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The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting - predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous.
But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creating and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis - it is the solution.
Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
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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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Brilliant!
- De tess koffler en 04-07-21
De: Meave Leakey, y otros
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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Errors
- De The Product Owner en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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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
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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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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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A Short History of Humanity
- A New History of Old Europe
- De: Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe, Caroline Waight - translator
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
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Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics - archaeology augmented by DNA sequencing technology - which has allowed scientists to reconstruct human history reaching back hundreds of thousands of years before recorded time. In this surprising account, Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe rewrite a fascinating chapter of this history, the peopling of Europe, that takes us from the Neanderthals and Denisovans to the present.
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Not a short history of humanity
- De Brent en 05-02-21
De: Johannes Krause, y otros
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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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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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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Countdown
- Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
- De: Alan Weisman
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 18 h
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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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Boring
- De NorthFLADiver en 01-14-14
De: Alan Weisman
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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A very special book
- De Scott Fitzsimmons en 02-02-19
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How Iceland Changed the World
- The Big History of a Small Island
- De: Egill Bjarnason
- Narrado por: Einar Gunn
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead, it became a nation whose diplomats and musicians, sailors and soldiers, volcanoes and flowers, quietly altered the globe forever. How Iceland Changed the World takes readers on a tour of history, showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel.
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Brilliant
- De Ian D. Jones en 06-01-21
De: Egill Bjarnason
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Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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You will probably enjoy "Spillover" more
- De serine en 03-01-16
De: Sonia Shah
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- De: Brian Fagan
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.
- De Paul en 09-12-10
De: Brian Fagan
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- De: David J. Meltzer
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 11 h
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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Last Gasp of American Anthropological Orthodoxy
- De Thomas66 en 01-05-17
De: David J. Meltzer
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Next Great Migration
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- Michael Ortiz
- 06-13-24
WOW I learned so much
Great book, it's a history lesson, incredible wonder of plants and animals
We've always been on the move and she teaches you, step by step
Great book for our Relevant Readers bookclub
Thank you for your wonderful book
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- Thom davis
- 04-07-24
Challenging what we know and how we know it.
Great journey of exploring how all plants and animals move around the world over time.
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- Liz Jardine
- 08-03-20
BRAVA!!!!
I Knew from the first 5 minutes of listening to this book that i was going to be considerably smarter in 10 hours and 14 minutes. I was not wrong, i am smarter. thank you for challenging our ideas about "us" and "them" and teaching us where such notions come from.
This book is meticulously researched & well-organized. it makes for easy reading & comprehension. I very much enjoyed the authors' narration as well. thank you for this wonderful book- i feel it has opened my eyes- BRAVA. Sincerely, Liz Jardine
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- jfrederi@together.net
- 07-29-20
Everyone, read this!
I’d recommend this book for anyone caring about this world we live in. We owe it to our children and their children to right the centuries of misinformation and prejudices that have led us to unnecessarily upheaval.
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- Don Carter
- 01-20-21
A Reminder that we are not in control
A new look at evolution. We can read, we can learn, but in the end, we are just trying to survive
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- Miles V McEvoy
- 02-21-23
Important story
Made me reconsider many of my biases. My own family’s migration and introduced species like feral cats.
Thank you
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- Anonymous User
- 06-26-20
Excellent book
Thorough research and analysis of current trends in migration of animals and humans, as well as history of the idea of race and how certain views of people and animals have become lodged in our collective conscious and offers possible solutions and retraining of our minds and actions. Have gained insight and education into this broad topic, and feel armed with facts and knowledge. I love that the author read her book, makes all the difference in how the information is conveyed.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-22
Real nice read, Swashbuckler historian
Great history, science, and human stories, a taffy-twisted tasty treat.
Immagrationists, now go to Paul Collier's Exodus, with decades of Research intertwined with the human stories.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-06-20
An Inspiration
This book is well-written and researched, citing news articles, statistics, and personal stories. It builds empathy in the reader for the hardships faced by people on the move and on their children, grandchildren, and so forth. It offers an expansive perspective on topics which I had once seen from only one point-of-view. I love that the author is the reader, as I think this allows the book to be presented in the way she felt most appropriate. It was a treat to listen to!
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- Willwestg
- 01-05-23
More of a history lesson than a projection
it was a solid book, just not what I was expecting. I would have liked to hear more about the current state of things and what the next phase of migration will look like. That subject matter was reserved for the ending chapters.
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