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Gathering Moss

A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series
... Read more
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The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

by Peter Wohlleben ...

Narrated by Mike Grady ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to
... Read more
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Thus Spoke the Plant

A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

by Monica Gagliano ...

Narrated by Julie Slater ...

Unabridged

5 hours 18 min

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By ... Read more

$29.99 USD

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By
... Read more
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Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

by David Attenborough ...

Narrated by David Attenborough ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean ... Read more

$27.99 USD

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean
... Read more
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The Heartbeat of Trees

Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

by Peter Wohlleben ...

Narrated by Mike Grady ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESA powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply con... ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESA powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply con...
... Read more
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The Genius of Trees

How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

by Harriet Rix ...

Narrated by Harriet Rix ...

Unabridged

10 hours

**A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined“Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born ... Read more

$22.00 USD

**A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined“Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born
... Read more
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The Secret Life of Fungi

Discoveries from a Hidden World

by Aliya Whiteley ...

Narrated by Alison Larkin ...

Unabridged

3 hours 31 min

Fungi are unlike any other living thing—they’re almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world …Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there’s still much ... Read more

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Fungi are unlike any other living thing—they’re almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world …Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there’s still much
... Read more
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Our Green Heart

The Soul and Science of Forests

by Diana Beresford-Kroeger ...

Narrated by Diana Beresford-Kroeger ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.**As the last child in Ireland to receive a full ... Read more

$25.99 USD

**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.**As the last child in Ireland to receive a full
... Read more
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Plants on Fire

by Melissa Petruzzello ...

Narrated by Melissa Petruzzello, Emily Booth ...

Series series Botanize!
Unabridged

18 min

Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Emily Booth of Temple University discuss the effects of fire on plants and how climate change may alter the impacts of fire on plant communities. This is the second installment of the Botanize! podcast series. ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Emily Booth of Temple University discuss the effects of fire on plants and how climate change may alter the impacts of fire on plant communities. This is the second installment of the Botanize! podcast series.
... Read more
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Otters, Algae, and Plants, Oh My

by Melissa Petruzzello ...

Narrated by Melissa Petruzzello, Kyle Shanebeck ...

Series series Botanize!
Unabridged

23 min

Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Kyle Shanebeck of the University of Alberta discuss the relationship between sea otters and the health of giant kelp forests and eelgrass meadows. This is the fourth installment of the Botanize! podcast series. ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Kyle Shanebeck of the University of Alberta discuss the relationship between sea otters and the health of giant kelp forests and eelgrass meadows. This is the fourth installment of the Botanize! podcast series.
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CURSO INTENSIVO DE BOTÁNICA

by Marcel Souza ...

Narrated by Voz Digital Liliana G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 18 min

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital.Descubre el fascinante mundo de la botánica con este Curso Intensivo de Botánica, diseñado para proporcionar un aprendizaje completo y accesible sobre el reino vegetal. A lo largo de este audiolibro, explorarás los principios fundamentales de la botánica, desde la clasificación y estructura de las plantas hasta sus funciones biológicas y su ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital.Descubre el fascinante mundo de la botánica con este Curso Intensivo de Botánica, diseñado para proporcionar un aprendizaje completo y accesible sobre el reino vegetal. A lo largo de este audiolibro, explorarás los principios fundamentales de la botánica, desde la clasificación y estructura de las plantas hasta sus funciones biológicas y su
... Read more
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How Flowers Made Our World

The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries

by David George Haskell ...

Narrated by David George Haskell, Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

**“A work of real passion.”—The New York Times"A seamless melding of poetry and science.”—Wall Street JournalAn exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today**We live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit they deserve. We admire them for their aesthetics, not their power. In this examination of ... Read more

$24.00 USD

**“A work of real passion.”—The New York Times"A seamless melding of poetry and science.”—Wall Street JournalAn exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today**We live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit they deserve. We admire them for their aesthetics, not their power. In this examination of
... Read more
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Jardinología

La ciencia de la jardinería

by DK, Dr. Stuart Farrimond ...

Narrated by Jordi Llovet ...

Unabridged

7 hours 47 min

Aclara todas tus dudas y empieza a cultivar como un profesional¿Es necesario alimentar las plantas? ¿Es malo usar pesticidas? ¿Cómo y cuándo es mejor podar? ¿Por qué mis árboles frutales florecen pero no dan fruto? Con tantas instrucciones complejas y consejos a menudo contradictorios, el mundo de la jardinería puede resultar intimidante y confuso.En Jardinología, el Dr. Stuart Farrimond se sirve ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Aclara todas tus dudas y empieza a cultivar como un profesional¿Es necesario alimentar las plantas? ¿Es malo usar pesticidas? ¿Cómo y cuándo es mejor podar? ¿Por qué mis árboles frutales florecen pero no dan fruto? Con tantas instrucciones complejas y consejos a menudo contradictorios, el mundo de la jardinería puede resultar intimidante y confuso.En Jardinología, el Dr. Stuart Farrimond se sirve
... Read more
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Iwígara

American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

by Enrique Salmón ...

