- Geology (121)
Bestsellers
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- By Daniel Powell on 09-16-18
By: Steve Brusatte
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Fantastic Book
- By Peter Jensen on 09-08-22
By: Steve Brusatte
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A New History of Life
- By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....
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Get the video version
- By B. Bartosh on 06-17-19
By: Stuart Sutherland, and others
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- By: Kermit Pattison
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
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Oh narrator
- By Paul on 01-21-21
By: Kermit Pattison
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- By: Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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Great book brilliantly read
- By Dipam on 04-06-22
By: Thomas Halliday
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods comes a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history....
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Wonderful narration of an awesome history
- By BB on 09-26-24
By: Edward Dolnick
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- By Daniel Powell on 09-16-18
By: Steve Brusatte
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Fantastic Book
- By Peter Jensen on 09-08-22
By: Steve Brusatte
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A New History of Life
- By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....
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Get the video version
- By B. Bartosh on 06-17-19
By: Stuart Sutherland, and others
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- By: Kermit Pattison
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
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Oh narrator
- By Paul on 01-21-21
By: Kermit Pattison
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- By: Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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Great book brilliantly read
- By Dipam on 04-06-22
By: Thomas Halliday
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods comes a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history....
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Wonderful narration of an awesome history
- By BB on 09-26-24
By: Edward Dolnick
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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....
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I listened to the first hour
- By William West on 01-17-24
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Abominable Science!
- Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
- By: Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience....
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Recommended for anyone who believes in cryptids
- By Chad on 09-15-24
By: Daniel Loxton, and others
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind's place in the world.
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Repetitive and not that interesting
- By Michael on 09-09-24
By: Michael Taylor
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The Accidental Species
- Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being....
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Too much minutiae, please get to the point already!
- By D. Hellmann on 07-22-17
By: Henry Gee
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- By: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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Too much judgement
- By Historic Philosopher on 04-23-24
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Why Dinosaurs Matter
- By: Kenneth Lacovara
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lacovara
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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World-renowned paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara reveals how understanding dinosaurs can help us better understand our own biology - and our future....
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Funny, witty and educational
- By Keegan on 11-06-17
By: Kenneth Lacovara
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The Dinosaur Artist
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
- By: Paige Williams
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce....
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More filler than Joan Rivers’ face.
- By Brandi on 03-13-19
By: Paige Williams
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After the Dinosaurs
- The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
- By: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins....
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Mammals are immersed in minutia.
- By Bertha Watkins on 04-01-24
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Otros mundos [Otherlands]
- Viaje por los ecosistemas extintos de la Tierra [A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds]
- By: Thomas Halliday, Joaquín Chamorro Mielke - translator
- Narrated by: Pep Papell
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Otros mundos devuelve a la vida dieciséis ecosistemas de un pasado inimaginablemente remoto y nos muestra continentes en movimiento, arrecifes de cristal, pingüinos gigantes, reptiles emplumados y muchas otras criaturas asombrosas de un atractivo casi mitológico....
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maravillosa y casi poética
- By Jorge Johnson on 01-05-23
By: Thomas Halliday, and others
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
- An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
- By: Riley Black
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away....
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One of the best
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-22
By: Riley Black
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Remnants of Ancient Life
- The New Science of Old Fossils
- By: Dale Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life....
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Recommended.
- By Todd Woollen on 02-11-23
By: Dale Greenwalt
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The Naked Neanderthal
- A New Understanding of the Human Creature
- By: Ludovic Slimak
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A thought-provoking adventure story, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history-and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.
By: Ludovic Slimak
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
- The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
- By: Lisa Randall
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Randall tells a breathtaking story that weaves together the cosmos' history and our own....
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remarkable book with a caveat
- By Kindle Customer on 10-29-15
By: Lisa Randall
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Across Atlantic Ice
- The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
- By: Bruce A. Bruce A. Bradley, Denis J. Stanford
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea....
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Ice Cold story
- By S. Wells on 06-17-12
By: Bruce A. Bruce A. Bradley, and others
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- By: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....
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Brave Attempt
- By Bill Treat on 10-15-22
By: Madelaine Böhme
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Born in Africa
- The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
- By: Martin Meredith
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind....
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Up to date interesting
- By Simon on 02-15-12
By: Martin Meredith
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- By: David Hone
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Tyrannosaurus was truly impressive; it topped six tons, was more than 12 meters (40 feet) long, and had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal in history....
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An Engaging Biography of the King
- By Erik on 08-06-18
By: David Hone
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The Denisovans
- The History of the Extinct Archaic Humans Who Spread Across Asia During the Paleolithic Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As soon as man discovered writing, he began engaging in historiography (historical writing and philosophy), but paleoanthropology only really began in the late 1800s....
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Up-to-date?
- By Kim in Texas on 12-04-21
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Last Ape Standing
- The Seven Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
- By: Chip Walter
- Narrated by: Bernard Clark, Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past 150 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least 27 species of humans evolved on planet Earth....
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Harmed by the Narration
- By Cpl Punishment on 03-03-17
By: Chip Walter
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My Beloved Brontosaurus
- On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
- By: Brian Switek
- Narrated by: Brian Switek
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Paleontology meets pop culture in a talented young author’s journey into the lives of dinosaurs....
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Self-inflicted wounds mar otherwise very fun read
- By Orrin on 05-18-13
By: Brian Switek
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- By: Svante Pääbo
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are....
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Excellent science tale
- By Neuron on 01-19-15
By: Svante Pääbo
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- By: John Foster
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago....
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Useless without a PDF of the illustrations
- By LarryP. on 06-12-23
By: John Foster
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Auge y caída de los dinosaurios [The Rise and Fall or the Dinosaurs]
- La nueva historia de un mundo perdido [A New History of a Lost World]
- By: Steve Brusatte, Joandomènec Ros i Aragonès - traductor
- Narrated by: Cristian Villamil
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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El paleontólogo Steve Brusatte repasa la evolución de estos extraordinarios seres mientras nos hace partícipes de sus apasionantes expediciones alrededor del mundo y sus recientes descubrimientos, que ponen en entredicho todo cuanto creíamos saber sobre la evolución de los dinosaurios....
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Increíble divulgación de la paleontología
- By Anonymous User on 09-11-24
By: Steve Brusatte, and others
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Fruit from the Sands
- The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
- By: Robert N. Spengler III
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Balancing a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and historical evidence, Fruit from the Sands presents the fascinating story of the origins and spread of agriculture across Inner Asia and into Europe and East Asia....
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Fascinating Subject, Bad Writing
- By Valliere on 08-31-21