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The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
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Vince Beiser
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A finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world - sand - and the crucial role it plays in our lives.
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other - even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives - and our future.
And, incredibly, we're running out of it.
The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful.
Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking listeners on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, listeners encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- De: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrado por: Jonathan Balcombe
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
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Wonderful
- De Chris en 02-13-22
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The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- De: Alanna Mitchell
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization.
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Important topic, not what I was looking for
- De Ramona en 03-28-21
De: Alanna Mitchell
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.
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What is Life?
- De Shane S Shull en 04-29-21
De: Carl Zimmer
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To Boldly Grow
- Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard
- De: Tamar Haspel
- Narrado por: Tamar Haspel
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Journalist and self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” Tamar Haspel is on a mission: to show us that raising or gathering our own food is not as hard as it’s often made out to be. When she and her husband move from Manhattan to two acres on Cape Cod, they decide to adopt a more active approach to their diet: raising chickens, growing tomatoes, even foraging for mushrooms and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that’s not about to stop them from trying…even if sometimes their reach exceeds their (often muddy) grasp.
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Funny, Smart, and Growth Encouraging
- De CLF en 03-28-23
De: Tamar Haspel
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Diagnosis
- Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
- De: Lisa Sanders
- Narrado por: Lisa Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times best-selling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama, House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet, she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck.
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Repetitive from her previous work
- De anon en 03-08-21
De: Lisa Sanders
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Through Two Doors at Once
- The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality
- De: Anil Ananthaswamy
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself - and continues to almost 200 years later. Through Two Doors at Once celebrates the elegant simplicity of an iconic experiment and its profound reach. With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world, through history and down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. It is the most fantastic voyage you can take.
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Excellent exposition of the conundrum
- De GLYNN A en 08-14-18
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Mirrors in the Earth
- Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World
- De: Asia Suler
- Narrado por: Asia Suler
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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A nature therapy session for the soul—encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.
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amazing feel good book!
- De April en 04-01-25
De: Asia Suler
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Sing Like Fish
- How Sound Rules Life Under Water
- De: Amorina Kingdon
- Narrado por: Angelina Rocca
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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For centuries, humans ignored sound in the “silent world” of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn’t perceive, didn’t exist. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. Marine scientists now have the technology to record and study the complex interplay of the myriad sounds in the sea. Finally, we can trace how sounds travel with the currents, bounce from the seafloor and surface, bend with the temperature and even saltiness; how sounds help marine life survive; and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems.
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Good solid science mixed with storytelling.
- De Hawaiian 54 en 10-04-24
De: Amorina Kingdon
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Galileo's Error
- Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
- De: Philip Goff
- Narrado por: Maxwell Caulfield
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra", beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved.
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Good but basic
- De ginger en 01-23-20
De: Philip Goff
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Fundamentals
- Ten Keys to Reality
- De: Frank Wilczek
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Frank Wilczek
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
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Is this for kindergarteners?
- De James S. en 01-24-21
De: Frank Wilczek
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Survival of the Friendliest
- Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
- De: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness. For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?
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Good but Unfortunate
- De Dee Faram en 09-07-20
De: Brian Hare, y otros
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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Move Like Water
- My Story of the Sea
- De: Hannah Stowe
- Narrado por: Anna Rust
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea—and what might the water around us be able to teach us?
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Every sentence is so beautiful
- De Raleigh en 11-16-23
De: Hannah Stowe
Sand Pirates
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easy voice to listen to
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great info
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A broad overview of sand and civilization
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The narrator has the best diction of any I have heard.
Wonderful Story and Narrator
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Terrifying
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interesting and important
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Who knew that sand - really useful sand - is actually a finite, even scarce, resource? Who knew that sand has created criminal enterprises and violence? Who knew that sand could be a question of national security?
My only criticism is that the book, in places, tended to drag. And I thought there were questions of strategy and security raised that I would have liked explored more deeply - especially around international ownership of important sand mines in the United States. If there is a case for nationalism, I would think it would start there.
Vince Beiser is no Mark Kurlansky, but this is a worthy read nonetheless.
Much more fascinating that I expected
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Well written, well read
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Best book of 2018
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