English Environmental History

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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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 344 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 Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
    • By: Bartow J. Elmore
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • Bartow J. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs....

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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 124 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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    • World Orders and Catastrophic Change
    • By: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders....

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    • A History
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs.

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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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    • By: Mark Fiege
    • Narrated by: William Bahl
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred....

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    • Expansion: The History of the Galaxy, Book 1
    • By: Andrei Livadny
    • Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock
    • Series: Expansion: The History of the Galaxy, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Year 2197. Earth is suffering from the consequences of an environmental catastrophe. Max Bourne is a typical teenager. His habitat is the virtual Layer. But one day, circumstances force him out....

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • By: Sara Dant
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
    • By: Dan Levitt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal....

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    • How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Steven Kotler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,651 ratings
    • Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....

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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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    • Life After Warming
    • By: David Wallace-Wells
    • Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,574 ratings
    • An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....

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    • A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Robert B. Marks
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

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    • An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    • By: Terry Tempest Williams
    • Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology....

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    • The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
    • By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions and a call for environmentalists to learn from the indigenous community’s rich history of activism....

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,703 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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