Environmental History

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • Auteur(s): Jack E. Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 20 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • Auteur(s): Mark Fiege
    • Narrateur(s): William Bahl
    • Durée: 19 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • Auteur(s): Henry Gee
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Gee
    • Durée: 7 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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    • A Global Environmental History
    • Auteur(s): Daniel R. Headrick
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 23 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance....

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    • An Environmental History
    • Auteur(s): Donald Edward Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained....

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    • The History and Future of Food
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Jameson
    • Durée: 7 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Data-based and rigorously researched, How to Feed the World is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its foodand a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet.

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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • Auteur(s): Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 5 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future....

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    • An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • Auteur(s): Kathryn Morse
    • Narrateur(s): Colleen Patrick
    • Durée: 9 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this first environmental history of the Klondike gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • Auteur(s): Dan Flores
    • Narrateur(s): Clark Cornell
    • Durée: 16 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • 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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    • An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
    • Auteur(s): Bathsheba Demuth
    • Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
    • Durée: 14 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 évaluations
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
    • Auteur(s): Adrian Howkins
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Adrian Howkins argues that there has been a fundamental continuity in the ways in which imperial powers have used the environment to support their political claims in the Antarctic Peninsula region....

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    • How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): Suzie Sheehy
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Sheehy
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A physicist’s surprising, fascinating journey through the experimentsthat unlocked the nature of matter and gave riseto the technology that ushered us into the modern world....

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    • Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
    • Auteur(s): Dorceta E. Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 11 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....

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    • Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
    • Auteur(s): Tim Marshall
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Marshall
    • Série: Politics of Place
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • Auteur(s): Sara Dant
    • Narrateur(s): Lee Ann Howlett
    • Durée: 11 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • Auteur(s): Melanie A. Kiechle
    • Narrateur(s): Dana Brewer Harris
    • Durée: 10 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth....

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    • An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    • Auteur(s): Terry Tempest Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Terry Tempest Williams
    • Durée: 8 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology....

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