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What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669354 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669354] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Narrator: Steve Connell, Ayisha Siddiqa, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jacqueline Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data and poetry, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create. If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you. With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right? On imagination, possibility, and transformation with Paola Antonelli • Xiye Bastida • Jade Begay • Wendell Berry • Régine Clément • Steve Connell • Erica Deeman • Abigail Dillen • Brian Donahue • Jean Flemma • Kelly Sims Gallagher • Rhiana Gunn-Wright • Olalekan Jeyifous • Corley Kenna • Bryan C. Lee Jr. • Franklin Leonard • Adam McKay • Bill McKibben • Kate Marvel • Samantha Montano • Kate Orff • Leah Penniman • Marge Piercy • Colette Pichon Battle • Kendra Pierre-Louis • Judith D. Schwartz • Jigar Shah • Ayisha Siddiqa • Bren Smith • Oana Stănescu • Mustafa Suleyman • Jacqueline Woodson *This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing photographs, diagrams, and an Anti-Apocalypse mixtape.

The Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707080 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707080] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog Author: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods Narrator: Isabella Rossellini, Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling authors of The Genius of Dogs take us into their “Puppy Kindergarten” at Duke University, a center to study how puppies develop, to show us what goes in to raising a great dog. Don’t miss Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in Netflix’s film Inside the Mind of a Dog! “A firehose of knowledge suffused with levity and charm.”—Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods hoped to answer when they enrolled one hundred and one puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten. With the help of a retired service dog named Congo, Brian, Vanessa, and their team set out to understand the secrets of the puppy mind: What factors might predict whether a puppy will grow up to change someone’s life? Never has cuteness been so cutting edge. Applying the same games that psychologists use when exploring the development of young children, Hare and Woods uncover what happens in a puppy’s mind during their final stage of rapid brain development. Follow the adventures of Arthur, who makes friends with toy dinosaurs; Wisdom, the puppy genius; and Ying, who fails at cognitive games that even pigeons usually pass with flying colors. Along the way, learn about when puppies finally start to retain memories for longer than just a few seconds, or when they finally develop some self-control. Raising dozens of puppies on a college campus means you get pretty good at answering big questions, such as: When do puppies sleep through the night? How do you stop them from eating poop? How can we help our puppies grow up to be the best dogs they can possibly be? Whether you are a new puppy parent or a perennial puppy lover, Puppy Kindergarten will answer every question you’ve ever had about puppies—and some you never thought to ask.

The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708502 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708502] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost Lake Author: Wendy Pratt Narrator: Wendy Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: 'Remarkable'OBSERVER 'Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES ‘Astounding’ ADAM FARRER ‘Brave and luminous’ SARAH LANGFORD ‘Mesmerising’ POLLY ATKIN ‘Beautifully written’ YORKSHIRE POST ‘Steadfastly honest’ GEOGRAPHICAL A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire. I am setting out on a pilgrimage through an ancient landscape. I will begin at my daughter’s grave. Paleolake Flixton is an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. Human occupation of the site dates back thousands of years, but today, all that is left is a watermark. Wendy Pratt brings readers on a pilgrimage around its periphery, to locations that have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she finds refuge in nature. The Ghost Lake is a lyrical meditation on local history, changing landscapes, and the lives and legacies of rural working-class people.

Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706013 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706013] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland Author: Jen Hadfield Narrator: Jen Hadfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 11, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: This audio edition is read by the author and was recorded in a remote studio in Shetland. 'Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.' - Katherine May, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wintering From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Where am I?’ is ‘heaven’? In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world. On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more: a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, seals and dolphins visit its beaches, and wild folk festivals carry the residents through long, dark winters. She found a close-knit community, too, of neighbours always willing to lend a boat or build a creel, of women wild-swimming together in the star-spangled winter seas. Over seventeen years, as bright summer nights gave way to storm-lashed winters, she learned new ways to live. In prose as rich and magical as Shetland itself, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local; introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.

This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan Townsend

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709458 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709458] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder Author: Alan Townsend Narrator: Alan Townsend Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: "[A] remarkable account of a shifting consciousness” - Publisher’s Weekly, starred review “An extraordinary, powerful book” - David Quammen, author of The Heartbeat of the Wild and Breathless A compassionate exploration of scientific wonder that offers “a fresh perspective on life, death, and the bittersweet consequences of impermanence,” (Jon Krakauer) as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend’s wife and daughter. A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend’s family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother’s life, Townsend – a lifelong scientist – was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem, but also as a lifeboat: a lens on the world that could help him find peace with the painful realities he could not change. Through scientific wonder, he found ways to bring meaning to his darkest period.  At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.