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Human Geography Audiobooks

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    The Fates of Human Societies

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Doug Ordunio ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Power of Geography

    Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - The Much-Anticipated Sequel to the Global Bestseller Prisoners of Geography

    by Tim Marshall ...
    Narrated by Tim Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year’ Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has.**In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Revenge of Geography

    What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 24 min

    In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Narrated by Brian Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald TrumpNoam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Empty Planet

    The Shock of Global Population Decline

    by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    **A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.For half a century, sta... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Geography of Nowhere

    The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape

    by James Howard Kunstler ...
    Narrated by Al Kessel ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 35 min

    In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Feminist City

    A Field Guide

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place.” From the geography of ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Long Land War

    The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

    by Jo Guldi ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...
    series Yale Agrarian Studies

    Unabridged

    24 hours 50 min

    A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019Wordsworth and Coleridge as you’ve never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world.It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and ‘Kubla Khan’, as well as Coleridge’s unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Extreme Economies

    Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits

    by Richard Davies ...
    Narrated by James MacCallum ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Brought to you by Penguin.To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is banned to flourishing entrepreneurs in the world's largest refugee camp, from the unrealised potential of cities like Kinshasa to the hyper-modern economy of Estonia, every life in this book has ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    People of the World

    Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity

    by K. David Harrison, K. David Harrison, Catherine Herbert Howell ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 40 min

    From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world.Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of customs and traditions as well as a go-to source for ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    From Here to There

    The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way

    by Michael Bond ...
    Narrated by Pete Cross ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we’ve never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it’s also critical to our species’ evolutionary success. In From Here to There, Michael Bond tells stories of the lost ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pollution is Colonialism

    by Max Liboiron ...
    Narrated by Donna Postel ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Humans versus Nature

    A Global Environmental History

    by Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 44 min

    Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Finding Your Roots

    The Official Companion to the PBS Series

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 49 min

    Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. Gates' ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Tides

    The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

    by Jonathan White ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital

    by Sam Bright ...
    Narrated by Sam Bright ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny DorlingJournalist Sam Bright is a Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of people clinging on to the coattails of the capital, sucked in by the prospect of opportunities that the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Paths to the Past

    Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes

    by Francis Pryor ...
    Narrated by Francis Pryor ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Penguin Presents the audiobook edition of Paths to the Past written and read by Francis Pryor.Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over the generations. Formed by a complex series of natural and human processes, they rarely yield their secrets readily.Bringing to bear a lifetime's digging, Francis Pryor delves ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Land

    Our Gift and Wild Hope

    by Rae M. Taylor ...
    Narrated by Rae M. Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    In The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope, Rae Marie Taylor offers a timely look at the threats posed, in particular, on the region's wildlife and people, their homes and cultures. While telling her own story of loss in the Rocky Mountain/Rio Grande corridor, she also reveals a vigorous hope found among the many Westerners collaborating in sustainable approaches. In celebration of the earth's gradual ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    De sidste øboere

    by Christina Astrid Vorre ...
    Narrated by Peter Pilegaard ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    Christina Vorre har besøgt 10 danske øer, hvor befolkningstallet igennem det sidste århundrede har været faldende: Birkholm, Baagø, Christiansø/Frederiksø, Hirsholmene, Hjortø, Livø, Mandø, Skarø, Vejrø og Saltholm.Nogle af øerne er næsten affolket, mens andre stadig kæmper for deres overlevelse. Forfatteren beskriver nogle af de sidste øboeres tilværelse, men har også den historiske baggrund med: ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Atlas of Improbable Places

    A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

    by Travis Elborough ...
    Narrated by Travis Elborough ...
    series Unexpected Atlases

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points.Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations. Go in search of the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In Search of the Canary Tree

    The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

    by Lauren E. Oakes ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Paradise of Thorns

    by Aidan Hartley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    No Place To Go

    How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs

    by Lezlie Lowe ...
    Narrated by Amanda Wood ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we're allowed to "go" in public.Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problem- and politics-free. No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place To Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial