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The End of Ice
- Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
- By: Dahr Jamail
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 363
After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis - from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest - in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.
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Dealing with the Ultimate Climate Change Question
- By red_dog on 02-03-19
- The End of Ice
- Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
- By: Dahr Jamail
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
Moving and Memorable
Reviewed: 02-01-19
A moving and memorable account of the unfolding glowbal climate crisis by our most courageous young on-the-scene reporter and adventurer. Clear-eyed, chilling, and consequential.
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We Rise
- The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet
- By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
- Narrated by: Drew Caiden
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great topic good info
- By Great and powerful IDE on 10-01-17
- We Rise
- The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet
- By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
- Narrated by: Drew Caiden
A Book for All Ages
Reviewed: 11-03-17
Although clearly intended for a youth audience intereted in how to organize Youth Guardian groups worldwide, “We Rise” also includes Xiuhtescatl’s own unforgettably inspiring personal story as the youngest person ever to address the UN General Assembly; remarkable interviews with the world’s leading climate change advocates; and many pages of genuine wisdom —this kid has an old soul!—for anyone of any age involved in the climate justice movement. I’ve been at this game a very long time myself, yet still found the book inspiring, thought-provoking, empowering, hopeful, wise, and provocative.
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Business for Authors. How to Be an Author Entrepreneur
- By: Joanna Penn
- Narrated by: Joanna Penn
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Everything you need to run your business as an author. This is not a book on creativity or the craft of writing. This is not a book for hobbyists. This is a book that will take your writing into the realm of actually paying the bills. You will learn how to go from being an author to running a business as an author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a look at writing through the lens of business
- By Living Joyfully on 04-09-15
- Business for Authors. How to Be an Author Entrepreneur
- By: Joanna Penn
- Narrated by: Joanna Penn
No-Nonsense Detailed How-To Guide
Reviewed: 08-25-16
Starightforward and detailed guide to the digital world of the author-entrpreneur -- yet still manages to be entertaining, engaging, and inspirational.
Not for dabblers or dreamers. Rill up your sleeves and start writing.
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The Water Knife
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,030
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,626
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,618
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The fight for water in a drought fueled apocalypse
- By Lore on 09-24-15
- The Water Knife
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Ultra-violent but memorable
Reviewed: 12-22-15
I heard Bacigalupi interviewed on Denver's local NPR station and fell head over heels for the Cli-fi premise right away. The plot twists are intense and unpredictable. Nothing in that interview, however, prepared me for the flood of graphic violence in this novel. Don't get me wrong: the lessons the book teaches are worth learning; and the dystopic future it foretells for the desert Southwest is all but certain to come to pass if we don't wake up soon. Bravo to Bacigalupi for all that. Indeed other regions of the planet already crushed byc limate-driven drought and consequent civil collapse (Southern Sudan, or Syria, for example) are every bit as brutal, violent, and chaotic as the Western future imagined here. That said I still ended up feeling that a rather large part of the violence was purely gratuitous in the same way that Hollywood sci-fi action flick blockbusters often become. Who knows? Maybe a movie contract is even what Bacigalupi is gunning for. If so, that film would make Mad Max look like the tooth fairy. Excellent nuanced voice narration in this audible production only makes the trigger warnings all the more necessary.
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