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Earth
- Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
- By: Chris Packham, Andrew Cohen
- Narrated by: Rupert Evans
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet...
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Great story, missed Packham though!
- By Joanne A. on 22-04-24
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Earth
- Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
- Narrated by: Rupert Evans
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- By: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist. “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet...
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Amazing overview of how the physical and biological Earth interact
- By Wilker on 15-07-25
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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Origins
- How the Earth Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece; and today voting behaviour in the United States follows the bed of an ancient sea. The human story is the story of these forces, from plate tectonics and climate change, to atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.
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Anthropology meets geography. Fascinating.
- By "Jimmy H" on 23-04-20
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Origins
- How the Earth Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020. The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part...
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Outstanding
- By Bailey Cericlought on 12-12-24
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers - from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950's to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70's - that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond.
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excellent book, excellent narration
- By Becky Marlow on 07-05-21
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-03-20
- Language: English
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to...
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms—bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest—done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet.
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- Narrated by: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Facing Infinity
- Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
- By: Jonas Enander
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the 18th century vicar who was the first to look up at the night's sky and suggest there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the stars, to the first actual photograph of a black hole, 250 years later, Jonas Enander has travelled the world, visited telescopes and observatories, interviewed world-leading space researchers, and delved deep into the archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over time.
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Facing Infinity
- Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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Half-Earth
- Our Planet's Fight for Life
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance28
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History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent.
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inspiring
- By Amazon Customer on 20-07-20
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Half-Earth
- Our Planet's Fight for Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-03-16
- Language: English
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A Universe of Earths
- Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA
- By: Dennis Danielson, Christopher M. Graney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo...
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A Universe of Earths
- Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Escape from Earth
- A Secret History of the Space Rocket
- By: Fraser MacDonald
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Escape from Earth is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket. It's a wild ride.
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not much info about rockets
- By Anonymous on 20-09-19
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Escape from Earth
- A Secret History of the Space Rocket
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- By: J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Off-Earth
- Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space
- By: Erika Nesvold
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We've pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it's not just rocket science, this book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany any other-worldly venture—questions about the environment, labor rights, and medical ethics, among others.
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Off-Earth
- Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- By: Michael Marshall
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervour, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion.
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An excellent review of origin of life research
- By Martin Oetiker on 28-06-23
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The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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The Earth Said Remember Me
- How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
- By: Jason Dove Mark
- Narrated by: Dustin Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome,"...
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The Earth Said Remember Me
- How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
- Narrated by: Dustin Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 14-07-26
- Language: English
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Heavens on Earth
- The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
- By: Dr. Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth.
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Boring and distasteful
- By Amazon Customer on 15-01-18
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Heavens on Earth
- The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
- Narrated by: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Fire in the Sky
- Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
- By: Gordon L. Dillow
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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This “accessible and always entertaining” (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and in-depth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us now, as well as how prepared we are against asteroid-caused catastrophe. One of...
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Informative and entertaining
- By Cryptochimp on 30-06-20
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Fire in the Sky
- Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Creation
- An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
- By: E.O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Called "one of the greatest men alive" by the Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity.
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The Creation
- An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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Target Earth
- Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
- By: Govert Schilling, Marilyn Hedges -translated by
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The impact of an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Could another giant cosmic missile soon be heading our way? In Target Earth, acclaimed Dutch astronomy writer Govert Schilling provides a full account of what we know, and need to know, about all the extraterrestrial matter constantly bombarding our planet—from microscopic dust particles and space debris to massive meteorites, comets, and asteroids.
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Target Earth
- Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- By: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New York Times...
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Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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