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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Astronomy and so much more
- By Andrei S. on 23-01-18
By: Carl Sagan
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How the Earth Works
- By: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....
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Everyone should hear this
- By Mr D & Mrs E Owers on 10-08-19
By: Michael E. Wysession, and others
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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A truely scientific approach to climate change
- By Phil on 27-01-22
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Dinosaurs
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David Norman
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpreted and how our understanding of them has changed over the past 200 years....
By: David Norman
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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....
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The insight from the author and her beautiful descriptive writing.
- By SallyMc on 03-04-24
By: Ruth Allen
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Landmarks
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....
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Love it, but it's costing me a fortune!
- By Coffee snob on 09-09-15
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Astronomy and so much more
- By Andrei S. on 23-01-18
By: Carl Sagan
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How the Earth Works
- By: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....
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Everyone should hear this
- By Mr D & Mrs E Owers on 10-08-19
By: Michael E. Wysession, and others
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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A truely scientific approach to climate change
- By Phil on 27-01-22
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Dinosaurs
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David Norman
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpreted and how our understanding of them has changed over the past 200 years....
By: David Norman
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Weathering
- By: Ruth Allen
- Narrated by: Ruth Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, dissolving, recycling, shifting, solidifying, and weathering....
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The insight from the author and her beautiful descriptive writing.
- By SallyMc on 03-04-24
By: Ruth Allen
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Landmarks
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....
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Love it, but it's costing me a fortune!
- By Coffee snob on 09-09-15
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Planet Earth: Bolinda Beginner Guides
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Andrea Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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In this incredible expedition into the origins, workings, and evolution of our home planet, John Gribbin does what he does best: takes four and a half billion years of mind-boggling science and digs out the best bits....
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Some glaring errors eg calling granite metamorphic
- By Sarah P on 21-07-21
By: John Gribbin
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Sasquatch
- Legend Meets Science
- By: Jeff Meldrum
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....
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Detailed & Scientific, If a Little Dry
- By S. Morris on 03-04-23
By: Jeff Meldrum
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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
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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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Great content, lumpy narration
- By Plastic on 19-09-23
By: Andrew H. Knoll
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College Level Meteorology
- By: AudioLearn Content Team
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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AudioLearn’s College Level Courses presents Meteorology. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of meteorology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics....
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The Secret Life of Dust
- From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Consequences of Little Things
- By: Hannah Holmes
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world....
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Disappointing list of lung diseases
- By Daniel Suss on 13-03-13
By: Hannah Holmes
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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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With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us....
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Great story, missed Packham though!
- By Joanne A. on 22-04-24
By: Chris Packham, and others
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Fire
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Andrew C. Scott
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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This Very Short Introduction audiobook covers the fundamentals of fire, whether wild or under human control, starting with the basics of ignition, combustion, and fuel....
By: Andrew C. Scott
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Into the Planet
- My Life as a Cave Diver
- By: Jill Heinerth
- Narrated by: Jill Heinerth
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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From one of the top cave divers working today - and one of the very few women in her field - Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring listeners face-to-face with the terror and beauty of Earth’s remaining unknowns....
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Amazing story and great insight to a truly spectacular diver
- By Tyrone draper on 27-06-23
By: Jill Heinerth
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Walking the Bones of Britain
- A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
- By: Christopher Somerville
- Narrated by: Christopher Somerville
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate the land beneath our feet, and how it has affected every aspect of human history....
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Recommended - A new perspective
- By veyza on 27-09-23
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Storms of My Grandchildren
- The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
- By: James Hansen
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen - the nation's leading scientist on climate issues - speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming....
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everyone should read this!
- By Sandra RG on 06-08-21
By: James Hansen
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- By: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....
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Fascinating and Accessible Update
- By veyza on 14-08-23
By: Madelaine Böhme
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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People Will Climb Mountains
- By SocialGoose on 28-09-19
By: Joe Tasker
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Salt
- A World History
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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Was pretty boring
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-22
By: Mark Kurlansky
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Alien Oceans
- The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
- By: Kevin Hand
- Narrated by: Kevin Hand
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....
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Excellent book, fascinating subject
- By G Rowlands on 26-07-20
By: Kevin Hand
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The Rocks Don't Lie
- By: David R. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood....
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Tides
- A Climber's Voyage
- By: Nick Bullock
- Narrated by: Nick Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing....
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Epic, emotional, and inspiring!
- By S. E. on 30-05-19
By: Nick Bullock
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The Great Derangement
- Climate Change and the Unthinkable
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change....
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Excellent book.
- By Neil Green on 29-03-22
By: Amitav Ghosh
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The Deep
- By: Alex Rogers
- Narrated by: James Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious....
By: Alex Rogers
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Disaster by Choice
- How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
- By: Ilan Kelman
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'....
By: Ilan Kelman
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Vida, la gran historia. Un viaje por el laberinto de la evolución
- By: Juan Luis Arsuaga
- Narrated by: Germán Gijón
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Juan Luis Arsuaga, el investigador de los yacimientos de la sierra de Atapuerca. Su libro más ambicioso después de La especie elegida...
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Gripping stories from the mountains
- By Hayley on 09-10-19
By: Joe Tasker
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A New History of Life
- By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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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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Not appropriate for Audible
- By Mick on 24-04-19
By: Stuart Sutherland, and others
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Weather for Dummies (2nd Edition)
- By: John D. Cox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Look up! When you look to the sky, do you wonder why the sun is so bright or why the clouds are white or why the sky is blue? Then Weather for Dummies is your resource to fuel your curiosity about the weather....
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good bit missing accompanying PDF for diagrams
- By Brian on 08-12-21
By: John D. Cox
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us....
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A beautiful and inspiring read
- By Robert Barnes on 04-11-20
By: Carl Sagan