Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Tracy Kidder
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year)
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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Sometimes Brilliant
- The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
- De: Larry Brilliant
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 199
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 198
Larry Brilliant's life journey has led him on a purposeful path across continents and countercultural movements, marching arm in arm with the men and women who defined a generation. A man who has always been in the right place at the right time, Brilliant has engaged with some of the most prominent thought leaders, spiritual masters, heroes, and icons in the world, including Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji), Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wavy Gravy, the Grateful Dead, the Dalai Lama, and Barack Obama.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes Brilliant--Brilliant
- De Dr. Sharon G. Solloway en 10-24-16
De: Larry Brilliant
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Your Heart, My Hands
- An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons
- De: Arun K. Singh MD, John Hanc - contributor, Delos Cosgrove MD - foreword
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a 20-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream. Faced with an entirely new culture, racism, and the lasting effects of disabling childhood injuries, through hard work and perseverance he overcame all odds. Now having performed over 15,000 open-heart surgeries, more than nearly every surgeon in history, Dr. Singh reflects on his most memorable patients and his incredible personal life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From Dyslexia and Crushed Hands Rise Greatness
- De Bailey Rose en 02-02-25
De: Arun K. Singh MD, y otros
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Inferno
- A Doctor's Ebola Story
- De: Steven Hatch MD
- Narrado por: Steven Hatch MD
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story, spoiled by politics.
- De Roman Vogel en 07-22-17
De: Steven Hatch MD
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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
- Versión completa
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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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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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A Woman of Firsts
- The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world
- De: Edna Adan Ismail, Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Edna Adan Ismail
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s people, especially its women. When she suffered the trauma of FGM herself as a young girl at the bidding of her mother, Edna’s determination was set.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Author Read and So Moving
- De Clementa Frederiksen en 03-04-24
De: Edna Adan Ismail, y otros
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Preemptive Love
- Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time
- De: Jeremy Courtney
- Narrado por: Jeremy Courtney
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In the middle of the Iraq War, Jeremy and Jessica Courtney found themselves with their two children caught up in the turmoil, just hoping to make a difference. After an encounter with a father whose little girl was dying from a heart defect, they began to investigate options for helping and learned that untold thousands of children across Iraq were in similar need, waiting in line for heart surgery in a country without a qualified heart surgeon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Recommended Highly!
- De Zak en 06-13-18
De: Jeremy Courtney
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God's Hotel
- A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- De: Victoria Sweet
- Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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Truth Doesn't Have a Side
- My Alarming Discovery About the Danger of Contact Sports
- De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, Mark Tabb, Will Smith - foreword
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
One day in 2002 the 50-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster's body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. But when Omalu cut into Webster's brain, it appeared to be normal. Something didn't add up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly Enlightening
- De Marie en 01-31-20
De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, 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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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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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Doctored
- The Disillusionment of an American Physician
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade's worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frank, inside perspective on the follies of unintended consequences in medical reform
- De JW en 02-25-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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Concussion (Movie Tie-in Edition)
- De: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 204
Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for GQ that would go on to inspire the movie Concussion. Omalu told her about a day in September 2002, when, in a dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, he picked up a scalpel and made a discovery that would rattle America in ways he’d never intended. Omalu was new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you know, come forth and speak.
- De Cynthia en 12-14-15
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The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- De: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Narrado por: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Testament
- De Gallantly Rabbit! en 01-23-11
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Keeping Hope Alive
- One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
- De: Hawa Abdi, Sarah J. Robbins
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Refreshing
- De Jean Watz en 07-21-14
De: Hawa Abdi, y otros
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Dancing Bears
- De: Witold Szabłowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, entertaining, & insightful
- De Kait en 07-23-19
De: Witold Szabłowski, y otros
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Brotherhood
- Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
- De: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra
- Narrado por: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How to Toot Your Horn
- De Kenneth en 07-01-13
De: Sanjiv Chopra, y otros
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 590
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 510
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 506
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 149
After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not stop listening!
- De Paul en 01-28-23
De: Tracy Kidder
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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,171
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,490
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,477
Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made Michael Lewis' work possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Behind the scenes of amazing science
- De Neuron en 10-16-17
De: Michael Lewis
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De MHS en 03-25-22
De: Tracy Kidder
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The Soul of a New Machine
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 571
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 570
Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reading this book changed my life
- De Timothy Knox en 08-12-16
De: Tracy Kidder
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
- De: Tracy Kidder, Michael French - adaptation
- Narrado por: Lincoln Hoppe
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: To cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Yazmin Ochoa en 06-26-19
De: Tracy Kidder, y otros
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 149
After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not stop listening!
