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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Auteur(s): Carl Sagan
- Narrateur(s): LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Autres
- Durée: 14 h et 31 min
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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
- Écrit par Robert le 2018-04-04
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How the Earth Works
- Auteur(s): Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Michael E. Wysession
- Durée: 24 h et 31 min
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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
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-04-19
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
- Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
- Durée: 9 h et 59 min
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In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- Auteur(s): Lewis Dartnell
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 9 h et 9 min
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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Very good overview of geography and humanity
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-01-17
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Auteur(s): Ed Conway
- Narrateur(s): Ed Conway
- Durée: 15 h et 11 min
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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
- Écrit par Billy le 2024-01-01
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Auteur(s): Steve Brusatte
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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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
- Écrit par Mark le 2018-06-23
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Auteur(s): Carl Sagan
- Narrateur(s): LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Autres
- Durée: 14 h et 31 min
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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
- Écrit par Robert le 2018-04-04
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How the Earth Works
- Auteur(s): Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Michael E. Wysession
- Durée: 24 h et 31 min
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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
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-04-19
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
- Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
- Durée: 9 h et 59 min
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Histoire
In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- Auteur(s): Lewis Dartnell
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 9 h et 9 min
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Histoire
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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Very good overview of geography and humanity
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-01-17
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Auteur(s): Ed Conway
- Narrateur(s): Ed Conway
- Durée: 15 h et 11 min
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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
- Écrit par Billy le 2024-01-01
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Auteur(s): Steve Brusatte
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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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
- Écrit par Mark le 2018-06-23
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Auteur(s): Carl Sagan
- Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us....
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Stunning
- Écrit par Chuck W. le 2023-02-02
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A New History of Life
- Auteur(s): Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Stuart Sutherland
- Durée: 17 h et 46 min
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The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....
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Salt
- A World History
- Auteur(s): Mark Kurlansky
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 13 h et 48 min
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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....
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A very salty history
- Écrit par Ron Smallwood le 2021-02-11
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- Auteur(s): Thomas Halliday
- Narrateur(s): Adetomiwa Edun
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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Amazing and humbling.
- Écrit par Geneviève le 2023-02-22
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Sasquatch
- Legend Meets Science
- Auteur(s): Jeff Meldrum
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 10 h et 17 min
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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
- Écrit par Langer MD le 2021-04-27
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Auteur(s): Steven E. Koonin
- Narrateur(s): Jay Aaseng
- Durée: 7 h et 14 min
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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.
- Écrit par Norman Klippenstein le 2021-05-22
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How Fast Did T. Rex Run?
- Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
- Auteur(s): David Hone
- Narrateur(s): Tom Lawrence
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
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This audiobook narrated by Tom Lawrence describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs....
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The Weather Detective
- Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
- Auteur(s): Peter Wohlleben
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
- Durée: 6 h et 11 min
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In this first-ever English translation of The Weather Detective, Peter Wohlleben uses his long experience and deep love of nature to help decipher the weather and our local environments....
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Informative on the surface...
- Écrit par soberlin le 2019-08-29
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Extinctions
- How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Benton
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
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Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction....
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The Wave
- In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
- Auteur(s): Susan Casey
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 10 h et 26 min
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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
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-08-30
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Earth in Upheaval
- Auteur(s): Immanuel Velikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Renell
- Durée: 9 h et 7 min
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In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner....
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History up-ended.
- Écrit par Papa Kilo PKDS le 2023-03-27
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Our Oldest Companions
- The Story of the First Dogs
- Auteur(s): Pat Shipman
- Narrateur(s): Kate Mulligan
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
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How did the dog become man’s best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species....
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Good but not great.
- Écrit par RJ Colbourne le 2022-10-22
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Principles of Geology
- Auteur(s): Charles Lyell
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Natal
- Durée: 31 h et 32 min
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Principles of Geology [1830] is a groundbreaking classic of science. Mentioned in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, glowingly, it captivated such contemporaries as Melville, Emerson, Tennyson, and George Eliot.
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The Science of Earthquakes
- Why They Happen and How They’re Measured
- Auteur(s): Daran Volcroft
- Narrateur(s): Nick Holbrook
- Durée: 1 h et 58 min
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The Science of Earthquakes: Why They Happen and How They’re Measured is a compelling, accessible guide to one of nature’s most powerful and awe-inspiring forces.
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Auteur(s): Steve Brusatte
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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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
- Écrit par Sebastian le 2022-07-12
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- Auteur(s): Dan Flores
- Narrateur(s): Clark Cornell
- Durée: 16 h et 33 min
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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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the narrator is junk.
- Écrit par Brett le 2024-07-31
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
- Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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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 immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people....
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A compelling story, well narrated
- Écrit par Armstrong le 2023-02-25
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Gaia Wakes
- Earth’s Emergent Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation
- Auteur(s): Topher McDougal
- Narrateur(s): Topher McDougal
- Durée: 12 h et 17 min
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Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet.
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Auteur(s): Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrateur(s): Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Autres
- Durée: 15 h et 5 min
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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!
- Écrit par Michele A. le 2020-12-19
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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs
- On the Trail of the Dinosaurs' Final Secrets
- Auteur(s): Armin Schmitt
- Narrateur(s): Shaun Grindell
- Durée: 8 h et 1 min
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An enrapturing tale of the age of the dinosaurs, The Lost World of the Dinosaurs traces their earliest origins, their astounding two-hundred-million-year reign and their infamous demise.
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The Underworld
- Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
- Auteur(s): Susan Casey
- Narrateur(s): Susan Casey
- Durée: 11 h et 55 min
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Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet....
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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Auteur(s): Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Sleep
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....
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The Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Works
- Auteur(s): Helen Czerski
- Narrateur(s): Helen Czerski
- Durée: 14 h et 51 min
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Physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explores the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters....
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Auteur(s): Erik Larson
- Narrateur(s): Richard Davidson
- Durée: 8 h et 46 min
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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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Excellent story of a great tragedy!
- Écrit par Shawn Fraser le 2025-04-02