- The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
- De: G. Wayne Miller
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved every minute
- De Brian en 02-05-08
De: G. Wayne Miller