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Wind Power
by iMinds Audio
Credits: Audio Download
Learn about the science of Wind Power with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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Volcanoes
by iMinds JNR
Credits: Audio Download
Learn about the science and history of Volcanoes with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds.
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Collapse
by Jared Diamond
Credits: Audio CD
Diamond probes the other side of the equation: what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?
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Earth in the Balance
by Al Gore
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Before becoming Vice President, Al Gore spent 15 years leading the fight in Congress to save the...
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The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson
Credits: Audio Download
From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet...
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Living Systems
by Fritjof Capra
Credits: Audio Download
A new scientific understanding of life at all levels of living systems is currently evolving. At its heart is the awareness that everything is interconnected and interrelated.
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Following Nature's Lead
by Jeremy Narby
Credits: Audio Download
The essence of nature may not be the competitive struggle for survival we have been taught to believe.
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When Elephants Weep
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Credits: Audio Download
This engaging and authoritative portrait of animals' emotional lives is as groundbreaking as Darwin's Origin of Species...
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Ecological Planet: An Introduction to Earth's Major Ecosystems
by John Kricher
Credits: Audio Download
From jungles and rain forests to the driest deserts and barren arctic terrain, Planet Earth comprises a breathtaking array of ecosystems.
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The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
Credits: Audio Download
In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go."
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Global Warming, Global Threat
by Michael B. McElroy
Credits: Audio Download
The issue of global warming has captured the attention of people worldwide over the past 20 years. Scientists studying the effects of human activities on the global environment today believe we are changing the climate of the planet on a global basis.
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Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
Credits: Audio Cassette
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.
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Rising Tide
by John M. Barry
Credits: Audio Download
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927.
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Field Notes From a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Credits: Audio Download
Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate.
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
Thomas L. Friedman's number-one best seller The World Is Flat has helped millions of listeners to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively.
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Oceans
Credits: Audio Download
Inspire the wannabe marine biologist with this collection of fact-based songs! Sing and learn about sponges, sea turtles, manatees, sea horses, dolphins, whales, the octopus, great white shark, and sea otters!
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Krakatoa
by Simon Winchester
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami....
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The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
First published more than three decades ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of readers.
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Don't Know Much About Geography
by Kenneth C. Davis
Credits: Audio CD
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned...
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Isaac's Storm
by Erik Larson
Credits: Audio CD
"Isaac's Storm" is the superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on a late summer day in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 people dead.
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Fire on the Mountain
by John N. MacLean
Credits: Audio Download
On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded...
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
by Jacques Yves Cousteau
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.
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The Weather Makers
by Tim Flannery
Credits: Audio CD
From Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world's foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance.
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
Thomas L. Friedman's number-one best seller The World Is Flat has helped millions of listeners to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively.
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Weather
Credits: Audio Download
With these great, factual songs any young meteorologist will soon learn much about temperature, clouds, storms, tornados and hurricanes, seasons, tools to predict the weather, water cycle, warm and cold fronts, and more.
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