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  To the Best of Our Knowledge: Fermentation, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

  In this hour, Sauerkraut, kimchee, kefir, kombucha... Sandor Katz calls himself a "fermentation fetishist." The author of The Art of Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved explains what's driving today's fermentation revival.Next, every year, Reedsburg, Wisconsin hosts a giant Fermentation Fest. Ten days of workshops, classes, and art events celebrating the art of fermentation. Reporter Erik Lorenzsonn was there and filed this series of audio postcards.Then, Michael Paterniti tells the story of his epic adventure in search of one of the world's greatest cheesemakers. It's a story of love, betrayal, revenge (and cheese), called The Telling Room.After that, a short story by science fiction novelist John Scalzi, read by Adam Hirsch.Following that, what if we could harness nature to grow clothing for us? London-based fashion designer Suzanne Lee explains how she grows cloth inside giant vats of fermented tea. It's part of a future industry she calls "bio-couture".And finally, the bacteria that live in and on your body outnumber your human cells, ten to one. Microbiologist Rob Knight explains why mapping the human microbiome could revolutionize medicine. [Broadcast Date: December 4, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/131204/rt_tbon_131204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Our Tiny, Useless Hearts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

  Henry has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off to Noosa with Mercedes' grade three teacher, Martha. Caroline, having shredded a wardrobe-full of Henry's suits, has gone after them. Craig and Lesley have dropped over briefly from next door to catch up on the fallout from Henry and Caroline's all-night row. And Janice, Caroline's sister, is staying for the weekend to look after the girls because Janice is the sensible one. A microbiologist with a job she loves, a fervent belief in the beauty of the scientific method and a determination to make a solo life after her divorce from Alec. Then Craig returns through the bedroom window expecting a tryst with Caroline and finds Janice in her bed, Lesley storms in with a jealous heart and a mouthful of threats, Henry, Caroline and Martha arrive back from the airport in separate taxis - and let's not even get started on Brayden the pizza guy. Janice can cope with all that. But when Alec knocks on the door things suddenly get complicated. Harnessing the exquisite timing of the great comedies to the narrative power and emotional intelligence for which she is famous, Toni Jordan brings all her wit, wisdom and flair to this brilliant, hilarious audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002806/bk_boli_002806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hong Kong Black: A Nick Foley Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min

  Former Navy SEAL Nick Foley reluctantly agrees to help investigate when American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China. But when Yu's mutilated body washes up on a beach near Hong Kong along with dozens of other victims, the case takes a macabre turn. Suddenly Nick finds himself embroiled in another bioterrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counterterrorism unit and the Chinese CDC, this time involving illegally harvested organs for an unknown and nefarious end. But Nick's investigation does not go unnoticed, and soon he finds a target on his back. After thwarting an attempt on his life, he is forced to go off the grid and enlist the help of beautiful CDC microbiologist Dr. Dazhong "Dash" Chen to help unmask his would-be killer. On the run and looking for answers, their budding romance is tested at every turn. With each step closer they take to unmasking the truth, Nick and Dash find themselves drawn deeper into a global conspiracy that began over 2,000 years ago with the first emperor of China and now threatens to upset the world order as they know it in Hong Kong Black, the heart-pounding sequel to Alex Ryan's Beijing Red. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009929/bk_blak_009929_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Calypso Directive: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 786min

  For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives, hunted across the heart of Europe. Under the guise of averting a plague pandemic, Vryogen hires an elite, underground Think Tank to track down Foster. But when the team sets a trap for Foster, they discover they're not the only ones in the hunt. In a race against two deadly assassins, can the brilliant minds of the Think Tank unravel the truth before time runs out for their quarry? In a novel where conscience clashes with greed, loyalty with suspicion, and paranoia with reality, The Calypso Directive deftly explores the issues of genetic exploitation and piracy. Captivating, controversial, and courageous, Andrews debut is sure to thrill and leave you wondering what secrets are locked in your DNA. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Childs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008348/bk_adbl_008348_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dinner: A Full-Cast Production of the Acclaimed Black Comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 95min

