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Reentry
- SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
- By: Eric Berger
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.
By: Eric Berger
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data and poetry, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
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Let’s Do This: Eyes Wide Open, Heart fully Charged
- By Carolyn and Sonia Marcos on 09-25-24
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Hope for Cynics
- The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- By: Jamil Zaki
- Narrated by: Jamil Zaki
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties can’t seem to agree on anything, except that they all think human virtue is evaporating.
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Persuasive, faithful to the science, and hopeful.
- By Rob Chavez on 09-13-24
By: Jamil Zaki
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being
- By: Deepak Chopra MD
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra MD, Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In practical terms, making AI your ally and guide depends on the art of the prompt, the questions a user poses to a chatbot. As Chopra shows in detail, by asking the right questions, you can bring AI into your inner world, which is where personal growth happens. Chopra provides a personal assessment for you to better understand yourself and exercises to help you expand your awareness in any part of your life.
By: Deepak Chopra MD
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
- Music as Medicine
- By: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.
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Various health issues impacted by music.
- By Anne F. Oneill on 09-22-24
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It's a Gas
- The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Gases are all around us—they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere. Often invisible and sometimes odorless, these ubiquitous substances are also the least understood materials in our world, and always have been. It wasn’t long ago that gases were seen as the work of ancient spirits: the sudden closing of a door after a change in airflow signaled a ghost’s presence. Scientists and engineers have struggled with their own gaseous demons.
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Too much preaching
- By Marc Bressler on 09-20-24
By: Mark Miodownik
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Reentry
- SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
- By: Eric Berger
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.
By: Eric Berger
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data and poetry, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
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Let’s Do This: Eyes Wide Open, Heart fully Charged
- By Carolyn and Sonia Marcos on 09-25-24
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Hope for Cynics
- The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- By: Jamil Zaki
- Narrated by: Jamil Zaki
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties can’t seem to agree on anything, except that they all think human virtue is evaporating.
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Persuasive, faithful to the science, and hopeful.
- By Rob Chavez on 09-13-24
By: Jamil Zaki
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being
- By: Deepak Chopra MD
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra MD, Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In practical terms, making AI your ally and guide depends on the art of the prompt, the questions a user poses to a chatbot. As Chopra shows in detail, by asking the right questions, you can bring AI into your inner world, which is where personal growth happens. Chopra provides a personal assessment for you to better understand yourself and exercises to help you expand your awareness in any part of your life.
By: Deepak Chopra MD
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
- Music as Medicine
- By: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.
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Various health issues impacted by music.
- By Anne F. Oneill on 09-22-24
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It's a Gas
- The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Gases are all around us—they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere. Often invisible and sometimes odorless, these ubiquitous substances are also the least understood materials in our world, and always have been. It wasn’t long ago that gases were seen as the work of ancient spirits: the sudden closing of a door after a change in airflow signaled a ghost’s presence. Scientists and engineers have struggled with their own gaseous demons.
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Too much preaching
- By Marc Bressler on 09-20-24
By: Mark Miodownik
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Grizzly Confidential
- An Astounding Journey into the Secret Life of North America’s Most Fearsome Predator
- By: Kevin Grange
- Narrated by: Timothy Pabon, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos. His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins; from the Bear Center at Washington State University—where scientists believe the secrets of hibernation might help treat diabetes, heart disease, and obesity in humans—to the dark underbelly of for-profit wildlife parks, illegal animal trade and black markets hawking bear bile.
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Makes you truly view Bears in a different light.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-24-24
By: Kevin Grange
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Puppy Kindergarten
- The New Science of Raising a Great Dog
- By: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrated by: Isabella Rossellini, Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods hoped to answer when they enrolled one hundred and one puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten. With the help of a retired service dog named Congo, Brian, Vanessa, and their team set out to understand the secrets of the puppy mind: What factors might predict whether a puppy will grow up to change someone’s life?
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Entertaining and educational
- By Anonymous User on 09-13-24
By: Brian Hare, and others
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An End to the Upside Down Cosmos
- Rethinking the Big Bang, Heliocentrism, the Lights in the Sky…and Where We Live
- By: Mark Gober
- Narrated by: Mark Gober
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Scientists tell us that ninety-six percent of the universe is unexplained dark matter and dark energy. Also, they admit that no unifying “theory of everything” exists in physics. This shaky foundation is the basis of modern thinking about the cosmos and Earth’s place in it. Something big seems to be missing. Thus, we’re left with no choice but to question the “consensus” cosmological model. Are we really flying through space on a spinning ball within an expanding universe, while free-falling around the Sun—all as a consequence of a “Big Bang” that supposedly occurred 13.8 billion years ago?
By: Mark Gober
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms—bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest—done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet.
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Perché dormiamo
- Poteri e segreti del sonno per una vita sana e felice
- By: Matthew Walker
- Narrated by: Paolo Rossini
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Bestseller del New York Times! Dal più grande esperto della scienza del sonno. Per molto tempo la scienza non è stata in grado di misurare e spiegare sufficientemente cosa sia e come funzioni il sonno. Ma negli ultimi tempi, con l'avvento delle nuove tecnologie, è diventato possibile avvicinarsi sempre di più al mistero che circonda questa esperienza essenziale che gioca un ruolo così importante nella nostra vita.
By: Matthew Walker
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Something in the Woods Loves You
- By: Jarod K. Anderson
- Narrated by: Jarod K. Anderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn.
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Great book, great narrator
- By Brandon on 09-13-24
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The Rising
- The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
- By: Larry Silverstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers and Americans faced a critical set of questions: What should be done with the site? Could the towers be replaced? And how best to memorialize those lost on that day? For Larry Silverstein, a lifelong New Yorker who had signed a lease for the properties just a few months before the attacks, the answer was clear: America had to rebuild as quickly as possible.
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Eye opening
- By Es on 09-15-24
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We Will Be Jaguars
- A Memoir of My People
- By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
- Narrated by: Christine Anne-Roche
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism.
By: Mitch Anderson, and others
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Waves in an Impossible Sea
- How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
- By: Matt Strassler
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter? The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one.
By: Matt Strassler
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The Inner Clock
- Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms
- By: Lynne Peeples
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces, synchronized to the sun and subtle signals in your environment and behavior. But modern insults like artificial light, contrived time zones, and late-night meals can wreak havoc on your internal clocks. Armed with advances in biology and technology, a circadian renaissance is reclaiming those lost rhythms. The Inner Clock explores the emerging science and its transformative applications: How could taking a walk in the morning and going to bed at the same time each night keep your body in sync?
By: Lynne Peeples
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On Trails
- An Exploration
- By: Robert Moor
- Narrated by: Robert Moor
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.
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Great to listen to while I was on the trail!
- By Ken Jacobsen on 09-24-24
By: Robert Moor
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Synopsis of “Free Energy from Imaginary Power”
- Dialogues with A.I. to seek the Truth
- By: Vinyasi
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 mins
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Explanation for “Why a Synopsis published separately from the main text?” Because Amazon has a merciless rule of blocking any further changes to a text should I make the mistake of altering the text in an extremely minor manner, such as: merely changing its secondary title. This mistake occurred when I made this tiny alteration to the Kindle version of my text. So, I went ahead with the addition of this subsection to the other two versions: the paperback and the hardcover. And since I don’t let little snafus, like this, get in my way (since I’m a writer; I’m flexible; I just keep ...
By: Vinyasi
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How to Love a Forest
- The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
- By: Ethan Tapper
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth. How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species’ incredible power to heal rather than to harm? Tapper walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest.
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Beautifully written, definitely worth the listen, a little repetitive
- By Amazon Customer on 09-24-24
By: Ethan Tapper
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A Brief History of Media
- From the Printing Press to Modern Streaming
- By: Henry Elwood
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Are you curious about the evolution of media and its impact on society? "A Brief History of Media: From the Printing Press to Modern Streaming" takes readers on a fascinating journey through the pivotal moments in media history, from Gutenberg’s revolutionary printing press to the rise of streaming platforms like Netflix and Spotify. Written for media enthusiasts, history buffs, and tech lovers alike, this book offers a captivating overview of how communication technologies have shaped culture, politics, and everyday life across the centuries. In this insightful exploration, author Henry ...
