English | ASIN: B09Y697HYH | 2022 | 2 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 146 MB
Can a 19th-century landscape architect help us address the sustainability challenges of our time? If we're talking about Frederick Law Olmsted, the genius behind Central Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, and other iconic green spaces, then the answer's a resounding yes. In The Enduring Genius of Frederick Law Olmsted, you'll learn about the iconic landscape architect's incredible life—and ponder his incredible legacy. You'll explore his work as a designer of some breathtaking natural landscapes (as well as some of the painful failures he had to endure along the way). You'll also consider Olmsted's efforts to address the momentous challenges of his century, including the Civil War, and the vital role he played in the most transformative period in American history. How can people, entrenched in a highly mobile and individualistic society, develop a solid sense of community? How can we grow our cities without destroying the environment around them? What ideas offer a rock-solid foundation for sustainable communities and civilizations?

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English | June 13, 2017 | ASIN: B06Y3YFNB2 | MP3 | M4B | 9h 57m | 270.73 MB
Author: Peter Brannen

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English | ASIN: B09CS8FRRD | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~16:44:00 | 476 MB
Peter Zeihan (Author, Narrator), "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization"

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English | ASIN: B09NX36SSP | 2022 | 5 hours and 14 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 143 MB
An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies. Since 2010, it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along with this technological breakthrough there has emerged a movement to use this information to help prospective parents "eliminate preventable genetic disease". As the prospect of systematically excluding the appearance of unwanted mutations in our children comes within reach, David B. Goldstein examines the possible consequences from these types of choices. Engaging and accessible, this clarion call for responsible and informed stewardship of the human genome provides an overview of what we do and do not know about human genetics and looks at some of the complex, yet largely unexplored, issues we must be most careful about as we move into an era of increasing numbers of parents exercising direct control over the genomes of their children.

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English | ASIN: B09QQTYGV9 | 2022 | 8 hours and 4 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 441 MB
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But because we don't really understand what burnout means, the discourse does little to help workers who are suffering from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was one of those workers, and to escape, he quit his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our dismal jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work.

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English | ASIN: B09Y9MWXX8 | 2022 | 9 hours and 53 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 272 MB
Exploring more than 100,000 years of Earth's history, Marco Vigato combines recent discoveries in the the fields of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and genetics with the mystery teachings of antiquity to investigate the true origins of civilization. Establishing the historical and geological reality of Atlantis stretching all the way back to 432,000 BCE, he traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, revealing how civilization rose and fell several times over this lengthy span of time.

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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0979M8YX7 | Duration: 7:50 h | 221 MB
Thomas Fisher / Narrated by Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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English | ASIN: B09WZ7YM4J | 2022 | 4 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 121 MB
In The Elephant and the Mouse, award-winning speaker and diversity and inclusion expert Laura Liswood delivers a thought-provoking and insightful new business guide that explores workplace diversity and offers new ideas for gaining the real benefits from your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The Elephant and the Mouse refers to the dynamic in organizations that are roadblocks to consciously inclusive success. The Elephant, often dominant in group leadership, knows little about the experiences of the Mouse, the non-dominant groups, while the Mouse knows so much more about the Elephant. In diverse workplaces, these two groups live in different worlds. Success will come only if everyone works in a true meritocracy. You learn what may be easy for some to do in their career is much harder for others to do.

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English | 2018 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B079Y99F8K | Duration: 8:35 h | 243 MB
Katherine May / Narrated by Katherine May

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English | ASIN: B09QTTYQ52 | 2022 | 5 hours and 48 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 159 MB
Humans have always thrived in rich, diverse, edible ecosystems. Yet most cities and suburbs are blanketed by lawns, ornamentals, and a lack of biodiversity, let alone anything edible. It is within these sterile landscapes that seeds of an edible ecosystem lie. The Edible Ecosystem Solution is a comprehensive, practical guidebook that looks at underutilized spaces to reveal the many opportunities for landscape transformation that are both far-reaching and immediately beneficial and enjoyable. The Edible Ecosystem Solution is for everyone with access to a bit of yard, a desire for food security, biodiversity, and a beautiful and resilient community, and for anyone who wants to reclaim humanity's place in a rich, abundant, edible ecosystem.

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