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The Formula for Better Health

How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

by Tom Frieden ...

**The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.Gold Medal, 2025 Foreword INDIES Awards, Health (Adult Nonfiction) Category**In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor ... Read more

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**The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.Gold Medal, 2025 Foreword INDIES Awards, Health (Adult Nonfiction) Category**In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor
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Salt Wars

The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

by Michael F. Jacobson ...

An exposé on how food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our foodFrom the nutrition crusader and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) who’s credited with coining the term "junk food"A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, ... Read more

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An exposé on how food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our foodFrom the nutrition crusader and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) who’s credited with coining the term "junk food"A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes,
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The Formula for Better Health

How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

by Tom Frieden ...

Narrated by Tom Frieden ...

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named "the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop" by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world's deadliest diseases.Drawing from decades leading New York City's health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and ... Read more

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In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named "the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop" by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world's deadliest diseases.Drawing from decades leading New York City's health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and
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Salt Wars

The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

by Michael F. Jacobson ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

From the crusader credited with popularizing the phrase "junk food," Salt Wars uncovers the group of scientists who worked with food industry lobbyists and fought all efforts to reduce the dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes ... Read more

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From the crusader credited with popularizing the phrase "junk food," Salt Wars uncovers the group of scientists who worked with food industry lobbyists and fought all efforts to reduce the dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes
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Selfie Generation, The

How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

by Alicia Eler ...

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Digital native Alicia Eler’s The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, ... Read more

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Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Digital native Alicia Eler’s The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media,
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Walk Through Fire

The Train Disaster that Changed America

by Yasmine S. Ali, MD ...

Narrated by Yasmine S. Ali ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

On February 22, 1978, a devastating freight train derailment drastically altered Waverly, Tennessee, and its place in history. This was one of the worst train explosions of the twentieth century, killing sixteen people, injuring hundreds more, and causing millions of dollars in damage.What could have been dismissed as a single community's terrible misfortune instead became the catalyst for radical ... Read more

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On February 22, 1978, a devastating freight train derailment drastically altered Waverly, Tennessee, and its place in history. This was one of the worst train explosions of the twentieth century, killing sixteen people, injuring hundreds more, and causing millions of dollars in damage.What could have been dismissed as a single community's terrible misfortune instead became the catalyst for radical
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Looking for Miss America

A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

by Margot Mifflin ...

Narrated by Nancy Peterson ...

Unabridged

From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals―and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progressLooking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. ... Read more

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From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals―and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progressLooking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution.
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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

by Yang Jisheng ...

Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

26 hours 19 min

As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he ... Read more

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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he
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Jellyfish Age Backwards

Nature's Secrets to Longevity

by Nicklas Brendborg ...

Narrated by Joe Leat ...

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min

**This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)**scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all.Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern ... Read more

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**This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)**scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all.Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern
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The Goshawk

by T. H. White ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—“the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized ... Read more

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The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—“the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized
... Read more
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How the Dog Became the Dog

From Wolves to Our Best Friends

by Mark Derr ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as ... Read more

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That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as
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Information Wars

How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It

by Richard Stengel ...

Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

Unabridged

11 hours 17 min

During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of the new global information war. At the time, he was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election ... Read more

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During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of the new global information war. At the time, he was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election
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