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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- Auteur(s): Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrateur(s): Nan McNamara
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- Narrateur(s): Nan McNamara
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2024-03-12
- Langue: Anglais
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed....
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Summary of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Key Takeaways & Analysis Included: Growth Money Power Success Mindset, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Ninja Reads
- Narrateur(s): Ninja Reads
- Durée: 1 h et 3 min
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Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy read, you can take the main principles from Outliers: The Story of Success. Outliers asserts that a person’s background and environment are every bit as important as intelligence and drive in achieving success. Critics have complained that Gladwell’s explanations for success are simply interesting, but too simplistic. However, the book has sold millions of copies and remains popular.
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Summary of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Key Takeaways & Analysis Included: Growth Money Power Success Mindset, Book 1
- Narrateur(s): Ninja Reads
- Durée: 1 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-13
- Langue: Anglais
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Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy read, you can take the main principles from Outliers: The Story of Success....
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Why We Hate
- Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
- Auteur(s): Michael Ruse
- Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
- Durée: 6 h et 54 min
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Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? In this book, Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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Why We Hate
- Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
- Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
- Durée: 6 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2022-10-25
- Langue: Anglais
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An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species....
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- Auteur(s): Peter Ross
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ross
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea?
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ross
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards....
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- Auteur(s): Emily Thorson
- Narrateur(s): Emily Durante
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented state": systematic misperceptions about public policy.
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- Narrateur(s): Emily Durante
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2024-04-23
- Langue: Anglais
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does.
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Twilight of the Mammoths
- Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
- Auteur(s): Paul S. Martin
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 8 h et 52 min
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As recently as 11,000 years ago - "near time" to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age.
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I wish This Book was Longer
- Écrit par Bethany Renneberg le 2021-03-30
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Twilight of the Mammoths
- Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 8 h et 52 min
- Date de publication: 2010-09-07
- Langue: Anglais
- As recently as 11,000 years ago - "near time" to geologists - many other large mammals roamed North America....
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The Origin of Feces
- What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
- Auteur(s): David Waltner-Toews
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Scollin
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
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An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives - evolutionary, ecological, and cultural - this examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems.
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The Origin of Feces
- What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Scollin
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2013-11-01
- Langue: Anglais
- An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste....
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The Mind of the Market
- Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
- Auteur(s): Michael Shermer
- Narrateur(s): Michael Shermer
- Durée: 5 h et 26 min
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The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life. Drawing on research from neuroeconomics, Michael Shermer explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business. Utilizing experiments in behavioral economics, Shermer shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy.
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The Mind of the Market
- Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
- Narrateur(s): Michael Shermer
- Durée: 5 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2008-10-06
- Langue: Anglais
- The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life....
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
- Auteur(s): Abena Dadze-Arthur
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 57 min
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Clifford Geertz's first collection of essays, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), made him a leading voice of anthropology's "symbolic" movement, which believed scholars should read the signs and symbols of a culture from the perspective of its natives. Geertz's approach helped anthropology reinvent itself as a scientific discipline that is still relevant today, making him - in the words of one critic - "a true giant of social and cultural theory."
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2016-06-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Clifford Geertz's first collection of essays, The Interpretation of Cultures, made him a leading voice of anthropology's "symbolic" movement....
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Animal Societies
- How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
- Auteur(s): Ashley Ward
- Narrateur(s): Ashley Ward
- Durée: 13 h et 36 min
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Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.
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Animal Societies
- How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
- Narrateur(s): Ashley Ward
- Durée: 13 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-23
- Langue: Anglais
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Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals....
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The Man Who Walked Through Time
- The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
- Auteur(s): Colin Fletcher
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
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In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder. Standing on the Rim, surrounded by the profound and almost mystical silence, Fletcher knew that something had happened to the way he looked at things. He also knew that the Canyon, with its depths and distances, cliffs, buttes, and hanging terraces, beckoned to him, calling him on a journey that would challenge both his body and his mind.
