Linda M. Cockburn
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From What Is to What If
- Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- By: Rob Hopkins
- Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.
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Revolutionary book
- By Anonymous User on 02-09-2020
- From What Is to What If
- Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- By: Rob Hopkins
- Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
Cried for joy most of the way through it.
Reviewed: 09-08-2020
a wonderful look at not just what if, but what's happening now. a glorious hint at who we could be if only we tried.
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Boy Swallows Universe
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.
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Hard to press stop!
- By Fiona_S on 08-10-2018
- Boy Swallows Universe
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
Bloody brilliant mate
Reviewed: 08-04-2020
thought it was going to be one of those interminable coming of age books full of awkward moments and tales of teenage insecurities, and yup, lots of that - but so much more than that and the climax is a ripper. Wonderful reader too. Slips from character to character with complete believability. A great schmoosal of psychology, cultures and insights with a tight hold on the looseness of reality. Great story.
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The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
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Best audiobook in ages
- By Antonia on 18-02-2014
- The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
It takes 20mins for someone to walk through a door
Reviewed: 14-03-2020
I really know I should listen to this, but it is interminable. How do I return it?
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The Art of the Argument
- Western Civilization's Last Stand
- By: Stefan Molyneux
- Narrated by: Stefan Molyneux
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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The Art of the Argument shocks the dying art of rational debate back to life, giving you the essential tools you need to fight the escalating sophistry, falsehoods, and vicious personal attacks that have displaced intelligent conversations throughout the world. At a time when we need reasonable and empirical discussions more desperately than ever, The Art of the Argument smashes through the brain-eating fogs of sophistry and mental manipulation, illuminating a path to benevolent power for all who wish to take it.
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Just excellent. Share this book!
- By Beth on 07-10-2017
- The Art of the Argument
- Western Civilization's Last Stand
- By: Stefan Molyneux
- Narrated by: Stefan Molyneux
Truly Awful
Reviewed: 29-10-2017
Sweeping generalizations, hypocrisy and smug arrogance. This author had a clear agenda and a strong personal bias. I was looking forward to listening to a fascinating area of discussion. It could have been good - instead it was intolerable.
7 people found this helpful
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Atmosphere of Hope
- Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
- By: Tim Flannery
- Narrated by: Tim Flannery
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers. How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? Or will we be plunged into the dystopian collapses and terrors of civilisations past?
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Hopefully the older denialist's are on the run
- By William Marshall on 15-11-2015
- Atmosphere of Hope
- Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
- By: Tim Flannery
- Narrated by: Tim Flannery
Excellent
Reviewed: 23-06-2017
Any additional comments?
Exhilarating to be listening to solutions (ones that could be implemented) instead of being ground down with all the problems.
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Leaders Eat Last
- Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally best-selling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine Corps Officers, who don't just sacrifice their place at the table but often their own comfort and even their lives for those in their care, to the heads of big business and government - each putting aside their own interests to protect their teams.
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Good ideas but twisted truths
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-2017
- Leaders Eat Last
- Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
Tacky
Reviewed: 23-06-2017
Would you try another book written by Simon Sinek or narrated by Simon Sinek?
I wouldn't listen to another of his books, I didn't listen to all of this. Felt that existential angst of wasting my life while listening to it. Over-inflated pap.
Would you be willing to try another one of Simon Sinek’s performances?
No
4 people found this helpful
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Liza Ross
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them.
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Great book. Terrible narration.
- By Hayley on 25-09-2018
- This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Liza Ross
more of what's wrong
Reviewed: 27-04-2017
This is just me. it was very well written. researched. But I've had enough of hearing how wrong things are I want to hear strategies for implementation. I know both are important but I'm over the doom and gloom. We need to build a powerful new narrative of hope and build bridges between our disparate movements and address the issue and come out the better for it. Write us that book!
2 people found this helpful
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Don't Even Think About It
- Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
- By: George Marshall
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world's leading climate scientists and the people who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals.
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Approach a climate convo
- By Anonymous User on 20-01-2020
- Don't Even Think About It
- Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
- By: George Marshall
- Narrated by: John Lee
Exceptionally written and researched.
Reviewed: 17-04-2017
Overwhelming the ways we can refute climate change. But written with humour and ultimately providing ways to navigate the rocky human psyche.