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Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763111 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763111] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman Author: Callum Robinson Narrator: Callum Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION For fans of H Is for Hawk and Shop Class as Soulcraft comes a captivating literary memoir, immersing readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean. The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father’s workshop. In time he became his father’s apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to find his own path led him to establish his own workshop and chase ever bigger and more commercial projects, until the devastating loss of one major job threatened to bring it all crashing down. Faced with the end of his business, his team, and everything he had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered most.  In beautifully wrought prose, Callum tells the story of returning to the workshop and to the wood, to handcrafting furniture for people who will love it and then pass it on to the next generation—an antidote to a culture where everything seems so easily disposable. As he does so, he brings us closer to nature and the physical act of creation—and we begin to understand how he has been shaped, as both a craftsman and a son.  Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world—one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light.

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future by Vince Beiser

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760963 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760963] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future Author: Vince Beiser Narrator: Vince Beiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better. An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world.

Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan by Matthew C. Halteman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761438 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761438] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan Author: Matthew C. Halteman Narrator: Matthew C. Halteman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A heartfelt, humane, and even hilarious account of why rule-obsessed veganism fails and how a focus on flourishing can bring about an abundant future for all In Hungry Beautiful Animals, philosopher Matthew C. Halteman shows us how—despite all the forces arrayed against going vegan—we can create an abundant life for everyone without using animals for food. Going vegan must be about flourishing, not shaming and blaming ourselves.   Hungry Beautiful Animals is a book of action, of forgiveness, and love.  "This timely exploration of the profound impact of our dietary choices on both individual and collective flourishing is essential reading for anyone who eats."—Bryant Terry, James Beard award-winning author of Vegetable Kingdom  “This is a book of sacred truths, the kind of thing you read and your soul forever registers."—Kathy Freston, New York Times best-selling author of The Lean

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760976 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760976] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures Author: Katherine Rundell Narrator: Katherine Rundell, Lenny Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub • From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel. But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures. Full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.

Lost Wonders: 10 tales of extinction from the 21st century by Tom Lathan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712558 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712558] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost Wonders: 10 tales of extinction from the 21st century Author: Tom Lathan Narrator: Tom Lathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Tom Lathan. In Lost Wonders author and journalist Tom Lathan tells the powerful stories of ten species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century. Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, with species disappearing at a rate not seen for tens of millions of years – a trend that will only accelerate as climate change and other pressures intensify. What does it mean to live in such a time? And what exactly do we lose when a species goes extinct? In a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be found on Earth – from giant tortoises to minuscule snails the size of sesame seeds, from ocean-hopping trees to fish that wag their tails like puppies – Lathan brings these lost wonders briefly back to life and gives us a tantalising glimpse of what we have lost within our own lifetime. Drawing on the personal recollections of the people who studied these species, as well as those who tried but ultimately failed to save them, Lost Wonders is an intimate portrait of the species that have only recently vanished from our world and an urgent warning to hold on all the more tightly to those now slipping from our grasp.