The Language of Butterflies
How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
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In this “deeply personal and lyrical book” (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times best-selling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures - the butterfly - shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives.
“[A] glorious and exuberant celebration of these biological flying machines.... Williams takes us on a humorous and beautifully crafted journey.” (The Washington Post)
From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibits, these “flying flowers” are one of the few insects we’ve encouraged to infiltrate our lives. Yet, what has drawn us to these creatures in the first place? And what are their lives really like? In this “entertaining look at ‘the world’s favorite insect’” (Booklist, starred review), New York Times best-selling author and science journalist Wendy Williams reveals the inner lives of these delicate creatures, who are far more intelligent and tougher than we give them credit for.
Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico. Other species have learned how to fool ants into taking care of them. Butterflies’ scales are inspiring researchers to create new life-saving medical technology. Williams takes listeners to butterfly habitats across the globe and introduces us to not only various species, but “digs deeply into the lives of both butterflies and [the] scientists” (Science magazine) who have spent decades studying them.
Coupled with years of research and knowledge gained from experts in the field, this accessible “butterfly biography” explores the ancient partnership between these special creatures and humans, and why they continue to fascinate us today. “Informative, thought-provoking,” (BookPage, starred review) and extremely profound, The Language of Butterflies is a “fascinating book [that] will be of interest to anyone who has ever admired a butterfly, and anyone who cares about preserving these stunning creatures” (Library Journal).
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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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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
- Versión completa
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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 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 Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- De: Jim Robbins
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically, draw us out into nature to seek their beauty, and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
- De D en 07-24-17
De: Jim Robbins
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
De: Richard Mabey
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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 489
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 422
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 417
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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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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How to Read Nature
- An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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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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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
- Versión completa
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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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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 580
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 577
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- De: Mike Shanahan
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible research in a wonderful story
- De Alonsa Guevara en 11-24-22
De: Mike Shanahan
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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Racing the Clock
- Running Across a Lifetime
- De: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age 39, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. Why do some bodies age differently than others? How much control do we have over that process, and what effect, if any, does being active have?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece on nature, running and our mortality and how they are beautifully intertwined.
- De outsideD en 07-20-24
De: Bernd Heinrich
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Silent Earth
- Averting the Insect Apocalypse
- De: Dave Goulson
- Narrado por: Dave Goulson
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thorough presentation of how we arrived at the current situation.
- De watergirl en 02-19-25
De: Dave Goulson
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The Sediments of Time
- My Lifelong Search for the Past
- De: Meave Leakey, Samira Leakey
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team’s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors. Meave’s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- De tess koffler en 04-07-21
De: Meave Leakey, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,486
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,032
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,012
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
De: Janine M. Benyus
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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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- Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
- De: Marie Arana
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In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- De: Edward Dolnick
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Celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narration of an awesome history
- De BB en 09-26-24
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Spy Who Was Left Behind
- De: Michael Pullara
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On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia’s swift work. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn’t do it, who did?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book needs a hires narrator
- De Blake Dahl en 11-17-18
De: Michael Pullara
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- De: Ed Caesar
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit — completely alone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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- De steve en 12-01-20
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Sentient
- How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
- De: Jackie Higgins
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
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There is a scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. Research has shown that the extraordinary sensory powers of our animal friends can help us better understand the same powers that lie dormant within us....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written, well researched, compellingly told
- De Amazon Customer en 09-14-24
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Silver, Sword, and Stone
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- De: Marie Arana
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- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
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1 out of 5 stars
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Marie Arana does not Understand Economics
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De: Edward Dolnick
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Celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland.
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On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia’s swift work. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn’t do it, who did?
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit — completely alone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Still Life
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- De: Rebecca Pacheco
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From renowned yogi meditation teacher and author of Do Your Om Thing Rebecca Pacheco comes Still Life, offering an in-depth exploration of mindfulness and meditation misconceptions to arm the listener with inspirational and practical tools for cultivating a consistent mindfulness practice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ought to be required reading
- De Kacie Steinmetz en 10-14-21
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Project Solomon
- The True Story of a Lonely Horse Who Found a Home—and Became a Hero
- De: Jodi Stuber, Jennifer Marshall Bleakley
- Narrado por: Jaimee Draper
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Jodi Stuber wasn't looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch―let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for company. No stranger herself to loss and heartache, Jodi knew she had to give Solomon a home. The road to recovery wouldn’t be easy. As Solomon struggled to fit in with his new herd and Jodi continued to navigate her own grief, the two developed a deep bond. But just as Jodi and Solomon were both beginning to heal, an unthinkable tragedy struck the therapy ranch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST HAVE!
