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“aarathi prasad”

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  • Silk

    A World History

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2024A Library Journal Selection for Best Nonfiction of 2024A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April“Aarathi Prasad’s Silk: A World History is a love song to this protean material. . . . Beautiful [and] fascinating.” —Wall Street Journal"Aarathi Prasad spins a masterpiece of a story, as luminous, supp... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

    Travels Through Indian Medicine

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    Series series
    WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Like a Virgin

    How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man, and in the wild there are plenty of creatures – turkeys, Komodo ‘dragons’, and the ‘Jesus Christ’ lizard (which even walks on water) – that take various approaches to making babies without having sex. Soon, humans will have that option, too.In Like a Virgin, biologist and science writer Aarathi Prasad examines ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Silk

    A World History

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    Narrated by Hannah Curtis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2024A Library Journal Selection for Best Nonfiction of 2024A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April“Aarathi Prasad’s Silk: A World History is a love song to this protean material. . . . Beautiful [and] fascinating.” —Wall Street Journal""Aarathi Prasad spins a masterpiece of a story, as luminous, sup... ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Lady Queen

    The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
    Narrated by Christine Lakin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial -- and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages.On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court in Avignon. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against overwhelming odds. Victorious, she returned to Naples ... Read more

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    The Bright Ages

    A New History of Medieval Europe

    by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry ...
    Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

    Unabridged

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    "Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world did wake civilization from a thousand year hibernation. Thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and accessible; a fresh look on an age full of light, color, and illumination." —Mike Duncan, author of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in ... Read more

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    The Tragedy of the Templars

    The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

    by Michael Haag ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 15 min

    The acclaimed medieval historian chronicles the rise of Templar powers in the Levant—and the saga of their destruction.Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Gastro Obscura

    A Food Adventurer's Guide

    by Cecily Wong, Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura ...

    Unabridged

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    A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller.A Feast of Wonder!Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? ... Read more

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    How the World Made the West

    A 4,000 Year History

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Narrated by Alix Dunmore ...

    Unabridged

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    **An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”—The Boston Globe**AN ECONOMIST BEST ... Read more

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    The Missing Thread

    A Women's History of the Ancient World

    by Daisy Dunn ...
    Narrated by Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell ...

    Unabridged

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    A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of historyAround four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and ... Read more

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    Pox Romana

    The Plague That Shook the Roman World

    by Colin Elliott ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...
    Series series Turning Points in Ancient History

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    This audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be ... Read more

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    The Twilight Garden

    A Novel

    by Sara Nisha Adams ...
    Narrated by Shaheen Khan, Mikhail Sen, Emily Stride ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at ... Read more

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