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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 424 ratings
    • The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....

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    • A World History
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,135 ratings
    • The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • By: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

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    • The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-14-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,152 ratings
    • The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people....

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    • A Deep Time Journey
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,362 ratings
    • Robert Macfarlane delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,085 ratings
    • In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

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    • The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....

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    • The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
    • By: Alanna Mitchell
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse....

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    • How Earth's History Shaped Human History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 ratings
    • When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....

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    • The Autobiography of the Earth
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....

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    • Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Geologist Marcia Bjornerud Bjornerud reveals how rocks are the hidden infrastructure that keep the planet functioning, from sandstone aquifers purifying the water we drink to basalt formations slowly regulating global climate.

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    • By: Immanuel Velikovsky
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Worlds in Collision - written in a brilliant, easily understandable, and entertaining style and full to the brim with precise information-can be considered one of the most important and most challenging books in the history of science....

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    • William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 682 ratings
    • In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....

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    • An Intimate History
    • By: Richard Fortey
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth's physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us....

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    • How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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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    • Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago....

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    • The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg....

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    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California.

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    • America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 588 ratings
    • San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes....

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