Best sellers
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-19
By: Christopher Ryan
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Thorough
- By Dan Ziemer on 06-28-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- By: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....
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A fine natural history and great listen
- By Theo Smith on 12-30-18
By: Ben Goldfarb
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Native American Herbalist's Bible
- 7 in 1. Find Out About Ancient Herbal Remedies, the Dispensatory, and Apothecary of the Natives. Grow Magic Herbs and Create Your First Herb Lab at Home.
- By: Lyotanka Sioux
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Blakely
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the Western world, more people are now addicted to “medicines” than ever before - and they are suffering harmful effects from the very drugs that were meant to help them. In fact, we are being encouraged to use artificial chemicals to treat almost everything....
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Learn the herbal way
- By Raihan Erickson on 01-05-22
By: Lyotanka Sioux
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Unquenchable
- America's Water Crisis and What to do About it
- By: Robert Glennon
- Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals....
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A must read, second only to Cadillac Desert
- By matthew on 09-02-15
By: Robert Glennon
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The Dreamt Land
- Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- By: Mark Arax
- Narrated by: Mark Arax
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....
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Damn Near Perfect!
- By Charles on 12-08-19
By: Mark Arax
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-19
By: Christopher Ryan
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Thorough
- By Dan Ziemer on 06-28-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- By: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....
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A fine natural history and great listen
- By Theo Smith on 12-30-18
By: Ben Goldfarb
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Native American Herbalist's Bible
- 7 in 1. Find Out About Ancient Herbal Remedies, the Dispensatory, and Apothecary of the Natives. Grow Magic Herbs and Create Your First Herb Lab at Home.
- By: Lyotanka Sioux
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Blakely
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the Western world, more people are now addicted to “medicines” than ever before - and they are suffering harmful effects from the very drugs that were meant to help them. In fact, we are being encouraged to use artificial chemicals to treat almost everything....
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Learn the herbal way
- By Raihan Erickson on 01-05-22
By: Lyotanka Sioux
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Unquenchable
- America's Water Crisis and What to do About it
- By: Robert Glennon
- Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals....
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A must read, second only to Cadillac Desert
- By matthew on 09-02-15
By: Robert Glennon
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The Dreamt Land
- Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- By: Mark Arax
- Narrated by: Mark Arax
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....
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Damn Near Perfect!
- By Charles on 12-08-19
By: Mark Arax
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
- There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water reveal the natural world at its most extreme....
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This book is fantastic
- By Jamesdcawley on 04-09-20
By: Craig Childs
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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peter Hendee Brown
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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How Real Estate Developers Think portrays developers as creative visionaries who are able to imagine future possibilities for our cities and communities....
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Development
- By DANIEL HEISLER on 07-18-16
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Wonderful, Accessible Book About Little 'Ol Seeds
- By Jeff Koeppen on 09-12-18
By: Thor Hanson
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The Big Thirst
- The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
- By: Charles Fishman
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways....
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Informative Book
- By Lynn on 04-21-11
By: Charles Fishman
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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
- Third Edition
- By: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
- Narrated by: Paul W. Griffiths
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ....
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Ideas To Save the the World, Told Poorly
- By Shawn Oueinsteen on 10-28-18
By: Jody Butterfield, and others
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Woodsman
- By: Ben Law
- Narrated by: Ben Law
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years....
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Read this before buying
- By Josh van der vlugt on 06-08-16
By: Ben Law
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The Swamp
- The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
- By: Michael Grunwald
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it....
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Wonderful Book with Glaring Narration Problem
- By S. J. Simmons on 01-03-19
By: Michael Grunwald
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The Story of Stuff
- By: Annie Leonard
- Narrated by: Annie Leonard
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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>We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world's population, were consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the worlds waste....
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College course Reading Assignment
- By John on 11-29-10
By: Annie Leonard
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A Wild Idea
- How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks
- By: Brad Edmondson
- Narrated by: Brad Edmondson
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems....Â
By: Brad Edmondson
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The Hour of Land
- A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The Hour of Land is a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them....
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Cultural Cross Sections
- By Caleb Hansen on 07-14-16
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How to Read Water
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you....
By: Tristan Gooley
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- By: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities....
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More water politics story than water technology
- By normal person on 04-12-21
By: Seth M. Siegel
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The World in a Grain
- The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
- By: Vince Beiser
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....
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A broad overview of sand and civilization
- By Teresa H-A on 12-16-18
By: Vince Beiser
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....
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Water challenges never end
- By John Matel on 04-10-15
By: Les Standiford
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Water 4.0
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
- By: David Sedlak
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....
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Horrible narration, good info
- By Danielle V. Dolan on 10-06-20
By: David Sedlak
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Buzz
- The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Brant Pope
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round....
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Not just honeybees!
- By Joshua R. Jacobs on 11-28-18
By: Thor Hanson
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- By: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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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....
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Crucial solutions
- By Shane Emanuelle on 07-25-19
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Never out of Season
- How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance - once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season....
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Fascinating + Roadmap to Destroy Things
- By Sarah Garland on 07-02-22
By: Rob Dunn
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Black Gold
- The History of How Coal Made Britain
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Where would Britain be without coal? In this brilliant social history, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how the black stuff has shaped every aspect of Britain....
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Everything - EVERYTHING - you wanted to know
- By Marjorie on 11-05-21
By: Jeremy Paxman
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The Ogallala Road
- A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
- By: Julene Bair
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains....
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Struggled to finish.
- By Kathleen M. Martin on 04-10-18
By: Julene Bair
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Moringa: The Miracle Tree - Nature's Most Powerful Superfood Revealed
- Nature's All-in-One Plant for Natural Remedies, Natural Health, and Natural Anti-Aging
- By: Joy Louis
- Narrated by: Hannah Pralle
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Discover your body's full potential with nature's most powerful superfood....
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interesting Moringa uses
- By Cindy Rice on 12-21-15
By: Joy Louis
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When the Rivers Run Dry
- Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
- By: Fred Pearce
- Narrated by: Tony Craine
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water both for agriculture and for individual consumption....
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Well Researched!
- By John M. on 03-05-11
By: Fred Pearce
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Norwegian Wood
- Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way
- By: Lars Mytting
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson-like thriller; it's a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies....
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Excellent Book
- By Daniel on 01-24-17
By: Lars Mytting
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A World Without Soil
- The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
- By: Jo Handelsman, Kayla Cohen
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery....
By: Jo Handelsman, and others