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Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
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John Cardina
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Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped - and are shaped by - the way we live in the natural world.
Weeds and attempts to control them drove nomads toward settled communities, encouraged social stratification, caused environmental disruptions, and have motivated the development of GMO crops. They have snared us in social inequality and economic instability, infested social norms of suburbia, caused rage in the American heartland, and played a part in perpetuating pesticide use worldwide. Lives of Weeds reveals how the technologies directed against weeds underlie ethical questions about agriculture and the environment, and leaves listeners with a deeper understanding of how the weeds around us are entangled in our daily choices.
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We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.
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- De Adrian en 03-30-16
De: Thor Hanson
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The Beekeeper's Lament
- How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honeybee populations.
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From a beekeeper
- De Argos en 06-14-17
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
De: Janine M. Benyus
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Nature's Best Hope
- A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
- De: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of individuals to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation.
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A must read for everybody! Not just nature lovers.
- De Steve Ebert en 06-11-20
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Mycophilia
- Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms
- De: Eugenia Bone
- Narrado por: Aimee Jolson
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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In Mycophilia, accomplished food writer and cookbook author Eugenia Bone examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen, and ultimately discovers that a greater understanding of fungi is key to facing many challenges of the 21st century.
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Absolutely awful, insufferable, racist author
- De Rs 🦇 en 11-25-19
De: Eugenia Bone
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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Uncultivated
- Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
- De: Andy Brennan
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today. Known for their hardiness, ability to adapt to new environments, natural diversity, and plentiful bounty, wildly grown apples were once known as “America’s fruit” throughout the trading world.
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Hardship of small business
- De Montie E. Milner en 12-19-24
De: Andy Brennan
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The Tree
- A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
- De: Colin Tudge
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world - throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe - bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us.
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Not the book described in the Audible summary
- De E. Miller en 04-28-17
De: Colin Tudge
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Teaming with Microbes
- The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
- De: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You’ll discover that healthy soil is teeming with life - not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms.
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Poor delivery
- De Brian C. en 06-05-20
De: Jeff Lowenfels, y otros
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Lentil Underground
- Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
- De: Liz Carlisle
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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The story of the "Lentil Underground" begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to "get big or get out." But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils. Unlike the chemically dependent grains American farmers had been told to grow, lentils make their own fertilizer and tolerate variable climates, so their farmers aren't beholden to industrial methods.
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Fingers on the pulse of sustainable ag
- De shakinfist en 06-30-20
De: Liz Carlisle
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Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
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Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
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Slime
- How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- De: Ruth Kassinger
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. Ruth Kassinger takes listeners on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming.
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Fairly entertaining and informative...but
- De Timothy en 08-27-19
De: Ruth Kassinger
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The Nature of Plants
- An Introduction to How Plants Work
- De: Craig N. Huegel
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
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Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides listeners with an extensive tour into their workings.
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So informative!
- De Stephanie Mora en 08-17-22
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
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A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
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In Defense of Plants
- An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants
- De: Matt Candeias PhD
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
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Since his early days of plant restoration, amateur plant scientist Matt Candeias has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection.
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Great book - mediocre narration
- De Brenda Mendoza en 05-15-21
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The One-Straw Revolution
- An Introduction to Natural Farming
- De: Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
- Narrado por: David Shih
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Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."
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Fukuoka Hits a Home-Run.
- De philip d henderson en 06-23-18
De: Masanobu Fukuoka, y otros
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Fungipedia
- A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
- De: Lawrence Millman
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
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Fungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries - on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy caps - this collection will transport both general listeners and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi. Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and more.
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- De Kenichiro en 02-21-23
De: Lawrence Millman
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The Hidden World
- How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
- De: Dr. George McGavin, Jack Ramm - Editor
- Narrado por: Dr. George McGavin, David Attenborough, Alison Steadman, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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If you are at all interested in life on our planet, then you need to know about insects. They are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived on Earth. Making up three quarters of all animal species, insects conquered the planet long ago. They were among the very first animals to appear on land and were the first to take to the air. Their total biomass is at least 10 times that of all humans and our livestock combined.
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Great broad overview
- De J. Moras en 01-09-23
De: Dr. George McGavin, y otros
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The Nature of Plants
- An Introduction to How Plants Work
- De: Craig N. Huegel
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides listeners with an extensive tour into their workings.
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So informative!
- De Stephanie Mora en 08-17-22
De: Craig N. Huegel
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- De: Richard Mabey
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
De: Richard Mabey
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In Defense of Plants
- An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants
- De: Matt Candeias PhD
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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Since his early days of plant restoration, amateur plant scientist Matt Candeias has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection.
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Great book - mediocre narration
- De Brenda Mendoza en 05-15-21
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The One-Straw Revolution
- An Introduction to Natural Farming
- De: Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."
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Fukuoka Hits a Home-Run.
- De philip d henderson en 06-23-18
De: Masanobu Fukuoka, y otros
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Fungipedia
- A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
- De: Lawrence Millman
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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Fungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries - on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy caps - this collection will transport both general listeners and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi. Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and more.
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Performance makes a decent book mediocre
- De Kenichiro en 02-21-23
De: Lawrence Millman
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The Hidden World
- How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
- De: Dr. George McGavin, Jack Ramm - Editor
- Narrado por: Dr. George McGavin, David Attenborough, Alison Steadman, y otros
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If you are at all interested in life on our planet, then you need to know about insects. They are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived on Earth. Making up three quarters of all animal species, insects conquered the planet long ago. They were among the very first animals to appear on land and were the first to take to the air. Their total biomass is at least 10 times that of all humans and our livestock combined.
