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Bestsellers
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
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Solid addition to Climate Change Library
- By Shane on 04-17-24
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-have book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth....
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Good Overview of Astro Politics
- By Gary on 04-18-24
By: Tim Marshall
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The power of geography
- By MYG on 06-18-22
By: Tim Marshall
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
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Solid addition to Climate Change Library
- By Shane on 04-17-24
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-have book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth....
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Good Overview of Astro Politics
- By Gary on 04-18-24
By: Tim Marshall
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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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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The power of geography
- By MYG on 06-18-22
By: Tim Marshall
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The Gift of Violence
- Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
- By: Matt Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Matt Thornton, Salome Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us....
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Fundamental
- By Adrián on 10-07-23
By: Matt Thornton, and others
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The World Without Us
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations and the world's cities would crumble, asphalt jungles giving way to real ones....
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mixed feelings
- By Chris on 08-23-07
By: Alan Weisman
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Adriatic
- A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....
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Disappointing
- By EJH on 04-25-22
By: Robert D. Kaplan
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- By: J.B. MacKinnon
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....
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Inspiring without sounding preachy!
- By Juniper on 07-20-22
By: J.B. MacKinnon
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Vibrant Matter
- A Political Ecology of Things
- By: Jane Bennett
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events....
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Super interesting, thoughtful, thorough
- By Brendabeast on 09-26-23
By: Jane Bennett
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....
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Insightful & informative!
- By Kindle Customer on 05-03-24
By: V. S. Naipaul
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The Human Swarm
- How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- By: Mark W. Moffett
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail....
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Worthless
- By Richard on 11-24-19
By: Mark W. Moffett
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Who Are We Now?
- By: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From leading AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas comes an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and culture have intertwined to create a dynamic “us” that can neither be called natural nor artificial.
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Never Home Alone
- From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination....
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The most astonishing book I've read this decade!
- By Paula on 04-17-19
By: Rob Dunn
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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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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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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Nomad Century
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Nomad Century is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live....
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Too many Horrible Things
- By Trebla on 09-01-22
By: Gaia Vince
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The Alchemy of Meth
- A Decomposition
- By: Jason Pine
- Narrated by: Jason Pine
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness....
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Highly recommended and unexpectedly enlightening.
- By Francisco lara on 09-18-22
By: Jason Pine
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A Language Older Than Words
- By: Derrick Jensen
- Narrated by: Oni Woods Ojukwu
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth....
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A Cleansing
- By Nikolay Galtsev on 06-15-20
By: Derrick Jensen
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- By Anonymous User on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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The Geography of Risk
- Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts
- By: Gilbert M. Gaul
- Narrated by: Gilbert M. Gaul, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in US history - but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005....
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An urgent must read
- By Veronique C. on 10-26-19
By: Gilbert M. Gaul
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- By: Enric Sala
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense....
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mediocre
- By Anthony Dimaggio on 01-16-24
By: Enric Sala
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How to Disappear
- Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
- By: Akiko Busch
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's How to Disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world....
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Not a Guide on How to Disappear
- By Cat Wilson on 10-04-23
By: Akiko Busch
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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Why Cities Lose
- The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
- By: Jonathan A. Rodden
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....
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An Important Book for Democracy
- By C. Bournea on 09-03-23
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Primate Change
- By: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Narrated by: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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If you think you are you, think again. Primate Change is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet....
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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
- By: John Jackson
- Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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"Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" by John G. Jackson is a seminal work that challenges traditional Eurocentric perspectives on the origins of civilization....
By: John Jackson
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Black Faces, White Spaces
- Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
- By: Carolyn Finney
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both White and Black Americans....
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A must read!
- By Aldo Billingslea on 09-22-23
By: Carolyn Finney
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- By: Colin Ellard
- Narrated by: John Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space....
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Best Book on Urbanism Ever Written
- By Bellepop on 01-06-19
By: Colin Ellard
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The End of Nature
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth....
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Excellent.
- By Thomas on 01-29-23
By: Bill McKibben
New releases
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Stuck Monkey
- The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
- By: James Hamilton-Paterson
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stuck Monkey, James Hamilton-Paterson uncovers the truth behind the everyday habits fuelling the climate crisis. Drawing on eye-opening research and shocking statistics, he mercilessly dissects a wide spectrum of modern life: pets, gardening, sports, vehicles, fashion, wellness, holidays, and more. Ferociously unflinching and intelligent, this book will make you think twice about the ‘innocent’ habits we often take for granted.