Narrated by Kaipo Schwab ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

Tap into thousands of years of plant knowledgeThe belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and highlights eighty plants revered by North America's ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Tap into thousands of years of plant knowledgeThe belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and highlights eighty plants revered by North America's
... Read more
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In the Herbarium

The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

by Maura C. Flannery ...

Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate.Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate.Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the
... Read more
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The Cabaret of Plants

Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

by Richard Mabey ...

Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

Unabridged

11 hours 14 min

A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just
... Read more
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INTENSIV-BOTANIK-KURSf

by Marcel Souza ...

Narrated by Digitale Stimme Gabriela G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 23 min

Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer digitalen Stimme vorgelesen.Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Botanik mit unserem Intensiv-Botanik-Kurs! Dieses Hörbuch bietet Ihnen ein umfassendes Wissen über die Pflanzenwelt, von grundlegenden Konzepten bis hin zu fortgeschrittenen botanischen Studien. Sie lernen die Struktur, Funktionen und Klassifizierung verschiedener Pflanzenarten kennen und ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer digitalen Stimme vorgelesen.Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Botanik mit unserem Intensiv-Botanik-Kurs! Dieses Hörbuch bietet Ihnen ein umfassendes Wissen über die Pflanzenwelt, von grundlegenden Konzepten bis hin zu fortgeschrittenen botanischen Studien. Sie lernen die Struktur, Funktionen und Klassifizierung verschiedener Pflanzenarten kennen und
... Read more
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Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants

by Elizabeth Adelman ...

Narrated by Holly Adams ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way—and of their amazing afterlife.Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way—and of their amazing afterlife.Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead
... Read more
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Concrete Botany

The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

by Joey Santore ...

Narrated by Joey Santore ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

Concrete Botany is a gritty, kick-in-the-guts look at the ecological disturbance humans have caused and the resilience of the plants living amongst it.Delivered in his raw and unapologetic yet botanically accurate tone, Joey Santore—the unforgettable host of Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t—offers an often unsettling view of human-caused ecological destruction and its impact on the natural ecosystems ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Concrete Botany is a gritty, kick-in-the-guts look at the ecological disturbance humans have caused and the resilience of the plants living amongst it.Delivered in his raw and unapologetic yet botanically accurate tone, Joey Santore—the unforgettable host of Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t—offers an often unsettling view of human-caused ecological destruction and its impact on the natural ecosystems
... Read more
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CORSO INTENSIVO DI BOTANICA

by Marcel Souza ...

Narrated by Voce digitale Isabella G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 28 min

Questo audiolibro è narrato da una voce digitale.Scopri il meraviglioso mondo delle piante con il Corso Intensivo di Botanica, un audiolibro pensato per chi desidera apprendere in modo chiaro e approfondito i segreti della flora. Attraverso spiegazioni dettagliate e un linguaggio accessibile, questo corso ti guiderà alla scoperta delle principali caratteristiche delle piante, della loro ... Read more

$6.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Questo audiolibro è narrato da una voce digitale.Scopri il meraviglioso mondo delle piante con il Corso Intensivo di Botanica, un audiolibro pensato per chi desidera apprendere in modo chiaro e approfondito i segreti della flora. Attraverso spiegazioni dettagliate e un linguaggio accessibile, questo corso ti guiderà alla scoperta delle principali caratteristiche delle piante, della loro
... Read more
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How Sex Works

Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

by Sharon Moalem ...

Narrated by Oliver Wyman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History""How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag.""—O magazineMedical maverick and New York Times bestselling author of Survival ... Read more

$25.99 USD

“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History""How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag.""—O magazineMedical maverick and New York Times bestselling author of Survival
... Read more
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Food for Free

50th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Mabey ...

Narrated by Chris Courtney ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.Originally published in 1972, Richard Mabey’s classic foraging guide has never been out of print since. Food for Free is a complete guide to help you safely identify edible species ... Read more

$25.99 USD

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.Originally published in 1972, Richard Mabey’s classic foraging guide has never been out of print since. Food for Free is a complete guide to help you safely identify edible species
... Read more
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The Nation of Plants

by Stefano Mancuso ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Unabridged

3 hours

Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago—nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet—humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago—nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet—humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The
... Read more
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Scent

A Natural History of Fragrance

by Elise Vernon Pearlstine ...

Narrated by Tegan Ashton Cohan ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinatorPlants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinatorPlants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool
... Read more

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