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Title: The Beast Within: Humans as Animals

Author: Jessica Serra

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

How different from animals are we really? Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition to our humanity—and does this reasoning have a scientific basis? Through the fascinating discoveries made by ethologists, anthropologists, and archeologists, Serra deciphers our behaviors in light of their animal roots and demystifies ideas about how different animals are from humans. She compares human behaviors with those exhibited by other species in chapters spanning topics as varied as sex, morality, emotions, intelligence, and family. Exploring the evolution of various animal species, as well as the evolution of historical ideas about humanity and animality, Serra theorizes that human behaviors and motivations may hold more in common with those of animals than we think. These explorations of scientific findings encourage us to reconsider how much we have truly removed ourselves from 'the beast within.'

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Title: Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America

Author: Rachel S. Gross

Narrator: Melissa Redmond

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing and equipment each year as they seek out nature, the American outdoor sector grew over the past 150 years from a small collection of outfitters to an industry contributing more than 2 percent of the nation's economic output. Rachel S. Gross argues that this success was predicated not just on creating functional equipment but also on selling an authentic, anticommercial outdoor identity. In other words, shopping for the woods was also about being—or becoming—the right kind of person. Demonstrating that outdoor culture is commercial culture, Gross examines Americans' journey toward outdoor expertise by tracing the development of the nascent outdoor goods industry, the influence of World War II on its growth, and the boom years of outdoor businesses.

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Title: Beyond Quick Fixes: Addressing the Complexity & Uncertainties of Contemporary Society

Author: William B. Rouse

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

We seem to be stuck, staring at insurmountable challenges. The pandemic is the opening act for climate change, and we need to get much better at anticipating and preparing for these types of challenges. Simply rebuilding bridges once they fall, or houses once they are swept away, is both expensive and risks human lives. Anticipation and preparation costs more now, but is much less costly over time. We have managed—or at least reacted to—the Aids epidemic (1981–2013), Internet bubble bursting (2001), the real estate bubble bursting (2007), the opioid epidemic (2017), forest fires on the West Coast (2018), and the coronavirus pandemic (2020). Very recently, we have experienced the fall of Afghanistan (2021), the latest earthquake and hurricane in Haiti (2021), and the attack on Ukraine (2022). Beyond Quick Fixes steps back from business as usual to rethink how we can approach the complex challenges of contemporary society. Rouse retreats, initially, into the principals of design thinking rather than policy making; he rigorously reconsiders our typical modes of operation and explores alternative ways of thinking about complex problems and potential solutions. The result is an integrated approach to addressing complexity to assist leaders and advisors responsible for addressing these challenges.

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Title: Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response

Author: Judith Curry

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond to these challenges. Understanding the deep uncertainty surrounding the climate change problem helps us to better assess the risks. This book shows how uncertainty and disagreement can be part of the decision-making process. It provides a road map for formulating pragmatic solutions. Climate Uncertainty and Risk is a must-listen for those concerned about the environment, professionals dealing with climate change, and our national leaders.

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Title: [German] - Klimapolitik mit kühlem Kopf (Ungekürzt)

Author: Lothar Thürmer

Narrator: Samy Andersen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 38 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Es ist Zeit für eine neue Sicht auf die Klimapolitik. Für eine ehrliche Bilanz. Für Ziele, die erreichbar sind und uns nicht überfordern. Für eine stärkere globale Klima-Kooperation, die China voll einbezieht. Und für mehr Tempo bei der Anpassung an die Folgen der Erderwärmung.

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Title: The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 ‘TODAY’: Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives

Author: Ernest Scheyder

Narrator: John Moraitis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The trillion-dollar battle for the resources to power our future. Oil and gas defined the twentieth century. Now lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths and nickel will define the twenty-first. The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines. Critical minerals are vital to many sustainable technologies, and the competition for them is intensifying. Nations which aspire to energy independence are ever more intertwined: a hedge fund manager's attempt to revive rare earths mining in California needs Chinese expertise, and international reliance on Africa's mining sector persists despite concern over child labour. Meanwhile, ecological dilemmas abound: a proposed lithium mine in Nevada would help global car manufacturers slash their dependence on fossil fuels, but developing that mine could cause the extinction of a flower found nowhere else on the planet. As investors attempt to predict how the geopolitics of resource extraction will unfold, this is a story of the industry giants, researchers, and policymakers at the forefront of the new energy wars.

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Title: [Spanish] - Futuro ancestral

Author: Ailton Krenak

Narrator: Sebastian Diaz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Si hay un futuro que imaginar es ancestral, pues ya está presente en el aquí y ahora y en lo que existe a nuestro alrededor, en los ríos, las montañas y los árboles que son nuestros parientes. Krenak propone una mirada que desafía y enfrenta los supuestos que sostienen la mentalidad occidental. Frente a los estragos de siglos de colonialismo y devastación ecológica y social, Ailton Krenak llama la atención sobre el poder destructor del capitalismo. Si hay un futuro que imaginar es ancestral, pues ya está presente en el aquí y ahora y en lo que existe a nuestro alrededor, en los ríos, las montañas y los árboles que son nuestros parientes. Una mirada que desafía y enfrenta los supuestos que sostienen la mentalidad occidental. La idea de futuro a veces nos asusta con escenarios apocalípticos. En otras ocasiones, se ofrece como una oportunidad de redención, como si fuera posible resolver, más adelante y por arte de magia, todos los problemas del presente. En todo caso, las ilusiones nos alejan de lo que está a nuestro alrededor. En esta nueva colección de textos, Ailton Krenak nos provoca con la radicalidad de su pensamiento insurgente, que desplaza al sentido común e invoca la maravilla. Dice Krenak: 'Los ríos, esos seres que siempre habitaron los mundos en diferentes formas, son quienes me sugieren que, si hay un futuro a pensar, ese futuro es ancestral, porque ya estaba aquí'.

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Title: Everest: The West Ridge

Author: Thomas Hornbein

Narrator: Tom Beyer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: March 12, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded. This special fiftieth anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format by members of the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by Jon Krakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965.

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Title: The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours

Author: Erika Howsare

Narrator: Erika Howsare

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road. From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us. Weaving together history and reportage, in The Age of Deer Erika Howsare deftly explores the relationship between our two species in the line where wildness meets humankind. It is a reminder of the poetry and violence of the natural world, from an exciting new voice in nature writing.

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Title: Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them

Author: Derek Gow

Narrator: Angus King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Renowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his fascination with this creature grew. With increasing curiosity, Derek started to piece together fragments of information, stories and artefacts to reveal a shadowy creature that first walked proud through these lands and then was hunted to extinction as coexistence turned to fear, hatred – and domination. What Derek came to realize was that the underlying motives behind our hatred were actually far more prosaic and, like most persecutions, to do with power and profit. We turned the wolf into a savage beast and saw its extirpation as a civilizing mission. But the wolf survived far longer than many thought and Derek tells of his sightings of the wolf through folklore and mythology, the records of grand estates and parish churches as well as wolf heads, both real and recreated. With bitingly funny but also tender stories, Hunt for the Shadow Wolf is Derek’s quest to uncover the true nature of this creature because, as we seek to heal our landscape, we must reconcile our relationship with it. Before we can even begin to bring the wolf back, we need to understand it. “I have loved this chase dearly and though what unfolds might be an ending of sorts, I have no intention to let this hunt cease.”?Derek Gow, from Hunt for the Shadow Wolf