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Junkyard Planet

Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter ...

How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam ... Read more

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How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam
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Secondhand

Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

by Adam Minter ...

"Revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful." — Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTIONFrom the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a ... Read more

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"Revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful." — Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTIONFrom the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a
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Junkyard Planet

Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter ...

Narrated by William Elsman ...

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12 hours 9 min

Bloomsbury presents Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, read by William Elsman.When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, read by William Elsman.When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard
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Secondhand

Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

by Adam Minter ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

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10 hours 2 min

When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country—or even halfway across the world—to people and places eager to reuse what you don’t want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and ... Read more

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When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country—or even halfway across the world—to people and places eager to reuse what you don’t want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and
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The Chain

Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

by Ted Genoways ...

Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of ... Read more

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On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of
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Windfall

The Booming Business of Global Warming

by McKenzie Funk ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

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10 hours 40 min

Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces.The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private ... Read more

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Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces.The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private
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Life in Code

A Personal History of Technology

by Ellen Ullman ...

Narrated by Ellen Ullman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

This program is read by the author.The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and ... Read more

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This program is read by the author.The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and
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The Lost Peace

Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953

by Robert Dallek ...

Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

Unabridged

15 hours 11 min

""Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored."" —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Team of RivalsRobert Dalleck follows his bestselling Nixon and Kissenger: ... Read more

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""Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored."" —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Team of RivalsRobert Dalleck follows his bestselling Nixon and Kissenger:
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Future Presence

How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life

by Peter Rubin ...

Narrated by Roger Wayne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future ""realities"" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection.Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised ... Read more

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A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future ""realities"" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection.Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised
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Collective Illusions

Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions

by Todd Rose ...

Narrated by Jay Ben Markson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

**Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.“Move over, truthiness: Todd Rose is here with science and stories to help us rethink our questionable assumptions and abandon our inaccurate beliefs. ... Read more

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**Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.“Move over, truthiness: Todd Rose is here with science and stories to help us rethink our questionable assumptions and abandon our inaccurate beliefs.
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The Scientific Attitude

Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

by Lee McIntyre ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are ... Read more

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Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are
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The Taste of Conquest

The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

by Michael Krondl ...

Narrated by Todd McLaren ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities—Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam—that transformed the globe in the quest for spice.Written in a colorful style that will appeal to fans of Mark Kurlansky and Michael Pollan, this ambitious yet accessible book travels effortlessly from the Crusades to the present ... Read more

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In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities—Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam—that transformed the globe in the quest for spice.Written in a colorful style that will appeal to fans of Mark Kurlansky and Michael Pollan, this ambitious yet accessible book travels effortlessly from the Crusades to the present
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