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She describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson as well as lesser-known figures in conservation history; she reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund; she explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros; and she confronts the darker side of conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism.
As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change escalate, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species - including our own.
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Only for the Flower Lover
- De Anonymous User en 01-19-16
De: Stephen Buchmann
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- De: Jim Downs
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Very Interesting
- De Timmy the G en 11-11-22
De: Jim Downs
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- De: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. Part II focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.
De: Stephen Cave - editor, y otros
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The End of Eden
- Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
- De: Adam Welz
- Narrado por: Jason Keller
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain--and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.
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Great book, worth every minute
- De LK en 10-16-23
De: Adam Welz
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals.
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Fantastic Book
- De Peter Jensen en 09-08-22
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Reason for Flowers
- Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
- De: Stephen Buchmann
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.
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Only for the Flower Lover
- De Anonymous User en 01-19-16
De: Stephen Buchmann
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The Secret Teachings of Plants
- The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature
- De: Stephen Harrod Buhner
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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All ancient and indigenous peoples insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves and not through trial-and-error experimentation. Less well known is that many Western peoples made this same assertion. There are, in fact, two modes of cognition available to all human beings - the brain-based linear and the heart-based holistic. The heart-centered mode of perception can be exceptionally accurate and detailed....
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narrator distracts from content
- De Anonymous User en 06-01-18
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Pests
- How Humans Create Animal Villains
- De: Bethany Brookshire
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don’t expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It’s no longer an animal. It’s a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It’s not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us.
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Amazing Conclusion!
- De Anonymous User en 01-29-23
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Clark Cornell
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness. Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America.
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Tough for me to to review
- De Kindle Customer en 11-13-22
De: Dan Flores
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How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference
- De: Allison Friederichs Atkison, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Allison Friederichs Atkison
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
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Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.
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Meh. Glad I didn't pay for it.
- De Paula en 07-23-22
De: Allison Friederichs Atkison, y otros
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Soul of an Octopus
- A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect", about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters.
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Eight legs and so much more!
- De Kirstin en 07-02-15
De: Sy Montgomery
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- De: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrado por: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Finally, Words
- De Donovan P Malley en 06-30-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beloved Beasts
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- David in Sacramento
- 01-03-24
Soulless Narrator
Great book but I’d be very surprised if the narrator/reader is human—the voice and cadence is so vapid it must be generated through AI.
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- abbe a.
- 02-25-24
Great balance of conservation successes and lessons.
As someone in the zoo world I thought it had amazing lesson about things we have done in the conservation world. Touching on classics like Leopold and Teddy while going deeper into the Huxley clan. Loved it. Easy listening so everyone can understand. Also loved the narrators ‘accents’ to quote different people haha.
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- Mitch Angove
- 11-21-22
Amazing story and details
I read quite a lot of books on the history of conservation and extinctions in America and this is by far is one of the best. Michelle does a great job of providing just enough detail to educate without so much that it grows dull. The book has an amazing overall arch and develops from one story to the next most eloquently. My most main critique would be the time spacing of the book. I enjoyed that for the most part the book is chronological but the few times there are different time periods from the latest element it is not full described
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Great Overview and history
This book is exactly what I was looking for. It shares the history of conservation while providing a wide education on what balance there must be to maintain our animal population. It is well written. Well read. This is a fantastic read that I feel should be shared.
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