18 Miles
The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
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We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth’s atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm - at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible rivers in the sky that affect how our weather works and the structure of clouds and storms and seasons, the rollercoaster of climate. Dewdney details the history of weather forecasting and introduces us to the eccentric and determined pioneers of science and observation whose efforts gave us the understanding of weather we have today.
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. From the roaring winds of Katrina to Palladio’s architectural triumph, La Rotonda, Dewdney entertains as he gives listeners a long overdue look at the very air we breathe.
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Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. Now, Earth's isolation is coming to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of "exoplanets" orbiting other stars, including some that could be similar to our own world. Studying those distant planets for signs of life will be crucial to understanding life's intricate mysteries right here on Earth. In a firsthand account of this unfolding revolution, Lee Billings draws on interviews with top researchers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bloated
- De Dr A en 01-09-14
De: Lee Billings
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Island on Fire
- The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
- De: Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Pertinent Topic!
- De Catherine Puma en 01-23-22
De: Alexandra Witze, y otros
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28,052
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science. Although he doesn't know anything about the subject (at first), he is eager to learn, and takes information that he gets from the world's leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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Storm Kings
- The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
- De: Lee Sandlin
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster - the super cell tornado - that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American Meteorological History at its best
- De Leslye Sinn en 10-23-16
De: Lee Sandlin
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Errors
- De The Product Owner en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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What Einstein Didn't Know
- Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
- De: Robert L. Wolke
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 214
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How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do ice cubes crackle in your glass? And how can you keep them quiet? These are questions that torment us all. Now Robert L. Wolke, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, provides definitive - and amazingly simple - explanations for the mysteries of everyday life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A funny thing happened on the way to a great book
- De Joseph en 10-01-12
De: Robert L. Wolke
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Pacific
- Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Political Asides Have Become Bombastic Didactic
- De Mark Patterson en 12-25-15
De: Simon Winchester
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen
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Falling Upwards
- How We Took to the Air
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of early ballooning
- De Jeffrey L. Smith, PE en 11-30-24
De: Richard Holmes
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Tambora
- The Eruption That Changed the World
- De: Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- Narrado por: Tom Pile
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpected pleasure
- De Anonymous User en 09-04-16
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century. Their original goal was to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling - one mile, two miles down.Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- De EM Goodkind en 09-08-19
De: Jon Gertner
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The End of Ice
- Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
- De: Dahr Jamail
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis - from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest - in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dealing with the Ultimate Climate Change Question
- De red_dog en 02-03-19
De: Dahr Jamail
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A very special book
- De Scott Fitzsimmons en 02-02-19
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Mountains of the Mind
- Adventures in Reaching the Summit
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: James A. Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination - and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretentious Narrator
- De karla arens en 09-07-20
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How to Read Water
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you. From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reasonably Interesting, Perhaps Better in Print
- De Alex Angel en 12-05-22
De: Tristan Gooley
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
- Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More about scientists than science
- De Aunt Vee en 06-14-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre 18 Miles
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- Robotmax64
- 05-17-24
Atmospheric anecdotes
A good natural science book that anyone of any meteorological background can enjoy.
In some ways it sounds like a textbook, but not stuffy. It is often entertaining.
I have heard some of the anecdotes before, some were new to me. I may use some later for my course. It is worth a listen.
The narrator sounded a little like Rod Sterling, but that is not a bad thing.
The chapters are not titled and are actually mis numbered. Chapter 1 is an introduction, so that the real Chapter 1 is listed as Chapter 2 and so on.
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- Lin Waters
- 09-26-23
Great listen for an earth science lover
This book is fantastic!! I have learned so much, listened to it three times!! If you love weather, check it out
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- Granack
- 01-31-21
My favorite go to book for weather and natural science.
Just a great book ,well written and easy to fall into.
Narration was perfect.
You guys should do another book:)
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- Daniel W. Fox, Jr.
- 10-09-20
10% science, 90% other stuff
I was hoping to learn weather science. And I did, 10% of the time. But the other 90% was biographies of scientists, references to rain in poetry and literature, lots of "when I was a boy" stories, etc...... On the other hand, Angelo Di Loreto is a superb reader, making the most boing passages more interesting.
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