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The Ocean's Menagerie

How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

by Drew Harvell ...

**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on ... Read more

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**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on
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Ocean Outbreak

Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease

by Drew Harvell ...

Winner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of AmericaWinner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing crisis in our oceans: mysterious outbreaks of infectious disease are on the rise. Marine epidemics can cause mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of food chains, impacting the health of ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Winner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of AmericaWinner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing crisis in our oceans: mysterious outbreaks of infectious disease are on the rise. Marine epidemics can cause mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of food chains, impacting the health of
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The Ocean's Menagerie

How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

by Drew Harvell ...

Narrated by Andi Arndt ...

Unabridged

6 hours 52 min

**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on
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A Sea of Glass

Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk

by Drew Harvell ...

Series Book 13 - Organisms and Environments
"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment CategoryIt started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking ... Read more

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"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment CategoryIt started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking
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The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses

Edited by Ralph Tollrian, C. Drew Harvell ...

Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Ralph Tollrian and Drew Harvell seek to change ... Read more

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Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Ralph Tollrian and Drew Harvell seek to change
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My Year As A Fraud

by Johanna Swanberg ...

Narrated by Florence Howard ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

Brought to you by Penguin.There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services.There’s ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services.There’s
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Blueprints

How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

by Marcus du Sautoy ...

Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” ... Read more

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An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,”
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The Stones of Britain

A History of Britain through its Geology

by Jon Cannon ...

'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

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'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly
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Trinity

The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

by Frank Close ...

Narrated by Anthony Howell ...

Unabridged

20 hours 56 min

Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the
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Churchill's Killing House

The Origins of World War II's Legendary Commando Fighting Force

by Monty Halls ...

Narrated by Monty Halls ...

Unabridged

11 hours 8 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In the summer of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen, and the British army had been routed on the continent, leading to the chaotic evacuation at Dunkirk.In the rubble of the Allie’s crumbled defence, Inverailort House was established as a new symbol of defiance. Signed off by Churchill himself, this austere ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.In the summer of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen, and the British army had been routed on the continent, leading to the chaotic evacuation at Dunkirk.In the rubble of the Allie’s crumbled defence, Inverailort House was established as a new symbol of defiance. Signed off by Churchill himself, this austere
... Read more

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The Hidden Seasons

A Calendar of Nature’s Clues

by Tristan Gooley ...

Narrated by Tristan Gooley ...

Series series Natural Navigation
Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs**: Learn to spot the endlessly unfolding clues and signs that reveal the hidden ways nature changes every day of the year**We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs**: Learn to spot the endlessly unfolding clues and signs that reveal the hidden ways nature changes every day of the year**We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that
... Read more

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Slow Motion Ghosts

by Jeff Noon ...

Narrated by Dean Williamson ...

Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator**A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murder still playing...**_____________It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police ... Read more

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'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator**A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murder still playing...**_____________It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police
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