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The Insect Crisis

The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

by Oliver Milman ...

A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent ... Read more

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A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent
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The Insect Crisis

The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

by Oliver Milman ...

Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

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8 hours 9 min

From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet's known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year ... Read more

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From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet's known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year
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Resistance

The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

by Halik Kochanski ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

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46 hours 15 min

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her ... Read more

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A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her
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Journey of the Mind

How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam ...

Narrated by Cary Hite ...

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10 hours 15 min

Two neuroscientists trace a sweeping new vision of consciousness across eighteen increasingly intelligent minds, from microbes to humankind and beyond.Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion—beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. ... Read more

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Two neuroscientists trace a sweeping new vision of consciousness across eighteen increasingly intelligent minds, from microbes to humankind and beyond.Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion—beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions.
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God's Shadow

Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

by Alan Mikhail ...

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

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16 hours 11 min

Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.Yet, despite its towering influence and ... Read more

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Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.Yet, despite its towering influence and
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Symphony in C

Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

by Robert M Hazen ...

Narrated by Paul Brion ...

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9 hours 42 min

An enchanting biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come ... Read more

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An enchanting biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come
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One Nation Under Guns

How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

by Dominic Erdozain ...

Narrated by Dan Bittner ...

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5 hours 37 min

This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.“At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change ... Read more

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This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.“At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change
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The Survivors of the Clotilda

The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

by Hannah Durkin ...

Narrated by Tariye Peterside ...

Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda, the last slave ... Read more

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Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda, the last slave
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A Molecule away from Madness

Tales of the Hijacked Brain

by Sara Manning Peskin ...

Narrated by Ann Richardson ...

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5 hours 45 min

A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive ... Read more

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A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive
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Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

by Nicole Eustace ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

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14 hours 33 min

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the ... Read more

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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the
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Through Two Doors at Once

The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

by Anil Ananthaswamy ...

Narrated by René Ruiz ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The 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.</str... ... Read more

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One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The 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.</str...
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The Wolfe at the Door

by Gene Wolfe ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

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15 hours 54 min

An all-new collection from an American literary iconThe circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars.A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate.A swordfighter pens his memoirs . . . and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword.Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend, and a ... Read more

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An all-new collection from an American literary iconThe circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars.A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate.A swordfighter pens his memoirs . . . and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword.Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend, and a
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