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Revolution and Terror
- By: Graeme Gill
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically, many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror.
By: Graeme Gill
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The Unequaled Black Man
- A Look into Why Black Men Are the Most Desired Men Today
- By: Nikki Ann Cullen
- Narrated by: Aleksandra Solaz
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This book seeks to explores the entirety of the black man. It's a journey that gives us insight into what makes him who he is and why he has become the most desirable man to women from all races. It shares the intricacies of the black man and how that influences his person and relationships.
By: Nikki Ann Cullen
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.
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fantastic geopolitical analysis
- By Anonymous User on 05-02-24
By: Jonn Elledge
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Thrive in the Coming Dark Age
- How to Build the Ultimate Survival Homestead
- By: Joshua Morris
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Most Comprehensive Survival Book Ever Written! Follow Army Ranger Instructor, Engineer, Off-Grid Builder, and Survival Expert Joshua Morris (M.S.) as he gives a chillingly accurate description of the coming societal collapse, and how to survive the coming Dark Age through self-reliance, self-defense, and preparedness homesteading. Joshua has mastered chaos, parachuting into Iraq in March of 2003, graduating Ranger School and Sniper School, and surviving multiple worldwide deployments, prior to earning advanced degrees in both History and Engineering, and then building his own off-grid ...
By: Joshua Morris
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.
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Stuck Monkey
- The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
- By: James Hamilton-Paterson
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stuck Monkey, James Hamilton-Paterson uncovers the truth behind the everyday habits fuelling the climate crisis. Drawing on eye-opening research and shocking statistics, he mercilessly dissects a wide spectrum of modern life: pets, gardening, sports, vehicles, fashion, wellness, holidays, and more. Ferociously unflinching and intelligent, this book will make you think twice about the ‘innocent’ habits we often take for granted.
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Revolution and Terror
- By: Graeme Gill
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically, many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror.
By: Graeme Gill
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The Unequaled Black Man
- A Look into Why Black Men Are the Most Desired Men Today
- By: Nikki Ann Cullen
- Narrated by: Aleksandra Solaz
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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This book seeks to explores the entirety of the black man. It's a journey that gives us insight into what makes him who he is and why he has become the most desirable man to women from all races. It shares the intricacies of the black man and how that influences his person and relationships.
By: Nikki Ann Cullen
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.
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fantastic geopolitical analysis
- By Anonymous User on 05-02-24
By: Jonn Elledge
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Thrive in the Coming Dark Age
- How to Build the Ultimate Survival Homestead
- By: Joshua Morris
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Most Comprehensive Survival Book Ever Written! Follow Army Ranger Instructor, Engineer, Off-Grid Builder, and Survival Expert Joshua Morris (M.S.) as he gives a chillingly accurate description of the coming societal collapse, and how to survive the coming Dark Age through self-reliance, self-defense, and preparedness homesteading. Joshua has mastered chaos, parachuting into Iraq in March of 2003, graduating Ranger School and Sniper School, and surviving multiple worldwide deployments, prior to earning advanced degrees in both History and Engineering, and then building his own off-grid ...
By: Joshua Morris
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee’s hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they’ve made to reach us.
By: Jessica J. Lee
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, a growing movement of grassroots activists began plotting around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Donald Trump had failed to keep himself in power. Inspired by Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, this nationwide groundswell quickly moved beyond rhetoric and into action. Election deniers began capturing local party committees, elevating like-minded insurgents, and developing a new way forward.
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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Daddy
- A Son's Reckoning with Personal and Collective Trauma in America
- By: Tim Lewis
- Narrated by: Tim Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer. While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research as a clinical psychologist, it turns out it is also the story of America and American men.
By: Tim Lewis
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.
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Solid addition to Climate Change Library
- By Shane on 04-17-24
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Who Are We Now?
- By: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Identity politics occupies the front line in today’s culture wars, pitting generations against each other, and progressive cities against the rural traditions of our past. Rich in data and detail, Who Are We Now? goes beyond today’s headlines to connect our current reality to a larger more-than-human story. At the heart of the book is a set of surveys conducted between 2016 and 2021, asking thousands of anonymous respondents all over the United States questions about their behavior and identity, and especially about gender and sexuality.
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Atlas of Improbable Places
- A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
- By: Travis Elborough, Alan Horsfield - contributor
- Narrated by: Travis Elborough
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points.
By: Travis Elborough, and others