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Unnatural History of the Sea
- De: Callum M. Roberts
- Narrado por: Callum M. Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail.
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Not good as an audiobook
- De B en 02-04-11
- Unnatural History of the Sea
- De: Callum M. Roberts
- Narrado por: Callum M. Roberts
The seas wasn't made for us to exploit.
Revisado: 12-02-24
Normalcy bias when it comes to our use of life in the seas is very scary. We have come to accept modern fisheries and the way they empty the ocean. This is the result of a 1000 years of looking at the sea as an eternal source marine protein. Well it isn't, and after listening to this book you will realize that, and learn how life underwater once was a should be.
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Lives of Weeds
- Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
- De: John Cardina
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped - and are shaped by - the way we live in the natural world.
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Review from a weed professional
- De TSP en 11-08-22
- Lives of Weeds
- Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
- De: John Cardina
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
A must read/listen
Revisado: 10-31-23
If you want to know about the challenges that face our modern production of food, you have to listen to this book. It tells the story of how these weeds interact with our lives and modern agriculture.
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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
- An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times
- De: Rosalie Gilbert
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Inside The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, a fascinating book about life during medieval times, you will discover tantalizing true stories about medieval women and a myriad of historical facts.
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Very Well Done!
- De Stephanie Meier en 03-25-21
- The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
- An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times
- De: Rosalie Gilbert
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
5 star story 3 star narration
Revisado: 08-15-23
What would you do if you lived in a world where the church and men decided how you should express your sexuality? This book is filled with the stories of over 100 women who had to deal with that question. Told in a engaging and funny way, this book made me smile and feel deep respect for the females who made the middle ages worth living.
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How to Sell a Poison
- The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
- De: Elena Conis
- Narrado por: Casey Turner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero’s homecoming, spraying it on everything from crops and livestock to cupboards and curtains. Then, in 1972, it was banned in the US. But decades after that, a cry arose to demand its return.
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This book goes off like a bomb
- De Kent en 07-28-23
- How to Sell a Poison
- The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
- De: Elena Conis
- Narrado por: Casey Turner
This book goes off like a bomb
Revisado: 07-28-23
There are so many shocking revelations in this book, that it feels like going through a wormhole. Once on the other side your knowledge of how the industry works will be greatly expanded. For me, the best listening experience of this year.
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Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Shapes Our World
- De: Helen Czerski
- Narrado por: Helen Czerski
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean's complex system.
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Nice overview
- De Paal Skjetne en 08-14-23
- Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Shapes Our World
- De: Helen Czerski
- Narrado por: Helen Czerski
A portrayal of our wonderful ocean
Revisado: 07-01-23
Blue Machine is a book that not only tells you about the ocean life, but also about the oceans energy. The driver of climate and weather. Here life and energy gets unified and explained how we can't have one without the other. I loved it.
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Ultra-Processed People
- Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food...and Why Can’t We Stop?
- De: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrado por: Chris van Tulleken
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies? Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).
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Great informative book
- De Lior Blech en 04-09-24
- Ultra-Processed People
- Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food...and Why Can’t We Stop?
- De: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrado por: Chris van Tulleken
Listen, and eat whole foods
Revisado: 06-21-23
The idea that food has to be fast end easy to eat is made up by the fast-food industry. Ultra processed food is the result of industry making the largest amount of profits by selling the least amount of real food. This book exposes the truth on ultra processed food. Highly recommend!
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After They're Gone
- Extinctions Past, Present and Future
- De: Peter Marren
- Narrado por: Stephen Boxer
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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We are in the midst of an extinction event: the sixth mass extinction on Earth and one entirely caused by mankind. All species become extinct sooner or later, but we have accelerated that natural process several hundredfold, and now, it is happening right in front of our eyes. Extinction has a terrifying finality to it. And many species have already been lost to us forever; there is little we can do about that. What we can do, however, is reflect, remember, and ultimately acknowledge the unvarnished truth.
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Beautiful but ruined by final two chapters
- De szecstom en 05-06-23
- After They're Gone
- Extinctions Past, Present and Future
- De: Peter Marren
- Narrado por: Stephen Boxer
Very moving and thought provoking
Revisado: 05-14-22
One of the best books I've listened to about the subject of extinction. Full of personal reflections that really makes this one stand out of the ordinary.
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The Treeline
- The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
- De: Ben Rawlence
- Narrado por: Jamie Parker
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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The Arctic Treeline - the northern limit of the boreal forest that encircles the globe in an almost unbroken green ring - is the second largest biome on our planet. At this little-known frontline of climate change, the trees have been creeping towards the pole for 50 years already. Six of the tree species that populate these forests (larch, spruce, mountain ash, downy birch, balsam poplar and Scots pine) form the central protagonists of Ben Rawlence's story.
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Just amazing
- De Kent en 02-10-22
- The Treeline
- The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
- De: Ben Rawlence
- Narrado por: Jamie Parker
Just amazing
Revisado: 02-10-22
This book tells you much more about the state of the world than just being a book about the treeline. It tells you that the real world is nature. Our civilization is a concept that will end, the forest is not. Connect with the real world. Listen to the book and go out to the woods.
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Bright Green Lies
- How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
- De: Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species.
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Probably right, but useless
- De Trebla en 01-10-22
- Bright Green Lies
- How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
- De: Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
The book that made me face the facts.
Revisado: 01-14-22
I love this book for showing the impossibility of a sustainable life on this earth as long as we are an industrial civilization. You can not turn this living world into materials and think it is fine. It's not. The last 40 years has been a nightmare for the other wild species that has seen an averge population loss of 50 percent. The next 40 years will take the rest if we don't change. This book confronts the lies that keeps this hostile civilization running. This book gives the right diagnosis to the problem.
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A Thousand Trails Home
- Living with Caribou
- De: Seth Kantner
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic caribou herd, and the larger Arctic region.
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Fascinating View of Living in Alaska
- De Toni Bowes en 10-29-21
- A Thousand Trails Home
- Living with Caribou
- De: Seth Kantner
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
Personal and enlightening
Revisado: 12-05-21
Seth Kantner has written an epic and personal tale about caribou, hunting, the Alaskan wilderness and what impacts our modern society has on these matters.
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