Wells History

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    • Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
    • By: H. G. Wells
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 44 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement....

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    • By: H. G. Wells
    • Narrated by: Graham Scott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In A Short History of the World, H. G. Wells examines the origins of the Earth, and the development of life upon the planet, and then explores the history of human civilization from its earliest beginnings....

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    • 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 554 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....

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    • The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
    • By: Iain McGilchrist
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right....

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    • 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 992 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....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • By: Hew Strachan
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • By: Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

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    • 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 273 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....

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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • By: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 789 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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    • Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
    • By: Glory Edim
    • Narrated by: Glory Edim
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
    • As she has done with her Online community Well-Read Black Girl, in this anthology Glory Edim has created a space in which black women’s writing and life experiences are lifted up, to be shared with all fans who value the power of a story to help us understand the world and ourselves....

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    • 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 89 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....

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,676 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

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    • By: H. G. Wells
    • Narrated by: Edward James Beesley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the origin of our planet, to the great civilizations, to the Great War, follow Wells on this ambitious journey spanning thousands of years....

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