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Orcas Everywhere
- The Mystery and History of Killer Whales (Orca Wild, Book 1)
- Narrado por: Mark Leiren-Young
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Orcas are found in every ocean on the planet. But can they survive their relationship with humans?
Orcas Everywhere looks at how humans around the world (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike) related to orcas in the past, how we relate to them now, and what we can do to keep cetacean communities alive and thriving. The book deals with science, philosophy, environmentalism, and ethics in a kid-friendly and accessible way.
Writer, filmmaker, and orca activist Mark Leiren-Young takes us back to when killer whales were considered monsters, and examines how humans went from using orcas for target practice to nearly loving them to death. If you know a young person who loves Free Willy or Finding Nemo, they will fall in love with these whales.
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"An important and beautiful book." (Susin Nielsen, award-winning author of No Fixed Address)
“This inviting book will be treasured by kids - a fun way to discover orcas and the sea.” (Erich Hoyt, author of Orca: The Whale Called Killer)
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The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Wild Ones
- A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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Orca
- How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
- De: Jason M. Colby
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator.
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5 out of 5 stars
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informative yet heartbreaking - we must do better
- De Anonymous User en 09-29-23
De: Jason M. Colby
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What a Fish Knows
- The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
- De: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior. There are more than 30,000 species of fish - more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish think, feel, and behave.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Title misled me
- De Margaret Weidemann en 08-12-17
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Sex in the Sea
- Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
- De: Marah J. Hardt
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome while holding their breath; full-moon sex parties of groupers; and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to laugh while learning/ learn while laughing
- De Miamigrrl en 07-27-16
De: Marah J. Hardt
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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- De: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the 20th century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This one is a MUST!!! Thought provoking....
- De kristen en 03-10-14
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Our Wild Calling
- How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives - and Save Theirs
- De: Richard Louv
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sharing our world
- De Scott Br en 10-06-21
De: Richard Louv
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Monster of God
- De: David Quammen
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above - so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, shame about the performance
- De Shirzy en 05-23-18
De: David Quammen
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Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
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Twelve Days of Terror
- Inside the Shocking 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks
- De: Richard G. Fernicola MD
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history - a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws - comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At long last
- De S en 05-04-21
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Galapagos
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 881
Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to AD 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, totally different human race. Kurt Vonnegut, America's master satirist, looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry - and all that is worth saving.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The survival of the human race is a total bore!
- De Darwin8u en 12-13-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker
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The Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- De: Jim Robbins
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically, draw us out into nature to seek their beauty, and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
- De D en 07-24-17
De: Jim Robbins
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez is the exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts. Drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, it is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Book
- De Stuart en 10-07-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The American Fisherman
- How Our Nation's Anglers Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A.
- De: Willie Robertson, William Doyle
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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American Fisherman traces the impact fishing has had in shaping America's history, and reveals the influential role it has played in defining our lives. Willie Robertson persuasively argues that America became what it is today in no small part because of the anglers that call it home. From harvesting New England cod to fly fishing for Yellowstone trout to raising Pacific Northwest salmon, the fishing industry has long played an essential role in the establishment of many of the nation's earliest ports.
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5 out of 5 stars
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it was a great escalating book
- De Melanie en 12-30-22
De: Willie Robertson, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte