Environment & Nature audiobooks

O Poder transformador dos Biocombustíveis - Abridged

By: Donizete Tokarski

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nesta obra, buscamos apresentar as diversas variáveis que devem compor a equação para a decisão de qual o melhor combustível a usar. Alguns fatores relevantes estão presentes na legislação, em acordos internacionais, tendências mundiais, oportunidade de mercado e em análises sociais, econômicas, ambientais e de saúde pública. Tratamos uma... Read more

Agronegócio - Abridged

By: Ricardo Garay

Narrated by: Alice Oratio

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolivro foi criado para ajudar você a planejar e desenvolver seu agronegócio independente de tamanho ou segmento. Este guia oferece técnicas, meios e ferramentas para a melhor e mais eficiente prática no gerenciamento de seu negócio. Propõe uma visão sobre como desenvolver uma solução para o agronegócio que pode e deve ser customizada.... Read more

A Crack in the Edge of the World - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more

Petrocalipsis - Abridged

By: Antonio Turiel

Narrated by: German Gijón

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Petrocalipsis es un análisis crudo y claro de las posibles alternativas a nuestro sistema energético actual. Frente al triunfalismo que muchas veces exhiben las noticias sobre la futura utilización de nuevas fuentes energéticas, el libro plantea con concisión por qué no funcionan ni funcionarán cada una de las falsas soluciones que se han venido... Read more

In the Heart of the Sea - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the... Read more

A Walk in the Woods - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times 
 
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more

Unsere Erde [Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? Folge 36] - Abridged

By: Angela Weinhold

Narrated by: Sonja Szylowicki

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aus dem Inhalt: Der blaue Planet • Wie ist die Erde entstanden? • Woher kommen die Berge? • Warum spucken Vulkane? • Warum bebt die Erde? • Wie entstehen Landschaften? • Was ist eigentlich Erde? • Was sind Bodenschätze? • Wie sieht es im Meer aus? • Ist das Wetter überall gleich auf der Erde? • Warum gibt es bei uns keine Papageien? • Leben... Read more

Umweltschutz [Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? PROFIWISSEN Folge 26] - Abridged

By: Dela Kienle & Jochen Windecker

Narrated by: Katja Danowski & Julia Nachtmann

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mitten im Frühling gibt es schwere Gewitter und die Wissensprofis Finn, Jette, Lilli und Ben fragen sich: Sind das Zeichen für den Klimawandel? Auf einer Umweltschutz-Demonstration lernen die vier Kinder Alex kennen. Als sie erfahren, dass nicht nur Mensch und Erde, sondern auch viele Tierarten bedroht sind, ist klar: Sie müssen etwas... Read more

The Necessary Revolution - Abridged

By: Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz & ...

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more... Read more

El ajolote - Abridged

By: Andrés Cota Hiriart

Narrated by: Andrés Cota Hiriart

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El ajolote ha despertado el interés constante de gente muy diversa: se ha concebido mitológicamente, comido por placer y usado como remedio; habita en la oscuridad del agua, quizás con discreción, pero es quinta esencial para la cultura del Valle de México. Se ha venerado como fetiche y ha sido la musa involuntaria de toda clase de artistas en... Read more

Mensch, Erde! - Abridged

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wir müssen nicht die Erde retten – sondern uns." Eckart von Hirschhausen Wir leben gesünder und länger als jede Generation vor uns. Und doch sind wir verletzlicher als gedacht: Ein Virus hält uns in Atem und ungebremst schlittern wir in die Klimakrise. Langsam dämmert uns: Gesundheit ist mehr als Pillen und Apparate. Wir Menschen brauchen, um... Read more

Lichtblick statt Blackout - Abridged

By: Vince Ebert

Narrated by: Vince Ebert

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedankenblitze statt Blackout! Kann eine Nation, die mit dem Bau eines Flughafens überfordert war, wirklich das Weltklima retten? Und lässt sich die Erderwärmung reduzieren, wenn man das Eisfach offen lässt? Mit humoristischer Feder hinterfragt Vince Ebert unseren Ehrgeiz, die Welt zu retten. Klimaforschung ist objektive Wissenschaft.... Read more

The Snow Leopard - Abridged

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Peter Matthiessen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...

IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the... Read more

The Game - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his... Read more

The National Parks - Abridged

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this... Read more

Young Men & Fire - Abridged

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: John Maclean

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later, all but three were dead or fatally burned in a "blowup," an explosive 2,000 degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall. Winner of a... Read more

An Inconvenient Sequel - Abridged

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: Al Gore, Sterling K. Brown, Danny Burstein, Mar...

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fresh off the heels of a successful debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Al Gore’s follow-up to his eye-opening blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth comes at a time when climate change is a daily headline and audiences are more eager than ever to act on behalf of the planet.

“We’re going to win this…If anybody doubts that we have the capacity and... Read more

An Inconvenient Truth - Abridged

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly -- and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to... Read more