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This audiobook uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young listeners explore real-life structure and tower engineering projects, including the science behind how these buildings are planned and built.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes listeners on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, entertaining, hilarious, and informative
- De Susan T en 11-04-19
De: David Hu
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101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods
- The Most Effective Wilderness Know-How on Fire-Making, Knife Work, Navigation, Shelter, Food and More
- De: Kevin Estela
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
"Feeder" mindset means being in control of a situation, proactive rather than reactive. It is an optimistic outlook that reframes any situation as a learning experience. Kevin Estela teaches survival skills from this feeder-based perspective, which is what separates his teaching style from other wilderness instructors. Kevin has written the quintessential guide for an outdoor enthusiast's "bucket list" of skills - how to make a fire, build a shelter, gather food, find water, use a knife correctly, and make cordage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All great skills
- De Crus458 en 11-09-20
De: Kevin Estela
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Assembling California
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Subduction leads to orogeny zones in California
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: John McPhee
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The Age of Wood
- Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
- De: Roland Ennos
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world? How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great text; poor narration
- De Richard Yates en 08-03-21
De: Roland Ennos
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Cræft
- An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
- De: Alexander Langlands
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
In Craeft, archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Langlands argues that our modern understanding of craft only skims the surface. His journeys from his home in Wales have taken him along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, from Spain through France and England to Scotland and Iceland in search of the lost meaning of craft.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too little information too much brag and biography
- De Thomas B. en 04-28-21
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From Bauhaus to Our House
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis McKee
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So snarky I kept having to back up and repeat
- De Ellen en 04-08-09
De: Tom Wolfe
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- De: Scott Huler
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Skippy the Okie en 01-27-16
De: Scott Huler
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,813
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,485
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,486
This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
De: David McCullough
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Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less
- 7 Steps to Unlocking Your Family's Clean, Independent, and Off-Grid Water Source with the QuickRain Blueprint
- De: Renee Dang
- Narrado por: Danielle Sanders
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less is a complete step-by-step homesteader’s guide to the power of rainwater harvesting.This handbook draws on the brilliant seven-step QuickRain blueprint to help urban, rural, and off-grid homesteaders set up an above-ground, dry rainwater harvesting system with minimal time, budget, and hassle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good information
- De Ginger Suter en 04-20-24
De: Renee Dang
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LEGO
- A Love Story
- De: Jonathan Bender
- Narrado por: Jeremy Gage
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly colored toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Be careful if you already like Lego
- De Matthew Center en 03-14-11
De: Jonathan Bender
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- De: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrado por: Roman Mars
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 499
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The 99% Invisible City
- De Louise Schraa en 01-09-21
De: Kurt Kohlstedt, y otros
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Mudlark
- In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
- De: Lara Maiklem
- Narrado por: Xanthe Elbrick
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames' muddy shores, where others only see the detritus of city life, Maiklem unearths evidence of England's captivating, if sometimes murky, history - with some objects dating back to 43 AD, when London was but an outpost of the Roman Empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoroughly enjoyed
- De j en 11-21-20
De: Lara Maiklem
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House of Rain
- Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 228
In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head-on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as "the Las Vegas of its day", a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, and a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century, however, Chaco's vibrant community had disappeared without a trace.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poetic Travel Log
- De Staci Adleman en 01-09-19
De: Craig Childs
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Higher
- A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Richard M. Davidson
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Audio Book!!!
- De Tim en 11-16-05
De: Neal Bascomb
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Finders Keepers
- A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero - or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Craig Childs's riveting new book is a lyrical ghost story - an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art galleries, journey throughout the Americas, Asia, the past and the present. The result is a brilliant book about man and nature, remnants and memory, a dashing tale of crime and detection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I roam the deserts
- De matt hewman en 08-21-19
De: Craig Childs
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The White Road
- Journey into an Obsession
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and best-selling international sensation The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, best-selling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous and addictive
- De Elizabeth en 09-27-17
De: Edmund de Waal