Bestsellers
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- By Andrew on 11-09-09
By: Bill Bryson
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- By MediaBaron on 06-27-22
By: Ed Yong
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- By: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....
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Great in some ways; in others, wtf!
- By RG on 06-22-20
By: Aldo Leopold, and others
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Gory Details
- By: Erika Engelhaupt
- Narrated by: Mari Weiss
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality....
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Feels like old school Discovery channel
- By Anonymous User on 02-15-23
By: Erika Engelhaupt
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....
By: Jason Roberts
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- By Andrew on 11-09-09
By: Bill Bryson
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- By MediaBaron on 06-27-22
By: Ed Yong
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- By: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....
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Great in some ways; in others, wtf!
- By RG on 06-22-20
By: Aldo Leopold, and others
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Gory Details
- By: Erika Engelhaupt
- Narrated by: Mari Weiss
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality....
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Feels like old school Discovery channel
- By Anonymous User on 02-15-23
By: Erika Engelhaupt
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....
By: Jason Roberts
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- By: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....
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A fine natural history and great listen
- By Theo Smith on 12-30-18
By: Ben Goldfarb
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Late Migrations
- A Natural History of Love and Loss
- By: Margaret Renkl
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents....
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Excellent!
- By Jennifer N Talbert on 07-19-19
By: Margaret Renkl
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The Life of Birds (Updated Edition)
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Abridged
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In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson takes his ultimate journey...
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This audio edition is abridged!
- By Brent Cochran on 08-04-03
By: Bill Bryson
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The Song of the Dodo
- Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world....
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Extensive and Entertaining
- By Thylacine on 07-26-21
By: David Quammen
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- By: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon....
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- By Stephen Victor on 08-21-21
By: Tucker Malarkey
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Horizon
- By: Barry Lopez
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 22 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world....
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Brilliant Wise and Thought Provoking
- By findley on 05-04-19
By: Barry Lopez
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The Trials of Life
- A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and completes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet....
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Calming
- By Fai on 02-28-24
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- By: Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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Great book brilliantly read
- By Dipam on 04-06-22
By: Thomas Halliday
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Fen, Bog and Swamp
- A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change....
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Enjoyable Discourse on Wetlands
- By T.J. on 10-29-22
By: Annie Proulx
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
- The Corfu Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerald Durrell was 10 when he moved to Corfu, where he met intoxicated hedgehogs and a menagerie of eccentric friends....
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The antidote to stress
- By Rebecca on 09-07-14
By: Gerald Durrell
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The World Before Us
- The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology....
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Wonderfully Accessible
- By Deborah N on 11-02-21
By: Tom Higham
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The Deep History of Ourselves
- The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
- By: Joseph LeDoux
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today....
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Oversold
- By Michael on 03-04-20
By: Joseph LeDoux
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The Sacred Balance (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
- By: David Suzuki, Robin Wall Kimmerer - foreword, Bill McKibben - afterword
- Narrated by: David Suzuki, Megan Tooley, Zack Sage
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things? The Sacred Balance shows us how....
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PLEASE SEE: The Chapter designations are all wrong in this recording!!
- By A. Horan on 01-20-24
By: David Suzuki, and others
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Extinctions
- How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
- By: Michael J. Benton
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction....
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Interesting read
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-24
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....
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incredibly annoying
- By A reader on 12-22-21
By: Henry Gee
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Islands of Abandonment
- Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
- By: Cal Flyn
- Narrated by: Cal Flyn
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl.....
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Stunningly necessary
- By Mattia on 09-02-21
By: Cal Flyn
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A Walk Around the Block
- Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)
- By: Spike Carlsen
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, best-selling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life — from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights....
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Great look at the infrastructure under, above and all around us.
- By Chris on 10-24-20
By: Spike Carlsen
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The Songs of Trees
- Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
- By: David George Haskell
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David George Haskell
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world....
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An Interwoven Story
- By Lauren on 08-10-18
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- By: Kermit Pattison
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
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Oh narrator
- By Paul on 01-21-21
By: Kermit Pattison
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Woolly
- The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Ben Mezrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University....
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Mezrich's worst creation
- By Alex Curtis on 11-03-17
By: Ben Mezrich
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The Sixth Extinction (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines to provide a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept...
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The Shortest History of Our Universe
- The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us
- By: David Baker, John Green - foreword
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest possible time span—from the Big Bang to the present day—in an astonishingly concise retelling....
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Great book, okay narration.
- By Chris Fredell on 01-29-24
By: David Baker, and others
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The Earth
- A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 47 Incredible Organisms
- By: Dr Elsa Panciroli
- Narrated by: Reanne Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....
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Not worth the time
- By Anonymous User on 12-18-23
New releases
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Do You Believe in Fairies?
