Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
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Chelsea Wald
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From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Nature) and the future of the toilet - for fans of popular science best sellers by Mary Roach.
Most of us do not give much thought to the centerpiece of our bathrooms, but the toilet is an unexpected paradox. On the one hand, it is a modern miracle: a ubiquitous fixture in a vast sanitation system that has helped add decades to the human lifespan by reducing disease. On the other hand, the toilet is also a tragic failure: Less than half of the world’s population can access a toilet that safely manages body waste, including many right here in the United States. And it is inefficient, squandering clean water as well as the nutrients, energy, and information contained in the stuff we flush away. While we see radical technological change in almost every other aspect of our lives, we remain stuck in a sanitation status quo - in part because the topic of toilets is taboo.
Fortunately, there’s hope - and Pipe Dreams daringly profiles the growing army of scientists, engineers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and activists worldwide who are overcoming their aversions and focusing their formidable skills on making toilets accessible and healthier for all.
This potential revolution in sanitation has many benefits, including reducing inequalities, mitigating climate change and water scarcity, improving agriculture, and optimizing health. Author Chelsea Wald takes us on a wild world tour from a compost toilet project in Haiti, to a plant in the Netherlands that salvages used toilet paper from sewage, and shows us a toilet seat that can watch users’ poop for signs of illness, among many other fascinating developments.
“Toilet humor is one thing, but toilet fact, as digested by skilled science writer Wald, is quite another.... [Pipe Dreams is] a highly informative, well-reasoned call to rethink the throne.” (Kirkus Reviews)
©2021 Chelsea Wald. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 434
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 436
When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future? In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard not to be affected by this book
- De Neuron en 11-16-13
De: James Salzman
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Garbology
- Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- De: Edward Humes
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A phenomenal read & serious eye-opener
- De Andy Feicht en 10-07-18
De: Edward Humes
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Until Proven Safe
- The History and Future of Quarantine
- De: Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh
- Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent writing, timely and informative
- De MSE en 07-24-21
De: Nicola Twilley, y otros
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Perhaps multiply his time estimates by 10
- De Rick en 11-06-21
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- De: Emily Anthes
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating stories, well researched, read twice
- De ep en 01-18-21
De: Emily Anthes
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
De: Janine M. Benyus
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Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 334
Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You will probably enjoy "Spillover" more
- De serine en 03-01-16
De: Sonia Shah
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Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
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Organic Manifesto
- How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
- De: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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those in power must read and work upon it.
- De Jaktip en 12-20-17
De: Maria Rodale, y otros
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The Ghost Map
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was okay until the end
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De: Steven Johnson
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,624
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- De: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,592
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,582
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die", contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- De Wayne en 07-01-20
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Each of us, at certain moments in our lives, can feel lost or confused. We often don’t know how to get what we want, but we share some universal desires: to love and be loved; understanding, power, attention, freedom; to create, to belong, to win, to connect, to control; and we want what we shouldn’t. In each of these twelve chapters, focused on one of these desires, psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber takes you behind closed doors of her therapy sessions as she guides clients towards startling insights and profound change.
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Great Listen to Understand Desire
- De TJ en 06-14-23
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The Evil Hours
- A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- De: David J. Morris
- Narrado por: Alex Knox
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and ’90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States’ “global war on terror,” PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict’s veterans. But the disorder’s reach extends far beyond the armed forces. In total, some twenty-seven million Americans are believed to be PTSD survivors. Yet to many of us, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame.
De: David J. Morris
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Buzz, Sting, Bite
- Why We Need Insects
- De: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
- Narrado por: Kristin Millward
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.
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Content is very interesting
- De Klaasneus en 07-17-19
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The Power of 1440
- Making the Most of Every Minute in a Day
- De: Tim Timberlake, Keith Wall, John C. Maxwell - foreword
- Narrado por: Tim Timberlake
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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The son of a preacher, 18-year-old Tim Timberlake learned to appreciate the extraordinary value and gift of each minute of every day the hard way through the tragic and sudden loss of his father. Tim began a journey to not just get through each day, but to exhaust every opportunity of potential of that day, moment by moment, fulfilling his God-given purpose. Now a pastor himself, Tim inspires others to approach each day in a way that they live out their own God-given purposes and passions.
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EXCELLENT!!!
- De Tina B. en 01-18-24
De: Tim Timberlake, y otros
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Inheriting Clutter
- How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind
- De: Julie Hall
- Narrado por: Jill Blackwood
- Duración: 8 h
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Inheriting Clutter gives you practical, effective steps for liquidating and distributing your parents’ assets in a way that both honors them and promotes family harmony for generations to come.
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Extremely Valuable Information
- De Mr en 10-21-20
De: Julie Hall
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Off the Deep End
- Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty
- De: Giancarlo Granda, Mark Ebner
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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Jerry Falwell Jr. is a prominent figure in the evangelical world whose support for presidential candidate Donald J. Trump helped secure Trump's Republican nomination in 2016. He captured headlines when it was revealed that he and his wife Becki had participated in a years-long bizarre sexual relationship with a pool attendant they met at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach.
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Literary Version of Revenge Porn
- De R. Squyres en 10-27-22
De: Giancarlo Granda, y otros
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Good Husbandry
- A Memoir
- De: Kristin Kimball
- Narrado por: Kristin Kimball
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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From the celebrated author of the beloved best seller The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm - a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community of 250 people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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She can write but can't read
- De apples en 10-18-19
De: Kristin Kimball
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Pipe Dreams
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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- Shawn Shafner
- 06-11-21
An excellent and inspiring introduction to the topic
Chelsea Wald takes us on a tour of current toileting practices and so many options for how it could be better. A great mix of science, journalism and storytelling. Bravo!!!
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- Carl Stude III
- 12-01-21
Quite Interesting.
A bit of a wandering narrative... overall very informative. Covers a lot of subject matter.
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- Carol F McCreary
- 04-07-21
Powerful, intricate, and wide ranging
Amidst all the books on toilets, Chelsea Wald’s Pipe Dreams breaks through with clarity, depth, and actionable inspiration. The oft repeated term “toilet systems” takes us from the humble, intimate user interface to the impact of climate change and the “silver tsunami” threatening the planet’s most sophisticated wastewater treatment infrastructure. While no stone is unturned, Pipe Dreams is compellingly accessible. Let’s hope this book becomes the game changer it deserves to be!
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