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 442 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 374 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 134 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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 1,986 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • 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 109 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

    Regular price: $14.99

    • A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
    • By: Daniel Stone
    • Narrated by: Daniel Stone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.

    Regular price: $20.25

    • A History
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 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.

    Regular price: $20.99

    • 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 1,735 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

    Regular price: $27.00

    • A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
    • By: Annie Proulx
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change....

    Regular price: $14.24

    • An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Reinterpreting a history previously seen from a Euro-and-anthropocentric viewpoint, Amrith relates in brilliant prose, and on the largest canvas, a magisterial, mind-altering epic - vibrant with stories, characters, vivid images and rich archival resources.

    Regular price: $20.33

    • Essays on War and Climate Change
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The History and Future of Food
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Data-based and rigorously researched, How to Feed the World is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its foodand a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet.

    Regular price: $18.00

    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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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 172 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
    • By: Paul Bierman
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland's ice will catalyze devastating events if we don't change course and address climate change now.

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
    • By: Dorceta E. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Novel of Mass Destruction
    • By: Jonathan Gregory
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-25
    • Language: English
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    • “How many people would you kill to save your family?” Every day we hear through the media how Mankind is ruining this world of ours. ...

    Regular price: $6.99

    • 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 1,336 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....

    Regular price: $24.30