Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Animals & Nature

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646287 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Erle C. Ellis

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions, the mass extinction of species—these are just some of the many indicators that we will leave a lasting record in rock, the scientific basis for recognizing new time intervals in Earth's history. The Anthropocene, as the proposed new epoch has been named, is regularly in the news. Even with such robust evidence, the proposal to formally recognize our current time as the Anthropocene remains controversial both inside and outside the scholarly world. Instead, the Anthropocene has emerged as a powerful new narrative, a concept through which age-old questions about the meaning of nature and even the nature of humanity are being revisited and radically revised. This Very Short Introduction explains the science behind the Anthropocene and the many proposals about when to mark its beginning: the nuclear tests of the 1950s? The beginnings of agriculture? The origins of humans as a species? The Anthropocene remains a work in progress. Is this the story of an unprecedented planetary disaster? Or of newfound wisdom and redemption?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646233 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change

Author: Maria Cristina Garcia

Narrator: Joana Garcia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a 'climate refugee' under current U.S. law. Most initiatives intended to assist those who must migrate are flawed and ineffective from inception because they are derived from outmoded policies. In a world of climate change, U.S. refugee policy simply does not work. Garcia focuses on Central America and the Caribbean, where natural disasters have repeatedly worsened poverty, inequality, and domestic and international political tensions. She explains that the creation of better U.S. policy for those escaping disasters is severely limited by the 1980 Refugee Act, which continues to be applied almost exclusively for reasons of persecution directly related to politics, race, religion, and identity. Garcia contends that the United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address today's realities. Climate change and natural disasters are here to stay, and much of the human devastation left in their wake is essentially a policy choice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640480 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

Author: Kim Heacox

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic! In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment. Braided through the larger story are tales of gold prospectors and the cabin they built sixty years ago; John Muir and his intrepid terrier, Stickeen; and a dynamic geology professor who teaches earth science 'as if every day were a geological epoch.' Nearly two million people come to Alaska every summer, some on large cruise ships, some in single kayaks—all in search of the last great wilderness, the Africa of America. It is exactly the America Heacox finds in this story of paradox, love, and loss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629536 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure

Author: F.A. Worsley

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. 'You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?' asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. 'What the ice gets,' replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, 'the ice keeps.' It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-1916 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667620 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [Spanish] - La evolución táctica del fútbol

Author: Martí Perarnau

Narrator: Emilio Bianchi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 50 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Vuelve Martí Perarnau, el autor best seller de Herr Pep y Pep Guardiola. La Metamorfosis. El nuevo libro de Martí Perarnau descifra el código genético del fútbol. Describe la evolución táctica del juego desde su reglamentación en 1863: la Pirámide de Cambridge, el mediocentro de ataque, el líbero uruguayo, la WM británica, el Método italiano, el 4-2-4 húngaro, el cerrojo suizo o el 3-2-5 argentino. El libro recorre los distintos desarrollos tácticos de la mano del falso 9, la figura más compleja y sutil que existe en el fútbol. El falso 9 surgió en 1910 y ha acompañado todas las sucesivas evoluciones: el juego directo inglés, el juego de pases escocés, la orientación ofensiva y la defensiva, la mentalidad proactiva, el espíritu reactivo, la defensa zonal, el marcaje al hombre, el ataque en línea, en abanico o en W. Todas las ideas del juego están contenidas en el interior del falso 9, que aglutina los cuatro grandes elementos del fútbol: balón, tiempo, espacio y engaño. Este libro demuestra que el fútbol es un combate de ideas, que viajan a lomos de entrenadores y jugadores en sus constantes migraciones, y que cada pueblo juega según su manera de ser. - Martí Perarnau (Barcelona, 1955) participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Moscú 1980 en salto de altura, especialidad en la que fue campeón y recordman de España de todas las categorías. Dirigió las secciones deportivas de varios periódicos y también la de Televisión Española en Cataluña, donde creó el programa Estadio 2. Hace más de veinte años que se dedica, también, al mundo de la gestión, primero como director del centro principal de prensa de los Juegos de Barcelona 1992 y, posteriormente, ya en Madrid, como director general de empresas audiovisuales. Actualmente dirige su propia productora de publicidad. Ha publicado Senda de campeones, dedicado a La Masía del FC Barcelona, Herr Pep, traducido a catorce idiomas y Pep Guardiola. La metamorfosis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646610 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine

Author: Sandra Lawrence

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The Witch's Garden describes over fifty of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary, and storied plants—from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits, and to even induce immortality. Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you like to call them, those who cultivate plants for their apparent mystical properties have existed for thousands of years. The Witch's Garden tells the story of our folkloric fascination with these magical specimens, documenting the beliefs and rituals surrounding the natural world. This book beautifully evokes the bewitching nature of mysterious plants.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644789 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization

Series: Part of Patagonia

Author: John Perlin

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A Foundational Conservation Story Revived. Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even the pine tree stood on its own very hills” but when civilization took over, “the mountain oak, the pine were felled.” This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. To this day trees still fulfill these roles for a good portion of the world’s population. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome, the Islamic World, Western Europe, and North America would have never emerged. Wood, in fact, is the unsung hero of the technological revolution that has brought us from a stone and bone culture to our present age. Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood was the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics and technology of successive societies over the millennia. The Forest Journey was originally published in 1989 and updated in 2005. The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life -- told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor -- gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's 'One Hundred Great Books.' Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson. This is a foundational conservation story that should not be lost in the archives. This new, updated and revised edition emphasizes the importance of forests in the fight against global warming and the urgency to protect what remains of the great trees and forests of the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667575 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: How To Care For A Pet Rabbit

