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Environmental Audiobooks

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    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

    by Bill Gates ...
    Narrated by Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reimagining Capitalism

    Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020

    by Rebecca Henderson ...
    Narrated by Lucinda Clare ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions, and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But it's also on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society in its single-minded pursuit of maximizing shareholder value.Rebecca Henderson, McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, argues for a new framework; one ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Volt Rush

    The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

    by Henry Sanderson ...
    Narrated by Rory Barnett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.Sanderson journeys to meet the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Book of Hope

    A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet

    by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams ...
    Narrated by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams ...
    Audiobook 1 - Global Icons Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe as a young woman to her tireless campaigning for the environment in her ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Smoke & Mirrors

    How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

    by Gemma Milne ...
    Narrated by Gemma Milne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Emerging Internet-Based Technologies

    by Matthew N. O. Sadiku ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    The author of this book has identified the seven key emerging Internet-related technologies: Internet of things, smart everything, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software-defined networking, and online education. Together these technologies are transformational and disruptive. This book provides researchers, students, and professionals a comprehensive introduction, applications, ... Read more

    $107.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Inspire Your Home

    by Alivia Lucas ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    Inspire Your Home: The Essential Guide on How to Turn Your Home Into an Eco-Friendly Home, Discover the Best Ways and Methods to Make Your Home Clean and GreenThere is a lot of news about climate change and there are certain changes in our environment that makes us think we have to act now and do our part in order to protect our environment. Some people are intimidated and think they don't have ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    What Could Go Right

    by Justin Bean ...
    Narrated by Dylan Wheeler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Tired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want.Instead of worst-case scenarios or Pollyanna optimism, you can envision an ideal world and be empowered to build it. The opportunity of our era is to transition to a sustainable, equitable, abundant global economy. When you rethink your mindset, understand tech and social ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Saving the Starry Night

    Light Pollution and Its Effects on Science, Culture, and Nature

    by Patrizia Caraveo ...
    Narrated by Christine Williams ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    This book takes a close look at our relationship with the sky, the stars, light, and darkness. In particular, it examines how light pollution has interfered with the culture of astronomy and our ability to appreciate this essential facet of our natural world.The sky has always held significance for humanity, in both cultural and scientific terms. And yet we persistently pollute it with sometimes ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Carbon Capture

    by Howard J. Herzog ...
    Narrated by Al Kessel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major driver of climate change. Carbon capture offers a path to climate change mitigation that has received relatively little attention. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Howard Herzog offers a concise guide to carbon capture, covering basic information as well as the larger context ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Divide

    The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

    by Anna Jones ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers - who manage two thirds of the UK's landscape - working together with conservation groups can ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Learning Engineering Practice

    by James Trevelyan ...
    Narrated by James P Trevelyan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    This book explains engineering practice, what engineers actually do in their work. The first part explains how to find paid engineering work and prepare for an engineering career. The second part explains the fundamentals of engineering practice, including how to gain access to technical knowledge, how to gain the willing collaboration of other people to make things happen, and how to work safely ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Transforming Health Care

    Virginia Mason Medical Center's Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience

    by Charles Kenney ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    For decades, the manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System — the most powerful production method in the world — to reduce waste, improve quality, reduce defects and increase worker productivity. In 2001, Virginia Mason Medical Center, an integrated healthcare delivery system in Seattle, Washington set out to achieve its compelling vision to become The Quality Leader and to ... Read more

    $68.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    All In

    The Future of Business Leadership

    by David Grayson, Chris Coulter, Mark Lee ...
    Narrated by Keith Warmington ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    The first book to use a comprehensive survey approach to capture and distil the reasons for success and failure in sustainability leadershipOffers practicing managers a succinct overview of developments and trends in the field of corporate sustainability and responsible leadership, highlighting the reasons for success or failureDraws on a truly international survey and includes examples from the ... Read more

    $56.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Combatting Wastefulness & Covid-19 Etc.

    by Seton During ...
    Narrated by Robert Sebastian Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    This book is dedicated to ethical taxpayers worldwide, as well as others struggling with inevitable and unavoidable or inescapable bills and invoices - in the domestic, public, private, voluntary. and foreign organisations world-wide to maximise "reach".It concentrates on errors of omission and commission to highlight, create, and confirm awareness and motivate corrections with strategies, ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Hydrogen Revolution

    a blueprint for the future of clean energy

    by Marco Alverà ...
    Narrated by Matthew Spencer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BPicture this: It's 2050. The looming shadow of climate change is finally receding. The planet's temperature is stabilising. Rainforests and coral reefs beginning to thrive once more. We are returning to ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    What Every Engineer Should Know About Career Management

    by Mike Ficco, Philip Laplante ...
    Narrated by Russell Bentley ...
    series What Every Engineer Should Know

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    Employs a relaxed style that relies on anecdotes and makes suggestions without preachingFocuses on career management, and the accompanying importance of human and social interactions in the officeDiscusses the human aspect of engineering projects, product development, schedules, budgets, and related topicsLooks at the interaction of engineers and managers working on projects in a corporate ... Read more

    $93.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    AI in Health

    A Leader’s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems

    by Tom Lawry ...
    Narrated by Russell Bentley ...
    series HIMSS Book Series

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    We are in the early stages of the next big platform shift in healthcare computing. Fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Cloud, this shift is already transforming the way health and medical services are provided.As the industry transitions from static digital repositories to intelligent systems, there will be winners and losers in the race to innovate and automate the provision of ... Read more

    $78.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

    Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change

    by Steven Earle ...
    Narrated by Mike Puttonen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    I love it. Earle understands the big climate picture and paints it with exceptional clarity.— JAMES HANSEN, director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, Columbia University Earth InstituteWhat's natural, what's caused by humans, and why climate change is a disaster for allA Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Murder Grove

    by E.V. Adamson ...
    Narrated by Shazia Nicholls, Jot Davies ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 54 min

    A gripping new thriller with a killer twist!Two bodies. Thirty years. And a secret that connects them both…1990A woman’s body is found brutally murdered in the woods, and next to it, a shallow grave hiding a terrified young girl.2021When Mia and Rich move to an eco-village in Spain, they’re looking for a new start. Val Verde is everything they wished for – at least to begin with. But when someone ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Poison Like No Other

    How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

    by Matt Simon ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere-including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming. In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Internationalism or Extinction

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...
    series Universalizing Resistance

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    Author-Publisher hired trade publicist with $25,000 publicity budgetChomsky uniquely traces the threats from climate change and nuclear weapons at a time when democracies have been challenged and weakenedChomsky shows how European agreements brought growing threats toward the Russian border, as NATO expanded and the EU developedThe Companion Film, "Noam Chomsky, Internationalism or Extinction," is ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How to Live Plastic Free

    a day in the life of a plastic detox

    by Luca Bonaccorsi, Marine Conservation Society ...
    Narrated by Ben Addis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference.Let's turn the tide on plastic now - our oceans will thank you for it.Choking. Starving. Poisoning.This is what plastic litter is doing to marine life. ... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Pre-Accident Investigations

    An Introduction to Organizational Safety

    by Todd Conklin ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    Helps to identify complex potential incidents before they take placeOffers established human performance theory in a highly practical contextWritten in an engaging, conversational style, around several case studies ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial