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Bestsellers
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
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Solid addition to Climate Change Library
- By Shane on 04-17-24
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The World Without Us
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations and the world's cities would crumble, asphalt jungles giving way to real ones....
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mixed feelings
- By Chris on 08-23-07
By: Alan Weisman
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-have book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth....
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New information on space technology and warfare
- By eurogolfer on 05-26-24
By: Tim Marshall
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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On the Move
- The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
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Solid addition to Climate Change Library
- By Shane on 04-17-24
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The World Without Us
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations and the world's cities would crumble, asphalt jungles giving way to real ones....
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mixed feelings
- By Chris on 08-23-07
By: Alan Weisman
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The Future of Geography
- How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-have book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth....
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New information on space technology and warfare
- By eurogolfer on 05-26-24
By: Tim Marshall
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- By: J.B. MacKinnon
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....
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Inspiring without sounding preachy!
- By Juniper on 07-20-22
By: J.B. MacKinnon
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....
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The power of geography
- By MYG on 06-18-22
By: Tim Marshall
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The Gift of Violence
- Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
- By: Matt Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Matt Thornton, Salome Thornton, Peter Boghossian
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us....
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Fundamental
- By Adrián on 10-07-23
By: Matt Thornton, and others
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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Adriatic
- A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....
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Good Observations and Hidden Gems
- By Delphine C. Lucas on 05-11-22
By: Robert D. Kaplan
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- By Anonymous User on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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Alta California
- From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
- By: Nick Neely
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California....
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A good idea badly executed
- By Trebla on 04-24-20
By: Nick Neely
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The Death of Nature
- Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
- By: Carolyn Merchant
- Narrated by: Juliet Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women....
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Very awkward narration
- By Pat on 12-02-20
By: Carolyn Merchant
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Bloodbath Nation
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America’s use and abuse of guns, through the colonial prehistory of the Republic, armed conflict against the native population, the forced enslavement of millions, and the mass shootings that dominate the current news cycle....
By: Paul Auster
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Overheated
- How Climate Change Will Cause Floods, Famine, War, and Disease
- By: Andrew T. Guzman
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications....
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A must read!
- By Ted on 03-22-15
By: Andrew T. Guzman
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Vibrant Matter
- A Political Ecology of Things
- By: Jane Bennett
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events....
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Super interesting, thoughtful, thorough
- By Brendabeast on 09-26-23
By: Jane Bennett
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From Here to There
- The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted....
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Fascinating
- By CE on 09-29-20
By: Michael Bond
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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Confederate Exodus
- Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil
- By: Alan P. Marcus
- Narrated by: Alan Reinhardt
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the US Civil War, an estimated 10,000 Confederates left the US South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as Confederados, Portuguese for “Confederates”....
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Engaging storytelling for an academic work
- By Anonymous User on 05-21-23
By: Alan P. Marcus
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- By: Harm de Blij
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds....
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A book that needs more than just narration
- By Organic Design on 06-10-15
By: Harm de Blij
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Journey Without End
- Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
- By: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States....
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A contemporary ethnography for your classes
- By M. M. on 06-01-23
By: Andrew Nelson, and others
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Nomad Century
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Nomad Century is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live....
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Too many Horrible Things
- By Trebla on 09-01-22
By: Gaia Vince
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Invisible Countries
- Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
- By: Joshua Keating
- Narrated by: Joshua Keating
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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What is a country? While certain basic tenets - such as the clear demarcation of a country's borders, and the acknowledgment of its sovereignty by other countries and by international governing bodies - seem applicable, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules....
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Fascinating and largely unexamined topic
- By J Ray on 07-26-18
By: Joshua Keating
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The End of Nature
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth....
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Excellent.
- By Thomas on 01-29-23
By: Bill McKibben
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Row Zero (German edition)
- Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie
- By: Lena Kampf, Daniel Drepper
- Narrated by: Tanja Esche, Benno Kühn
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Über Jahrzehnte sind junge Frauen in der Musikindustrie benutzt und diskriminiert worden: Egal ob Fans, Groupies, Journalistinnen, Mitarbeiterinnen oder Sängerinnen...
By: Lena Kampf, and others
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A Language Older Than Words
- By: Derrick Jensen
- Narrated by: Oni Woods Ojukwu
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth....
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A Cleansing
- By Nikolay Galtsev on 06-15-20
By: Derrick Jensen
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Never Home Alone
- From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination....
