Conservation History

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    • George Bird Grinnell Adventurer, Activist, and Author
    • By: Thom Hatch
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Award-winning author Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Father of American Conservation." This book chronicles not only Grinnell's life, but also offers a history of his accomplishments....

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    • Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future
    • By: Benji Backer
    • Narrated by: Benji Backer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A conservative young environmentalist provides an intrepid vision for both solving our climate crisis and prioritizing the American national interest....

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    • A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (Battle Mage Farmer, Book 8)
    • By: Seth Ring
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Series: Battle Mage Farmer, Book 8
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Conservation is Book 8 of the bestselling Fantasy LitRPG Series by Seth Ring, author of Nova Terra. Get your copy today and explore a world whose secrets have been buried under decades of war.

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • And Sketches Here and There
    • By: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 538 ratings
    • First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....

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    • The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
    • By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,140 ratings
    • Babylon's Ark chronicles Anthony's hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam's lions....

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    • By: Peter Heller
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey, a Japanese whaling fleet, through the storms and ice of Antarctica....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 725 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • By: Michael Grunwald
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Nick Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Nick Jenkins explores our historic investment in the exploitation of fossil energy resources and their current importance, and discusses the implications of our increasing rate of energy use....

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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy L. Caradonna
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept....

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    • When Nature Breaks the Law
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Mary Roach
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,489 ratings
    • Join “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet....

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    • Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
    • By: Michelle Nijhuis
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In the late 19th century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born....

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    • A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
    • By: Douglas W. Tallamy
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • Nature's Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government....

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    • Killing in the Name of Conservation
    • By: Hugh Warwick
    • Narrated by: Hugh Warwick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • Conservationist Hugh Warwick explores the complex history of species control, revealing the global movement of species and the impacts of their presence.

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    • The Many Pasts of an Indian River
    • By: Sudipta Sen
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora....

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    • Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
    • By: Lenore Newman
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future....

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    • In Search of Future Fossils
    • By: David Farrier
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • What will the world look like in 10,000 years - or 10 million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future....

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