- Compositions of Truth and Nature in Art and Poetry
- By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
- Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This work is intended to create access to the wonders and benefits of nature to those who may have mobility issues, disabilities (including visual impairment), or who otherwise lack access to the healing power of nature due to financial hardship, racial, social, or fat-biased exclusion, or other circumstances.
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The Sixth Extinction (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines to provide a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept
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The Life of Birds (Updated Edition)
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world: what they do and why they do it.
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Every Living Thing centres on the rivalry pledged between two scientists, Linnaeus and Buffon, who, from 1743 to 1778 raced each other to complete an inventory of all life on Earth. Their focus was on scientific immortality and the core conception of our relationship to the natural world. Their catalogues were starkly different and showed a divergence of opinion on the creation of nature and humanity. Buffon advocating for a natural system of classification, while Linnaeus was dedicated to naming and classifying objects of nature.
By: Jason Roberts
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The Emotional Lives of Animals (Revised Edition)
- A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy—and Why They Matter
- By: Marc Bekoff, Jane Goodall - foreword
- Narrated by: Kane Stewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Bekoff is recognized as a preeminent voice in the media for animal sentience and dog behavior, with high-profile appearances in Time, Life, the New York Times, New Scientist, and BBC Wildlife and on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, and 20/20, among others.
By: Marc Bekoff, and others
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France’s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?
By: Jason Roberts
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Do You Believe in Fairies?
- Compositions of Truth and Nature in Art and Poetry
- By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
- Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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This work is intended to create access to the wonders and benefits of nature to those who may have mobility issues, disabilities (including visual impairment), or who otherwise lack access to the healing power of nature due to financial hardship, racial, social, or fat-biased exclusion, or other circumstances.
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The Sixth Extinction (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines to provide a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept
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The Life of Birds (Updated Edition)
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world: what they do and why they do it.
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Every Living Thing centres on the rivalry pledged between two scientists, Linnaeus and Buffon, who, from 1743 to 1778 raced each other to complete an inventory of all life on Earth. Their focus was on scientific immortality and the core conception of our relationship to the natural world. Their catalogues were starkly different and showed a divergence of opinion on the creation of nature and humanity. Buffon advocating for a natural system of classification, while Linnaeus was dedicated to naming and classifying objects of nature.
By: Jason Roberts
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The Emotional Lives of Animals (Revised Edition)
- A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy—and Why They Matter
- By: Marc Bekoff, Jane Goodall - foreword
- Narrated by: Kane Stewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Bekoff is recognized as a preeminent voice in the media for animal sentience and dog behavior, with high-profile appearances in Time, Life, the New York Times, New Scientist, and BBC Wildlife and on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, and 20/20, among others.
By: Marc Bekoff, and others
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France’s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?
By: Jason Roberts
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- By: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life on Earth.
By: Jason Roberts
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Chocolate Crisis
- Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao
- By: Dale Walters
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. In Chocolate Crisis, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree. Walters takes listeners to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of South America, describing how ancient cultures used the beans produced by the plant, and follows the rise of chocolate as an international commodity over many centuries.
By: Dale Walters
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Weathering
- By: Ruth Allen
- Narrated by: Ruth Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, dissolving, recycling, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience and change?
By: Ruth Allen
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had discovered the 'first' dinosaur, and over the next seventy-five years - as the science of palaeontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited theories of evolutionary biology, and as religious scholars identified the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures - everything changed.
By: Michael Taylor
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WHO IS YOUR DEMON? THE STORY OF THE ANCIENT NUCLEAR WAR, THE GODS VERSUS THE NEPHILIM.
- Learn About Diseases, Generational Curses, Natural Disasters, The Spirits of the Earth, and Sleeping Giants.
- By: Henry Enrix
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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WHO IS YOUR DEMON DESCRIPTIONHenry Enrix believes that the invisible world is more real, and more imminent that the physical world. It is so incredible that is laughable because goes against everything that you knew as the TRUTH in your entire life. If you read, study, and understand this book, you shall be able to: Burn it down, and curse its author, and curse God, IF YOU ARE TOTALLY DEMON POSSESSED!!! orRepent of your sins, ask God for forgiveness, and liberation, and inherit eternal lifeYour mind will go into seven thousand revolutions per second trying to cope with the TRUTH of GOD, and...
By: Henry Enrix
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Principles of Geology
- By: Charles Lyell
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
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Principles of Geology [1830] is a groundbreaking classic of science. Mentioned in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, glowingly, it captivated such contemporaries as Melville, Emerson, Tennyson, and George Eliot. It is now here for a new generation interested in Earth Science, climate and sustainability.
By: Charles Lyell