Science & Technology Audiobooks

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

Martín Prechtel's experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala's brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author's realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our "original forgotten spiritual excellence." Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cultures can no longer survive in the modern world. To "keep the seeds alive"-both literally and metaphorically-they must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture that lie dormant within us need to "sprout" into broad daylight to create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth.

Martín Prechtel (Author), Martín Prechtel (Narrator)

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The Penguin Lessons

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell, read by Bill Nighy. *AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2 FACT NOT FICTION BOOKCLUB* 'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school, and endless summer holidays. He even has a motorbike, Che Guevara style. What he doesn't need is a pet. What he really doesn't need is a pet penguin. Set against Argentina's turbulent years following the collapse of the corrupt Perónist regime, this is the heart-warming story of Juan Salvador the penguin, rescued by Tom from an oil slick in Uruguay just days before a new term. When the bird refuses to leave Tom's side, the young teacher has no choice but to smuggle it across the border, through customs, and back to school. Whether it's as the rugby team's mascot, the housekeeper's confidant, the host at Tom's parties or the most flamboyant swimming coach in world history, Juan Salvador transforms the lives of all he meets - in particular one homesick school boy. And as for Tom, he discovers in Juan Salvador a compadre like no other... The Penguin Lessons is a unique and moving true story which has captured imaginations around the globe - for all those who dreamed as a child they might one day talk to the animals.

Tom Michell (Author), Bill Nighy (Narrator)

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Disaster Survival Guide: The Ultimate Life-Saving Manual To Survive Any Emergency

You Know How To Survive A Disaster? If the answer is 'NO,' then the Disaster Survival Handbook is a MUST-HAVE! This is a reference book on how to stay alive in man-made and natural disasters. Prepare yourself with the skills you need, because you never know when tragedy hits! If disaster strikes, the world changes. Everything we've come to rely on is in doubt, and we often find ourselves with only our wits to get us through. Chances are there will be anarchy in the streets, public services will be restricted if they do not exist, and former safe havens can suddenly become death traps. This helps everyone to learn and understand what is going on in a crisis and to take the right steps to ensure their own personal safety and that of those responsible for it. You will learn through the pages of this book: - What everybody needs to know about disasters - Basic disaster preparedness skills - How to pack a bug out bag - What you need in a first aid kit - How to learn what to do about the earthquake, the storm, the flood, the landslide, and so much more. With the wisdom found herein, you and your family will be able to venture out confidently knowing that you have the best weapon to protect yourself; your own imagination. Whether you're facing an earthquake, a storm, or a terrorist attack, we're going through the various steps you need to take in a variety of situations to ensure that you have the best chance of surviving a catastrophe.

David Burke (Author), Tom Fria (Narrator)

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DBT + EI + CBT Mastery Guide: 3 BOOKS IN 1 – Master Your Emotions and Overcome Anxiety With Cognitiv

THIS BOOK INCLUDES 3 MANUSCRIPTS 1️⃣ Emotional intelligence 2.0 2️⃣ DBT 3️⃣ CBT Do you want to get rid of your fears? Would you like to be able to master your emotions and became the best version of yourself? Do you struggle to sleep at night due to anxiety and panic attacks? Anxiety and depression are often referred to as the mental illnesses of the 21st century, frequently provoked by a society that imposes fast living standards and constant goal-chasing to put on display on social media. Anxiety in itself is not a disease, It is a natural reaction that serves to mobilize our body in the face of danger. It becomes a problem when it turns into a permanent state. I combined these 3 books in a Mastery Guide because I believe that adopting these 3 methodologies together is a complete path to better managing and understanding emotions in order to overcome anxiety and fear. Here's what you'll find in this Bundle: ✅ How to improve your social skills ✅ Secrets on getting to know yourself better and making decisions thanks to Emotional Intelligence ✅ How to increase work productivity, relying on greater leadership skills ✅ What DBT is, How it can treat borderline personality disorder and The DBT technique to control fear and anger ✅ Tips on Practicing Mindfulness in DBT ✅ A step by step CBT path on how to best solve your problems ✅ Thanks to CBT you can finally free yourself from anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, depression and many other psychological problems ✅ BONUS CHAPTER And much more.. Imagine a new you life, completely aware of your emotions, no more anxiety and surrounded by the people you love. You will no longer have to fear rejection and you will no longer have to panic when making decisions. If you want to change your life, GET THIS AUDIOBOOK NOW!

