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Dispatches from the Sweet Life
- One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
- By: William Powers
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives - living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. Here, his family, with baby in tow, searches for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism?
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Dispatches from the Sweet Life
- One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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We Are Agora
- How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future
- By: Byron Reese
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism—one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious, and has the power to shape the future of our species? This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who calls this human superorganism “Agora.” In We Are Agora, Reese starts by asking the question, “What is life and how did it form?” From there, he looks at how multicellular life came about, how consciousness emerged, and how other superorganisms in nature have formed.
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We Are Agora
- How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2023
- Language: English
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The Sky Below
- A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed
- By: Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory
- Narrated by: Scott Parazynski, Homer Hickam
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott Parazynski's death-defying quest to summit Mount Everest - his body ravaged by a career in space - listeners will experience the life of an elite athlete, physician, and explorer.
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An engaging recount of a pretty remarkable life.
- By Nathan Hansen on 23-07-2018
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The Sky Below
- A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed
- Narrated by: Scott Parazynski, Homer Hickam
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2017
- Language: English
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- By: Alex Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis.
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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My Patients Like Treats
- Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian
- By: Duncan MacVean DVM
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Physicians used to make house calls. Today, a few veterinarians still do. Duncan MacVean, DVM, is one such vet. His patients range from cats and dogs to pigs and lizard - each of them a unique personality. Every animal and every home is different, but every owner is the same in their affection for their companions. Without warning, MacVean finds himself in odd situations: stepping into a basement full of free-flying bats or struck speechless by a pig who loves opera so much that she falls into a trance.
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My Patients Like Treats
- Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2018
- Language: English
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New Slow City
- Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
- By: William Powers
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment" in Greenwich Village.
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New Slow City
- Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Forgetting Machine
- Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
- By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From Plato to Westworld, these questions have fascinated and befuddled philosophers, artists, and scientists for centuries. In The Forgetting Machine, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga explains how the mechanics of memory illuminates these discussions, with implications for everything from understanding Alzheimer's disease to the technology of Artificial Intelligence.
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The Forgetting Machine
- Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2024
- Language: English
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Graceland, At Last
- Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
- By: Margaret Renkl
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.
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Graceland, At Last
- Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2022
- Language: English
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The Digital Mind
- How Science Is Redefining Humanity
- By: Arlindo Oliveira
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing machine or known living being. Our brains have even allowed us to develop computers that are almost as powerful as the human brain itself. Arlindo Oliveira describes how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds.
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The Digital Mind
- How Science Is Redefining Humanity
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2018
- Language: English
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Rising
- Dispatches from the New American Shore
- By: Elizabeth Rush
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides listeners through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice with profiles of wildlife biologists and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins.
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Rising
- Dispatches from the New American Shore
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2018
- Language: English
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The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World
- A New Generation's Handbook to Being Yourself and Living with Purpose
- By: Alison Lea Sher
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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What does it mean to be a millennial in this chaotic world? Beyond Snapchat and Tinder, the consumerist culture we’ve inherited, and quarter-life crises, can a millennial aspire to more? Alison Lea Sher argues, yes, we can! Packing herself up in an RV, Sher embarks on a road trip, interviewing 150 of her millennial peers as they begin their adult lives. From kids heading straight to Wall Street after college, to those sleeping on it, Sher asks: “Who are you; what should you do; and how can you step into your destiny as a stakeholder in society?”
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The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World
- A New Generation's Handbook to Being Yourself and Living with Purpose
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2018
- Language: English
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Heart of a Lion
- A Lone Cat's Walk Across America
- By: William Stolzenburg
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded.
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Heart of a Lion
- A Lone Cat's Walk Across America
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2016
- Language: English
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Rain
- A Natural and Cultural History
- By: Cynthia Barnett
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.
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Rain
- A Natural and Cultural History
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Fracking King
- A Novel
- By: James Browning
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth - a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy - who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanly and simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater", and the belief that he can win a Scrabble tournament whose first prize is a meeting with Governor Linda King LaRue, Winston creates a moment of devastating truth.
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The Fracking King
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2014
- Language: English
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Tyrannosaurus Sue
- The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
- By: Steve Fiffer
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1990, Peter Larson, with his team of commercial fossil hunters from the Black Hills Institute, discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen in history. He dubbed it "Sue" after the field paleontologist who first saw it sticking out of a sandstone cliff on the ranch of Maurice Williams, a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member in South Dakota's badlands. Because the skelton was 90% complete, its study promised to yield up priceless information on the life and habits of the T Rex.
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Tyrannosaurus Sue
- The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2008
- Language: English
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The Synthetic Age
- Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
- By: Christopher J. Preston
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about this coming epoch is not only how much impact humans have had but, more important, how much deliberate shaping they will start to do. Emerging technologies promise to give us the power to take over some of Nature's most basic operations. It is not just that we are exiting the Holocene and entering the Anthropocene; it is that we are leaving behind the time in which planetary change is just the unintended consequence of unbridled industrialism.
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The Synthetic Age
- Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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True Roots
- What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty
- By: Ronnie Citron-Fink
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Like 75% of American women, Ronnie Citron-Fink dyed her hair, visiting the salon every few weeks to hide gray roots in her signature dark brown mane. She wanted to look attractive, professional, and most of all, young. Yet as a journalist covering health and the environment, she knew something wasn’t right. All those unpronounceable chemical names on the back of the hair dye box were far from natural. Were her recurring headaches and allergies telltale signs that the dye offered the illusion of health, all the while undermining it? Ronnie took a leap and decided to ditch the dye.
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a personal journey of a woman ditchin' the dyes
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True Roots
- What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2019
- Language: English
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Protecting Pollinators
- How to Save the Creatures That Feed Our World
- By: Jodi Helmer
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 2,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed.
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Protecting Pollinators
- How to Save the Creatures That Feed Our World
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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Zoo Nebraska
- The Dismantling of an American Dream
- By: Carson Vaughan
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one - where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man’s outsize vision. When Dick Haskin’s plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick’s devotion to primates didn’t die with her. He returned to his hometown with Reuben, an adolescent chimp.
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Zoo Nebraska
- The Dismantling of an American Dream
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2019
- Language: English
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NeuroScience Fiction
- From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Inception," How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality - While Challenging Our Beliefs About the Mind, Machines, and What Makes us Human
- By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . . . and our oldest questions. After all, the two are inextricably linked. At a time when advances in artificial intelligence are genuinely leading us closer to a computer that thinks like a human, we can’t help but wonder: What makes a person a person? Countless writers and filmmakers have created futuristic scenarios to explore this issue and others like it. But these scenarios may not be so futuristic after all.
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NeuroScience Fiction
- From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Inception," How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality - While Challenging Our Beliefs About the Mind, Machines, and What Makes us Human
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2020
- Language: English
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