  A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell.  The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband, Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion and anxiously checks with the waiter she has employed to make sure that everything is perfectly prepared. Her lucky guests include a postfeminist vegetarian artist, a distinguished microbiologist, a TV journalist and an uninvited guest who ends up staying for dinner. But it soon becomes apparent that the meal may contain some rather nasty surprises....  Moira Buffini's outrageous comedy Dinner started life in the National Theatre's Loft in 2002 and became her first West End smash. In this production, adapted by the writer for BBC Drama on 3, Harriet Walter returns to the role she created: Paige, the hostess and architect of an evening which her guests will never forget. Two other original leads, Nicholas Farrell and Penny Downie, and four new cast members join her in this viciously black chamber piece about appetite, which will make you think twice about ever accepting another invitation to dinner. Moira Buffini was nominated for an Olivier Award for Dinner in 2003 and won the Olivier in 2014 for her play Handbagged. Cast Paige - Harriet Walter Lars - Nicholas Farrell Wynne - Penny Downie Hal - Paul Bazely Sian - Pippa Bennett-Warner Mike - Peter McDonald Waiter - David Hounslow Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting Language: English. Narrator: David Hounslow, Harriet Walters, Nicholas Farrell, Paul Bazely, Penny Downie, Peter McDonald, Pippa Bennett-Warner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003666/bk_rhuk_003666_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Clean Hand Book (Original): Four Bubbly Family Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min

  This audiobook quickly teaches children how to wash their hands with four fun stories set in everyday places: home, school, hospital, and petting farm. The author, Eamon Nancarrow, is also an infection control expert and uses both skills to deliver a serious message in a story that will endure for a lifetime.The best guidance comes in the foreword by Ciaran O’Gorman, consultant medical microbiologist. Former author of the Regional Infection, Prevention and Control Manual for Northern Ireland.Eamon Nancarrow has hit the mark squarely with this fantastic series of stories. As an infection control doctor I can testify to how challenging it is to get the message of good hand hygiene across.Most of the time we are trying to communicate best practice in this area to fellow healthcare workers, which is difficult enough. These stories get the important facts across in a really human and straightforward manner.The message is an important one for all ages, especially young children, some of whom will become the healthcare workers and food handlers of the future.Effective hand hygiene, whether before food, after the toilet, in the hospital, or following the handling of animals, is the single most important step in reducing infections. Eamon’s true talent is in the story telling however. He has succeeded in taking a public health topic and making it interesting, funny and above all readable: no small feat.As a professional, I think this book should be available in all primary schools, nurseries, GP practices, health centres, and Sure-Start programmes. More importantly, as a father of two book-hungry boys (one of whom is a two-year old dirt magnet!), I recommend these lovely stories to parents everywhere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xan Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200035/bk_acx0_200035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sherlock Holmes Through the Microscope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min

  The life and career of Mr. Sherlock Holmes has inspired the interest of many of the brightest intellects in the world. They have expended great efforts to penetrate beyond the glimpses afforded us in the 60 published adventures - to detect the real underlying character of "the best and the wisest man" Dr. Watson has ever known (The Final Problem by A. C. Doyle). To the hundreds of past and present day Sherlockians, Holmesians, Doyeleans, we owe a great deal of gratitude for helping to shred the veil which has been created to obfuscate the real character of our remarkable hero: from the sainted Christopher Morley and Vincent Starrett, the renowned commentators Ronald A. Knox, William S. Baring-Gould, Edgar W. Smith, Sydney C. Roberts, Michael Harrison, Michael Hardwick, and many others too numerous to mention. Commentators have included bookmen, journalists and essayists, physicians, psychiatrists and pathologists, chemists, monsignors and vicars, barristers and solicitors, and automobile executives. All have brought their intelligence, unique perspectives, and, most of all, a very desperate need for knowledge to this quest, their labor of love. With great humility but stout heart, I feel highly motivated, even obligated, to attempt to add my voice to this ongoing effort. As a microbiologist, I hope to bring a different perspective to these studies. I am used to dealing with very minute objects that produce consequences much greater than their size would indicate. Is not this obsession with minutiae the perfect training and background for one who feels the need to participate in Sherlockian studies? I do hope that this makes me somewhat qualified to join in this important area of scholarly research. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.T. McDaniel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133352/bk_acx0_133352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The pH Miracle for Weight Loss (eBook, ePUB)

