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An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. T

Volume Four of the Dangerous Old Woman Series with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés "What makes talent bloom? Ask what makes a tree blossom. They are the same. It is not unfathomable. It only takes concentration. Concentration of energies is what makes a tree flower. Not bigger, not faster, not...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman. From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the...

Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist andauthor, explains the importance of not wasting your life, how you should strive to be better every single day and how by fixing your life, you not only helpyourself but everyone you come in contact with.

"Sexton's narration debut is impressive. He reads smoothly, with animated conviction and passion for his subject that shine through." — AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author In this pertinent audiobook, hard-hitting divorce lawyer James Sexton shares his insights and wisdom...

It began in 1997. Grocery stores in Bucks County, Pennsylvania – about 45 miles from Philadelphia – were all reporting the same things to their distributors: loaf after loaf of Friehofer's brand bread, destroyed.

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Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Year Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and...

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem. And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. Our minds function like trying to drive a car using only one wheel.

Inspired by the thrill of late-night conspiracy radio, Night Horizons dives into the outer edges of real science news. We take actual scientific breakthroughs and cutting-edge research, unpacking them with a touch of midnight speculation and mind-bending twists. Step into the dark and discover what’s actually out there on the horizon. Note: Night Horizons is an immersive audio experience produced using AI technology.

Late Night Classics Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of comfort reads and classic literature for any hour. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

These five very different Socratic Dialogues date from Plato's later period, when he was revisiting his early thoughts and conclusions and showing a willingness for revision. In Timaeus (mainly a monologue read by David Timson in the title role), Plato considers cosmology in terms of the nature...

Late-Night Conversations with Braylin: A podcast that offers space for honest, thoughtful conversations about life after dark. Each episode explores real topics such as relationships, purpose, personal growth, creativity, and the experiences that shape us. This podcast aims to create the feeling of talking with a trusted friend when the rest of the world has gone quiet.

Late to the Spectrum is a podcast about discovering autism later in life—and figuring out what comes next.When Geoff Kullman’s two kids were diagnosed with autism, he started wondering whether there might be something he was missing about himself. That question eventually led to his own autism assessment—and a diagnosis of ASD, along with ADHD, later in life.Now Geoff is exploring what that diagnosis means for his past, his relationships, his work, his parenting, and his future.Along the way, he’ll share his own story, talk with autistic adults and experts, unpack what he’s learning,...

We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction.

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of disintermediation: cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that aesthetics negate mediation. Surging realness as an aesthetic program synchs with the economic imperative to intensify circulation when production stagnates. Flow is the ultimate twenty-first-century buzzword, but speedy circulation grinds art down to the nub.

Welcome to Marquis Late Night Show, the ultimate late-night playbook for men who refuse to settle for average and are obsessed with reaching their peak potential. When the rest of the world goes to sleep, we pull back the curtain on what it truly takes to dominate in the modern era. This show cuts through the fluff to deliver raw, unfiltered strategies on relentless self-improvement, high-income skill development, and modern wealth-creation tactics designed to break you out of the rat race and build real financial autonomy.Hosted in a sharp, candid, and high-energy environment, Marquis Late ...