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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818687 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and FreedomAuthor: Pam HoustonNarrator: Pam HoustonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 42 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights. 'A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book' âCAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden Written with equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasinglyâand once againâdependent on geography and circumstance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818266 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our SoulAuthor: Auden SchendlerNarrator: Michael Butler MurrayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 8 minutesRelease date: November 25, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of thisâwhether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tacticsâwill make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will, at our peril. As Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we're living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/806314 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Life As A Yorkshire VetAuthor: Matt Jackson-SmithNarrator: Matt Jackson-Smith, Peter WrightFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 26 minutesRelease date: November 21, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: âAnimals can be our greatest comfort or our absolute heartbreak when we lose them, but they never stop teaching us and helping us to be better.âMatt Jackson-Smith is a new generation Yorkshire vet; a dashing James Herriot for the modern age. From watching TV show The Yorkshire Vet with his gran, to being one of its most popular stars, Matt is forging an exciting life and career both on and off screen.In this fascinating, funny, engaging and honest memoir he opens his case book to reveal what life is really like as a Yorkshire vet in the 21st Century.Matt reveals his journey from the son of a rugby league superstar to one of TVs most popular animal experts. He talks about his childhood struggles with stuttering, his adventures at vet school, his veterinary career and his journey to stardom as one of the most popular professionals on Channel 5's hit show, The Yorkshire Vet.With stories from his childhood, his training and early career, through to his current success at work while starting a family of his own.This is a funny, touching and engaging snapshot of Matt's story so far â filled with anecdotes and heartwarming tales of life as a Yorkshire Vet and beyond.From dealing with exotic wildcats and crocs to dramatic emergency Caesarean sections on dairy cows â from open-shell operations on tortoises to looking after a care home's beloved budgie.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818806 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy FutureAuthor: James Morton TurnerNarrator: Lyle BlakerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 19 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteriesâincluding mining, disposal, and moreâdoes a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving 'the battery problem' is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818763 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and FallAuthor: Monika MaeckleNarrator: Kate CoventryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 15 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. The monarch migration is a demonstration of nature's ingenuity, but the delicate creatures face many perils, and the number of migrating monarchs is declining sharply. This book weaves natural history, science, and personal experience to explore the rise and fall of one of nature's most spectacular phenomena. While monarch butterflies have been migrating for centuries, they seized public attention in 1976 when a National Geographic magazine cover story featured the 'discovery' of their roosting sites in Mexico. The revelations put a spotlight on the insects and inspired the creation of butterfly sanctuaries in Mexico as well as efforts to protect them. Almost forty years later, many believe that monarch butterflies are in danger of extinction. Journalist and butterfly advocate Monika Maeckle delves into the rich history and current plight of the monarch butterfly. Maeckle offers unique insights on the butterflies as well as a nuanced portrait of the community of scientists, enthusiasts, and 'flutterati' who have emerged to support the monarchs. The Monarch Butterfly Migration focuses a wider lens on the effects of climate change and the tensions between advocacy and scientific accuracy. This book reminds us to notice the natural wonders in our own backyards.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818400 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of ConservationAuthor: Hugh WarwickNarrator: Hugh WarwickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 34 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming, or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment. Hugh explores the complex history of species control, revealing the global movement of species and the impacts of their presence. Combining scientific theory with gentle humor in his signature style, he explains the issues conservationists face to control non-native animals and protect native speciesâincluding grey and red squirrels on Anglesey, ravens and tortoises in the Mojave Desert, cane toads in Australia, and the smooth-billed ani on the Galapagosâand describes cases like Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos and the Burmese python pet trade. Taking a balanced and open approach to this emotive subject, Hugh speaks to experts on all sides of the debate. How do we protect endangered native species? Which species do we prioritize? And how do we reckon with the ethics of killing anything in the name of conservation?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813420 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to StarsAuthor: Erin SharkeyNarrator: Carmen Jewel JonesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 45 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere. Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker's 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on with wide-ranging contributions unearthing evidence of the ways Black people's relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, violence, and structurally racist policies. A scrapbook, a family chest, a quiltâa work of historical engagement and literary accomplishmentâA Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811836 to listen full audiobooks.Title: HOOF BEATS: How Horses Shaped Human HistoryAuthor: William T. TaylorNarrator: Tristan MorrisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 58 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse's origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the invention of horse-drawn transportation and the explosive shift to mounted riding, Taylor offers a revolutionary new account of how horses altered the course of human history. Drawing on Indigenous perspectives, ancient DNA, and new research from Mongolia to the Great Plains and beyond, Taylor guides listeners through the major discoveries that have placed the horse at the origins of globalization, trade, biological exchange, and social inequality. Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778200 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and AbundanceAuthor: Robin Wall KimmererNarrator: Robin Wall KimmererFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 55 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberryâs relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealthâits abundance of sweet, juicy berriesâto meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that âhoarding wonât save us, all flourishing is mutual.â Š Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/831232 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Know Your Dog's True Nature: Understanding Canine Personality through the Five ElementsAuthor: Elizabeth Anne JohnsonNarrator: Aura PaigeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 3 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: ⢠Looks at each dog element archetype individually, exploring their personality strengths and weaknesses, emotional defaults, how they react under stress, what makes them happy, and their potential physical ailments and conditions ⢠Offers holistic practices to help support each elemental dog type at any stage of life, including diagrams of acupressure points that can help ⢠Includes element archetype quizzes to determine your dogâs type as well as your own DO YOU EVER WONDER why your canine friend behaves the way they do? With sensitivity and skill, master animal healer Elizabeth Anne Johnson takes you into the body, mind, and heart of the dogâsharing intimate stories of working dogs who are changing the world, rescue dogs who change us, old dogs offering profound wisdom, and humans making the world a better place. Introducing the five element archetypes of the Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water Dog, Know Your Dogâs True Nature illuminates practical ways to gain insigh into the unique personalities of your animal companion. As you explore the similarities and dynamics between dog and human, youâll come to appreciate the mutually supportive structures and richness in your relationships, an understanding that helps to create a peaceful and happy home environment for all. In this guide you will find: ⢠five element archetype quizzes for both dogs and humans ⢠a fresh perspective on a dogâs elemental stressors, behaviors, wants, and needs ⢠easy acupressure techniques for balancing each element ⢠a unique lens on old dogs and rescue dogs ⢠supportive lifestyle measures and life lessons from the other end of the leash Elizabethâs stories and adventures from a lifetime of animal healing and many dog partners will tickle your heart, mind, and empathy, and create a safe and sacred container for your own trek with your beloved companion.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818688 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Tensaw River: Alabama's Hidden Heritage CorridorAuthor: Mike BunnNarrator: Jim SeybertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 2 hours 37 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: The Tensaw River introduces one of the American South's richest and most fertile natural features. Author Mike Bunn is director of Historic Blakeley State Park, which is nestled in a prominent bend of the majestic Tensaw River. Forming the eastern boundary of the expansive Mobile-Tensaw Delta, the Tensaw has had little industrial development. Left largely undisturbed, the river flows free and bountiful into the grand estuary of Mobile Bay in ways that would be recognizable to Native Americans centuries ago and to pioneers who arrived before Alabama became a state. Bunn's unforgettable stories in The Tensaw River trace the construction and occupation of the Bottle Creek site, an important mound complex built by Southeastern Native Americans a millennia ago. Nearby Blakeley is an antebellum ghost town whose lost memories tease the imagination. During the Civil War, the boom of artillery fire in the battle that sealed the fate of the city of Mobile echoed along the bends in the Tensaw. Located near popular travel destinations, the Tensaw's 'Forgotten Cultural Heritage Corridor' is a gateway to the enchanting beauty ofâand humankind's relationship toâthe landscape of the American South.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812662 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dog Anxiety For DummiesAuthor: Sarah HodgsonNarrator: Gina RogersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 27 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Dog anxiety is common among all breeds, but different dogs can show different symptoms. Dog Anxiety For Dummies is for the millions of dog parents (and dog-parents-to-be) who want to help improve their pets' quality of life and relieve their suffering. With this helpful resource, you can recognize common signs of anxiety in dogs, discover what triggers their anxiety, learn to use training and play to ease anxiety, and find professional help when you need it. You'll also get tips for dealing with specific situations like separation anxiety, fear aggression, noise-sensitive pups, and addressing trauma in rescue dogs. Calm dogs of all ages with the expert tips inside! â Recognize your dog's anxiety symptoms and triggers â Understand treatment options for dogs displaying anxious behaviors â Implement daily routines and training solutions to help alleviate anxiety â Help your dog feel comfortable about strangers, cope with containment anxiety, and live a happy life