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How Soon Is Now
- From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
- De: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
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The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our world. How Soon Is Now presents a compelling manifesto for personal and planetary change. It proposes a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement. Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.
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Relevant!!!!
- De Anonymous User en 12-11-23
De: Daniel Pinchbeck
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- De: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrado por: Steve Wojtas
- Duración: 27 h y 26 m
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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I love this author!
- De Tamara Smith en 12-03-17
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Ramp Hollow
- The Ordeal of Appalachia
- De: Steven Stoll
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in US history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.
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Almost unlistenable
- De Golf Fan en 09-13-18
De: Steven Stoll
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
- De Douglas en 02-06-14
De: Robert Wright
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The Challenge for Africa
- De: Wangari Maathai
- Narrado por: Chinasa Ogbuagu
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Nobel Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai has campaigned for environmental activism and democracy in Africa for more thanthree decades. In The Challenge for Africa, she delivers an insightful call to action, presenting a realistic look at the diverse problems facing Africans today.
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10 years later, this is still powerful.
- De Presence en 04-21-18
De: Wangari Maathai
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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performance....
- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before.
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Personal
- De Robert F. Jones en 09-15-17
De: Matt Ridley
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The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- De: James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface, William Rees-Mogg
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 19 h y 20 m
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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
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Unfortunately distopian for mosty of humanity
- De Phil en 09-29-20
De: James Dale Davidson, y otros
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Trekonomics
- The Economics of Star Trek
- De: Manu Saadia
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward - through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it.
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An Amusing & Practical Analysis of Fictional Ideas
- De Lost In The Wash en 09-19-16
De: Manu Saadia
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The End of History and the Last Man
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
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An important discussion expertly narrated
- De Kevin Teeple en 06-27-19
De: Francis Fukuyama
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Sustainability
- A History
- De: Jeremy L. Caradonna
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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- De marc grub en 03-06-17
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work.
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Vital. Timely. Timeless.
- De David M. en 06-15-20
De: Wendell Berry
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The Need to Be Whole
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
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Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
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Necessary Reading for These Troubled Times
- De Jane Vandenburgh en 11-05-22
De: Wendell Berry
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The Memory of Old Jack
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
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Beautiful Appreciation of Life
- De D. Farnham en 04-28-09
De: Wendell Berry
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Nathan Coulter
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.
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Beautifully written, well read
- De Jenna Moon en 08-16-10
De: Wendell Berry
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A Place on Earth
- A Novel
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
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Oh my, what a great book
- De Molly-o en 10-21-11
De: Wendell Berry
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Fidelity
- Five Stories
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.
De: Wendell Berry
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work.
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Vital. Timely. Timeless.
- De David M. en 06-15-20
De: Wendell Berry
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The Need to Be Whole
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
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Necessary Reading for These Troubled Times
- De Jane Vandenburgh en 11-05-22
De: Wendell Berry
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The Memory of Old Jack
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
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Beautiful Appreciation of Life
- De D. Farnham en 04-28-09
De: Wendell Berry
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Nathan Coulter
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.
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Beautifully written, well read
- De Jenna Moon en 08-16-10
De: Wendell Berry
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A Place on Earth
- A Novel
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
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Oh my, what a great book
- De Molly-o en 10-21-11
De: Wendell Berry
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Fidelity
- Five Stories
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
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A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.
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Watch with Me
- And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that—with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers—here approaches the Shakespearean.
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nostalgia
- De J C Moore en 09-17-24
De: Wendell Berry
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Twain’s Feast
- De: Audible Originals
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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Mark Twain, beloved American writer, performer, and humorist, was a self-proclaimed glutton. With the help of a chef and some friends, Nick Offerman presents the story of Twain’s life through the lens of eight of Mark Twain’s favorite foods.
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Audible Recycling
- De Greg Hill en 11-17-18
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Growing a Revolution
- Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
- De: David R. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely. Now we risk repeating this ancient story on a global scale due to ongoing soil degradation, a changing climate, and a rising population. But there is reason for hope. David R. Montgomery introduces us to farmers around the world at the heart of a brewing soil health revolution that could bring humanity's ailing soil back to life remarkably fast.
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Disappointing
- De option31AW en 11-22-18
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Wendell Berry and the Given Life
- De: Ragan Sutterfield, Bill Mckibben - foreword
- Narrado por: Ragan Sutterfield
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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For the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping seekers chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry, and fiction, Berry has repeatedly drawn our attention to the ways in which our lives are gifts in a whole economy of gifts. Berry presents us with the sort of coherent vision for the lived moral and spiritual life that we need now. His work helps us remember our givenness and embrace our life as creatures.
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- De carly forward en 08-23-17
De: Ragan Sutterfield, y otros
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Cache Lake Country
- Or, Life in the North Woods
- De: John J. Rowlands
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams", which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer-timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without.
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A wonderful story
- De Nancy Waldron en 04-25-20
De: John J. Rowlands
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Farmacology
- Total Health from the Ground Up
- De: Daphne Miller MD
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Can urban farms reduce neighborhood crime? These may not sound like typical questions for a family physician to consider, but in Farmacology, Daphne Miller, MD, ventures out of her medical office and travels to seven innovative family farms around the country on a quest to discover the hidden connections between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food. Miller also seeks out the perspectives of noted biomedical scientists and artfully weaves in their research, along with stories from her own practice. Farmacology offers a profound new approach to healing.
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Crystals and all - great book
- De Topherwayne en 02-22-20
De: Daphne Miller MD
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Restoration Agriculture
- Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
- De: Mark Shepard
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs.
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Did not enjoy being lectured on global warming.
- De Amazon Customer en 01-09-21
De: Mark Shepard
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Gumption
- Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
- De: Nick Offerman
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times best seller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights 21 figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day - Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans". After the great success of his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Offerman now focuses on the lives of those who inspired him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes 21 heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning.
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Swagger and mirth
- De Tamara Shope en 09-14-15
De: Nick Offerman
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What Your Food Ate
- How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
- De: David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.
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I might have to read rather than listening
- De Kindle Customer en 09-08-22
De: David R. Montgomery, y otros
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The One-Straw Revolution
- An Introduction to Natural Farming
- De: Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."
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Fukuoka Hits a Home-Run.
- De philip d henderson en 06-23-18
De: Masanobu Fukuoka, y otros
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The Nature of Plants
- An Introduction to How Plants Work
- De: Craig N. Huegel
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides listeners with an extensive tour into their workings.
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So informative!
- De Stephanie Mora en 08-17-22
De: Craig N. Huegel
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Dirt to Soil
- One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
- De: Gabe Brown
- Narrado por: Gabe Brown
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of his ranch's amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil. The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over 20 years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil.
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loved it.
- De Amazon Customer en 01-29-19
De: Gabe Brown
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Unsettling of America
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- J. Corwin
- 10-14-22
Really well written and well narrated
Makes me want to move to a farm. A seriously well thought out essay that makes me sad considering nothing has changed in 27 years.
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- Lindy D. Backues
- 02-04-23
Prescient!
A classic work well ahead of its time. Sadly, it is still almost 100% relevant. The analysis is cross-cutting, with insight offered into agriculture, economics, social theory, ethics, and psychology. And all of it is wrapped in the brilliant and lucid prose-essay style of Wendell Berry. A classic this deserves to be!
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- Kelsea
- 03-06-24
Comprehensive, Eye-opening perspective
I love how Wendell Berry takes a holistic approach to this topic, which is still relevant today. His writing is simple but powerful and Nick Offerman does a great reading.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-29-20
Important evergreen message
This book should be mandatory reading/listening for all high school students. As our technology advances we try to use it to replicate billions of years of nature, we should be reconsidering that thought. Excellent book, excellent narrator. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-22
Some Dated Sections, Still Resonates and Applies Today
Really interesting ideas and points about agriculture and the way it affects our ecosystem, our community, and individuals in particular. As the granddaughter of dairy farmers, most of it rang very true to how my grandparents loved their farm and still made it profitable and healthy. Downgraded because there were some sections that were pretty boring or were now dated. You can tell there was some White male bias, he never considered minority owned farms and the obstacles they face. And the section of Fertility definitely was from 1970s thinking; never considering women have been using birth control since ancient times before there was the Pill or might rather be in the field than the home. But I still enjoy his writing and it reminds me of the old farm community.
Despite those issues, the core message is very appropriate for today and how do we get a balance with our food, health, and the environment. It’s a book I think both liberals and conservatives would like too ha.
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- Sean D Lassiter
- 01-24-23
A 1977 America
“…For the pursuit of truth by argument and counter argument is a major part of our cultural tradition, from the gospels, and the Platonic dialogues and every county courthouse today. The response to this book has shown, instead, that the universities are not interested in the pursuit of truth by argument. They are interested in preserving the truth of an old argument that for the most part they no longer bother to make, namely: that the world and all its creatures are machines. The organization of the modern University and of modern intellectual life rests upon this argument…”
A lot has changed since 1977, and still so much more has yet to change for the positive. Berry revised on many of these thoughts and arguments later in his 2022 “The Need to be Whole,” where he would update so much of what he talked about in this book. He dives into the changes in the agricultural industry and how the view of manual labor such as farming became looked down upon, and how it got to that point. We still have a lot of problems that existed in 1977, especially in the agricultural industry. I just hope one day we can look at all our farms in America and say they’re 1) American owned, and 2) organic. But as time passes more land has been sold to foreign companies, at least in Oklahoma. I hope one day, that changes, and returns back to American hands that will cultivate the land well, and even heal it.
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- Barfield
- 04-03-23
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I need more books written by Wendell and read by Nick. I’ve listened numerous times.
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- Debbie Erwin
- 09-23-23
Fresh subject. A little rambling
I’ve enjoyed other titles by this author. Stick to his historical fiction accounts of Port Williams for a better, more poignant commentary on the importance of place and how people should tend to the land. The narrator isn’t bad but takes Berry’s reflective critique and draws it out too much in his tones.
Perfect for nighttime listening to put you to sleep.
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- Bean
- 05-20-22
Sanity in a corrupt world
Fantastic delivery by Offerman of Berry's important message. If you are frustrated with government and corporate dysfunction when it comes to the most basic necessities of life and wondering for the life of you why no one is making the ethical, ecological, and patriotic case for common sense and good stewardship, Wendell Berry just might save your sanity and there is no better, more even, or more engaging yet reassuring voice to bring this book to the restless than that of Nick Offerman.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-09-23
Excellent
A wonderful book on the state of agriculture in the modern west and the dangers that they entail on creation, along with good solutions.
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