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Author Mann, Charles C., author.

Title The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world / by Charles C. Mann.

Publication Info. New York : Random House Audio ; [Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  CDBK 363.7 MANN    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 15 audio discs (19 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 190000
Description digital rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note Title from container.
Performer Read by Bronson Pinchot.
Note Compact discs.
Summary Charles C. Mann delivers an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped the ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.
Contents One law -- State of the species -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- Four elements -- Earth: food -- Water: freshwater -- Fire: energy -- Air: climate change -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- One future -- The edge of the petri dish.
Subject Vogt, William, 1902-1968.
Borlaug, Norman E. (Norman Ernest), 1914-2009.
Borlaug, Norman E. (Norman Ernest), 1914-2009. (OCoLC)fst01727436
Vogt, William, 1902-1968. (OCoLC)fst01718036
Environmental sciences -- History -- 20th century.
Food security.
Water security.
Energy security.
Climatic changes.
Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography.
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Energy security. (OCoLC)fst01764702
Environmental sciences. (OCoLC)fst00913474
Environmentalists. (OCoLC)fst00913554
Food security. (OCoLC)fst01748879
Water security. (OCoLC)fst01795729
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
ISBN 9780449806388
0449806383
9780449015582
0449015580
Standard No. 9780449015582 55000
Music No. PRHA 3877 Penguin Random House Audio
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