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  • Bellevue

    Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    de David Oshinsky ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    Bellevue

    Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    de David Oshinsky ...
    Narrado por Fred Sanders ...

    Completo

    14 hora 41 minutos

    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Worse Than Slavery

    de David M. Oshinsky ...
    In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    Based on the Book by David Oshinsky

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Bellevue tells you what you need to know—before or after you read David Oshinsky's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Bellevue includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsCharacter profilesDetail. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Polio:An American Story

    An American Story

    de David M. Oshinsky ...
    All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Capital Punishment on Trial

    Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

    de David M. Oshinsky ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Court’s controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia.Career criminal William Furman shot and killed a homeowner during a 1967 burglary in Savannah, Georgia. Because it was a “black-on ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Polio

    An American Story

    de David M. Oshinsky ...
    Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    Polio

    An American Story

    de David M. Oshinsky ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Hogan ...

    Completo

    14 hora 38 minutos

    New York Times Notable Book author and acclaimed University of Texas professor David M. Oshinsky is a leading American political and cultural historian. Garnering the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History, this comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America’s relentless struggle against polio.As poliomyelitis stalked the land, its paralyzing grip ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    Lost at Sea

    Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America

    de Joe Kloc ...
    Narrado por David Baerwald ...

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    6 hora 51 minutos

    A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society.In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of anchor-outs living in Richardson Bay more than doubles as their long-simmering feud with the wealthy residents of ... Leer más

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    The Children's Blizzard

    de David Laskin ...
    Narrado por Paul Woodson ...

    Completo

    9 hora 34 minutos

    January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

    de Padma Lakshmi, Jaya Saxena ...
    Narrado por Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...

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    9 hora 58 minutos

    A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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    Private Revolutions

    Four Women Face China's New Social Order

    de Yuan Yang ...
    Narrado por Yuan Yang, Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, Naomi Yang ...

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    9 hora 8 minutos

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION“Riveting . . . a powerful snapshot of four young Chinese women attempting to assert control over the direction of their lives.” —The New York Times Book Review“As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary.” —British** VogueA sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD