Energy History

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 765 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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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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    • A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
    • By: James Morton Turner
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition.

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    • Balancing Your Body's Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality
    • By: Donna Eden, David Feinstein
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • In this updated and expanded edition of her alternative-health classic, Donna Eden shows listeners how to work with the body's energy systems to boost vitality and stamina....

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    • Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Energy Age and Enlightened Future
    • By: Joseph Selbie, David Steinmetz, Swami Kriyananda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,616 ratings
    • What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....

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    • The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy
    • By: John Perlin, Mark Z. Jacobson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin's classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today's solar renaissance....

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    • The Science and Mystery of Healing
    • By: Jill Blakeway
    • Narrated by: Jill Blakeway
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • The first comprehensive look at the groundbreaking field of energy medicine and how it can be used to diagnose and treat illness, from one of the world’s foremost practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine....

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    • Guidance and Practices to Open Your Heart and Heal Your Mind
    • By: David T. Kyle PhD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Energy Teachings of The Three was dictated to the author in Peru in 2012 where he had been in training in the Andean shamanic healing traditions....

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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • By: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 901 ratings
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

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    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian electrical and mechanical engineer who was born and raised in the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen....

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    • The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power
    • By: Julia DiGangi
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • To reach your full potential, you can learn to recognize and harness the energy in your brain. Leading neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi will teach you how through eight "codes"....

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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 Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....

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