English | ASIN: B0B789WF67 | 2022 | 7 hours and 1 minute | MP3 | M4B | 194 MB
Beginning in the 1970s, several scientific breakthroughs promised to transform the creation of new medicines. As investors sought to capitalize on these Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, the biotech industry grew to thousands of small companies around the world. Each sought to emulate what the major pharmaceutical companies had been doing for a century or more, but without the advantages of scale, scope, experience, and massive resources. Biotech companies have met the challenge by creating nearly 40% more of the most important treatments for previously unmet medical needs. Moreover, they have done so with much lower overall costs.
From Breakthrough to Blockbuster focuses on both the companies themselves and the broader biotech ecosystem that supports them. It paints a portrait of the crucial roles played by academic research, venture capital, contract research organizations, the capital markets, and pharmaceutical companies, demonstrating how a supportive environment enabled the entrepreneurial biotech industry to create novel medicines with unprecedented efficiency. In doing so, it also offers insights for any industry seeking to innovate in uncertain and ambiguous conditions.

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English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08BLRVK6S | MP3 | M4B | 10h 38m | 288.70 MB
Author: Ronald Shelp
Narrator: Dennis Holland

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English | ASIN: B0B6JMT29B | 2022 | 6 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 179 MB
Over billions of years of evolution, animals have become increasingly sophisticated and increasingly sentient. In the process, they evolved emotions, which helped improve their odds of survival in complex situations. These emotions were, at first, purely internal. But at some point, social animals began expressing their emotions, in increasingly dramatic ways. These emotional expressions could accurately reflect internal emotions (smiling to express happiness)—or they could be quite different (smiling to cover up that you're actually furious, but can't tell your boss that). Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us?
The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations. Expressly Human introduces an original theory that explains, from first principles, how the broad range of emotional expressions evolved, and provides a Rosetta Stone for human communication. It will revolutionize the way you see every social interaction, from deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to multimillion-dollar business negotiations, and change your definition of what makes us human.

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English | ASIN: B0B6Y4LGJR | 2022 | 9 hours and 10 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 252 MB
Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. It was somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules—religious, sexual, intellectual. And it was a place of change. Thomas More opened Utopia there, Erasmus puzzled over money and exchanges, William Tyndale sheltered there and smuggled out his Bible in English until he was killed. But when Antwerp rebelled with the Dutch against the Spanish and lost, all that glory was buried and its true history rewritten. Mutinous troops burned the city records, trying to erase its true history. In Europe's Babylon, Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters, and the archives of Venice, London, and the Medici.
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English | ISBN: 9781669652724 | 2022 | 4 hours and 35 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 126 MB
This audiobook is loaded with stories of the lives of the ancient Egyptians, their gods, and some of the greatest myths in antiquity. The gods played an important role in people's lives; you might be surprised to see how much they impacted everyday life! In this audiobook, you will find yourself on an exciting journey to one of the most influential kingdoms in history.
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English | December 31, 2008 | ASIN: B001OTH5FY | MP3 | M4B | 8h 35m | 233.57 MB
Author: Peter L Bernstein
Narrator: Sean Pratt

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English | December 04, 2012 | ASIN: B00AHZSIAW | MP3 | M4B | 7h 55m | 215.09 MB
Author: James Salzman
Narrator: Lee Hahn

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English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08BJFJXDZ | MP3 | M4B | 8h 22m | 227.69 MB
Author: Martin J. Whitman, Fernando Diz
Narrator: Pete Larkin

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English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B06XH1D47X | Duration: 9:06 h | 252 MB
Holly Tucker / Narrated by Kate Reading
Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.

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English | January 29, 2009 | ASIN: B001R5RTM4 | MP3 | M4B | 11h 44m | 318.62 MB
Author: Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla
Narrator: Walter Dixon

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