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As a fledgling doctor, what would you choose: practising medicine in rural India or going abroad in search of financial security? How would you face the people who depend on you if your wealth is wiped out in the stock market? How would you pursue a dream project, knowing the many challenges...

An inside look at how the governments of Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India and the US used COVID as a pretense to undermine freedom The Infodemic lays bare the mechanisms of modern censorship and shows how they were used to undermine the response to the greatest global pandemic in a...

A gripping narrative about the Zika virus from the New York Times science reporter covering the outbreak. Until recently, Zika virus—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August of 2015, doctors in Brazil’s northeast region began to notice a...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America’s five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable, but...

We’ve all seen the ads on TV and in magazines—“50 is the new 30!” or “60 is the new 40!” A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it. In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas—health, wealth...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate...

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers)...

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died...

Das große Hörbuch über die Anti-Baby-Pille - zum 60. Jahrestag! Fast alle Frauen verhüten irgendwann in ihrem Leben mit der Pille. Doch die Hormone haben ungeahnte Auswirkungen: Die Pille erschafft eine andere Version von uns selbst, verändert unser Gehirn, lässt uns anders auf Stress reagieren und beeinflusst unsere Partnerwahl. Die erfahrene Psychologin Dr. Sarah E. Hill erklärt verständlich die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse rund um die Anti-Baby-Pille.

Fast alle Frauen verhüten irgendwann in ihrem Leben mit der Pille. Doch die Hormone haben ungeahnte Auswirkungen: Die Pille erschafft eine andere Version von uns selbst, verändert unser Gehirn, lässt uns anders auf Stress reagieren und beeinflusst unsere Partnerwahl. Die erfahrene Psychologin Dr. Sarah E. Hill erklärt verständlich die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse rund um die Anti-Baby-Pille. Wer ihre bahnbrechenden Ergebnisse kennt, kann Vorteile und Risiken verstehen und abwägen, um so eine bessere Entscheidung zu treffen - für oder gegen die hormonelle Verhütung.

Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19 This medical right that we have long taken for granted was first sacrificed on the altar of military...

Stay safe and stay calm. A New York University microbiologist gives you the knowledge you need to protect yourself from COVID-19 and other common infectious diseases. With the spread of COVID-19, the world has never felt less safe. And with so much advice out there, it's hard to know whether...

Have you ever been bullied for being overweight?The reality of being a plus-sized person isn't that every moment of your life is about being plus-sized―it’s that you’re trying to live the same kind of complicated, exciting, fun, beautiful and difficult life as everyone else. The only...