Theresa Williams (Author), Lauren Gobes (Narrator)

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Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers

The breakout star of Discovery's hit automotive restoration show Fast N' Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected with the quick-witted, foul-mouthed charm viewers love. "If we're gonna have fun, it better have a motor!" InFast N' Loud, Richard Rawlings pushes into high gear, sharing the story of his rise to success, his show, and the automotive know-how that has made him famous. He begins with his own story, how he went from flat broke to a seat at the table with some of history's most iconic car guys. His road to the top is full of dangerous twists and hilarious turns, with a few precipitous cliffs in between, including getting shot defending his beloved 1965 Mustang fastback from carjackers, blowing out of town Fear-and-Loathing style, and picking up chicks and vagrants along the way. Rawlings then takes readers behind the scenes ofFast N' Loud, the series, sharing details on everything from the toughest car to restore to the easiest, his favorite restorations, travel and war anecdotes, and the best and worst cars to make it to the small screen. He finishes with a handy guide for classic and antique car enthusiasts that includes insider tricks of the trade. Want to know how to find a Model-T in mint condition? Need a carburetor for your '73 Ford Mustang? Want to meet other '60s Porsche owners? The answers are all here.

Mark Dagostino, Richard Rawlings (Author), Alexander Cendese, Richard Rawlings (Narrator)

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The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

Despite what you might have heard, diabetes is not a lifelong condition. It does not have to shorten your life span or result in high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, or other life-threatening ailments. In fact, most diabetics can get off medication and become 100 percent healthy in just a few simple steps. In The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman shows how you can prevent and reverse diabetes and its related symptoms and lose weight in the process. The End of Diabetes is a radical idea wrapped in a simple plan: Eat Better, End Diabetes. While the established medical protocol aims to control diabetes by limiting your carbohydrate intake, monitoring glucose levels, and prescribing bottomless doses of medicine, Dr. Fuhrman believes this long-standing approach to fighting diabetes is wrong- and possibly fatal. Designed for anyone ready to enjoy a healthier and longer life, Dr. Fuhrman's plan is based on a single formula: Your Health Future (H) = Nutrients (N) / Calories (C). Foods with a high nutrient density, according to Dr. Fuhrman, turn our bodies into the miraculous, self-healing machines they can be, which results in significant weight loss, improved health, and, ultimately, the end of diabetes and other diseases. In engaging, direct, and easy-to-follow language, The End of Diabetes supplies the science and clinical evidence to prove that diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure are not inevitable consequences of aging. They are reversible and preventable. This simple and effective plan offers great food, starts working right away, and puts you on a direct path to a longer, better, fuller, disease-free life. ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Joel Fuhrman, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., M.D. Joel Fuhrman (Author), Chris Sorensen, Joel Fuhrman, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., M.D. Joel Fuhrman (Narrator)

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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF-string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far-Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

Donna J. Haraway (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator)

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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

In this wise and elegant New York Times bestseller, Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. SEEDS OF HOPE takes us from Goodall's home in England to her home-away-from-home in Africa, deep inside the Gombe forest, where she and the chimpanzees are enchanted by the fig and plum trees they encounter. She introduces us to botanists around the world, as well as places where hope for plants can be found, such as The Millennium Seed Bank. She shows us the secret world of plants with all their mysteries and potential for healing our bodies as well as Planet Earth. Looking at the world as an adventurer, scientist, and devotee of sustainable foods and gardening--and setting forth simple goals we can all take to protect the plants around us--Goodall delivers an enlightening story of the wonders we can find in our own backyards.

