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The Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445641 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445641] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World Author: Katharine Hayhoe Narrator: Katharine Hayhoe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change.

Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. by Ranulph Fiennes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. Author: Ranulph Fiennes Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is an engaging new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes who followed in Shackleton's footsteps, he brings his own unique insights to bear on these infamous expeditions. Shackleton is both re-appraisal and a valediction, separating the man from the myth he has become. Praise for Sir Ranulph Fiennes: 'The World's Greatest Living Explorer' - Guinness Book of Records 'Full of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve and weather that defies belief, told by someone of unique authority. No one is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes' - Newsday 'Fiennes' own experiences certainly allow him to write vividly and with empathy of the hell that the men went through' - The Sunday Times © Ranulph Fiennes 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Water: A Biography by Giulio Boccaletti

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454368 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454368] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water: A Biography Author: Giulio Boccaletti Narrator: Giulio Boccaletti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host).   Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boc­caletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer­sity of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ­ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.   We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.   Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth. Cover image: 'Vista', painting by Tobias Tovera © 2016

Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul by Lucy Jones

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463960 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463960] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul Author: Lucy Jones Narrator: Lucy Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.

Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark by Julia Baird

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462995 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462995] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark Author: Julia Baird Narrator: Julia Baird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: “Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments. “What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has been the notion that we have the ability to find, nurture, and carry our own inner, living light—a light to ward off the darkness. This is not about burning brightly; it’s about yielding a more simple phosphorescence—being luminous, having stored light for later use. Staying alive, remaining upright, even when lashed by doubt.”   After surviving a difficult heartbreak and battle with cancer, acclaimed author and columnist Julia Baird began thinking deeply about how we, as people, persevere through the most challenging circumstances. She started to wonder, when we are overwhelmed by illness, loss or pain, or a tragedy outside our control: How can we keep putting one foot in front of the other? Baird went in search of the magic that fuels the light within—our own phosphorescence. In this stunning book, she reflects on the things that lit her way through the darkness, especially the surprising strength found in connecting with nature and not just experiencing awe and wonder about the world around her, but deliberately hunting it, daily.   Baird also writes about crossbeams of resilience: nurturing friendships and a quiet faith, pursuing silence, fighting for what she believes in, the importance of feeling small, learning from her mother's example of stoic grace. She also explores how others nurture their inner light, interviewing the founder of the modern forest therapy movement in Tokyo, a jellyfish scientist in Tasmania, and a tattooed priest from Colorado, among others.   Weaving together candid and moving memoir with deep research and reflections on nature and the world around her, Baird inspires readers to embrace new habits and to adopt a phosphorescent outlook on life, to illuminate ourselves and our days—even in the darkest times.