Bestsellers
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- De: Marc Reisner
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....
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Too much mouth noise in narration
- De AES en 07-23-19
De: Marc Reisner
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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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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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- De: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrado por: Steven Kotler
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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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 Best Book for Exponential Entrepreneurs
- De Sean en 02-17-15
De: Peter H. Diamandis, y otros
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- De: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrado por: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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Most Important and Worst Audiobook ever!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-17-21
De: John Doerr, y otros
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- De: Marc Reisner
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....
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Too much mouth noise in narration
- De AES en 07-23-19
De: Marc Reisner
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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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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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- De: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrado por: Steven Kotler
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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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 Best Book for Exponential Entrepreneurs
- De Sean en 02-17-15
De: Peter H. Diamandis, y otros
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- De: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrado por: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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Most Important and Worst Audiobook ever!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-17-21
De: John Doerr, y otros
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Wasteland
- The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
- De: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
- Narrado por: Chris Harper
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind....
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Great breadth of coverage
- De Timpboy en 05-02-24
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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Prepper's Ultimate Survival Series
- Off-Grid Self-Sufficiency Collection: A Comprehensive Guide to Water Purification, Survival Strategies, and Self-Sufficient Practices for Preppers
- De: Johnathan Nash
- Narrado por: Bill Ayers
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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In an era where unpredictability is the only certainty, these essential guides are combined for those determined to be prepared for anything. This collection is not just about survival; it's about thriving in the face of the unknown.
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Prepper's Ultimate Survival Series
- De brigitte en 05-17-24
De: Johnathan Nash
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Secondhand
- Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
- De: Adam Minter
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, and beyond....
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Minimalism vs. business opportunity?
- De buyer en 02-24-20
De: Adam Minter
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities....
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Fashionopolis
- The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
- De: Dana Thomas
- Narrado por: Dana Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials....
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Very informative and optimistic
- De cannonwall en 01-05-20
De: Dana Thomas
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Prepper’s Water Purification Survival Bible
- How to Find, Harvest, Filter, Purify, and Store Water Off the Grid
- De: Johnathan Nash
- Narrado por: Bill Ayers
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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Water is the most fundamental of survival needs. While many communities around the world are used to struggling with water shortages, many of us have no clue what we would do in this sort of situation....
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Comprehensive and Practical
- De Bobby Jane en 09-22-23
De: Johnathan Nash
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- De: Russell Gold
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Russell Gold spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of “fracking....
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
- De Emily C en 05-28-14
De: Russell Gold
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Tuning in to Nature
- Infrared Radiation and the Insect Communication System
- De: Philip Callahan
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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This 25th anniversary edition, updated by the author, reveals the miraculous communication systems present in nature. Learn how plants and insects ...
De: Philip Callahan
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Troubled Water
- What's Wrong with What We Drink
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe....
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An important book on a critical issue
- De Alexander en 11-07-19
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Power
- Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- De: Richard Heinberg
- Narrado por: David Skulski
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels....
De: Richard Heinberg
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Full Body Burden
- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- De: Kristen Iversen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Kristen Iversen
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America"....
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A story that no one else wanted to tell.
- De Carol en 01-28-13
De: Kristen Iversen
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- De: Emily Anthes
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives....
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Fascinating stories, well researched, read twice
- De ep en 01-18-21
De: Emily Anthes
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The Big Necessity
- The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
- De: Rose George
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Acclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the taboo on bodily waste - something common to all and as natural as breathing....
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Utterly fascinating
- De Clayton en 03-31-19
De: Rose George
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Unquenchable
- America's Water Crisis and What to do About it
- De: Robert Glennon
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals....
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A must read, second only to Cadillac Desert
- De matthew en 09-02-15
De: Robert Glennon
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Get Abundance
- Why Your Future Is Brighter Than You Think
- De: Peter Diamandis
- Narrado por: Peter Diamandis
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....
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Some powerful and some well worn ideas
- De Nigel en 05-12-15
De: Peter Diamandis
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting
- A Guide to Home-Scale System Design (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, Book 11)
- De: Rob Avis, Michelle Avis
- Narrado por: Nate Drury
- Duración: 6 h
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water-harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world....
De: Rob Avis, y otros
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Junkyard Planet
- Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
- De: Adam Minter
- Narrado por: William Elsman
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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Adam Minter - veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner - travels deep into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment....
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Very Interesting, Very Detailed
- De Danielle C. en 06-24-21
De: Adam Minter
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The Future of Packaging
- From Linear to Circular
- De: Tom Szaky
- Narrado por: Jeff Hoyt, Natalie Hoyt
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Steered by Tom Szaky, recycling pioneer, eco-capitalist, and founder and CEO of TerraCycle, this audiobook explores current issues of production and consumption, practical steps for improving packaging and reducing waste today, and big ideas and concepts that can be carried forward....
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interesting
- De Bor en 03-25-19
De: Tom Szaky
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The Poisoned City
- Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
- De: Anna Clark
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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In Anna Clark's full account of this American tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city....
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Very Informative
- De Adrianna Kurkowski en 08-06-18
De: Anna Clark
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Pipe Dreams
- The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
- De: Chelsea Wald
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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From an award-winning science journalist comes a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet - from creative uses for harvested “biosolids”, to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing safe sanitation to the billions of people worldwide living without....
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Powerful, intricate, and wide ranging
- De Carol F McCreary en 04-07-21
De: Chelsea Wald
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Unraveled
- The Life and Death of a Garment
- De: Maxine Bedat
- Narrado por: Maxine Bedat
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth - and death - of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet....
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A fascinating look at the modern textile industry
- De Candice en 06-09-21
De: Maxine Bedat
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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Water 4.0
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
- De: David Sedlak
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....
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Horrible narration, good info
- De Danielle V. Dolan en 10-06-20
De: David Sedlak