Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction By Chris D. Thomas [Audiobook]

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Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.
It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and, of course, climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth - we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new places for enterprising animals and plants to live, and our activities have stimulated evolutionary change in virtually every population of living species. Most remarkably, Thomas shows, humans may well have raised the rate at which new species are formed to the highest level in the history of our planet.
Drawing on the success stories of diverse species, from the ochre-colored comma butterfly to the New Zealand pukeko, Thomas overturns the accepted story of declining biodiversity on Earth. In so doing, he questions why we resist new forms of life and why we see ourselves as unnatural. Ultimately, he suggests that if life on Earth can recover from the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, it can survive the onslaughts of the technological age. This eye-opening book is a profound reexamination of the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

 

Duration: 9 hrs and 52 mins
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 396 MB

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Gator's Challenge: Bitten Point, Book 4 By Eve Langlais [Audiobook]

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Once upon a time, a girl loved a boy but married another man. What a mistake, especially since that man has been using her as part of his sick plot to experiment on shifters. And he's got a plan to use their sons.
Over my dead body. But Melanie might need help keeping her boys safe. Wes is keeping secrets, lots of them, but he doesn't have a choice. The people he cares about are in danger, and he'll do anything to protect them, but that struggle intensifies when the girl he never stopped loving is drawn into danger.
Can this gator meet the challenge of freeing himself from the blackmailing grip of Bittech, but also find a way to be with Melanie, too?
Contains mature themes.

Duration: 6 hrs and 18 min
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 249 MB

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Python's Embrace: Bitten Point, Book 3 By Eve Langlais [Audiobook]

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Don't mock Constantine's dog. Princess might weigh only six and a half pounds, but she's tough - so watch your ankles. Be warned: If she doesn't like you, then neither will Constantine.
Except he kind of likes Aria, even though Princess would prefer to bury her in a hole. Could it be because Aria has secrets? Lots of them, and they all have to do with the danger stalking Bitten Point.
People are missing, and some have turned up dead. Monsters are roaming, and not just the swamp at night but the streets, too. At the heart of the mystery is a bite-sized woman, a woman Constantine wants to hug tightly in his coils and keep forever.
A cold-blooded snake, Constantine can't help but crave the warmth that is Aria, but can he keep her out of mortal danger long enough to make her his mate?
Contains mature themes.

 

Duration: 5 hrs and 46 mins
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 232.1 MB

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King Solomon's Curse: Wilde/Chase 13 By Andy McDermott [Audiobook]

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Following on from The Midas Legacy, Andy McDermott's new Wilde and Chase audiobook sees our daring duo on the trail of a strange, ancient weapon of immense power hidden in a lost city deep in the African jungle.
Nina Wilde is back on the hunt. Now a presenter of her own TV documentary series, Nina is in Jerusalem. Clues found at the Ark of the Covenant recovery site have led her to the ruins of the First Temple, buried beneath Temple Mount.
Within them, Nina spots an opening to a previously hidden chamber - a map room which contains a model of a mysterious city thought to contain a great yet dangerous power hidden by King Solomon himself. Analysing the clues, Nina believes that the city is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most dangerous locations on Earth.
Eddie is in England with their daughter, Macy, but Nina's phone call is about to change everything. He has had his own problems in the DRC in the past and he isn't about to let Nina go there alone. Joining forces, Nina and Eddie are about to start a chain of events from which there might be no return....

Duration: 15 hrs and 28 mins
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 676.6MB

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Status Anxiety By Alain de Botton [Audiobook]

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This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that is rarely mentioned: an anxiety about what others think of us, about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. Best-selling author Alain de Botton asks, with lucidity and charm, where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to surmount them. With the help of philosophers, artists, and writers, he examines the origins of status anxiety before revealing ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness. We learn about sandal-less philosophers and topless bohemians, about the benefits of putting skulls on our sideboards, and about looking at ancient ruins. The result is a book that is not only highly entertaining and thought-provoking but genuinely wise and helpful, too.

 

Duration: 6 hrs and 23 mins
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 351.8 MB

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About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang By Adam Frank [Audiobook]

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The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again - as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.
In About Time, Adam Frank explains how the texture of our lives changes along with our understanding of the universe's origin. Since we awoke to self-consciousness 50,000 years ago, our lived experience of time - from hunting and gathering to the development of agriculture to the industrial revolution to the invention of Outlook calendars - has been transformed and rebuilt many times. But the latest theories in cosmology - time with no beginning, parallel universes, eternal inflation - are about to send us in a new direction. Time is both our grandest and most intimate conception of the universe. Many books tell the story, recounting the progress of scientific cosmology. Frank tells the story of humanity's deepest question - when and how did everything begin? - alongside the story of how human beings have experienced time. He looks at the way our engagement with the world - our inventions, our habits and more - has allowed us to discover the nature of the universe and how those discoveries, in turn, inform our daily experience. This astounding book will change the way we think about time and how it affects our lives.

Duration: 13 hrs and 31 min
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 558.1 MB

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Grave Suspicion By Aaron Mahnke [Audiobook]

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Sam Hawthorne has lived a nomadic life, wandering through small Midwestern towns for the past two decades. He is known among the people he meets as an oddity and a troublemaker. He has a secret, however; one that has given him the chance to help dozens of people over the years. But that secret has also created a trail, and now someone with violent intentions has begun to follow it.
Forced to run for his life, Sam returns to his hometown for the first time since the death of his family. There, Roger Sandbrook - old family friend and local history professor - welcomes him in and gives him aid. Sam quickly learns that he isn't the only one with secrets, however, and that Roger just might be the only person who can help him.
From the tired small towns of the Midwest to the streets of historic Salem, Sam's journey will carry him through painful memories and across centuries of forgotten history. But ask the questions stack up, will he also find the answers he needs?

Duration: 7 hours 27 minutes
BitRate: 95 kbps
File Format: .Mp3
File Size: 307.2 MB

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