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A Contract with the Earth
By: Newt Gingrich & Terry L. Maple
Narrated by: Callista Gingrich
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth. They declare a need for bipartisan environmentalism—a new era of environmental stewardship with principles that they believe most Americans will... Read more
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A Practical and Accessible Strategy On Global Warming
By: David Gershon
Narrated by: Craig Hamilton
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Climate scientists tell us that we have less than ten years to dramatically cut our carbon emissions before we reach a point of no return. Yet most of the large-scale solutions on the table will take far longer than that to implement. Fortunately, necessity is the mother of invention, and among the climate change pioneers there are those who... Read more
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Break Through
By: Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of debate with their self-published essay, “The Death of Environmentalism.” In this eagerly anticipated follow-up, the authors expand upon their argument that the paradigms driving the environmental movement and much of liberal politics are outdated and... Read more
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The Whale Warriors
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: James Boles
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica.
For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its... Read more
Brehms Tierleben - Kriechtiere, Lurche, Fische, Insekten, niedere Tiere
By: Alfred E. Brehm
Narrated by: Roger Willemsen
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more
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Brehms Tierleben - Exotische Säugetiere
By: Alfred E. Brehm
Narrated by: Roger Willemsen
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more
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Brehms Tierleben - Heimische Säugetiere
By: Alfred E. Brehm
Narrated by: Roger Willemsen
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more
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Brehms Tierleben - Vögel
By: Alfred E. Brehm
Narrated by: Roger Willemsen
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more
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Hurricane Season
By: Neal Thompson
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up." —J. T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots
On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late summer New Orleans sun, the air a visible fog of humidity.... Read more
The Emergence of Integral Consciousness
By: Allan Combs, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Craig Hamilton
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
We all sense intuitively that reality is not a jumbled assortment of unrelated parts, but a dynamic, unified whole. Yet, as fields of knowledge become increasingly complex and specialized, it's often difficult to see how all the parts of this whole truly fit together. In this dialogue with consciousness researcher Allan Combs, we explore the... Read more
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Earth in the Balance
By: Al Gore
Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide... Read more
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Storm World
By: Chris Mooney
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses readers in the world of those who study hurricanes. What was once an arcane branch of meteorology (itself an arcane science) has become embroiled in one of the most politicized and hotly contested... Read more
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Leviathan
By: Eric Jay Dolin
Narrated by: James Boles
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales.
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as... Read more
The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and... Read more
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The Dangerous Book for Boys
By: Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Recapture Sunday afternoons and long summer days. This is a wonderful collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun. These selections from the bestselling phenomenon Dangerous Book for Boys were chosen for easy, enjoyable listening independent of the book.Topics include:· Questions about the World· How to... Read more
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Puppy's First Steps
By: Nicholas Dodman, Lawrence Lindner & Faculty of ...
Narrated by: James Boles
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Based on cutting-edge research, real day-to-day clinical experience, and unparalleled expertise, the faculty of the Tufts University Cummings School, led by the renowned animal behaviorist Nicholas Dodman, provides the very best information on the health and behavior of puppies. Covering everything from how to pick a puppy, what to feed him, and... Read more
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The Outermost House
By: Henry Beston
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more
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The Loved Dog
By: Andrea Cagan & Tamar Geller
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
More than fifteen years ago, Tamar Geller began her career as a dog trainer by observing a scientific study of wolves in the wild. She realized that the socialization and parenting techniques they used to raise their cubs were rooted in bonding, communication, and play—not in aggression, dominance, or punishment. If people used these techniques... Read more
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This Moment on Earth
By: John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack—concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see firsthand how these issues unite people across party... Read more
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The Wild Trees - Abridged
By: Richard Preston
Narrated by: Richard Preston
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained -- the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed... Read more
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Crossing Open Ground - Abridged
By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: Barry Lopez
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time. Read more
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Silent Spring
By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the... Read more
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Come On Seabiscuit!
By: Ralph Moody
Narrated by: Jim Weiss
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt named Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time? Although Seabiscuit was the grandson of the legendary Man O' War, he was neither handsome nor graceful. His head was too big, his legs were too short, and his gallop was awkward.During the depths of the Great... Read more
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Entering Into Relationship With Everything
By: Derrick Jensen
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Jensen notes: a principal problem with Western thought is that it views the natural world as a metaphor and nature as a commodity. He argues that the key to change and life sustaining action is rooted in seeing nature as sentient – a being worthy and deserving of personal relationship. Read more
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