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Every Living Thing
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.
Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more
The Orchid Thief
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more
An Ethiopian Heroine's Story
By: Bogaletch Gebre
Narrated by: Neil Harvey
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Abridged
By: Josh Smith & William Nothdurft
Narrated by: Michael C. Hall
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil... Read more
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Last Train to Paradise - Abridged
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.
In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more
Bioneers Series 3-01: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry
By: Carolyn Raffensperger & Sharyle Patton
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-03: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity
By: Wade Davis
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planet’s wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-04: Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs
By: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-05: Soil And Soul the Future of Farming
By: Michael Ableman & Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical-dependent megafarms? Poor nutrition is one cost, and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy
By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-06: Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms
By: Elaine Ingham, Michael Pollan & Peter Montague
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-07: Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry
By: Diane Wilson & Jack Matson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on a Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-08: Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved
By: Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson & Terri Swea...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct-action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected
By: Michael Lerner, Matthew Fox & Joanna Macy, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media
By: Peter Montague, Mark Sommer & Elise Hoeg
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic
By: Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets & Lynn Margulis
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-11: Nature As Healer: Restoring Life As Community
By: Anna Carter & T. Allan Comp Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Anna Marie Carter, the “Seed Lady” of Watts, shares heartful stories of community renewal that have grown from her work building free organic gardens for residents of south central Los Angeles. T. Allen Comp presents his extraordinary work with AMD&ART, a non-profit that has combined public art, environmental improvement and community... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more
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Shark Trouble - Abridged
By: Peter Benchley
Narrated by: Peter Benchley
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.
“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount... Read more
Bioneers Series 1-08: Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette?
By: Kenny Ausubel, Andrew Kimbrell & Luke Anderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate, and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe. Read more
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Bioneers Series 1-01: Working with Nature to Heal Nature
By: Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Amory Lovins, Anna ...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature" introduces us to the past half-century's most visionary designers, practitioners and pioneers of sustainable living. Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Read more
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Bioneers Series 1-02: Climate Change and the Next Industrial Revolution
By: Bill McKibben & Amory Lovins
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Author and climate change expert Bill McKibben takes us into the unstable future that is already showing itself. Amory Lovins presents inspiring industrial design innovations that are capable of shrinking human impacts on the biosphere by over 90%. Read more
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Bioneers Series 1-03: Natural Capitalism and Green Design
By: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins & Will...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account? Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles. Read more
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Bioneers Series 1-04: The Original Instructions: It's All Related
By: Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Malcol...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What were the Original Instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions. Read more
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