Random Thoughts for a Friday Morning
A Collection of Contemporary Essays
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This engaging collection of essays was originally published in The Daily Post Athenian newspaper during the tumultuous two-year period of 2020-2021. The author, Kathryn L. Hunter, who holds a masters degree in Forestry from Yale University, deftly weaves natural science with social commentary into each article, creating a result that is both entertaining and wise.
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How to Read Nature
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- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees
- De Mark A Bleakley en 08-07-18
De: Tristan Gooley
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
- A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
- De: Dan Riskin
- Narrado por: Dan Riskin
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just a bunch of random animal behaviors.
- De Goddess en 05-18-23
De: Dan Riskin
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- De: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,569
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,531
How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tree Hugger
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-19
De: Peter Wohlleben
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Countdown
- Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
- De: Alan Weisman
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 18 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De NorthFLADiver en 01-14-14
De: Alan Weisman
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The Book of General Ignorance
- De: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 328
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British best seller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting.
- De A. Hawkbird en 12-07-08
De: John Mitchinson, y otros
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The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia
- The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts - Trivia Bill's General Knowledge, Volume 1
- De: Bill O'Neill
- Narrado por: Rob Maxwell
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Are you the trivia buff in your friend group? Maybe you're just always hoping to learn more random facts to keep up your sleeve. Whether you're a regular trivia fanatic or someone looking for a fun audiobook to listen to, this audiobook goes beyond the scope of general knowledge into some of the most interesting facts and intriguing trivia tidbits out there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this book is awesome!
- De TinkerMel en 09-27-17
De: Bill O'Neill
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- De: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Rowell Gormon
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- De Charles Koenen en 04-12-20
De: Rowan Jacobsen
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,508
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightfully simplistic!
- De Adrian en 03-30-16
De: Thor Hanson
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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A Small Furry Prayer
- Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
- De: Steven Kotler
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Steven Kotler was 40 years old, single, and facing an existential crisis when he met Lila, a woman devoted to animal rescue. "Love me, love my dogs" was her rule, and Steven took it to heart. Spurred to move by a housing crisis in Los Angeles, Steven, Lila, and their eight dogs - then 10, then 20, and then they lost count - bought a postage-stamp-size farm in Chimayo, New Mexico....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Shirley en 08-29-11
De: Steven Kotler
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The Beak of the Finch
- A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- De: Jonathan Weiner
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating in-depth look at evolution in action
- De Philip en 05-15-11
De: Jonathan Weiner
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 856
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 762
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 764
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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5 out of 5 stars
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From a beekeeper
- De Argos en 06-14-17
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- De: Emily Voigt
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- De Fishgen en 06-26-16
De: Emily Voigt