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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

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    • Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
    • By: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

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    • My Investigations at America’s Most Infamous Crime Scenes
    • By: Emily Craig PhD
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent as a bone hunter....

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    • Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
    • By: Dána-Ain Davis
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth....

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    • The Modern Plagues
    • By: Paul Farmer
    • Narrated by: Derek Shoales
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Paul Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against the modern plagues of AIDS and tuberculosis and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Mark Lorch
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction discusses the key concepts of biochemistry, as well as the historical figures in the field, the molecules they studied, and the interaction between biochemistry, biotechnology, and synthetic biology....

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    • What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
    • By: Val McDermid
    • Narrated by: Sarah Barron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,800 ratings
    • The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....

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    • A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 552 ratings
    • For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....

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    • A History of Race & Disease
    • By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,085 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
    • By: Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
    • Narrated by: George Grizzard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 599 ratings
    • Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: on a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds. At the "Body Farm"...

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    • Gideon Oliver Mysteries, Book 9
    • By: Aaron Elkins
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Series: Gideon Oliver Mysteries Series, Book 9
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue Devil. Nothing tangible points to foul play behind his fall from a cliff, but FBI agent John Lau has his suspicions....

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    • Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,912 ratings
    • Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

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    • By: Jefferson Bass
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga....

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    • The Gideon Oliver Mysteries, Book 7
    • By: Aaron Elkins
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Series: Gideon Oliver Mysteries Series, Book 7
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains are installed in an Oregon museum. It is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist - until what is left of him disappears....

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    • Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kathy Reichs
    • Narrated by: Michele Pawk
    • Series: A Temperance Brennan Novel, Book 8
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse....

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    • Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
    • By: Jill A. Fisher
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty....

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    • An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology)
    • By: Hans Reihling
    • Narrated by: Craig Makhosi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Anthropologist Hans Reihling vividly shows that regardless of social and cultural differences, men may have something in common: their struggles to become invulnerable individuals increase their vulnerability....

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