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The most astonishing book I've read this decade!
- By Paula on 04-17-19
By: Rob Dunn
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The Alchemy of Meth
- A Decomposition
- By: Jason Pine
- Narrated by: Jason Pine
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness....
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Highly recommended and unexpectedly enlightening.
- By Francisco lara on 09-18-22
By: Jason Pine
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Evil's Origin
- By: Christian Laursen
- Narrated by: Christian Laursen
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book ventures into the darkest parts of the world, searching for the truth of evil. From psychologists and clinical professors, neurologists to anthropologists, authors, explorers, journalists, and stories of survivors and victims, the dots are connected one by one....
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Stuck Monkey
- The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
- By: James Hamilton-Paterson
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stuck Monkey, James Hamilton-Paterson uncovers the truth behind the everyday habits fuelling the climate crisis. Drawing on eye-opening research and shocking statistics, he mercilessly dissects a wide spectrum of modern life: pets, gardening, sports, vehicles, fashion, wellness, holidays, and more. Ferociously unflinching and intelligent, this book will make you think twice about the ‘innocent’ habits we often take for granted.
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Revolution and Terror
- By: Graeme Gill
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically, many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror.
By: Graeme Gill
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The Unequaled Black Man
- A Look into Why Black Men Are the Most Desired Men Today
- By: Nikki Ann Cullen
- Narrated by: Aleksandra Solaz
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This book seeks to explores the entirety of the black man. It's a journey that gives us insight into what makes him who he is and why he has become the most desirable man to women from all races. It shares the intricacies of the black man and how that influences his person and relationships.
By: Nikki Ann Cullen
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.
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fantastic geopolitical analysis
- By Anonymous User on 05-02-24
By: Jonn Elledge
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Thrive in the Coming Dark Age
- How to Build the Ultimate Survival Homestead
- By: Joshua Morris
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Most Comprehensive Survival Book Ever Written! Follow Army Ranger Instructor, Engineer, Off-Grid Builder, and Survival Expert Joshua Morris (M.S.) as he gives a chillingly accurate description of the coming societal collapse, and how to survive the coming Dark Age through self-reliance, self-defense, and preparedness homesteading. Joshua has mastered chaos, parachuting into Iraq in March of 2003, graduating Ranger School and Sniper School, and surviving multiple worldwide deployments, prior to earning advanced degrees in both History and Engineering, and then building his own off-grid ...
By: Joshua Morris
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.
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Stuck Monkey
- The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
- By: James Hamilton-Paterson
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stuck Monkey, James Hamilton-Paterson uncovers the truth behind the everyday habits fuelling the climate crisis. Drawing on eye-opening research and shocking statistics, he mercilessly dissects a wide spectrum of modern life: pets, gardening, sports, vehicles, fashion, wellness, holidays, and more. Ferociously unflinching and intelligent, this book will make you think twice about the ‘innocent’ habits we often take for granted.
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Revolution and Terror
- By: Graeme Gill
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically, many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror.
By: Graeme Gill
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The Unequaled Black Man
- A Look into Why Black Men Are the Most Desired Men Today
- By: Nikki Ann Cullen
- Narrated by: Aleksandra Solaz
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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This book seeks to explores the entirety of the black man. It's a journey that gives us insight into what makes him who he is and why he has become the most desirable man to women from all races. It shares the intricacies of the black man and how that influences his person and relationships.
By: Nikki Ann Cullen
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
- The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- By: Jonn Elledge
- Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped - and about human folly.
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fantastic geopolitical analysis
- By Anonymous User on 05-02-24
By: Jonn Elledge
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Thrive in the Coming Dark Age
- How to Build the Ultimate Survival Homestead
- By: Joshua Morris
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Most Comprehensive Survival Book Ever Written! Follow Army Ranger Instructor, Engineer, Off-Grid Builder, and Survival Expert Joshua Morris (M.S.) as he gives a chillingly accurate description of the coming societal collapse, and how to survive the coming Dark Age through self-reliance, self-defense, and preparedness homesteading. Joshua has mastered chaos, parachuting into Iraq in March of 2003, graduating Ranger School and Sniper School, and surviving multiple worldwide deployments, prior to earning advanced degrees in both History and Engineering, and then building his own off-grid ...
By: Joshua Morris
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.