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Island on Fire

The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World

by Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe ...

Narrated by John Lescault ...

Unabridged

6 hours 9 min

Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the eighteenth century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano—and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, ... Read more

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Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the eighteenth century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano—and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months,
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Salt

A World History

by Mark Kurlansky ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 48 min

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale. ... Read more

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The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
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Here Comes the Sun

A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

by Bill McKibben ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt our poles, poison our bodies, and drive our global inequality. And it is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700,000 years, we know ... Read more

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From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt our poles, poison our bodies, and drive our global inequality. And it is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700,000 years, we know
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The Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells ...

Narrated by David Wallace-Wells ...

Unabridged

9 hours

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWith a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are ... Read more

$20.99 USD

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWith a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are
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Less is More

How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel ...

Narrated by Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World

by Steve Brusatte ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY."" — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long ... Read more

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A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY."" — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long
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Underland

A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane ...

Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways,
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

by Dan Egan ...

Narrated by Jason Culp ...

Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

**A Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardA landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they ... Read more

$22.99 USD

**A Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardA landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they
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The Map That Changed the World

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

9 hours 59 min

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history ... Read more

$28.99 USD

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history
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Land

How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

13 hours 46 min

“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston GlobeThe author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South ... Read more

$32.99 USD

“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston GlobeThe author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South
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The New Climate War

The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

by Michael E. Mann ...

Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 48 min

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the
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Regenesis

Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

by George Monbiot ...

Narrated by George Monbiot ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

**Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg**For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to ... Read more

$20.99 USD

**Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg**For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to
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Otherlands

A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

by Thomas Halliday ...

Narrated by Adetomiwa Edun ...

Unabridged

11 hours 6 min

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Read more

$5.99 USD

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
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Krakatoa

The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an
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Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

by David Attenborough ...

Narrated by David Attenborough ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean ... Read more

$27.99 USD

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean
... Read more
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End Times Fascism

And the Fight for the Living World

by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

Narrated by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them.As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them.As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw
... Read more
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The Fourth Phase of Water

Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

by Gerald H. Pollack ...

Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

World renowned scientist, Dr. Gerald Pollack, takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity—providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably seen but not really understood.For instance, have you ever wondered . . .How do clouds made up of dense water droplets manage to float in the sky? Why don’t your ... Read more

$24.99 USD

World renowned scientist, Dr. Gerald Pollack, takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity—providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably seen but not really understood.For instance, have you ever wondered . . .How do clouds made up of dense water droplets manage to float in the sky? Why don’t your
... Read more
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The Earth Transformed

An Untold History

by Peter Frankopan ...

Narrated by Peter Frankopan ...

Unabridged

29 hours 11 min

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across timeGlobal warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on ... Read more

$32.99 USD

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across timeGlobal warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on
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Climate Change in Simple Spanish

Learn Spanish the Fun Way With Topics That Matter

by Olly Richards ...

Narrated by David McNeill, Salvador Bosch ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Topics that Matter: Spanish Edition
Unabridged

2 hours 45 min

Improve your Spanish and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that. For the first time, you'll learn to improve your Spanish while reading about one of the most important topics of the century: climate change. ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Improve your Spanish and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that. For the first time, you'll learn to improve your Spanish while reading about one of the most important topics of the century: climate change.
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Salt Lakes

An Unnatural History

by Caroline Tracey ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 8 min

More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the ... Read more

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More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the
... Read more
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How Can I Help?

Saving Nature with Your Yard

by Douglas W. Tallamy ...

Narrated by Adam Barr ...

Unabridged

12 hours 42 min

From a New York Times bestselling author, a wildlife ecology expert and environmental advocate provides readers with the next step in their ecological journey.In How Can I Help?, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey. Topics range from ... Read more

$31.99 USD

From a New York Times bestselling author, a wildlife ecology expert and environmental advocate provides readers with the next step in their ecological journey.In How Can I Help?, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey. Topics range from
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The Secret World of Denisovans

The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals

by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier ...

Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

Unabridged

6 hours 41 min

The first book for a general audience to chronicle the epic story of the Denisovans, ancient cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals, who left traces of their DNA in modern-day humansIn December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in an isolated cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. The DNA came from a previously unknown ... Read more

$22.99 USD

The first book for a general audience to chronicle the epic story of the Denisovans, ancient cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals, who left traces of their DNA in modern-day humansIn December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in an isolated cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. The DNA came from a previously unknown
... Read more
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A Crack in the Edge of the World

America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

$32.99 USD

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive
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The Treeline

The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

by Ben Rawlence ...

Narrated by Jamie Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 59 min

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world.For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge ... Read more

$26.99 USD

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world.For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge
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