Tag: Living

June 19, 2023

Henry at Work Thoreau on Making a Living [Audiobook]

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Free Download Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C299KQMG | 2023 | 6 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 356 MB
Author: John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
What Thoreau can teach us about working-why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful. Henry at Work invites listeners to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard-surveying land, running his family’s pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond-and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions.

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June 19, 2023

Better Living Through Birding Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World [Audiobook]

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Free Download Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKTV8M5N | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Christian Cooper
Narrator: Christian Cooper
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. Christian Cooper is a self-described "Blerd" (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-oldracial tensions. Cooper’s viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation. Better Living Through Birding recounts Cooper’s journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen.

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