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  • Pathogenesis: How germs made history Audiobook by Jonathan Kennedy

    Pathogenesis: How germs made history Audiobook by Jonathan Kennedy
    2023/04/13
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    ID: 591678
    Title: Pathogenesis: How germs made history
    Author: Jonathan Kennedy
    Narrator: Jonathan Kennedy
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:27:44
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-13-2023
    Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
    Genres: History, World, Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

    Summary:
    Brought to you by Penguin. Humans did not make history - we played host. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam. How did an Indonesian volcano help cause the Black Death, setting Europe on the road to capitalism? How could 168 men extract the largest ransom in history from an opposing army of eighty thousand? And why did the Industrial Revolution lead to the birth of the modern welfare state? The latest science reveals that infectious diseases are not just something that happens to us, but a fundamental part of who we are. Indeed, the only reason humans don't lay eggs is that a virus long ago inserted itself into our DNA, and there are as many bacteria in your body as there are human cells. We have been thinking about the survival of the fittest all wrong: evolution is not simply about human strength and intelligence, but about how we live and thrive in a world dominated by germs. By exploring the startling intimacy of our relationship with infectious diseases, Dr Jonathan Kennedy shows how they have been responsible for some of the seismic revolutions of the past 50,000 years. A major reassessment of world history, Pathogenesis also reveals how the crisis of a pandemic can offer vital opportunities for change. ©2023 Jonathan Kennedy (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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  • Just Sayin': My Life In Words Audiobook by Malorie Blackman

    Just Sayin': My Life In Words Audiobook by Malorie Blackman
    2022/10/20
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    ID: 569659
    Title: Just Sayin': My Life In Words
    Author: Malorie Blackman
    Narrator: Malorie Blackman
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 07:31:55
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-20-2022
    Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

    Summary:
    Brought to you by Penguin. Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best loved and most widely-read writers and this is her long-awaited autobiography. For over thirty years, her books have helped to shape British culture, and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK, and are already undisputed classics of twenty-first-century children's literature. She is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books, from her childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the Windrush Generation, and who experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first love, literature, at university, in spite of her academic potential, but found a way to books and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles. This book is an account of that journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children's laureateship. It is an illuminating, inspiring and empowering account of the power of words to change lives, and the extraordinary life story of one of the world's greatest writers. © Malorie Blackman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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    7 時間 32 分