  Let's start with simple math. How many excess pounds do you need to shed to achieve your ideal, healthy weight-10, 30, 100? Whatever your answer, multiply it by two. You now have the Maximum number of days it will take you to reach your goal, if you follow... Despite what you may believe, weight loss is not about fat grams, cholesterol, carbs, or calories. It's all about acid. According to Dr. Robert Young, renowned microbiologist and nutritionist, reaching your ideal weight is simply a matter of maintaining the delicate pH balance of the blood. In this latest entry in the successful pH Miracle series, Dr. Young and his wife, chef Shelley Redford Young, offer a simple 7-step lifestyle program to balance your body chemistry, change your shape, and slim down to your ideal body weight-naturally and permanently. Best of all, you'll be able to eliminate unnecessary fat cells forever. From the science behind the plan to the dietary do's and don'ts (along with recipes), a detailed exercise plan, and dozens of dramatic real-life before-and-after photos, this program lays the groundwork for long-term success. Discover: How drinking the right water can help you lose weight Why you should ignore the fat phobes and keep plenty of healthy oils in your diet Which common foods make your body more alkaline-and which ones make it more acidic How exercise can actually make you fat-unless you do it the right way The benefits of having your blood analyzed at the microscopic level How you can build lean muscle and maintain healthy bones without loading up on proteins and dairy ... and much more!

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  Dopamine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min

  Have you lost your mind? They’ll kill you. Are you willing to literally bet your life on--"On my own technical expertise? Yes. Always.It was supposed to be just another software job. It wasn't supposed to involve dodging bullets, igniting explosions, out-driving hit men, or bluffing his way through the dens of international crime lords. Danny's big brain has always served him well at a workstation or a soldering bench, but will he be smart enough to survive the engineering challenge of a lifetime?Danny, a onetime computer whiz-kid now in his late 30s, is still lamenting his latest dot-com failure when tech investor Jason Tuttle offers him a special assignment: hack into Tungsten Medical Technologies and steal their pharmaceutical research.At first, Danny and his team of semi-competent geeks relish the chance to play-act as cyber-criminals, but they soon discover they aren't the only ones interested in the secretive biotechnology firm. Their ill-timed computer shenanigans interrupt an armed break-in of the laboratory by the Russian mafia, and Danny lands squarely in the crosshairs of a local cocaine kingpin. He soon finds himself hunted by drug dealers and exploited by Machiavellian corporate moguls in a battle over a test tube of genetically engineered bacteria.With the help of Tina, an amateur microbiologist desperate for professional recognition, Danny must use his technical skills to elude his powerful pursuers - and, with luck, maybe even beat them at their own game.Dopamine is a present-day cyberpunk novel - and a celebration of the fact that such a thing as "a present-day cyberpunk novel" is even possible. Featuring some of the most accurate and accessible depictions of computer hacking and biotechnology ever to appear in a work of fiction, Dopamine is a wild ride for anyone who marvels at knowing that the real world we live in today was once strictly the realm of far-fet ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Casper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167343/bk_acx0_167343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Deep Zone: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min

  In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, a brilliant and beautiful scientist and a mysterious special ops soldier must lead a team deep into the Earth on a desperate hunt for the cure to a deadly epidemic. When she was unjustly fired from a clandestine government laboratory, microbiologist Hallie Leland swore she would never look back. But she can’t ignore an urgent summons from the White House to reenter the realm of cutting-edge science and dangerous secrets. “Potentially the worst threat since Pearl Harbor” is how the president describes a mysterious epidemic killing American soldiers in Afghanistan - and now poised for outbreak in the States and beyond. Millions will die unless Hallie and a hastily mobilized team can recover the ultrarare organism needed to create a new antibiotic. The good news is that Hallie knows more about the organism than anyone else on the planet. The bad news is that it can be found only at the bottom of Earth’s deepest cave. Hallie’s team is capable - especially the mysterious Wil Bowman, who knows as much about high-tech weaponry as he does about microbiology - but the challenge appears insurmountable. Before even reaching the supercave, they must traverse a forbidding Mexican jungle populated by warring cartels, Federales, and murderous locals. Only then can they confront the cave’s flooded tunnels, lakes of acid, bottomless chasms, and mind-warping blackness. But the deadliest enemies are hiding in plain sight: a powerful traitor high in the Washington ranks and a cunning assassin deep underground, determined to turn Hallie’s mission into a journey of no return. The award-winning and best-selling author of two nonfiction books about adventure and exploration, James M. Tabor now plunges readers into the harrowing subterranean world of supercaves - and even deeper, into a race-with-the-devil thriller that pits one woman against a lethal epidemic and a murderous conspiracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002975/bk_rand_002975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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