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Great broad overview
- De J. Moras en 01-09-23
De: Dr. George McGavin, y otros
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Oxygen
- The Molecule That Made the World
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death.
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A Story About Pretty Much Everything
- De ZebraBear en 09-09-20
De: Nick Lane
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The Forest Unseen
- A Year's Watch in Nature
- De: David George Haskell
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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In this wholly original audiobook, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this audiobook's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers.
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Delightful stories
- De Eleanor B. Hildreth en 08-03-15
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Florapedia
- A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore
- De: Carol Gracie
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification, and more.
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great book with great facts
- De Ryan sweet en 04-20-23
De: Carol Gracie
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live.
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Nihil novum sub soli
- De Sam J. en 08-29-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Bringing Nature Home, Updated and Expanded
- How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
- De: Douglas W. Tallamy, Rick Darke - foreword
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and this audio edition will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.
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Life changing
- De Villaid en 01-23-19
De: Douglas W. Tallamy, y otros
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Gaining Ground
- A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm
- De: Forrest Pritchard
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues-through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters-is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare.
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Loved it! I wanted it to go on further
- De Sweetbay en 01-12-14
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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Badly Abridged
- De Carol L. en 09-19-06
De: Jared Diamond
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Restoration Agriculture
- Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
- De: Mark Shepard
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs.
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Did not enjoy being lectured on global warming.
- De Amazon Customer en 01-09-21
De: Mark Shepard
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Weird Earth
- Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet, Donald R. Prothero demystifies these conspiracies and offers answers to some of humanity's most outlandish questions. Applying his extensive scientific knowledge, Prothero corrects misinformation that con artists and quacks use to hoodwink others about geology - hollow earth, expanding earth, and bizarre earthquakes-and mystical and paranormal happenings - healing crystals, alien landings, and the gates of hell.
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A Lack of Seriousness
- De David A en 10-04-20
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Soil
- De: Matthew Evans
- Narrado por: Matthew Evans
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed. For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-grazing and over-ploughing.
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Ground breaking! only metaphorically
- De Terri en 10-15-21
De: Matthew Evans
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it?
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There is a Caveat
- De Joseph L Contreras en 06-26-19
De: Robert M. Hazen
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What Is Life?
- With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
- De: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. It appears here together with "Mind and Matter", his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times.
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An extraordinary look at life by a Physicist
- De Philomath en 01-25-19
De: Erwin Schrödinger, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Lives of Weeds
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- Heather
- 10-18-23
Informative on the weeds that surround us
As someone interested in botany and see all of these weeds on a daily basis, this was a great book. Weird pronunciations on things but got the point across!
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- Vas Sladek
- 07-29-22
The best book on weeds I've read or listened to
The New York Times magazine ran a story some months ago about Palmer's Amaranth, a weed which can't be touched by herbicides. And it's discussed in one of the chapters. Sure, weeds are annoying in agriculture but that's because we rely on chemicals too much. Weeds are plants, they interact with nature and people and they evolve.
It was marestail that got GMO crops in trouble. Buy RoundUp ready seeds from us, and spray roundup on the weeds liberally because it doesn't affect the crop plants. Until the weeds evolve like the marestail and develop resistance! The farmers were told this couldn't happen.
Respect weeds, and expect them to evolve. Some will fade away, and some new ones will rise up. What people do matters. Farming has to change. I also highly recommend Gabe Brown's "Dirt to soil". He shows that you can make great profits from farming WITHOUT relying on chemicals.
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- Michael Smith
- 02-28-24
Wow.
Very eye-opening. I was fascinated in different ways in each chapter. This is a very good book.
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- TSP
- 11-08-22
Review from a weed professional
I got this audiobook because I am also a weed professional and am always seeking out relevant books.
Few of the weeds described in this book are problematic where I work, but the information is important regardless. The progression of plant to weed is profoundly interesting. The problem of relying on single herbicides for too long to deal with a problem is well covered.
The performance is disappointing. The narrator's voice is fine, but reads a bit off tempo or robotic--notably with occasional pauses, Christopher Walden-like. It sounds like the narrator is reading the work for the first time and not is not very fluid. Additionally, some fairly important words are very obviously mispronounced... such as Glyphosate. Since I'm listening to the book, there are other things that seem off... such as "private hedge" which I assume from context has to be "privet hedge." I don't know, maybe I'm easily frustrated, but a work about weeds should have the pronunciation of herbicides right.
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- emsgr
- 01-16-22
Interesting read.
I had the pleasure of listening to John Cardina’s book, Lives of Weeds as I drove up to New Hampshire. I especially enjoyed listening to the evolutionary backdrop of the lowly dandelion. I've a new appreciation for this common beauty and its ability to adapt and survive. No more tug-of-war with its never ending root system for me. When it comes to the rules of my lawn, if it’s green, it stays. Weeds are everywhere. My own backyard contains a bounty of unidentified weeds.
Come spring I will venture into the weedy corners of my yard and attempt to identify some of my own resident weeds. Reading Lives of Weeds has inspired me to want to learn a little bit more about the weeds around me.
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- 10-31-23
A must read/listen
If you want to know about the challenges that face our modern production of food, you have to listen to this book. It tells the story of how these weeds interact with our lives and modern agriculture.
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