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Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.
Using a bold approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought.
The audiobook has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers through to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, right the way through to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement.
The ideal introduction to one of the most important subjects of our time narrated by Dugland-Bruce Lockhart.
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A brilliant achievement, must read/listen
- De 11104 en 09-05-18
De: David Christian
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 110
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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Life's Engines
- How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- De: Paul G. Falkowski
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Paul Falkowski looks "under the hood" of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built - and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable conglomerations of microbes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Science Book Ever Written. Period.
- De serine en 07-28-15
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The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- De: Callum Roberts
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ!
- De E en 11-28-17
De: Callum Roberts
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crucial solutions
- De Shane Emanuelle en 07-25-19
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Climate Change
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Joseph Romm
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Religious not scientific claims and preachings
- De Jeanne Renzo en 09-19-19
De: Joseph Romm
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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
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 487
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 420
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 415
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for everybody! Not just nature lovers.
- De Steve Ebert en 06-11-20
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Paleontology
- A Brief History of Life
- De: Ian Tattersall
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings. Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth's environment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great summary of where we are with understanding
- De david en 06-25-11
De: Ian Tattersall
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- De: Beth Shapiro
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks listeners through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable Take on a Complex Subject
- De John en 04-26-15
De: Beth Shapiro
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Genesis
- The Deep Origin of Societies
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Artificial Intelligence
- Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
- De: Yorick Wilks
- Narrado por: Hannibal Hills
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works. He also considers the future, assessing whether these technologies could menace our way of life and how we are all likely to benefit from AI applications in the years to come.
De: Yorick Wilks
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When Life Nearly Died
- The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least 90 percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction, but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Obscurity to Enlightenment - A Mystery Revealed
- De Dipam en 03-18-21
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This Very Short Introduction audiobook celebrates the centrality of ecology in our lives. Jaboury Ghazoul explores how ecology has evolved rapidly from natural history to become a predictive science that explains how the natural world works and which guides environmental policy and management decisions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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