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My Planet
- Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
- ナレーター: Angela Dawe
- 再生時間: 4 時間 41 分
- カテゴリー: 文学・フィクション, ユーモア・風刺
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- 著者: Lindsey Fitzharris
- ナレーター: Sam Woolf
- 再生時間: 7 時間 29 分
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In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers.
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Unmentionable
- The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
- 著者: Therese Oneill
- ナレーター: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) Unmentionable is your hilarious, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood.
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Diagnosis
- Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
- 著者: Lisa Sanders
- ナレーター: Lisa Sanders
- 再生時間: 8 時間 33 分
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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times best-selling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama, House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet, she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 16 時間 32 分
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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
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From Here to Eternity
- Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
- 著者: Caitlin Doughty
- ナレーター: Caitlin Doughty
- 再生時間: 5 時間 37 分
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Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage.
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- 著者: Thomas Morris
- ナレーター: Rupert Farley, Thomas Morris
- 再生時間: 9 時間 7 分
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Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- 著者: Lindsey Fitzharris
- ナレーター: Sam Woolf
- 再生時間: 7 時間 29 分
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In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers.
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Unmentionable
- The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
- 著者: Therese Oneill
- ナレーター: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) Unmentionable is your hilarious, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood.
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Diagnosis
- Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
- 著者: Lisa Sanders
- ナレーター: Lisa Sanders
- 再生時間: 8 時間 33 分
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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times best-selling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama, House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet, she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 16 時間 32 分
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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
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From Here to Eternity
- Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
- 著者: Caitlin Doughty
- ナレーター: Caitlin Doughty
- 再生時間: 5 時間 37 分
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Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage.
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- 著者: Thomas Morris
- ナレーター: Rupert Farley, Thomas Morris
- 再生時間: 9 時間 7 分
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Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Richard Matthews
- 再生時間: 18 時間 13 分
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science. Although he doesn't know anything about the subject (at first), he is eager to learn, and takes information that he gets from the world's leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant.
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
- Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
- 著者: Caitlin Doughty
- ナレーター: Caitlin Doughty
- 再生時間: 4 時間 29 分
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Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poo when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What if?, Doughty's new book blends her scientific understanding of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious and candid answers to more than fifty urgent questions posed by her youngest fans.
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Gory Details
- 著者: Erika Engelhaupt
- ナレーター: Mari Weiss
- 再生時間: 8 時間 33 分
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality. Blending humor and journalism in the tradition of Mary Roach, acclaimed science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe.
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How We Die
- Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
- 著者: Sherwin B. Nuland
- ナレーター: Sherwin B. Nuland
- 再生時間: 2 時間 56 分
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There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying, to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita.
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The Violinist's Thumb
- And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
- 著者: Sam Kean
- ナレーター: Henry Leyva
- 再生時間: 12 時間 35 分
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From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean come more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking.
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The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
- 44 Scotland Street, Book 13
- 著者: Alexander McCall Smith
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 8 時間 51 分
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To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers....
あらすじ・解説
Follow New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach - but be careful not to trip - as she weaves through personal anecdotes and everyday musings riddled with her uncanny wit and amazingly analytical eye. These essays, which found a well-deserved home within the pages of Reader's Digest as the column "My Planet," detail the inner workings of hypochondriacs, hoarders, and compulsive cheapskates. (Did we mention neurotic interior designers and professional list makers?) For Roach, humor is hidden in the most unlikely places, which means that nothing is off limits. Whether she is dwelling on her age or talking about the pros and cons of a bedroom night light - "A married couple can best be defined as a unit of people whose sleep habits are carefully engineered to keep each other awake" - Roach finds a lesson, a slice of sarcasm, or a dash of something special that makes each day comical and absolutely priceless.
In keeping with our mission - curating the best listens in the land - Reader's Digest editors neatly packaged these timeless (and hilarious) Roach essays together for the first time.
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- Suzanne
- 2013/12/25
Terrible narration ruins an entertaining book
Would you try another book from Mary Roach and/or Angela Dawe?
I like Mary Roach. The trouble was the narration. She sounded like she was trying too hard to project her voice, which left no room for personality, Very flat and monotone. I will have to break down and actually read this book!
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- Mike
- 2014/10/31
Unlistenable Narrator: Didn't Get Past the Forward
What didn’t you like about Angela Dawe’s performance?
The narrator sounds like a carnival barker. I couldn't get past a few minutes of the forward. The book's content might be fine, but I'll never know. Roach should just narrate her own books.
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- Ann
- 2014/04/23
Narrator drove me crazy
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The narrator
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The way she would draw out the vowels in words. I couldn't finish this book because the narrator was too distracting.
Any additional comments?
I loved Mary Roach's other books. I'm sure this one is very good as well but I couldn't get past the first few chapters.
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- Ann
- 2013/11/30
Bad narrator
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Felt the need to emphasize the last word of every SENTENCE. No matter what word it WAS. Couldn't bear it for more than 45 min. Love Mary Roach, but I think I'll get this one in print.
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- Sara
- 2013/11/15
Needs a different narrator.
Great stories but the narrator kind of ruined my listening experience. Would give it another try with a less monotone voice.
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- Amazon frequent customer
- 2015/07/22
If the sound of nails on a blackboard don't bother you, then go ahead and buy this book.
Narrator's voice was grating. I got through 4 or 5 chapters and gave up.
I don't recommend this book.
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- cmac
- 2015/05/06
Amusing and good
Mary Roach continues to impress, while the narrator seemed to be yelling the words at me. Overall really quite good!
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- Tanny M. Martin
- 2015/02/28
Love Mary Roach.
My Mary Roach collection is complete. i have enjoyed her quirky perspective through every book. This one is short, funny 'slice of life' essays and are different from her other books but has me giggling and connecting frequently. I did not love the narrator, I felt she sounded as though she was shouting. I just lowered the volume and it certainly was not enough to keep me from listening.
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- Wayne
- 2015/08/13
My Planet is a series of newspaper columns...
written by Mary Roach. It may deserve more than 2 stars but Mary Roach's other books are much better. I especially liked Stiff and Gulp.
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- Kevin Stokes
- 2015/07/27
Very Funny
The book is comprised of short essays on random subjects of everyday life. Most are amusing, and some made me burst out laughing, causing some odd looks because I was listening with headphones in public.
Mary's own personality comes though, and she seems like a person you'd like to know in person. Also, almost all of the book is g rated, with a sprinkling of pg stuff like a tiny bit of bad language.
The narrator sounds like a brash NYC comedian, which sometimes doesn't feel right but overall didn't detract too much.
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- Jana
- 2016/01/04
Love the book, can't stand the performer's voice
Well, the title describes my feelings completely. I am a big fan of Mary Roaches work. Despite the fact that this book is different from her usual meticulous research driven work it is still very enjoyable and refreshingly entertaining.
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The performer's voice is just...wrong. It sounds as if she's shouting every word and the intonation seems off too. After a few minutes of listening I actually feel wound up instead of relaxed. Trying to introduce this book to friends resulted in the same discomfort for them. Coincidentally, they found Roaches other great book Packing for Mars sounding like being read by a robot.
I can't see myself being able to suffer through the rest of this audio book. If only there was a way of "reading it"...oh, wait...;)
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- hOnesty
- 2018/02/19
Quite a good witty book
Observations of the author are funny and entertaining but voiceover is not good enough to represent the humour in the script. Overall good book showing how funny are some parts of our daily lives.