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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
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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The End of Nature
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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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....
By: Bill McKibben
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In Search of the Canary Tree
- The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
- By: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....
By: Lauren E. Oakes
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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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I don't give 5 stars freely
- By matthewc01 on 01-09-2020
By: Tim Marshall
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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
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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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The human race needs to read this.
- By Emily on 07-01-2022
By: Enric Sala
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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
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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....
By: Matt Thornton, and others
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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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....
By: Bill McKibben
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In Search of the Canary Tree
- The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
- By: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....
By: Lauren E. Oakes
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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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I don't give 5 stars freely
- By matthewc01 on 01-09-2020
By: Tim Marshall
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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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The human race needs to read this.
- By Emily on 07-01-2022
By: Enric Sala
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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....
By: Matt Thornton, and others
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
By: V. S. Naipaul
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Position Doubtful
- By: Kim Mahood
- Narrated by: Jennifer McDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners, the mining companies have arrived and Aboriginal art has flourished....
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Beautiful Story
- By Netgrrl on 14-03-2017
By: Kim Mahood
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Teaching Critical Thinking
- Practical Wisdom
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
By: Bell Hooks
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Vibrant Matter
- A Political Ecology of Things
- By: Jane Bennett
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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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....
By: Jane Bennett
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Who’s Your City?
- How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
- By: Richard Florida
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives....
By: Richard Florida
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A Language Older Than Words
- By: Derrick Jensen
- Narrated by: Oni Woods Ojukwu
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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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....
By: Derrick Jensen
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Human Geography for Dummies
- By: Kyle Tredinnick
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college.
By: Kyle Tredinnick
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Glowing Still
- A Woman's Life on the Road
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field....
By: Sara Wheeler
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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
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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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YES YES YES YES ABSOLUTELY BUY IT!!!!!
- By Adam on 07-02-2023
By: Robert D. Kaplan
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Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World
- Choosing Between Progress and Planet
- By: Andrew Charlton
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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In QE44, Andrew Charlton exposes the rift that will shape our future progress versus planet; rich versus poor....
By: Andrew Charlton
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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
- By: Julie Michelle Klinger
- Narrated by: Steve Rausch
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems....
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Tides
- The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
- By: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides....
By: Jonathan White, and others
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Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- By: John Michael Greer
- Narrated by: Michael Dowd
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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The future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion....
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Must read vision of the future.
- By Michael on 16-12-2019
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Primate Change
- By: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Narrated by: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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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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Most important thing I've ever read
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-2020
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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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Fantastic introduction into environmental psychology
- By Mitchell Wright on 16-09-2020
By: Colin Ellard
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Postcolonialism, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Robert J. C. Young
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of Western dominance....
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The Death of Nature
- Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
- By: Carolyn Merchant
- Narrated by: Juliet Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women....
By: Carolyn Merchant
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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
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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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How to Disappear
- Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
- By: Akiko Busch
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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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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Seen and Unseen
- By Moira Delandes on 15-03-2019
By: Akiko Busch
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The Ecotechnic Future
- Envisioning a Post-Peak World
- By: John Michael Greer
- Narrated by: Tony Craine
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....
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Great book, well organised and engaging
- By Tenma13 on 02-08-2017
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Street Farm
- Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
- By: Michael Ableman
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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During the past seven years, Sole Food Street Farms, North America's largest urban farm project, has transformed acres of vacant urban land into street farms....
By: Michael Ableman
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- By: Camilla Cavendish
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....
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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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A grotesque subject beautifully captured
- By Eva van der Vyver on 28-04-2022
By: Jason Pine
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The Bridleway
- How Horses Shaped the British Landscape
- By: Tiffany Francis-Baker
- Narrated by: Olivia Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape, how horses have captured our wild imaginations, and how this connection has evolved and become part of our nation’s ecosystems....
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Rooting Out Violence
- By: Joycee Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.
By: Joycee Kennedy
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The Compton Shuffle
- An Introspective Look at Preventing Gang Violence and Mass Shootings in Schools
- By: Edward Gilliam
- Narrated by: Dalan Decker
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Gang violence and mass shooting prevention are critical issues in the contemporary world. It is first and foremost a matter of life preservation. These violent acts result in the unfortunate demise of innocent lives, and it is a fundamental responsibility to safeguard communities and individuals from the profound repercussions of trauma and violence by preventing their occurrence. Additionally, safeguarding the public is an essential component of society. Gang violence and mass shootings erode confidence in institutions and law enforcement by fostering an environment of terror and insecurity.
By: Edward Gilliam
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The Free Citizen Cookbook
- An Urban Survival Guide for Turbulent Times
- By: Michael Morton
- Narrated by: Edgar A. Hernandez
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Urban survival focuses on keeping safe in your daily life as well as a crisis. It’s having a plan, and developing the skills needed to not just survive, but thrive in an urban environment. It is not a “prepper” mentality of waiting for a pending threat. It is accepting the fact that we live in turbulent times. Just watch the news. Every day there is a shooting, people being beaten, stabbed, pushed in front of oncoming subway trains, social unrest, and political threats. Forewarned is forearmed. Let’s get to that plan!
By: Michael Morton
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Borders (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two....
By: Alexander C. Diener, and others
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Human Geography for Dummies
- By: Kyle Tredinnick
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.
By: Kyle Tredinnick
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Homewaters
- A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
- By: David B. Williams
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities.
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Rooting Out Violence
- By: Joycee Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.
By: Joycee Kennedy
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The Compton Shuffle
- An Introspective Look at Preventing Gang Violence and Mass Shootings in Schools
- By: Edward Gilliam
- Narrated by: Dalan Decker
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Gang violence and mass shooting prevention are critical issues in the contemporary world. It is first and foremost a matter of life preservation. These violent acts result in the unfortunate demise of innocent lives, and it is a fundamental responsibility to safeguard communities and individuals from the profound repercussions of trauma and violence by preventing their occurrence. Additionally, safeguarding the public is an essential component of society. Gang violence and mass shootings erode confidence in institutions and law enforcement by fostering an environment of terror and insecurity.
By: Edward Gilliam
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The Free Citizen Cookbook
- An Urban Survival Guide for Turbulent Times
- By: Michael Morton
- Narrated by: Edgar A. Hernandez
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Urban survival focuses on keeping safe in your daily life as well as a crisis. It’s having a plan, and developing the skills needed to not just survive, but thrive in an urban environment. It is not a “prepper” mentality of waiting for a pending threat. It is accepting the fact that we live in turbulent times. Just watch the news. Every day there is a shooting, people being beaten, stabbed, pushed in front of oncoming subway trains, social unrest, and political threats. Forewarned is forearmed. Let’s get to that plan!
By: Michael Morton
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Borders (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two....
By: Alexander C. Diener, and others
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Human Geography for Dummies
- By: Kyle Tredinnick
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.
By: Kyle Tredinnick
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Homewaters
- A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
- By: David B. Williams
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities.