AuthorDavid George Haskell
NarratorThe Author, Cassandra Campbell
Duration10h 26m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, History, Science and Nature, General Non Fiction
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. An Amazonian ceibo tree reveals the rich ecological turmoil of the tropical forest, along with threats from expanding oil fields. Thousands of miles away, the roots of a balsam fir in Canada survive in poor soil only with the help of fungal partners. These links are nearly two billion years old: the fir's roots cling to rocks containing fossils of the first networked cells. By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth's climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities, and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests, but destroying others. Haskell also attends to trees in places where humans seem to have subdued "nature" - a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem, a Japanese bonsai- demonstrating that wildness permeates every location. Every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships. Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. When we listen to trees, nature's great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
So You Want To Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Author Ijeoma Oluo
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 44m
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor-at-Large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in...
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Author: Catherine Bailey
Author Catherine Bailey
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 15h 27m
Brought to you by Penguin. Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German Resistance, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In response to the attack, Himmler, leader of the SS, orders the arrest of all the families of the plotters. In a remote castle in Italy, von H...
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How To Make Fabric Accessories
Author: Khyria Cepe
Author Khyria Cepe
Narrator Courtney Lucien
Duration 47m
Wanting to have those beautiful earrings and charming necklaces that you see on magazines and online stores, but you don't have the budget? Read through this guide and find out how you can start making fabric accessories on your own.
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Author: Janet Williams
Author Janet Williams
Narrator The Authors
Duration 5h 1m
Whether you are looking for a backup disaster plan or you just want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, homegrown food and remedies offer you the freedom of choice to take care of yourself. To start with, this comprehensive program will show you how you can have homegrown, garden-fresh fruits and vegetables anytime and anywhere you want. Think o...
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Author: Daniel Levitin
Author Daniel Levitin
Narrator Daniel Levitin
Duration 11h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our spec...
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Author: John Hammer
Author John Hammer
Narrator Jim Johnston
Duration 1h 42m
Start Your Journey Towards Woodworking Today With This Handy Guide That Will Teach You The Techniques And Skills You Need As A Beginner To Master This Craft Woodworking Is A Hobby That People Have Been Enjoying For Years. While In The Past It Was Used More As A Way To Make Furniture And Other Things That You Needed In The Home, It Is Now Something...
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Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Author Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris
Duration 19h 31m
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016* The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, th...
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Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Author Ibram X. Kendi
Narrator Ibram X. Kendi
Duration 10h 44m
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts...
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Author: Darla Singer
Author Darla Singer
Narrator The Yuw
Duration 7m
Do you enjoy knitting or would like to learn how? Learn how to create beautiful patterns in no time at all! Whether you are on the road, at home, or anywhere else you can knit in your spare time, anywhere you want. - Make patterns in just a few hours. - Learn how to knit. - Learn stitch patterns. - Create hats, sweaters, socks, gifts, items for you...
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Author: Blake Snyder
Author Blake Snyder
Narrator George Newbern
Duration 5h 25m
Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, others include t...
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