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ID: 419538

Title: Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption

Author: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to date has caused significant losses, and that the failure to prepare for the consequences of further warming may prove to be staggering.

Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on solutions-some gradual and some more revolutionary-currently being deployed around the globe. Each chapter presents a thematic lesson for decision-makers and engaged citizens to consider, outlining replicable successes and identifying provocative recommendations to strengthen climate resilience.

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ID: 419531

Title: Jet Stream: A Journey Through our Changing Climate

Author: Tim Woollings

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:57:35

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires. These events have fueled intense discussions in scientific conferences, government agencies, cafes, and on street corners around the world. Why are these events happening? Is this the emerging signal of climate change, and should we expect more of this? Media reports vary widely, but one mysterious agent has risen to prominence in many cases: the jet stream.

The story begins on a windswept beach in Barbados, from where we follow the ascent of a weather balloon that will travel along the jet stream all around the world. From this viewpoint we observe the effect of the jet in influencing human life around the hemisphere, and witness startling changes emerging. What is the jet stream and how well do we understand it? How does it affect our weather and is it changing? These are the main questions tackled in this book.

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ID: 413305

Title: Ground Zero

Author: Aimee Nicole Walker

Narrator: Tristan James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:04:25

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary, Military

Summary:

Heat, humidity, and homicide are things veteran detective Sawyer Key expects to encounter on his first day with the Savannah Police Department, but the hostile reception from his new partner catches him by surprise. Sawyer isn't a stranger to heartache and recognizes that Royce Locke is a wounded man who's reeling from a devastating loss. Relentless and patient in all things, Sawyer is determined to make the new partnership work.

Savannah, Georgia is known for her quirky people, oak trees draped in Spanish moss, and antebellum architecture. Beneath the Southern charm and hospitality, festering hatred and violence is soaring with the summer temperatures. Locke and Key find themselves at the epicenter when their first case involves the death of a former shock jock who appears to be the victim of vigilante justice.

Opposites in nearly every way, the two detectives set aside their differences to take back their city and restore law and order. From this reluctant truce, an intense attraction grows that will either tighten or shatter their tenuous bond. The fuse is lit, the clock is running, and the zero hour is upon them. Tick tock.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 419532

Title: Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Duncan Pritchard

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:47:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest superfoods, and political rhetoric, a healthy amount of scepticism is widely encouraged. But when is such scepticism legitimate-for example, as a driver of new ideas-and when is it problematic? And what role might adopting a sceptical outlook play in leading an intellectually virtuous life?

In this Very Short Introduction Duncan Pritchard explores both the advantages of scepticism, in challenging outdated notions, and also how it can have unhelpful social consequences, in generating distrust. He considers the role of scepticism at the source of contemporary social and political movements such as climate change denial, post-truth politics, and fake news. Pritchard also examines the philosophical arguments for a radical form of scepticism which maintains that knowledge is impossible, and explores some of the main responses to these arguments. Finally, he considers the part scepticism might play in applying better thinking and learning to achieve a more meaningful life.

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ID: 413302

Title: Christmas Eve Secret

Author: Elyse Douglas

Narrator: Madeleine Dauer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:16:49

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Holiday, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

Eve and Patrick Gantly are living a normal life in 2019 New York, preparing to celebrate the Christmas season. To their delight, Eve is three months pregnant.

Despite their happiness, Eve is having premonitions that something dreadful is about to occur. Concerned about the future and the safety of their child, she insists that they destroy the time travel lantern. Patrick is more cautious.

One afternoon when Patrick is out, a sinister man breaks into the apartment and forces Eve to give him the lantern. A day later, Patrick shadows a woman who has been staking out the Gantlys' brownstone apartment, and he confronts her. To his and Eve's utter shock, they learn that Lucy Rose is from 1924 and that she time-traveled with the man who took the lantern. She offers to sell the lantern back to Eve and Patrick, and they reluctantly agree, hoping to keep it out of unscrupulous hands.

Convinced that the lantern is a threat to their future happiness, Eve and Patrick decide to destroy it. But the lantern has more power than they could have ever imagined. Once the lantern is destroyed, Eve's life is completely changed. She must set off on an adventure, in a struggle that will return her to the past.

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ID: 419533

Title: Korea: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Michael J. Seth

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:20

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Asia

Summary:

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbors China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regimes, at once both bizarre and menacing.

Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region. Michael Seth considers what it means to be Korean, and analyzes how the various peoples of the Korean peninsula became one of the world's most homogeneous nations, before exploring how this nation evolved, in a single lifetime, into today's sharply contrasting societies. He also discusses how Korea fits into the larger narrative of both East Asian and world history, economically, politically, and socially.

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ID: 411349

Title: Environmental History of the Civil War

Author: Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:29:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world.

To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies. But here Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story, combining military and environmental history to forge a comprehensive new narrative of the war's significance and impact.

As they reveal, the conflict created a new disease environment by fostering the spread of microbes among vulnerable soldiers, civilians, and animals; led to large-scale modifications of the landscape across several states; sparked new thinking about the human relationship to the natural world; and demanded a reckoning with disability and death on an ecological scale. And as the guns fell silent, the change continued; Browning and Silver show how the war influenced the future of weather forecasting, veterinary medicine, the birth of the conservation movement, and the establishment of the first national parks.

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ID: 416930

Title: Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals

Author: Carl Safina

Narrator: Carl Safina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:51:18

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Social Science

Summary:

This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt.

Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?

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ID: 425992

Title: High Magick: A Guide to Cannabis in Ritual & Mysticism

Author: Philip H. Farber

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:55

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Discover the fascinating world of cannabis magick! This groundbreaking book explores how to incorporate one of the world's most powerful plants into magical work like invocation, evocation, banishing, and making change in the world. In High Magick, you will learn about the historical and contemporary use of cannabis in spiritual settings and explore how you can use it safely and effectively. You will also find specific advice for using cannabis in rituals for toasting, praising, pathworking, consecrating, charging, and much more.

Filled with step-by-step instructions as well as helpful insights into some of the most famous ritual magicians and cannabis proponents in the world, this book helps you harness the spiritual power of this amazing plant.

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ID: 414614

Title: Moneychangers

Author: Arthur Hailey

Narrator: David Stifel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:48:02

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General

Summary:

The number one bestselling author of the blockbuster thrillers Airport and Hotel takes on the world of high finance.

Ben Roselli, president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the founder, makes the shocking announcement that he's dying. With no offspring to inherit the company, Roselli knows that executive VPs Roscoe Heyward and Alex Vandervoort are the obvious candidates to succeed him. Heyward, who has been with First Mercantile for two decades, will do whatever it takes to bring in new clients and win the coveted presidency. Vandervoort, a newcomer from the Federal Reserve with a left-wing girlfriend, advocates for a socially responsible plan of growth. And now the discovery of counterfeit cash and credit card fraud threatens the future of the bank itself.

From the day-to-day business dealings to the inner sanctums of the money trading center and the boardroom, Hailey's novel is a riveting tale of ambition, greed, and the US banking system.

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