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The Man Who Walked Through Time
- The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
- Date de publication: 2020-01-21
- Langue: Anglais
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In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder....
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Auteur(s): Mary Beard
- Narrateur(s): Mary Beard
- Durée: 2 h et 51 min
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Narrateur(s): Mary Beard
- Durée: 2 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-04
- Langue: Anglais
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity....
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations
- Auteur(s): Macat.com
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 56 min
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Anthropologist Geert Hofstede's 1980 work, Culture's Consequences, was the first study to look at cultural differences using data. The Dutchman took advantage of the enormous global span of his employer, the technology company IBM, to gather survey data in 20 languages and across 70 countries, and to produce a unique study of national values.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2016-05-30
- Langue: Anglais
- Anthropologist Geert Hofstede's 1980 work, Culture's Consequences, was the first study to look at cultural differences using data....
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Dark, Salt, Clear
- Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
- Auteur(s): Lamorna Ash
- Narrateur(s): Lamorna Ash
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
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There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land’s End. This Cornwall is messier and harder; it doesn’t seem like a place that would welcome strangers. Before long, however, Lamorna finds herself on a week-long trawler trip with a crew of local fishermen, afforded a rare glimpse into their world, their warmth and their humour.
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Dark, Salt, Clear
- Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
- Narrateur(s): Lamorna Ash
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land’s End....
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Lurking
- How a Person Became a User
- Auteur(s): Joanne McNeil
- Narrateur(s): Joanne McNeil
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
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In Lurking, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching, safety, privacy, identity, community, anonymity, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life - what we’re made to trade, knowingly or otherwise, for the benefits of the internet - have shifted radically beneath us. It is a story we are accustomed to hearing as tales of entrepreneurs and visionaries and dynamic and powerful corporations.
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Lurking
- How a Person Became a User
- Narrateur(s): Joanne McNeil
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2020-02-25
- Langue: Anglais
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A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from - for the first time - the point of view of the user....
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Kant tu ne sais plus quoi faire il reste la philo
- Auteur(s): Marie Robert
- Narrateur(s): Marie Robert
- Durée: 2 h et 49 min
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Passer toute sa journée chez Ikea, rencontrer ses beaux-parents, se faire larguer au café, cohabiter avec son ado, faire un peu trop la fête... Autant de situations qui peuvent nous déboussoler. Que faire pour éviter la crise de nerf ou de larme ? Et si vous invitiez Platon, Spinoza, Nietzsche et leurs amis pour évoquer toutes ces questions du quotidien ? Qu'est-ce que Kant aurait répondu à un texto de rupture? Aristote aurait-il repris une vodka ? L'herbe est-elle plus verte chez Épicure ? Les philosophes quittent enfin leurs bibliothèques pour devenir nos complices.
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Kant tu ne sais plus quoi faire il reste la philo
- Narrateur(s): Marie Robert
- Durée: 2 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-26
- Langue: Français
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Passer toute sa journée chez Ikea, rencontrer ses beaux-parents, se faire larguer au café, cohabiter avec son ado, faire un peu trop la...
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A Macat Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift
- The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth D. Whitaker
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 2 h et 10 min
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Published in 1925, The Gift is one of French sociologist Marcel Mauss's few non-collaborative works. In it, he elevates what might appear to be a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, with the way gifts are given and received working as a guide to understanding the rules and traditions of many different societies.
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A Macat Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift
- The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 2 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2016-05-30
- Langue: Anglais
- The Gift is still relevant and influential today, because it explains how economics and social and cultural systems affect each other....
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Auteur(s): Annalee Newitz
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2013-05-14
- Langue: Anglais
- In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....
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The Lies of the Land
- Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
- Auteur(s): Steven Conn
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
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The Lies of the Land
- Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2024-02-27
- Langue: Anglais
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- Auteur(s): Lucas Bessire
- Narrateur(s): John Chancer
- Durée: 6 h et 19 min
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The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- Narrateur(s): John Chancer
- Durée: 6 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-20
- Langue: Anglais
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This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland....
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