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Title: Nature's Miracles Volume 1: World Building and Life

Author: Elisha Gray

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent. Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science, published in 1900, is a discussion of science and technology for the general public. Volume I is subtitled World Building and Life: Earth, Air and Water. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Title: The Elements of Mammalogy

Author: William Ruschenberger

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The information, albeit not current, is still interesting and of use as a general overview of mammal biology. The classification of mammals has changed considerably since this time. The author was a surgeon in the U.S. Navy and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. (Summary by A. Gramour)

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Title: Cottage Economy

Author: William Cobbett

Narrator: Philippa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2017

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

How can you tell when your pig is fat enough? Why should you never buy mustard? What's wrong with eating potatoes? Which is better, beer or tea? And what type of straw makes the best bonnets? William Cobbett is the man to ask. Here is his book of practical advice to the rural labouring 'cottager' (first published as a part-work in 1821-22), the precursor in many ways to the handbooks on self-sufficiency that today entice so many city-dwellers. A champion of the rural working class at a time of huge social and industrial change, a radical politician and a prolific writer, Cobbett is opinionated, passionate and enlightening, making 'Cottage Economy' a fascinating and entertaining window on daily life for the smallholders of his day, and still inspirational, almost 200 years later, to those who seek 'a good living' as the foundation of happiness. (Introduction by Philippa)

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Title: The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

Author: John Charles Van Dyke

Narrator: Sue Anderson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky!" Van Dyke, a cultivated art historian, saw "sublimity" in the desert's "lonely desolation," which previous generations had perceived only as a wasteland, and his book has a conservationist flavor which seems distinctly modern. "The deserts should never be reclaimed," he writes. "They are the breathing spaces of the west and should be preserved for ever." The changing colors of the sky, hills, and sand impress Van Dyke, as do the mirages. He celebrates the "long overlooked commonplace things of nature"-- cactus and grease wood, desert animals, and "winged life," the birds and insects. His writing has a philosophical undertone. "Not in vain these wastes of sand ... simply because they are beautiful in themselves and good to look upon whether they be life or death." Anyone who views with equal awe fiery sunrises and weeds growing out of pavement cracks will enjoy this reading of Van Dyke's The Desert.(Summary by Sue Anderson)

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Title: Ten Common Trees

Author: Susan Stokes

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2017

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

These are short sketches of ten common trees found in North America -- Black Willow, American Elm, Apple Tree, Horse-Chestnut, Birch, White Oak, Chestnut, Walnut, Cone Bearers, Red Maple. The simple writing style makes the book suitable to be used in schools. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

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Title: Book of Sharks

Author: My Ebook Publishing House

Narrator: Matt Montanez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 17 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Read all about the fascinating world of sharks. There are over 500 species of sharks, and there is a great deal of diversity among them. Sharks include the world's largest fish, the Whale Shark, as well as some as small as a few inches. Most are predators, but a few filter plankton from the seawater.

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Title: Beekeeping: A Beginners Guide To Beekeeping

Author: Nancy Ross

Narrator: Sangita Chauhan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 51 minutes

Release date: December 9, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

DISCOVER THE EASY WAY TO GET STARTED WITH BEEKEEPING! Whether you want to make your own honey, boost your vegetable garden's production, or for the sheer enjoyment of beekeeping this book can help you. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... How Many Hives Should I Have? Where do I Find My Bees? Picking the Right Supplies Setting Up Your Beehive How to Collect the Honey Common Problems That You May Encounter with Beekeeping Tips to Succeeding in Beekeeping Much, Much, More!

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Title: Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

Author: David Grinspoon

Narrator: David Grinspoon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Release date: December 6, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings readers an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change. For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence. Without minimizing the challenges of the next century, Grinspoon suggests that our present moment is not only one of peril, but also great potential, especially when viewed from a 10,000-year perspective. Our species has surmounted the threat of extinction before, thanks to our innate ingenuity and ability to adapt, and there's every reason to believe we can do so again. Our challenge now is to awaken to our role as a force of planetary change, and to grow into this task. We must become graceful planetary engineers, conscious shapers of our environment and caretakers of Earth's biosphere. This is a perspective that begs us to ask not just what future do we want to avoid, but what do we seek to build? What kind of world do we want? Are humans the worst thing or the best thing to ever happen to our planet? Today we stand at a pivotal juncture, and the answer will depend on the choices we make.

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Title: The Children's Life of the Bee

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then rewrote it in simpler terms so that children could appreciate what goes in a hive. The book describes in simple language the inner workings of a hive from its beginning with a swarm to the fully functional hive with thousands of workers, drones and a queen busily building, repairing and gathering. (Summary by phil chenevert)

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Title: The Cat: Its Natural History, Varieties and Management

Author: Philip M. Rule

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

"The origin of the domestic cat (Felis domestica) is a subject about which there has been much conjecture and scientific discussion, but without any positive issue. Very long before the cat was kept in this country as a domesticated animal it was possessed by the ancient Egyptians in a tame state, and was, moreover, held in reverence by that remarkable and superstitious people, being regarded sacred to the goddess Pasht. As the domestic cat in different parts of the world will breed occasionally with the wild races of the locality, and as cats are conveyed from country to country, it is probable that our cats are of somewhat compound pedigree. It is considered probable that our fine English tabbies have a trace of the British wild-cat blood in their veins, although it may be obscure." - Summary by the author