Bestsellers
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How the Earth Works
- Written by: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Top 10 (of 100's) Great Courses
- By Steven MC on 2024-05-03
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- Written by: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
As time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson....
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Follow Up That Stands On It’s Own
- By Sebastian on 2022-07-12
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World
- Written by: Ken Alder
- Narrated by: Byron Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 224
The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not bad
- By Mark on 2018-06-23
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written 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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 762
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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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3 out of 5 stars
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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How the Earth Works
- Written by: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Top 10 (of 100's) Great Courses
- By Steven MC on 2024-05-03
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- Written by: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
As time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson....
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Follow Up That Stands On It’s Own
- By Sebastian on 2022-07-12
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World
- Written by: Ken Alder
- Narrated by: Byron Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 224
The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not bad
- By Mark on 2018-06-23
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written 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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 762
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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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3 out of 5 stars
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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Salt
- A World History
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A very salty history
- By Ron Smallwood on 2021-02-11
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- Written by: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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5 out of 5 stars
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good content
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-03-08
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent in linking raw materials w/daily lives
- By Billy on 2024-01-01
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Climategate
- A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam
- Written by: Brian Sussman
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Notorious intercepted emails documenting scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years....
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- Written by: Kermit Pattison
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- By Chelsea Colbourne on 2021-08-01
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best
- By Tim Mabey on 2023-01-15
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The Underworld
- Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
- Written by: Susan Casey
- Narrated by: Susan Casey
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet....
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- Written by: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Man Who Caught The Storm
- By EntertainmentLover on 2018-08-30
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- Written by: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
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—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....
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3 out of 5 stars
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the narrator is junk.
- By Brett on 2024-07-31
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Climate science unsettled? Yes and very much so.
- By Norman Klippenstein on 2021-05-22
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....
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3 out of 5 stars
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GREAT BOOK - bad narration
- By Barbara on 2021-09-23
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Deep
- Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 211
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Story5 out of 5 stars 210
Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational
- By Kim on 2020-04-05
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Becoming Earth
- How Our Planet Came to Life
- Written by: Ferris Jabr
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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One of humanity’s oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades....
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Adventures in Volcanoland
- An Exploration of Volcanic Places and What They Tell Us About the World and About Ourselves
- Written by: Tamsin Mather
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world.
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- Written by: Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing and humbling.
- By Geneviève on 2023-02-22
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Remnants of Ancient Life
- The New Science of Old Fossils
- Written by: Dale Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life....
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Plastic Ocean
- Written by: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden properties of plastics....
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Moby-Duck
- The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
- Written by: Donovan Hohn
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography.....
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning
- By Chuck W. on 2023-02-02
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Unsettled, Updated and Expanded Edition
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- Written by: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good overview of geography and humanity
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-17
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A New History of Life
- Written by: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
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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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly Inspirational, I will play it again and again!
- By Michele A. on 2020-12-19
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Princeton Science Library
- Written by: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer - foreword
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rocks, Not Dinosaurs
- By Jamie Charles on 2022-02-23