- De Fredrik D en 12-13-23
De: Jodi Stuber, y otros
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Food Saved Me
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Diagnosed with an extreme form of ulcerative colitis at 22, Danielle was terrified she’d never be able to eat all the wonderful, great-tasting foods she loved growing up or host warm, welcoming gatherings with family and friends. So when the medicine she was prescribed became almost as debilitating as the disease itself, Danielle took matters into her own hands, turned her kitchen into a laboratory, and set to work creating gut-healthy versions of the foods she thought she’d never be able to enjoy again.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Didn’t want the author’s whole life story
- De jmf552 en 01-09-25
De: Danielle Walker
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The Forbidden Daughter
- The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
- De: Zipora Klein Jakob
- Narrado por: Robin Siegerman
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet, despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Born in Fire, Died in Fire, Elida✡️ 💙🇮🇱🇺🇸💙✡️
- De michael petro en 11-10-24
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One by One by One
- Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems
- De: Aaron Berkowitz
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Dr. Aaron Berkowitz had just finished his neurology training when he was sent to Haiti on his first assignment with Partners in Health. There, he meets Janel, a 23-year-old man with the largest brain tumor Berkowitz or any of his neurosurgeon colleagues at Harvard Medical School have ever seen. Determined to live up to Partners in Health’s mission statement “to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need”, Berkowitz tries to save Janel’s life by bringing him back to Boston for a 12-hour surgery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Alan en 02-07-21
De: Aaron Berkowitz
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Lot Six
- A Memoir
- De: David Adjmi
- Narrado por: Micky Shiloah
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre-bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the artist in the throes of a life and death crisis of identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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stunned silence
- De S. Mcwatters en 11-01-20
De: David Adjmi
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Blood Moon
- De: John Sedgwick
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. While little remembered today, their mutual hatred shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew Jackson, ever did.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Real Story
- De CLS en 04-17-18
De: John Sedgwick
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Einstein's Fridge
- How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
- De: Paul Sen
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
Einstein’s Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. “Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years…few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world” (Scientific American).
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2 out of 5 stars
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What is the real purpose of this book?
- De Bob en 07-02-22
De: Paul Sen
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things
- Essays on Desire and Consumption
- De: Katy Kelleher
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. In these dazzling and deeply researched essays, Katy Kelleher blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite goods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely work
- De Anonymous User en 06-25-23
De: Katy Kelleher
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The Memory Collectors
- De: Kim Neville
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and - if at all possible - destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Out of the Ordinary
- De Kim Wright en 05-23-24
De: Kim Neville
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One Beautiful Dream
- De: Jennifer Fulwiler
- Narrado por: Jennifer Fulwiler
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 319
Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life - women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. One Beautiful Dream is the deeply personal, often humorous tale of what happened when one woman dared to believe that you can have it all - if you’re willing to reimagine what having it all looks like. Jennifer Fulwiler is the last person you might expect to be the mother of six young children. First of all, she’s an introvert only child, self-described workaholic, and former atheist who never intended to have a family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful journey
- De Faith en 06-13-20
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This Is What You're Really Hungry For
- Six Simple Rules to Transform Your Relationship with Food to Become Your Healthiest Self
- De: Kim Shapira, Kaley Cuoco - foreword
- Narrado por: Kim Shapira, Erin Bennett
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
It's time to stop restricting yourself and learn to make your relationship with food healthy—without forcing yourself to eat "healthy." Dietitian Kim Shapira has developed six simple rules that will change your relationship with food forever. In This Is What You're Really Hungry For, she breaks down the science to get your brain and your body on board, replaces fad diets that do not last with a sustainable method that encourages you to eat what you love, and empowers you to be the authority in your own body.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book was helpful in some ways.
- De Bean en 09-08-24
De: Kim Shapira, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Language of Butterflies
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- Jennifer Baratta She/Her
- 06-18-20
Informative story
Angela Brazil is an outstanding narrator. Wendy Williams is an excellent author. For people who love butterflies.
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- Dani L
- 05-02-21
Awesome adventure
Finished this book in a couple listens. Well researched, engaging and draws attention to the urgent plight of the butterflies. We have a chance to change things, it's up to us to realize and act upon that before it's too late.
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