Deadly Companions
How Microbes Shaped Our History
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Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other.
Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way humans have lived - such as our move from hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller - which made us vulnerable to microbe attack.
Showing how we live our lives today - with increasing crowding and air travel - puts us once again at risk, Crawford asks whether we might ever conquer microbes completely, or whether we need to take a more microbe-centric view of the world. Among the possible answers, one thing becomes clear: that for generations to come, our deadly companions will continue to shape human history.
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- By Srikanth Ramanujam on 11-15-18
By: Marty Cagan
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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Not one boring moment!
- By WRWF on 12-22-17
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Cosmic Queries
- StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
- By: James Trefil, Lindsey N. Walker - editor, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take on the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia - How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone? - and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
- By Daniel Earl on 03-15-21
By: James Trefil, and others
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Ranger Confidential
- Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
- By: Andrea Lankford
- Narrated by: Julia Motyka
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Depressing from Cover to Cover
- By Drew (@drewsant) on 04-13-15
By: Andrea Lankford
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- Terrie
- 02-26-21
Fantastic writing, research and narration!
Loved this book! Dorothy Crawford was ahead of her time when she wrote this original 2007 edition. Here we are in 2021 living out her warnings. This book is not written in th stuffy way of a textbook, but Crawford's research is worthy of a textbook designation.
A bit about the narrator. She brought Crawford's research to life with clarity of speech and proper emphasis without over dramatized the subject matter. The reader will find that there was no fluctuations of voice required with this topic.
It's pretty cool, too, that Crawford borrowed from an Anthony Fauci quote the title of her book.
Absolutely fascinating! To understand our current Covid-19 pandemic this book is a MUST read!!
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- 05-26-22
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I was to read this book for my microbiology class. This was an interesting book, of course I have the physical copy. I really liked hearing and reading the book.
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- James
- 04-06-19
This needs you to pay attention
This sums up all that has happened it’s clear and understandable. No money grubbing person can overlook this just for the sake of making a few bucks and that’s what’s been happening people. If you’re related to one of them slap them in the face and tell him to wake up. I love you anyway
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- Lee
- 07-30-21
Facinating read in the midst of COVID-19
Provides background and context to how killer microbes effect our everyday lives and what we must do to keep them at bay.
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- Margaret Sells
- 03-02-24
Great info.
The info was pre-COVID but still good info. The reader was very good and made the info understandable.
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- Sarah Elkinton
- 08-09-19
Read Get Well Soon instead
I'm sure for some people this is great, but for a quick casual listen, this is not for me. I reccomend Get Well Soon instead. They cover 80% of the same material and Get Well Soon is much better written.
The narration was good, once it was sped up slightly.
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