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Uncle Perry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Release date: February 10, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Rabbits are the third most popular household pet in the West, and are gaining popularity in the rest of the world too. This book aims to advise prospective owners on how to choose, buy and take care of a pet rabbit.Rabbits are the third most popular household pet in the West, and are gaining popularity in the rest of the world too. This book aims to advise prospective owners on how to choose, buy and take care of a pet rabbit. It is said, and I have found it to be true, that rabbits are about as intelligent as your average cat or dog. They live approximately the same length of time too, but are less demanding and easier to feed. In fact, they are ideal for people who can't get out much, or don't want to keep meat in the fridge or even in the house, as they are one hundred percent vegetarian! If you don't know much about rabbits, you could be forgiven for thinking that a rabbit is a rabbit, is a rabbit, but in fact, there are 370 classes of rabbit (according to UK and USA rabbit organisations) and they come from 70 different countries. So, there is plenty of scope in size and colour. Not only that, but owners will tell you that each rabbit has its own distinctive personality, much like a cat or a dog. However, in general, we could say that rabbits are docile, placid and friendly, and don't appreciate rough handling or play. Rabbits are also the third most popular pet in the UK and the fourth in the USA, but third most popular with all age groups of twelve and above. So, you are in good company. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657237 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [German] - Nichts mehr so wie es wAHR!: Gezeiten einer Katastrophe (Ungekürzt)

Author: Marco Martin

Narrator: Marco Martin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Release date: February 10, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In der Nacht vom 14.07. auf den 15.07.2021 wurde unsere Heimat, unser wunderschönes Ahrtal von einer Naturkatastrophe heimgesucht, die ihres gleichen sucht. Von jetzt auf gleich haben tausende Menschen ihre Heimat, ihr Hab und Gut verloren. Leider mussten auch viel zu viele Menschen diese Katastrophe mit ihrem Leben bezahlen. Die Natur hat uns unbarmherzig und mit einer brachialen Gewalt gezeigt wie klein und verletzlich wir alle sind. Dies sind meine Erlebnisse, meine Eindrücke, meine Geschichte, wie es sich in dieser Zeit zugetragen hat. Es sind Eindrücke und Erlebnisse die sich eingebrannt haben wie ein Stempel. Unsere Heimat hat sich mit einem Schlag komplett verändert. Verändert für immer. Unser Ahrtal wird nicht mehr dasselbe sein. Es liegen Jahre harter Arbeit vor uns, um wieder ein halbwegs normales Leben führen zu können. Die letzten Monate haben uns allen aber sehr eindrücklich gezeigt mit was für einer Energie, Kraft und Willensstärke Menschen gemeinsam Dinge bewegen und bewältigen können. Diese Katastrophe ist noch lange nicht bewältigt, aber diese ganze SolidAHRität die wir hier alle gesehen haben von wildfremden Menschen hat uns die Kraft gegeben weiter zu machen. Wir sind alle Müde und Kraftlos. Wir haben alle viel Schweiß, und noch mehr Tränen verloren. Wir sind teilweise mit den Nerven fix und fertig, aber aufgeben ist keine Option. Wir werden weiter machen unsere Heimat, unser zu Hause wieder aufzubauen, egal gegen welche Widerstände auch immer. Wir lassen unser Ahrtal wieder in neuem Glanze erstrahlen. Packen wir es an. Gemeinsam. Denn nur gemeinsam sind wir stAHRk!!!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653446 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the TIme of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies

Author: Dougald Hine

Narrator: Dougald Hine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2023

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. . . Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement Dougald Hine, author and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he found he had nothing left to say. Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological destruction want to stop talking about climate change now? At Work in the Ruins explores that question. “Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer,” Hine says. Questions like, how did we end up in this mess? Is it just a piece of bad luck with the atmospheric chemistry—or is it the result of a way of approaching the world that would always have brought us to such a pass? How we answer such questions has consequences. According to Hine, our answers shape our understanding and our thinking about what kind of problem we think we’re dealing with and, therefore, what kind of responses we go looking for. “But when science is turned into an object of belief and a source of overriding authority,” Hine continues, “it becomes hard even to talk about the questions that it cannot answer.” In eloquent, deeply researched prose, Hine demonstrates how our over-reliance on the single lens of science has blinded us to the nature of the crises around and ahead of us, leading to ‘solutions’ that can only make things worse. At Work in the Ruins is his reckoning with the strange years we have been living through and our long history of asking too much of science. It’s also about how we find our bearings and what kind of tasks are worth giving our lives to, given all we know or have good grounds to fear about the trouble the world is in. For anyone who has found themselves needing to make sense of the COVID time and how we talk about it, At Work in the Ruins offers guidance by standing firmly forward and facing the depth of the trouble we are in. Hine, ultimately, helps us find the work that is worth doing, even in the ruins. 'A book of rare originality and depth—profound, far-reaching, mind-altering stuff.' Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings