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    Saving the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 976min
    A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award with In the Time of Butterflies, author Julia Alvarez is a beloved voice in modern fiction and poetry. In Saving the World, she weaves the stories of two courageous women—separated by two centuries—into a breathtaking novel of love and idealism in an increasingly troubled world.A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer’s block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doña Isabel, who cared for the orphan boys serving as living carriers of the smallpox vaccine. It is the narrative of the courageous Doña Isabel that provides hope and inspiration when Alma’s husband is taken captive. Mesmerizing and poetic, Saving the World is a visionary tale that raises profound questions about the world we live in—and whether or not it is beyond redemption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Blanca Camacho. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005280/bk_reco_005280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Saving Language (English), Hörbuch, Digital, 51min
    Thousands of the world's languages are disappearing in the wake of globalization. And because language is the DNA of culture, a lost language is a lost culture. Today, stories from the frontlines of the language revitalization movement. Also, Dr. Larry Brilliant's improbable journey from the Summer of Love and Indian ashrams to the eradication of smallpox. [Original Broadcast June 23, 2014] Language: English. Narrator: Anne Strainchamps. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/161209/rt_tbon_161209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    CatoAudio, November 2003, Hörbuch, Digital, 71min
    This edition of CatoAudio features Wayne Crews and Adam Thierer on regulation of the Internet and broadcast media; Nat Hentoff on erosion of civil liberties; William J. Bicknell, MD, on U.S. failure to prepare for smallpox bioterrorism; David Henderson on the sordid history of government sponsored racism; Patrick Basham on the future of liberty in the European Union; and Tom Palmer on the rise of Western liberty. Language: English. Narrator: Bill McGregor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/cato/031101/sp_cato_031101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History of Vaccine Development
    Vaccinology, the concept of a science ranging from the study of immunology to the development and distribution of vaccines, was a word invented by Jonas Salk. This book covers the history of the methodological progress in vaccine development and to the social and ethical issues raised by vaccination. Chapters include "Jenner and the Vaccination against Smallpox," "Viral Vaccines," and "Ethical and Social Aspects of vaccines." Contributing authors include pioneers in the field, such as Samuel L. Katz and Hilary Koprowski. This history of vaccines is relatively short and many of its protagonists are still alive. This book was written by some of the chief actors in the drama whose subject matter is the conquest of epidemic disease.
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    Cherokee Medicine Colonial Germs
    Cherokee Medicine Colonial Germs ab 40.49 € als Taschenbuch: An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox 1518-1824. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Autumn's Doctor: Daughters of Samuel Fox, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    When tragedy strikes, will love survive?Autumn has a mischievous way about her which often lands her in hot water with her husband, a doctor. They long for a child, but when all seems perfect in their world, tragedy strikes, leaving her loved ones to wonder if she or her unborn child will survive.Will their love overcome a smallpox epidemic, the illness of her beloved mother-in-law, and Autumn’s own tragic, freak accident?Publisher's note: This addition to the Daughters of Samuel Fox series contains mild love scenes and power exchange between a husband and a wife.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George T. Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190190/bk_acx0_190190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hannah and the Spindle Whorl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 342min
    When 12-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in the area. Through the agency of a trickster raven, Hannah befriends Yisella, a young Salish girl, and is welcomed into village life. Here she discovers that the spindle whorl is the prized possession of Yisella's mother, Skeepla, a famous spinner and weaver. When Skeepla falls victim to smallpox, Hannah finally begins to open up about the death of her own mother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannah Rose Mat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038299/bk_acx0_038299_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unnatural Exposure: Dr Kay Scarpetta, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
    Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. Then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found with a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus. The eighth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. J. Critt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/003319/bk_howe_003319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Concise History Of Smallpox And Vaccination In Europe
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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    Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 747min
    When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when love, compassion and determination meet the right circumstances to effect positive change, is the kind that keeps hope and the sense of possibility alive. After sitting at the feet of Martin Luther King at the University of Michigan in 1963, Larry Brilliant was swept up into the civil rights movement, marching and protesting across America and Europe. As a radical young doctor he followed the hippie trail from London over the Khyber Pass with his wife Girija, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm commune to India. There, he found himself in a Himalayan ashram wondering whether he had stumbled into a cult. Instead, one of India’s greatest spiritual teachers, Neem Karoli Baba, opened Larry’s heart and told him his destiny was to work for the World Health Organization to help eradicate killer smallpox. He would never have believed he would become a key player in eliminating a 10,000-year-old disease that killed more than half a billion people in the 20th century alone. Brilliant’s unlikely trajectory, chronicled in Sometimes Brilliant, has brought him into close proximity with political leaders, spiritual masters, cultural heroes, and titans of technology around the world—from the Grateful Dead to Mikhail Gorbachev, from Ram Dass, the Dalai Lama, Lama Govinda, and Karmapa to Steve Jobs and the founders of Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Microsoft and eBay and Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama. Anchored by the engrossing account of the heroic efforts of the extraordinary people involved in smallpox eradication in India, this is a riveting and fascinating epidemiological adventure, an honest reckoning ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005598/bk_harp_005598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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