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How to Practise Without Preaching
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''This is the joy we need in our lives'' (George Monbiot)
''This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader's eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change.'' (Dr. Rowan Williams)
Finally! A book about saving our planet that is fast, funny, and inspiring, too. Written in short chapters for busy people, Isabel doesn't bother with an examination of the problem but gets right on with the solutions. Her aim: to look for every single way we can take care of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank, everything. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically, and joyfully.
Beginning with losing her cool in a restaurant that will only provide plastic cutlery, Isabel journeys through native tree planting in the Highlands of Scotland, playing Samba drums with Extinction Rebellion, interviewing in person the people that supply her energy and food through every solution she can find until both narrator and listener are fully equipped to be part of the pollution solution.
''She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand.'' (Sir Mark Rylance)
©2020 Isabel Losada (P)2020 Watkins PublishingLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Author Paul Torday makes his debut with this clever absurdist novel. Fisheries scientist Dr. Alfred Jones is approached by an extravagantly wealthy sheik with a novel plan. To foster goodwill, the sheik would like to introduce salmon fishing to Yemen - the same Yemen that is largely a desert - and politicians think it's a great idea.
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Distracted by the British bureaucracy/philosophy
- De Will en 08-01-12
De: Paul Torday
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44 Scotland Street
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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The brilliant Alexander McCall Smith became an international sensation with his New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels. His award-winning wit, made famous through that series, is fully on display in 44 Scotland Street.
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Smith's answer to Maupin
- De Amazon Customer en 10-23-05
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Maeve's Times
- In Her Own Words
- De: Maeve Binchy
- Narrado por: Kate Binchy
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, "senior moments" to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity - revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.
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A GLIMPSE THROUGH MAEVE'S LOOKING GLASS
- De jstrfic en 08-08-17
De: Maeve Binchy
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Among Others
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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Subtle Character Piece
- De Eoin en 09-15-11
De: Jo Walton
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Autumn
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Melody Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
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Incredible use of language
- De Mary en 03-06-17
De: Ali Smith
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A Very British Christmas
- Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy
- De: Rhodri Marsden
- Narrado por: Rhodri Marsden, Helen Keeley, Paul Tyreman
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Have Yourself a Very British Christmas is a 12-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who've eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for every Brit who's ever found themselves on a deflating airbed wedged up against the washing machine in their parents' spare room come Christmas Eve.
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Great Christmas Fun
- De Robin L Childs en 11-13-20
De: Rhodri Marsden