Rooted Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit [Audiobook]
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B091Z7B56F | 2021 | 5 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Narrator: Christine Williams

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows listeners how to deepen their connection to the natural world. In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: Life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth? Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt's highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways - from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness - and wildness - that sustains humans and all of life. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.


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Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day The Delightful History of Food Language [Audiobook]
Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8B5ZXK1 | 2023 | 3 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 194 MB
Author: Judith Tschann
Narrator: Alejandra Reynoso

Discover how the food we love shapes the language we use in this sharp, laugh-out-loud story of the etymology of food words. All food has a story, reaching as far back into history as language itself. Throughout time, as languages followed and reflected the tides of civilizations, food language came to represent some of the highs and lows of how humans communicate: from the highbrow "Chateauneuf du Pape," which must be pronounced with a healthy dose of snootiness; to the giggle-inducing yet delicious "nun's farts" of Jamaica (also known as "beignets"); to the fascinating travels of the word "coffee" across centuries and continents, attesting to the undying and unifying allure this drink holds for us. From Spam to amuse-bouches, ciabatta to kombucha, Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day reveals the delightful history and stories behind the words we use for the foods we love.


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Real-Time Leadership Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High [Audiobook]
Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW4PHSWN | 2023 | 9 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: David Noble, Carol Kauffman
Narrator: Rebecca Lam

The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will face. Whether you're making a split-second decision when your business is knocked sideways or you're finding the best strategy to navigate business-critical long-term circumstances, how can you be in peak form in those most crucial moments? Leadership coaching legends David Noble and Carol Kauffman show you how with their innovative new framework-MOVE-which equips you with the tactics you need to slow down high-stakes situations before they speed you up. You'll learn to master the moment, generate response options, and quickly evaluate those options before acting.


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Raising Adventurous Eaters Practical Ways to Overcome Picky Eating and Food Sensory Sensitivities [Audiobook]
Raising Adventurous Eaters: Practical Ways to Overcome Picky Eating and Food Sensory Sensitivities (Audiobook)
English | February 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTJKG2PY | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 40m | 162 MB
Author: Lara Dato | Narrator: Lara Dato
Help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life!
Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? Be it chicken nuggets, pizza, pancakes, or French fries-if your child is only eating a few foods regularly, their diet may be seriously lacking in the nutrition and vitamins they need to grow and be healthy. And you may feel stressed out and frustrated at mealtime. For many kids, picky eating is a sensory issue-whether it's the smell, taste, texture, or appearance of food. So, how can you help your child overcome these sensory sensitivities and ensure that they get the nourishment they need?


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Race and the War on Poverty From Watts to East L.A. [Audiobook]
Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (Audiobook)
English | February 06, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTV21Z92 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 14m | 340 MB
Author: Robert Bauman | Narrator: Gary Roelofs
President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs. It explores how organizers applied democratic vision and political savvy to community action, and how the ongoing African American, Chicano, and feminist movements in turn shaped the contours of the War on Poverty's goals, programs, and cultural identity.
Robert Bauman describes how the Watts riots of 1965 accelerated the creation of a black community-controlled agency, the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. The example of the WLCAC, combined with a burgeoning Chicano movement, inspired Mexican Americans to create The East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU) and the Chicana Service Action Center. Bauman explores the connections that wove together the War on Poverty, the Watts revolt, and local movements in ways that empowered the participants economically, culturally, and politically. Although heated battles over race and other cultural issues sometimes derailed the programs, these organizations produced lasting positive effects for the communities they touched.


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Queens of the Age of Chivalry [Audiobook]
Queens of the Age of Chivalry (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV52QX9K | 2023 | 19 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 502 MB
Author: Alison Weir
Narrator: Esther Wane

Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts. Using personal letters and wonderfully vivid sources, Alison Weir evokes the lives of five remarkable queens: Marguerite of France, Isabella of France, Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois. The turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry witnessed the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War against France and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which these queens were passionately involved. Queens of the Age of Chivalry brilliantly recreates this truly dramatic period of history through the lives of five extraordinary women.


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Politics, Poverty and Belief A Political Memoir [Audiobook]
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV2YB381 | 2023 | 5 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Frank Field
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

In this touching but also profound memoir, Field explains two key factors in his upbringing - the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism, as exemplified in the writings of F. D. Maurice and William Temple. Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain, through parliament and through his strong personal influence. Poverty for him has injustice at its root and as he explains in this book, he has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. He was appointed by Tony Blair to be the Secretary of State for Pensions, but the reforms he advocated were so radical and essentially just, that Tony Blair could not contemplate them and Field stood down. Previously he had been Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee under John Major.


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Oscar Wars A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears [Audiobook]
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV8FWTGL | 2023 | 21 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 602 MB
Author: Michael Schulman
Narrator: Charlie Thurston

A lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and little gold men. But don't be fooled by the pomp: the Oscars, more than anything, are a battlefield, where the history of Hollywood-and of America itself-unfolds in dramas large and small. The road to the Oscars may be golden, but it's paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts.


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Normal Family On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings [Audiobook]
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings (Audiobook)
English | July 12, 2022 | ASIN: B09SBJBJNT | M4B@125 kbps | 9h 2m | 493.11 MB
Author: Chrysta Bilton
Narrator: Chrysta Bilton

A riveting, nuanced portrait of unforgettable characters thrown together by chance and DNA, this is a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance.


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Nine Lives The Compelling Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot [Audiobook]
Nine Lives: The Compelling Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVPBBPCZ | 2023 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Chris Burwell
Narrator: Peter Noble

Chris Burwell charts one man's career in aviation from joining the RAF in 1969 aged eighteen, to having responsibility for training pilots for the world's major airlines nearly fifty years later. After training at RAF Cranwell and RAF Valley and a tour as a flying instructor on Jet Provosts, he joined the Harrier Force, flying on front-line squadrons in the United Kingdom and Germany during the Cold War and as an instructor on the Harrier Conversion Unit. Detachments to Belize in 1977, the Falklands (twice), ejection from a Harrier GR3, introducing FLIR and NVG to the Harrier front line and operational missions in Northern Iraq are all covered in detail. After thirty years of service, he spent twelve years with Cobham, managing their Teesside base and flying the Falcon 20 on operational training for the military and the King Air 200 on international flight calibration tasks. Finally, he spent four years in Spain with Flight Training Europe (FTE) Jerez training a new generation of pilots. Through his experience as a pilot, leader, and manager gained over many years, his valuable insights into military and civilian flying operations are both engrossing and noteworthy.


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