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“harriet rix”

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  • The Genius of Trees

    How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

    by Harriet Rix ...
    **A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined“Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    The Genius of Trees

    How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

    by Harriet Rix ...
    Narrated by Harriet Rix ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    **A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined“Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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    Eight Bears

    Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

    by Gloria Dickie ...
    Narrated by Cassidy Brown ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face.Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural worldA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

    by David Quammen ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Arrogant Ape

    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

    by Christine Webb ...
    **A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Is a River Alive?

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    **A New York Times BestsellerA #1 Sunday Times (UK) BestsellerFinalist for the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental LiteratureLonglisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, Economist, Guardian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly • One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books ... ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Material World

    The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

    by Ed Conway ...
    Narrated by Ed Conway ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

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    The Lie of the Land

    Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    Narrated by Guy Shrubsole ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s... ... Read more

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    Giving Up Is Unforgivable

    A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

    by Joyce Vance ...
    Narrated by Joyce Vance ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    **Instant New York Times bestsellerA political manifesto for our present moment—part history lesson, part call to save the Republic"Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness." —Mary L. Trump**We’re in this together.For the past several years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, "Civil Discourse", with these four ... Read more

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    The Genius Bat

    The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

    by Yossi Yovel ...
    Narrated by Max Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world’s leading expertWith nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Some bats eat fruit and nectar; others eat frogs, scorpions, or fish. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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