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Murmurs of Earth
- The Voyager Interstellar Record
- By: Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Jon Lomberg, and others
- Narrated by: Timothy Ferris, Ann Druyan, Nick Sagan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time.
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Murmurs of Earth
- The Voyager Interstellar Record
- Narrated by: Timothy Ferris, Ann Druyan, Nick Sagan, F. D. Drake, Jon Lomberg
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-07-17
- Language: English
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The Good Rain
- Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
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The Good Rain
- Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 27-12-16
- Language: English
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A Walk for Sunshine
- A 2,160-Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail
- By: Jeff Alt
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure. This entertaining journey includes bears, bugs, blisters, captivating characters, skunk bedmates, and hilarious food cravings. Alt walked more than five million steps in tribute to his brother, who has cerebral palsy and lives in a home called Sunshine. This trail adventure has inspired an annual event that has raised more than $200,000 for Sunshine. It includes hiking tips for the whole family.
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Inspiring ...
- By Amanda on 22-10-17
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A Walk for Sunshine
- A 2,160-Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-06-12
- Language: English
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What Algorithms Want
- Imagination in the Age of Computing
- By: Ed Finn
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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We depend on - we believe in - algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations - the marriage vow, the shaman's curse - do not merely describe the world but make it.
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Missing the point
- By Dobrica Decebal on 19-07-18
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What Algorithms Want
- Imagination in the Age of Computing
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-02-17
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field - but each also stumbled badly. These five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on Earth, the evolution of the Earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error.
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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- By: Alex Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis.
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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New Slow City
- Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
- By: William Powers
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment" in Greenwich Village.
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Can't stand the narrator
- By Ella on 04-07-19
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New Slow City
- Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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That Wild Country
- An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
- By: Mark Kenyon
- Narrated by: Mark Kenyon
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Since its inception, however, America’s public land system has been embroiled in controversy - caught in the push and pull between the desire to develop the valuable resources the land holds or conserve them. Alarmed by rising tensions over the use of these lands, hunter, angler, and outdoor enthusiast Mark Kenyon set out to explore the spaces involved in this heated debate, and learn firsthand how they came to be and what their future might hold.
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That Wild Country
- An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
- Narrated by: Mark Kenyon
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-12-19
- Language: English
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Heart of a Lion
- A Lone Cat's Walk Across America
- By: William Stolzenburg
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded.
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Heart of a Lion
- A Lone Cat's Walk Across America
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-04-16
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Sweet Life
- One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
- By: William Powers
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives - living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. Here, his family, with baby in tow, searches for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism?
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Dispatches from the Sweet Life
- One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Is Shame Necessary?
- New Uses for an Old Tool
- By: Jennifer Jacquet
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jacquet
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. Yet while guilt holds individuals to personal standards, it proves impotent in the face of corrupt corporate policies. In recent yearswe have been asked to assuage our guilt about these problems as consumers by buying organic foods or fair-trade products, for example. Yet unless nearly everyone participates, the impact of individual consumer consciousness is microscopic.
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Is Shame Necessary?
- New Uses for an Old Tool
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jacquet
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-02-15
- Language: English
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What Do You Think You Are?
- The Science of What Makes You You
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be.
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What Do You Think You Are?
- The Science of What Makes You You
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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Zoo Nebraska
- The Dismantling of an American Dream
- By: Carson Vaughan
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one - where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man’s outsize vision. When Dick Haskin’s plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick’s devotion to primates didn’t die with her. He returned to his hometown with Reuben, an adolescent chimp.
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Zoo Nebraska
- The Dismantling of an American Dream
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-04-19
- Language: English
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Protecting Pollinators
- How to Save the Creatures That Feed Our World
- By: Jodi Helmer
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 2,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed.
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Good info; poorly written; badly read
- By Simon Q on 14-07-20
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Protecting Pollinators
- How to Save the Creatures That Feed Our World
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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The Truth Has Changed
- By: Josh Fox, Bill McKibben - foreword
- Narrated by: Josh Fox, Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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The Emmy Award-winning creator of Gasland tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives - writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist - into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds.
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The Truth Has Changed
- Narrated by: Josh Fox, Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-18
- Language: English
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My Patients Like Treats
- Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian
- By: Duncan MacVean DVM
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Physicians used to make house calls. Today, a few veterinarians still do. Duncan MacVean, DVM, is one such vet. His patients range from cats and dogs to pigs and lizard - each of them a unique personality. Every animal and every home is different, but every owner is the same in their affection for their companions. Without warning, MacVean finds himself in odd situations: stepping into a basement full of free-flying bats or struck speechless by a pig who loves opera so much that she falls into a trance.
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My Patients Like Treats
- Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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The Digital Mind
- How Science Is Redefining Humanity
- By: Arlindo Oliveira
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing machine or known living being. Our brains have even allowed us to develop computers that are almost as powerful as the human brain itself. Arlindo Oliveira describes how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds.
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The Digital Mind
- How Science Is Redefining Humanity
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Ivory's Ghosts
- The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
- By: John Frederick Walker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Ivory's Ghosts is the first comprehensive, contemporary look at the world's most treasured organic material, ivory. Using a wide range of historical and firsthand reportage, John Frederick Walker tells the astonishing and sometimes savage story of ivory's enormous impact on both human history and that of its most important source: the majestic African elephant.
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Ivory's Ghosts
- The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-01-09
- Language: English
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True Roots
- What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty
- By: Ronnie Citron-Fink
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Like 75% of American women, Ronnie Citron-Fink dyed her hair, visiting the salon every few weeks to hide gray roots in her signature dark brown mane. She wanted to look attractive, professional, and most of all, young. Yet as a journalist covering health and the environment, she knew something wasn’t right. All those unpronounceable chemical names on the back of the hair dye box were far from natural. Were her recurring headaches and allergies telltale signs that the dye offered the illusion of health, all the while undermining it? Ronnie took a leap and decided to ditch the dye.
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True Roots
- What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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"The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things." (Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams)
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-03-18
- Language: English
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