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Libros narrados por Michael Specter

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  • Denialism

    How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives

    de Michael Specter ...
    In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.In Denialism, Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad—that it ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

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    Higher Animals

    Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life

    de Michael Specter ...

    Completo

    4 hora 11 minutos

    In Higher Animals, New Yorker science writer Michael Specter explores how MRNA vaccines have transformed the scientific landscape and helped spark a biotechnology revolution.Biology is information, and increasingly, that means digital information. We need to think of biology the way we think about computer code, only instead of bits and bytes, we use the genetic letters: ACGT. The widely-used mRNA ... Leer más

    $427 MXN

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    Fauci

    de Michael Specter ...
    Narrado por Michael Specter ...

    Completo

    3 hora 22 minutos

    The first audio biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the basketball loving kid from Brooklyn who became the most recognizable doctor in the world.New Yorker staff writer and author Michael Specter has known Dr. Anthony Fauci for more than three decades, starting with the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. They’ve had many conversations over the years, but perhaps none as frank as those that became part of ... Leer más

    $250 MXN

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  • Slow Death by Rubber Duck

    How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health

    de Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie ...
    Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us.Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal.The most dangerous pollution has always come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. Smith and Lourie ingested and inhaled a ... Leer más

    $248 MXN

  • Hacking Darwin

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

    de Jamie Metzl ...
    "A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." — Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneA groundbreaking exploration of genetic engineering and its impact on the future of our species from leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist, ... Leer más

    $248 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Truth about Cancer

    What You Need to Know about Cancer's History, Treatment, and Prevention

    de Ty M. Bollinger ...
    Cancer touches more lives than you may think. According to the World Health Organization, one out of three women alive today, and one out of two men, will face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.To Ty Bollinger, this isn’t just a statistic. It’s personal. After losing seven members of his family to cancer over the course of a decade, Ty set out on a global quest to learn as much as he possibly ... Leer más

    $176 MXN

  • The Politics of Breastfeeding: when breasts are bad for business

    de Gabrielle Palmer ...
    As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer ... Leer más

    $108 MXN

  • The Genesis Machine

    Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    de Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity’s existential challenges from climate change, to ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • Breasts

    A Natural and Unnatural History

    de Florence Williams ...
    **A 2012 New York Times Notable BookA 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Award Winner in the Science & Technology categoryAn engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.**Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • The World According to Monsanto

    Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

    de Marie-Monique Robin ...
    An investigation of the massive agribusiness company, from a winner of the Rachel Carson Prize: "Well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence." — Kirkus ReviewsThe result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lactivism

    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    de Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... Leer más

    $254 MXN

  • Safe Food

    The Politics of Food Safety

    de Marion Nestle ...
    Series Libro 5 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September ... Leer más

    $293 MXN