By: Henry Elwood
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Limits to Growth
- The 30-Year Update
- By: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.
By: Jorgen Randers, and others
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Are We Alone In The Universe?
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- By: Miles Kepler
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Are We Alone In The Universe? The Search for Extraterrestrial Life Begin a cosmic journey that will challenge everything you thought you knew about life in the universe. Are we truly alone, or are we on the brink of the most extraordinary discovery in human history? In "Are We Alone In The Universe?", you'll dive deep into the cutting-edge science, fascinating history, and mind-bending possibilities of humanity's quest to find life beyond Earth. From the icy moons of our solar system to distant exoplanets, this book takes you on a thrilling expedition to the frontiers of astrobiology and ...
By: Miles Kepler
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Private Pilot License: Checkride Oral Exam Study Guide
- Ultimate Ground School Handbook & Blueprint to Pass the Test (Practice Questions Edition: Contains Hundreds of Practice Questions)
- By: Micah Moore
- Narrated by: Danny Holt
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the Private Pilot oral exam. However, the truth is that the Private Pilot test is a challenging exam. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Micah Moore developed the Private Pilot Study Guide! This edition is a practice questions edition! It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam from all categories of the exam.
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Effective and Concise
- By Hattie Hoffman on 09-10-24
By: Micah Moore
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California Against the Sea
- Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
- By: Rosanna Xia
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline—and foretell even greater changes to our shores. From the beaches of the Mexican border up to the sheer-cliffed North Coast, the voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small-town mayors, urban engineers, and environmental scientists commingle. Together, they chronicle the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future.
By: Rosanna Xia
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Night Magic
- Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark
- By: Leigh Ann Henion
- Narrated by: Leigh Ann Henion
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit. Because no matter where we live, we are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, and blooms that reveal themselves as light fades. Henion explores her home region of Appalachia, where she attends a synchronous firefly event in Tennessee, a bat outing in Alabama, and a moth festival in Ohio.
By: Leigh Ann Henion
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I Really Do Believe
- By: James J. Caterino
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 mins
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I Really Do Believe is a short essay by James J. Caterino, author of the UFO themed books, I Want to Believe, The Girl from the Stars, Fireflies, and Watch the Skies.
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Transfarmation
- The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming
- By: Leah Garcés
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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President and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming policies have failed over decades and offers insights into the wave of change coming from a new crop of farmers and communities who are constructing a humane and sustainable farming system. Factory animal farming faces an abundance of issues—from environmental concerns and animal cruelty, to exploited farmers and poor working conditions—and more and more farmers are searching for a way out and for a new start.
By: Leah Garcés
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Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch
- How Healing a Southwest Oasis Holds Promise for Our Endangered Land
- By: A. Thomas Cole
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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The Pitchfork Ranch is more than another dusty homestead tucked away in a corner of the Southwest. It is a place with a story to tell about the most pressing crisis to confront humankind. It is a place where one couple is working every day to right decades of wrongs. It is a place of inspiration and promise. It is an invitation to join the struggle for a better planet. Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico.
By: A. Thomas Cole
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Mastering Hydroponics and Aquaponics
- Advanced Techniques for Sustainable Growth
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Unlock the future of sustainable farming with "Mastering Hydroponics and Aquaponics," your ultimate guide to advancing your hydroponic and aquaponic systems. Whether you're a hobbyist seeking to refine your skills or a commercial grower aiming for excellence, this eBook is your comprehensive resource for innovation, productivity, and sustainable practices. Dive into the history and evolution of hydroponics and aquaponics, understanding the many benefits and challenges these systems present. Learn the precise components and tools needed to set up an efficient hydroponics system, harnessing ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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The Darwinian Trap
- The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)
- By: Kristian Rönn
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Humans, it turns out, are intrinsically wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term prosperity. Kristian Rönn, an entrepreneur formerly affiliated with the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, calls these deeply rooted impulses “Darwinian demons.” These forces, a by-product of natural selection, can lead us to act in shortsighted ways that harm others—and even imperil our survival as a species. If this evolutionary glitch is left unchecked, the consequences will grow in magnitude as the power of technology accelerates.
By: Kristian Rönn