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Bestsellers
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Ultra-Processed People
- Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
- By: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....
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ridiculously biased take on data
- By Brit_TV_fan on 11-25-23
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The Food Lab
- Better Home Cooking Through Science
- By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more....
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Props to the narrator, and amazing book
- By Carla Nowicki on 08-22-20
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Great book; didn't love the reading
- By Lily on 11-02-08
By: Michael Pollan
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You Can Farm
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
- By: Joel Salatin
- Narrated by: Joel Salatin
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable....
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great book. made me angry.
- By William Nichols on 05-12-20
By: Joel Salatin
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Mini Farming
- Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
- By: Brett L. Markham
- Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre....
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Almost unlistenable
- By Laureen on 02-23-18
By: Brett L. Markham
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Ultra-Processed People
- Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
- By: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....
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ridiculously biased take on data
- By Brit_TV_fan on 11-25-23
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The Food Lab
- Better Home Cooking Through Science
- By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more....
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Props to the narrator, and amazing book
- By Carla Nowicki on 08-22-20
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Great book; didn't love the reading
- By Lily on 11-02-08
By: Michael Pollan
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You Can Farm
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
- By: Joel Salatin
- Narrated by: Joel Salatin
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable....
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great book. made me angry.
- By William Nichols on 05-12-20
By: Joel Salatin
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Mini Farming
- Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
- By: Brett L. Markham
- Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre....
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Almost unlistenable
- By Laureen on 02-23-18
By: Brett L. Markham
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Dirt to Soil
- One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
- By: Gabe Brown
- Narrated by: Gabe Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of his ranch's amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil....
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loved it.
- By Amazon Customer on 01-29-19
By: Gabe Brown
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Your Successful Farm Business
- Production, Profit, Pleasure
- By: Joel Salatin
- Narrated by: Joel Salatin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty years ago, Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel.
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Feel like I just got a PHD level masterclass.
- By jesse l hatton on 08-08-21
By: Joel Salatin
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....
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World without Women
- By Paul Richards on 04-28-18
By: James C. Scott
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The Golden Spruce
- A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
- By: John Vaillant
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: The only giant golden spruce on earth....
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Interesting story but ??
- By robert on 01-11-14
By: John Vaillant
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The Botany of Desire
- A Plant's-Eye View of the World
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....
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"The Botany of Desire" – A Fascinating Fusion of History, Science, and Philosophy
- By Rich N. Jester on 07-05-23
By: Michael Pollan
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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Horrifying
- By Mendy on 01-21-18
By: Anne Applebaum
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Pure, White, and Deadly
- How Sugar is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
- By: John Yudkin
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar - now with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the best-selling author of Fat Chance....
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A Real Lifesaver and Factual
- By Sherrie on 07-21-18
By: John Yudkin
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James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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This enchanting program collects some of the Yorkshire vet's favorite stories about one of his favorite animals, each tale as memorable and heartwarming as the last...
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If you have the other Herriott books, don't bother
- By Laurana on 10-27-14
By: James Herriot
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Flat Broke with Two Goats
- A Memoir
- By: Jennifer McGaha
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle, or to be rescuing opossums from her barn and calling it "date night"....
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Not worth reading
- By Karen on 06-04-19
By: Jennifer McGaha
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Culinary Reactions
- The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
- By: Simon Quellen Field
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams....
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Culinary Reactions - The Chemical Formulas to Cook
- By Vicente Gard on 06-06-19
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Pastured Poultry Profit$
- By: Joel Salatin
- Narrated by: Joel Salatin
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In a day when mainline farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.
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Excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 10-02-23
By: Joel Salatin
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Beekeeping for Beginners
- How to Raise Your First Bee Colonies
- By: Amber Bradshaw
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Easy beekeeping for new-bees. Wouldn’t it be great to raise your own bees, have a fresh supply of honey, and bring thousands of healthy pollinators into your yard? Beekeeping for Beginners is a simple, step-by-step guide that helps you learn the fundamentals....
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Too much fluff.
- By Brandon Horvat on 05-02-21
By: Amber Bradshaw
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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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For the Love of Soil
- Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems
- By: Nicole Masters
- Narrated by: Nicole Masters
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn a road map to healthy soil and revitalized food systems for powerfully addressing these times of challenge. This audiobook equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits....
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More Narrative Than Prescriptive
- By Real David Art on 08-13-20
By: Nicole Masters
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- By: Nicola Twilley
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse....
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They should have hired an actor
- By Eric A. Ruthford on 08-06-24
By: Nicola Twilley
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The Shepherd's Life
- Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't.....
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The Author Wears His Life As A Heavy Mantle
- By Sara on 12-06-15
By: James Rebanks
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Dirt
- The Erosion of Civilizations
- By: David R. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are, and have long been, using up Earth's soil.
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Highly recommended if you care about your food
- By Roy Pfaltzgraff on 11-20-19
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- By: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil....
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- By Jean on 08-11-14
By: Mark Arax, and others
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Permaculture Gardening for the Absolute Beginner
- Follow Nature's Map to Grow Your Own Organic Food with Confidence and Transform Any Backyard Into a Thriving Ecosystem
- By: All We Need Publishing, Josie Beckham
- Narrated by: Gwen Steel
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This book really is for the absolute beginner. We'll cover all the basics in a motivating, easy-to-digest way, and allow nature to do the heavy lifting. We'll discover your green thumb that's been there all along.
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Permaculture Masterpiece
- By Gary Barton on 02-01-24
By: All We Need Publishing, and others
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Tractor Wars
- John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture
- By: Neil Dahlstrom
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture - a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world....
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Really enjoyed this book having grown up on a farm with these tractors.
- By Lyle on 06-23-23
By: Neil Dahlstrom
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Building Your Permaculture Property
- A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
- By: Rob Avis, Takota Coen, Michelle Avis
- Narrated by: Adam Farnsworth
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design....
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All fluff, zero substance.
- By Thaddeus P. on 05-02-23
By: Rob Avis, and others
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The Hidden Half of Nature
- The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
- By: David R. Montgomery, Anne Bikle
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health - for people and for plants - depends on Earth's smallest creatures....
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A perfect introduction to microbiology
- By Ary Shalizi on 02-17-17
By: David R. Montgomery, and others
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The Chicken Health Handbook (2nd Edition)
- A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease
- By: Gail Damerow
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
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Healthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages....
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The chicken health handbook
- By Gianni LoVario on 06-28-23
By: Gail Damerow
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Fast Food Nation
- The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
- By: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...
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Uncritical alarmist rant
- By Mark Freeman on 12-23-03
By: Eric Schlosser