Earth Science History

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before....

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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • 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.

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    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History
    • By: Timothy Good
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • This fascinating new volume tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy....

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    • The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,895 ratings
    • A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.

      A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • How the Earth Shaped Human History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? Find out....

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    • Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
    • By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
    • Narrated by: Peter Godfrey-Smith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further.

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    • Averting the Insect Apocalypse
    • By: Dave Goulson
    • Narrated by: Dave Goulson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot function without them. Dave Goulson reveals the shocking decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades....

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    • A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 47 Incredible Organisms
    • By: Dr Elsa Panciroli
    • Narrated by: Reanne Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • Forever Hero Series #1
    • By: L. E. Modesitt Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
    • Series: The Forever Hero, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 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....

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    • A Story of the Future
    • By: David Wallace-Wells
    • Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 736 ratings
    • The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible....

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    • The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
    • By: Jonn Elledge
    • Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • This is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders....

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    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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    • 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: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 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....

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