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How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

by Ruth Kassinger ...

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae" and this "engaging . . .deeply informative" book gives algae its due. —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times –bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sixth ExtinctionSay "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. Algae created the Earth we know today, wi ... Read more

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"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae" and this "engaging . . .deeply informative" book gives algae its due. —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times –bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sixth ExtinctionSay "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. Algae created the Earth we know today, wi
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Paradise Under Glass

The Education of an Indoor Gardener

by Ruth Kassinger ...

"A sumptuously written history of greenhouse horticulture" as well as a memoir of one woman's quest to build an indoor garden ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the wake of her sister's death and her children's departure for college, baby boomer and journalist Ruth Kassinger found herself with time on her hands—and a lone, struggling houseplant at the top of her basement stairs. One cold, gray evening, ... Read more

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"A sumptuously written history of greenhouse horticulture" as well as a memoir of one woman's quest to build an indoor garden ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the wake of her sister's death and her children's departure for college, baby boomer and journalist Ruth Kassinger found herself with time on her hands—and a lone, struggling houseplant at the top of her basement stairs. One cold, gray evening,
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A Garden of Marvels

How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

by Ruth Kassinger ...

In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating ... Read more

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In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating
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How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

by Ruth Kassinger ...

Narrated by Xe Sands ...

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9 hours 7 min

Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ... Read more

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Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the
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The Mattering Instinct

How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein ...

Narrated by Rebecca Kaser ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter.Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this ... Read more

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MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter.Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this
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The Story of Stories

The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

by Kevin Ashton ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

11 hours 12 min

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to ... Read more

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An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to
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Brainscapes

The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain-and How They Guide You

by Rebecca Schwarzlose ...

Narrated by Rebecca Schwarzlose ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began discovering these ... Read more

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A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began discovering these
... Read more

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The Mattering Instinct

How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein ...

**“[An] extraordinary and urgent book.” —Jonathan Haidt“The Mattering Instinct is a masterpiece. I wept, I laughed out loud, I came face-to-face with the wellsprings of my life, but mostly I marveled at Rebecca Goldstein’s genius. This book should ignite a revolution.” —Martin Seligman, best-selling author of Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-beingA paradigm-shifting ... Read more

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**“[An] extraordinary and urgent book.” —Jonathan Haidt“The Mattering Instinct is a masterpiece. I wept, I laughed out loud, I came face-to-face with the wellsprings of my life, but mostly I marveled at Rebecca Goldstein’s genius. This book should ignite a revolution.” —Martin Seligman, best-selling author of Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-beingA paradigm-shifting
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The Journeys of Trees

A Story about Forests, People, and the Future

by Zach St. George ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all ... Read more

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Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all
... Read more

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The Story of Stories

The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

by Kevin Ashton ...

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to
... Read more

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One Step Ahead

Mastering the Art and Science of Negotiation

by David Sally ...

Narrated by David Sally, Will Damron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 33 min

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.There’s been a revolution in negotiating tactics.**The world’s best negotiators have moved beyond How to Win Friends & Influence People and Getting to Yes. For over twenty years. David Sally has been teaching the art of negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies. Now, he delivers the proven, clear, ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**This program includes an introduction read by the author.There’s been a revolution in negotiating tactics.**The world’s best negotiators have moved beyond How to Win Friends & Influence People and Getting to Yes. For over twenty years. David Sally has been teaching the art of negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies. Now, he delivers the proven, clear,
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Free Will

by Mark Balaguer ...

Narrated by Steven Menasche ...

Unabridged

2 hours 53 min

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then we have free will. But in recent years, some have ... Read more

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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then we have free will. But in recent years, some have
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