Tag: Times

Five Times Faster


Free Download Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
English | 2023 | ISBN: 100932649X | 345 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.

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Seventy Times Seven A True Story of Murder and Mercy [Audiobook]


Free Download Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B69B1MFK | 2023 | 13 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Alex Mar
Narrator: Alex Mar

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl’s shocking crime-and its extraordinary aftermath. On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paula Cooper, is Black, and her victim, Ruth Pelke, is white and a beloved Bible teacher. The press swoops in. When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim’s grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of his family, and campaigns to spare her life. This tragedy in a midwestern steel town soon reverberates across the United States and around the world-reaching as far away as the Vatican-as newspapers cover the story on their front pages and millions sign petitions in support of Paula.

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