Social Ecology

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    • Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
    • By: Murray Bookchin, Todd McGowan - afterword
    • Narrated by: James R. Cheatham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face....

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    • An Introduction to Permaculture, Water Systems, Soil Science and Landscape Design
    • By: Amélie des Plantes
    • Narrated by: Brian Pederson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A counter to heavy industrial farming, permaculture is all about conscious planning that caters to the human needs while also respecting and healing the natural environment. At its core, it involves drawing inspiration from nature to build an ecosystem that thrives just like any other....

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    • By: Dan Egan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 639 ratings
    • In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available water, The Death and the Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource....

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    • Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
    • By: David Abram
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

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    • By: Bill Schutt
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans....

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    • The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
    • By: Marta McDowell
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder springs from a life lived in partnership with the land. In this revealing exploration of Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series....

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    • The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
    • By: Mark Schapiro
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An eye-opening exposé of the struggle to control the world’s seeds and the future of our food....

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    • A Political Ecology of Things
    • By: Jane Bennett
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In Vibrant Matter, the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves.

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    • The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
    • By: Tom Higham
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology....

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    • The Making of a Beast
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, John Vaillant, presents a stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

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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 2,570 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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    • The Price of Progress
    • By: Christopher Ryan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,355 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

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    • A Natural History of Four Meals
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,370 ratings
    • "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....

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    • The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
    • By: M. R. O'Connor
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity....

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....

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    • The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
    • By: Noah Strycker
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood....

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    • The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
    • By: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides....

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    • How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
    • By: Pat Shipman
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe....

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