- De Paul en 01-28-23
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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,171
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,490
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,477
Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made Michael Lewis' work possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Behind the scenes of amazing science
- De Neuron en 10-16-17
De: Michael Lewis
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De MHS en 03-25-22
De: Tracy Kidder
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The Soul of a New Machine
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 570
Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reading this book changed my life
- De Timothy Knox en 08-12-16
De: Tracy Kidder
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
- De: Tracy Kidder, Michael French - adaptation
- Narrado por: Lincoln Hoppe
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: To cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Yazmin Ochoa en 06-26-19
De: Tracy Kidder, y otros
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
- Ebola and the Ravages of History
- De: Paul Farmer
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 84
In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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CRITICAL LISTENING for 2020!
- De Vin en 11-17-20
De: Paul Farmer
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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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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Abundance
- De: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrado por: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all.
De: Ezra Klein, y otros
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Study Guide: The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner (SuperSummary)
- De: SuperSummary
- Narrado por: Steven Spicher
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
SuperSummary is a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes. This audio study guide for The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as including the idea of economics as a market system analysis and economists' viewpoints as functions of the eras in which they lived. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great summary
- De ImStillThinking en 10-27-20
De: SuperSummary
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Old Friends
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Lowell George Seibel
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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The narrative takes place entirely in a nursing home and focuses on two old men struggling with their circumstances, their memories, and their mortality.
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Had to stop listening
- De Mebythesea en 09-09-08
De: Tracy Kidder
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Pathologies of Power
- Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
- De: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence.
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A must read for aspiring global health students
- De Amanda Leppert en 08-06-18
De: Paul Farmer, y otros
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House
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Adrian Cronauer
- Duración: 12 h
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Why on earth should the nail-by-nail building of a house hold any fascination for anyone? Because when you put a lawyer, an architect, and a hippie builder together, that spells trouble. Kidder tells his story so well that you can’t help but take sides.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book
- De S. J. York en 08-13-23
De: Tracy Kidder
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad.
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4 out of 5 stars
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FALLIBILITY, MYSTERY AND UNCERTAINTY
- De AnnH en 10-04-20
De: Atul Gawande
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A Truck Full of Money
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Tracy Kidder, the “master of the nonfiction narrative” (The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Where's the story?
- De Amazon Customer en 11-03-16
De: Tracy Kidder
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST read . . .
- De Kathy in CA en 08-11-14
De: Atul Gawande
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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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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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mountains Beyond Mountains
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- Sandy
- 08-23-05
it may change your life-view about charity, love
This is about a real-life superhero, who has lived the most kind, loving, extradinary life. Even if none of us can measure up to this man, we learn from this book, the motivation, the philosophy, the actions of a living, working very great man. And possibly, change our world view.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-06-22
a great read with wonderful narration. loved it.
writing like this and stories like this are greater than fiction. And they are all true and very inspiring to some, and seem crazy and audacious to others. Listen and make up your own mind.
People like Paul and many other PIH staff in this story come along only once in a century.
Don't miss this opportunity!
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- Jessica Prunet Garland
- 10-07-16
wonderful Paul Farmer the Saints<br />the book help me
see the Haitian community in a different light the book have history religious beliefs anything you would need to write a great essay if you were using this book for college-level
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- J. Riley
- 04-29-17
good book, well read, a bit on the liberal side
good book, very well read, a bit on the liberal side... Probably a fair treatment of Dr Farmer and his work on serving the poor in Haiti and Puru, among others.
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- Sean
- 09-13-22
In complete awe
Dr. Paul Farmer was more than a doctor. What set him apart from others? Even other doctors? He truly wanted to be there for his patients, no matter the environment he was in. He aimed to serve the underrepresented and mistreated, and support them through their tough journeys. He made this his life's mission. His commitment to Haiti was phenomenal. His commitment to public service was phenomenal. I have so much respect for his life; he is very inspiring. His legacy will live on :)
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- Dan Millman
- 02-13-23
Paul Farmer, Mother Theresa
If Paul Farmer was not a saint, then I don’t know who is. An inspiring example of humanity and a human being dedicated to serve, in a completely egalitarian manner. Tracy Kidder is/was the perfect writer for this story. Like attracts like, I suppose. An inspirational, aspirational work fully deserving of the Pulitzer.
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- Ricardo Koster
- 11-20-23
Interesting and informative
This is an uplifting story that changes perspective. Similar to “The Soul of a New Machine”
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- Molly
- 07-09-04
Inspiring, captivating
I flew throught his book. Not only was it educational and thought-provoking, it was wonderful story of a ture role model in world health reform. As a doctor, it inspired me to think more globally and to listen intently to my patients and their families.
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- Susan
- 08-10-04
Fantastic!
One of the most inspirational and informative books I have ever read. The audio production is sympathetic to the material and never gets in the way of the message.
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- M. Tudor
- 03-02-04
Wonderful Man!
Paul Farmer is inspiring! This book renews my faith in human-kind.
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