Gail Hudson, Jane Goodall (Author), Edita Brychta, Jane Goodall, Rick Zieff (Narrator)

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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris, read by Sam Woolf. In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. And in squalid, overcrowded hospitals, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more dangerous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: Joseph Lister, a young Quaker surgeon. By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever. With a novelist's eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britain's greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end.

Lindsey Fitzharris (Author), Sam Woolf (Narrator)

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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters

In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vital to his success. In January 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in history when Captain Sullenberger brought a crippled US Airways flight onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all of the passengers and crew aboard. The successful outcome was the result of effective teamwork, Sully's dedication to airline safety, his belief that a pilot's judgment must go hand in hand with technology, and forty years of careful training. Sully describes the experiences that have helped make him a better leader, particularly the importance of taking responsibility for everyone in his care. And he talks about what he believes is at the heart of America's "can do" spirit: the very human drive to prepare for the unexpected and to meet it with optimism and courage. Highest Duty reminds us that cultivating seemingly ordinary virtues can prepare us to perform extraordinary acts. **Please Contact Member Services for Additional Document**

Chesley B. Sullenberger, Iii Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger (Author), Chesley B. Sullenberger, Iii Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, Michael McConnohie, Michael Mcconnohie (Narrator)

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A Burst of Conscious Light: Near-Death Experiences, the Shroud of Turin, and the Limitless Potential

Provides evidence that human consciousness can never be reproduced and exposes the perils of artificial intelligence • Explains how consciousness transcends the brain and body through quantum theory and accounts of consciousness in the clinically dead • Shares scientific evidence of how the image on the Shroud of Turin was produced and connects these findings to evidence concerning near-death experiences • Reveals how consciousness cannot be reproduced by a machine and how attempts to do so threaten what makes us human Stephen Hawking once said that the unanticipated consequences of artificial intelligence will be the greatest threat to humanity's survival. In this book, Dr. Andrew Silverman reveals why the powerful consciousness of the human mind could never be manufactured and so cannot be reproduced with technology. Integrating extensive scientific research from three seemingly unrelated fields of study--quantum mechanics, near-death experiences, and the Shroud of Turin--Silverman reveals the pitfalls and perils of artificial intelligence and addresses the fundamentally flawed thinking that underlies it. Drawing on his work as one of the leading experts on the Shroud of Turin as well as research by scientists from NASA and Los Alamos, he shows how the image on the Shroud could only have been produced by a flash of light as intense as a nuclear explosion--a burst of light that occurred after the body was in the tomb. Sharing medical evidence of consciousness in people declared clinically dead, the author shows how the light of consciousness evidenced by the Shroud is also a consistent feature of most near-death experiences. Exploring the non-local nature of consciousness--how it transcends the physical brain and body, Silverman explains why the human mind cannot be reduced to a computer and examines what separates sentient beings from machines. He shows how getting caught up in the push for artificial intelligence and the technological quest for immortality--through the attempt to "download" our minds onto computers--will only lead us to devalue and erase what makes us unique and irreplaceable in this cold, dark universe: our humanity.

Andrew Silverman (Author), Andy Rick (Narrator)

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For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

'For the Love of Soil' is a land manager’s roadmap to healthy soil and revitalized food systems in challenging times. Globally-recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers solutions to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book, For the Love of Soil. Nicole declares peace with nature, and provides with the science and guidelines to regenerate landscapes, restore natural cycles, and rebuild rural communities. She shows how, with a soils first approach, we can bring vitality back to ecosystems, and human health. This book translates the often complex and technical know-how of soil, into more digestible terms through case studies from regenerative farmers, growers, and ranchers in Australasia and North America. This is a must read for those interested in profitable, quality food production, climactic variability, carbon drawdown, water quality, reducing chemicals in the food chain, and human health. 'For years many of us involved in regenerative agriculture have been touting the soil health - plant health - animal health – human health connection but no one has tied them all together like Nicole does in “For the love of Soil!' -- Gabe Brown, Nourished by Nature.

Nicole Masters (Author), Nicole Masters (Narrator)

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