Crashing Through - Abridged
By: Robert Kurson
Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his... Read more
How Doctors Think
By: Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments—or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient... Read more
The Next Better Place
By: Michael C. Keith
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Next Better Place explores the thin line between wanderlust and compulsion, between running away and arriving, and leaves us with the understanding that the journey is often more powerful than the destination. Read more
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By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we... Read more
On Call in Hell
By: Thomas Hayden & Richard Jadick
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek.
Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called up, but not too old to volunteer. In... Read more
Survival of the Sickest
By: Sharon Moalem & Jonathan Prince
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on—or off?Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to... Read more
View audiobookAll in the Family, Doctor Included
By: Vladimir A. Tsesis
Narrated by: Pat Bottino
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more
View audiobookFinal Exam
By: Pauline Chen
Narrated by: Pauline W. Chen
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghost Map
By: Steven Johnson
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a... Read more
Marte Y Venus En El Dormitorio - Abridged
By: John Gray
Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Con el libro Los Hombres son de Marte, Las Muieres son de Venus, en el primer puesto de la lista de bestsellers del New York Times el doctor John Gray ha ayudado a miles de parejas a mejorar sus relaciones, haciéndolas más amorosas y afectuosas. Ahora examina el lugar donde la buena comunicación más se necesita pero donde muchas veces falta: en... Read more
View audiobookYou: On a Diet - Abridged
By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and over a hundred recipes.
For the first time in our... Read more
The Family That Couldn't Sleep
By: D. T. Max
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter.... Read more
View audiobookThe Interpretation of Dreams
By: Sigmund Freud
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Sigmund Freud’s landmark work The Interpretation of Dreams forever changed the way we think about our dreams. It is here that Freud made many of his most important discoveries about the subconscious mind, as he explored why we dream, what we dream, and what our dreams mean. What does it symbolize when we fly in our dreams? When we fall?Freud’s... Read more
View audiobookA Story of the Red Cross
By: Clara Barton
Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Clara Barton was one of those diminutive New England women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross to help the unfortunate victims of war and disaster, and served as its president from 1882 to 1904. The Red Cross of today stands as a living memorial to the... Read more
View audiobookWhy Do Men Have Nipples?
By: Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg
Narrated by: Mark Leyner
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Is There a Doctor in the House?Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . . How do people in wheelchairs have sex? Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast? Can I lose my... Read more
View audiobookThe Memory Cure
By: Majid Fotuhi
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Credentials don't come much loftier than Fotuhi's."--Washington Post "The book is a message of hope and reassurance for laymen, especially aging members of the baby-boom generation alarmed by all the attention being paid to Alzheimer's and imagining worst-case scenarios for themselves."--Washington Times EXCITING NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE... Read more
View audiobookMakam Nihavent - Abridged
By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. R. Oruc Güvenc u. Gernot G....
Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. R. Oruc Güvenc u. Gernot G....
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more
View audiobookMakam Hüseyni - Abridged
By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...
Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer... Read more
View audiobookMakam Rast - Abridged
By: Various Artists
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more
View audiobookMakam Hicaz - Abridged
By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...
Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more
View audiobookYOU: The Owner's Manual - Abridged
By: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen
Narrated by: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works... Read more
View audiobookThe House on Beartown Road
By: Elizabeth Cohen
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family.Elizabeth is a member of the "sandwich generation"—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both... Read more
View audiobookScourge
By: Jonathan B. Tucker
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this... Read more
View audiobookWhat One Man Said to Another
By: Peter Josyph
Narrated by: Peter Josyph & Raymond Todd
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
What One Man Said to Another is, on one level, a series of extended conversations between friends. On another, it is the spoken autobiography of Richard Selzer, respected surgeon and writer, as recorded by artist and writer Peter Josyph.In these pages, we learn firsthand of Selzer’s life as a surgeon in an isolated village in Korea in the early... Read more
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