Earth Science History

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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury
    • By: John Dvorak
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
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    • Author John Dvorak looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father", Thomas Jaggar....

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
    • In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future....

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    • A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World
    • By: Roland Lehoucq, Loïc Mangin, Jean-Sébastien Steyer
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From Oxford to ComiCon, the Middle Earth is analyzed and interpreted through a multitude of perspectives....

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    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • By: Nicholas Wade
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
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    • Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand....

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    • An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
    • By: Timothy Good
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • This fascinating new volume tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy....

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    • Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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    • How Climate Made History 1300-1850
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming....

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    • Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....

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    • The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • In Dinosaurs Rediscovered, leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton gathers together all the latest paleontological evidence, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to an indisputably scientific field....

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    • How Climate Changed Civilization
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do....

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