Best Sellers
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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Reading the Glass
- A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
- Written by: Elliot Rappaport
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is crucial to the safety of vessels and their crews. In Reading the Glass, he offers a sailor’s-eye view of the moving parts of our atmosphere....
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How the Earth Works
- Written by: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....
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very informative
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-04-19
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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Truly Inspirational, I will play it again and again!
- By Michele A. on 2020-12-19
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Becoming Earth
- How Our Planet Came to Life
- Written by: Ferris Jabr
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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One of humanity’s oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades....
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....
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Excellent in linking raw materials w/daily lives
- By Billy on 2024-01-01
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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Reading the Glass
- A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
- Written by: Elliot Rappaport
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is crucial to the safety of vessels and their crews. In Reading the Glass, he offers a sailor’s-eye view of the moving parts of our atmosphere....
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How the Earth Works
- Written by: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....
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very informative
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-04-19
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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Truly Inspirational, I will play it again and again!
- By Michele A. on 2020-12-19
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Becoming Earth
- How Our Planet Came to Life
- Written by: Ferris Jabr
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs
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One of humanity’s oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades....
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....
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Excellent in linking raw materials w/daily lives
- By Billy on 2024-01-01
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Introduction to Geology
- DANTES/DSST Study Guide
- Written by: PassYourClass
- Narrated by: Lisa Haislip
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Our DANTES study guides are different! The Introduction to Geology DANTES/DSST Study Guide teaches you everything that you need to know to pass the DSST test....
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon....
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good read
- By Anonymous User on 2022-09-12
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Deep
- Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth....
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Educational
- By Kim on 2020-04-05
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The Wave
- In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
- Written by: Susan Casey
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out....
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Awesome story
- By Anonymous User on 2022-08-30
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- Written by: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs
- On the Trail of the Dinosaurs' Final Secrets
- Written by: Armin Schmitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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Not bad
- By Mark on 2018-06-23
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Weather for Dummies (2nd Edition)
- Written by: John D. Cox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Look up! When you look to the sky, do you wonder why the sun is so bright or why the clouds are white or why the sky is blue? Then Weather for Dummies is your resource to fuel your curiosity about the weather....
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Excellent Follow Up That Stands On It’s Own
- By Sebastian on 2022-07-12
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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San 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....
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Sasquatch
- Legend Meets Science
- Written by: Jeff Meldrum
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....
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A Scientific/Cryptozoological Treatise
- By Langer MD on 2021-04-27
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- Written by: Ian Urbina
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation....
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Very well written, extremely important book
- By Paulina Zelitsky on 2020-09-10
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Salt
- A World History
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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A very salty history
- By Ron Smallwood on 2021-02-11
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Climate science unsettled? Yes and very much so.
- By Norman Klippenstein on 2021-05-22
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- Written by: Christopher Dewdney
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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18 Miles is a kaleidoscopic and fact-filled journey that uncovers our obsession with the atmosphere and weather - as both evocative metaphor and physical reality. Chris Dewdney entertains as he gives listeners a long overdue look at the very air we breathe....
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Loved it
- By Wm. G. O'Farrell on 2019-10-19
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Oceans of Kansas
- A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
- Written by: Michael J. Everhart
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs....
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Climategate
- A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam
- Written by: Brian Sussman
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Notorious intercepted emails documenting scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years....
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- Written by: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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One of the best
- By Tim Mabey on 2023-01-15
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- Written by: Svante Pääbo
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are....
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Spell-binding; a great popularization of science
- By Nick Overduin on 2021-12-25
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The Invention of Nature
- Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- Written by: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....
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Great Story
- By Thomas M on 2023-03-31
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- Written by: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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good content
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-03-08
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- Written by: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....
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Annoying Accents
- By Rob Larmer on 2023-10-29
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Evolution
- What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters: Adapted for Audio
- Written by: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: John Bishop
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Over the past 20 years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries....