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Practice Perfect
- 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
- By: Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 449
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 380
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Story4 out of 5 stars 378
We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness - wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen - we’d spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Practice Makes Permanent
- By Alexandra on 02-03-14
- Practice Perfect
- 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
- By: Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
Not what I expected
Reviewed: 04-25-16
More than half of the book seemed to be about coaching or teaching others in practice and not about practice methodology as I was expecting. Teaching and coaching is a topic I am interested in so it was still a good listen, but I could see it being a disappointment for someone looking for what it describes itself to be, a book about practice.
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The Vegetarian Myth
- Food, Justice, and Sustainability
- By: Lierre Keith
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 637
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Story4 out of 5 stars 557
We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. e truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A bold work, and a catalog of modern neuroses
- By Sean on 01-02-13
- The Vegetarian Myth
- Food, Justice, and Sustainability
- By: Lierre Keith
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Eye opening.
Reviewed: 01-29-14
Would you consider the audio edition of The Vegetarian Myth to be better than the print version?
I havent read the print version so cant compare.
What did you like best about this story?
I liked the amount of factual information and statistics that made the arguments strong.
Which scene was your favorite?
The beginning was good when she talks about the vegan who suggests a fence through the serengeti separating the herbivores from the carnivores.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Agriculture: A matter of life and death.
Any additional comments?
The author should write another book. "The Feminist Myth" The only thing I did not like about this book was her down-putting of masculinity as a whole. I completely agree in human rights and that the world is not where it should be as far as equality between the sexes, but I am a man. That is a cultural problem, not testosterone.
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