This is the perfect Dummies guide for puppy and dog owners whose pets are suffering from anxiety, and for anyone considering adopting a dog in the future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803922 to listen full audiobooks.Title: River Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly FishingAuthor: Steve DudaNarrator: Steve DudaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 26 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: River Songs is rich with bracing, authentic, generous storiesâwriting that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing's clichĂŠsâthe romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a 'victory' over a fishâSteve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have 'a long run with a tight crew.' Duda is interested in what has been learned out there on the river: what is it about this 'ridiculous activity' that connects us to this planet, makes us human, gives us hope? River Songs focuses on the in-between moments and the unexpected revelationsâawe, fear, frustration, doubt, joyâthat are as much a part of fishing as tying knots and chucking flies. Listeners ride along with Duda in battered pickup trucks, fish 'between jobs,' look longingly at unfished famous rivers while touring with a country-punk band, and wonder how a fishing trip led to getting a tooth pulled while being surrounded by trash-talking friends. They will find beauty, discovery, heartbreak, good dogs, and the wonder of nature within the expanse of Northwest landscapes and beyond.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768819 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate CrisisSeries: Part of PatagoniaAuthor: Jon WatermanNarrator: Jon WatermanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 46 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change. Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the strange landscape, and its otherworldly lightâhow the âfrequent rain showers glow like lemonade poured out of the sky.â Taken with a new sense of wonder, he began to explore the North on several trips in the 1980s. After a 30-year absence from the Noatak, he returned with his son in 2021. Amid a now-flooded river missing the once-plentiful caribou, he was shocked and heartbroken by the changes. The following year, in 2022, he took one final journey âinto the thawâ to documentâfor this lushly illustrated and scholarly bookâthe environmental and cultural changes wrought by the climate crisis. A widely published author and photographer, Watermanâs narrative alternates between adventure and wilderness memoir and plainly stated natural history of the area. Chased by bears, sometimes alone for weeks on end amid hordes of mosquitoes, he notes the extraordinary changes from 1983 until the present day: brush grown over the tundra in a phenomenon called Greening of the Arctic, tear-drop-shaped landslide thaw slumpsâa.k.a. thermokarstsâcaused by thawing permafrost, and an increasing loss of sea ice as he travels along the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. The author also spends time with the kindhearted, welcoming Inuit or Inupiat most affected by the Arctic crisis, who share how their age-old culture has attempted to cope with âthe thaw.â Stricken by the change, Waterman paints an intimate portrait of both the villages and the little-visited landscape, because âitâs high time that we truly understand the Arctic.â He writes, âLest we forget what it once was.â Through his quest for wonderâin prose illuminated by humility and humorâWaterman shows how the Arctic can confer grace on those who pass through. Despite the unfolding crisis, as a narrative of hope, at the bookâs end he suggests actions we can all take to slow the thaw and preserve what is left of this remarkable, vast frontier. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains stunning photographs from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814988 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We KnowAuthor: David HoneNarrator: Graham MackFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 51 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Our understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago. Today, with the discovery of new specimens and the development of new and cutting-edge techniques, paleontologists are making major advances in reconstructing how dinosaurs lived and acted. Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior provides an unparalleled look at this emerging field of science, presenting the latest findings on dinosaur behavior and explaining how researchers interpret the often minimal and even conflicting information available to them. David Hone begins by introducing listeners to the fundamentals of dinosaur biology, diversity, and evolution, and goes on to describe their behaviors, from feeding and communication to reproduction, sociality, and combat. Speculation about dinosaur behavior goes back to the earliest scientific studies of these 'terrible lizards.' Hone traces how pioneering science is opening a window into prehistoric life as never before, and discusses future directions of research in this thrilling and rapidly growing area of paleontology. Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a foundational work on the subject and an invaluable reference for anyone interested in these amazing creatures.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812573 to listen full audiobooks.Title: What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the Worldâs OceanAuthor: Helen ScalesNarrator: Helen ScalesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 45 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales shows how the prehistoric ocean ecology was already working in ways similar to the ocean of today. In elegant, evocative prose, she takes listeners into the realms of animals that epitomize today's increasingly challenging conditions. Ocean life everywhere is on the move as seas warm, and warm waters are an existential threat to emperor penguins, whose mating grounds in Antarctica are collapsing. Shark populationsâcritical to balanced ecosystemsâhave shrunk by 71 percent since the 1970s, largely the result of massive and oft-unregulated industrial fishing. Orcasâthe apex predatorsâhave also drastically declined, victims of toxic chemicals and plastics with long half-lives that disrupt the immune system and the ability to breed. Offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining, which could significantly alter life on earth. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the Anthropocene ocean.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar BirdAuthor: Sy MontgomeryNarrator: Sy MontgomeryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 2 hours 9 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, âone of our finest chroniclers of the natural worldâ (The New York Times). For more than two decades, Sy Montgomeryâwhose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalistâhas kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her own way. In this short, delightful book, Sy takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens; they remember the past and anticipate the future; and they communicate specific information through at least twenty-four distinct calls. Visitors to her home are astonished by all this, but for Sy whatâs more astonishing is how little most people know about chickens, especially considering there are about twenty percent more chickens on earth than people. With a winning combination of personal narrative and science, What the Chicken Knows is exactly the kind of book that has made Sy Montgomery such a beloved and popular author.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821756 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive WinterAuthor: Pete DunneNarrator: Madison NiederhauserFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 5 minutesRelease date: October 31, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: From our own backyards to the rim of the Arctic ice, countless birds have adapted to meet the challenges of the winter season. This is their remarkable story, told by award-winning birder and acclaimed writer Pete Dunne, accompanied by illustrations from renowned artist and birder David Sibley. Despite the seasonal life-sapping cold, birds have evolved strategies that meet winterâs vicissitudes head on, driven by the imperative to make it to spring and pass down their genes to the next generation. The drama of winter and the resilience and adaptability of birds witnessed in the harsher months of the calendar is both fascinating and astonishing. In The Courage of Birds, Pete Dunneâwinner of the American Birding Associationâs Roger Tory Peterson Award for lifetime achievement in promoting the cause of birdingâchronicles the behavior of the birds of North America. He expertly explores widespread adaptations, such as feathers that protect against the cold, and unpacks the unique migration patterns and survival strategies of individual species. Dunne also addresses the impact of changing climatic conditions on avian longevity and recounts personal anecdotes that soar with a naturalistâs gimlet eye. Filled with unforgettable facts, wit, and moving observations on the natural world, Dunneâs book is for everyone; from the serious birder who tracks migration patterns, to the casual birder who logs daily reports on eBird, to the backyard observer who throws a handful of seed out for the Northern Cardinals and wonders how the birds magically appear in the garden when temperatures begin to fall.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812590 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors, 10th Anniversary EditionAuthor: James Edward MillsNarrator: James Edward MillsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 3 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: Features a new 'where are they now' section, with updates about lives of expedition's original climbers and updated resources based on the 'Anti-Racism in the Outdoors' (ARITO) guide. Outdoor journalist James Edward Mills's book, The Adventure Gap, is a groundbreaking volume that is equal parts adventure story, history, and inspiration as it chronicles the first American all-Black summit attempt on Denali in 2013. Mills uses this momentous expedition as a jumping-off point to explore diversity in the outdoors, from Mathew Henson who stood at the North Pole in 1909 to contemporary adventurers such as polar explorer Barbara Hillary and rock climber Kai Lightner. This tenth anniversary edition once again shares the compelling events that unfolded during Expedition Denali's summit bid. But it also provides fresh context: A new thought-provoking afterword by Mills examines what has evolved in and around the outdoor community since that effort. He highlights progress and inspiring stories, such as Full Circle Everest, an expedition led by Phillip Henderson that put an all-Black team on top of the world's highest peak. And he points to places where we can and should all strive for higher achievement. The Adventure Gap has become an essential text in outdoor education and inspirationâa story of our times, now more relevant than ever.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802251 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Train Your Dog with Love + Science: A Dog Loverâs Guide to Animal Behavior and Positive Reinforcement TrainingAuthor: Annie GrossmanNarrator: Eunice WongFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 3 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Genres: Animals & NaturePublisher's Summary: How To Train Your Dog with Love + Science presents a modern and science-based approach to dog training, showing how behavior can be changed without coercion and force. Annie Grossman, a journalist-turned-dog trainer, breaks down what positive reinforcement actually is and makes the case that 'good dog training' may even be a window into understanding ourselves. Grossman offers building-block exercises and tips on how to train effectively using the reward-based methods she's honed over the last decade with clients at her Manhattan training center, School For The Dogs. Whether you've just brought a new dog into your home or you're wanting to teach an old one new tricks, How to Train Your Dog with Love + Science will help you consider what behaviors you want and help you to achieve your goals using techniques rooted in the science of behavior. Woven into this how-to guide is the century-long history of positive reinforcement training, from Pavlov's dogs and Skinner's rats to today's apartment-dwelling dogs using Wifi-enabled devices. By employing the easy-to-understand techniques in this book, you will be able to train your dog to live confidently, comfortably, and happily in your world.
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