Industrial History

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

    Regular price: $24.07

    • By: William Knox PhD
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Scottish History for Dummies pulls back the curtain on how the story of Scotland has shaped the world far beyond its borders. From its turbulent past to the present day, this informative guide sheds a new and timely light on the story of Scotland and its people....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
    • By: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • With the OSS in Burma
    • By: Richard Dunlop
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,072 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,404 ratings
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • By: Klaus Schwab
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

    Regular price: $13.50

    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A History of Psychiatry's Bible
    • By: Allan V. Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Over the past 70 years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder....

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
    • By: John Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
    • Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, delivers a sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics....

    Regular price: $33.74

    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,496 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

    Regular price: $25.79

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