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The Well-Gardened Mind
- The Restorative Power of Nature
- Narrateur(s): Sue Stuart-Smith
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
- Catégories: Maison et jardin, Jardinage et horticulture
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Auteur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrateur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective.
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Great listen
- Écrit par Rachel Ridley le 2020-11-16
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Vesper Flights
- Auteur(s): Helen Macdonald
- Narrateur(s): Helen Macdonald
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
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In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building.
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JFK
- Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- Auteur(s): Fredrik Logevall
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 29 h et 27 min
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, 35th president.
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The Salt Path
- Auteur(s): Raynor Winn
- Narrateur(s): Raynor Winn
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset via Devon and Cornwall. They have almost no money for food or shelter and must carry only the essentials for survival on their backs as they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky.
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Absolutely wonderful
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-01-31
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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
- Foreword by Alice Waters
- Auteur(s): Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Narrateur(s): Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before.
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Auteur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrateur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective.
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Great listen
- Écrit par Rachel Ridley le 2020-11-16
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Vesper Flights
- Auteur(s): Helen Macdonald
- Narrateur(s): Helen Macdonald
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
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In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building.
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JFK
- Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- Auteur(s): Fredrik Logevall
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 29 h et 27 min
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, 35th president.
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The Salt Path
- Auteur(s): Raynor Winn
- Narrateur(s): Raynor Winn
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset via Devon and Cornwall. They have almost no money for food or shelter and must carry only the essentials for survival on their backs as they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky.
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Absolutely wonderful
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-01-31
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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
- Foreword by Alice Waters
- Auteur(s): Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Narrateur(s): Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before.
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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Second Nature
- A Gardener's Education
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Sandel
- Narrateur(s): Michael J. Sandel
- Durée: 11 h et 17 min
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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Good point poorly done
- Écrit par UNSC Customer le 2020-12-11
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The Genius of Birds
- Auteur(s): Jennifer Ackerman
- Narrateur(s): Margaret Strom
- Durée: 11 h et 54 min
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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight.
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great for people who already love biology
- Écrit par Natalie le 2018-05-03
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The Adventures of Augie March
- Auteur(s): Saul Bellow
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parker
- Durée: 22 h et 13 min
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Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
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Jack
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Marilynne Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
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With Jack, Robinson takes her listeners back to the small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames and the black sheep of his family. He's a ne'er-do-well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant African American teacher he meets in segregated St. Louis. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.
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The Equivalents
- A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
- Auteur(s): Maggie Doherty
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
- Durée: 13 h et 3 min
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The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still felt today.
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Inspiring history of the women's movement.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-06-05
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Down to Earth
- Gardening Wisdom
- Auteur(s): Monty Don
- Narrateur(s): Monty Don
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.
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A Delightful Stroll through Longmeadow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-08-28
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In Praise of Paths
- Walking Through Time and Nature
- Auteur(s): Torbjørn Ekelund, Geoff Nicholson
- Narrateur(s): TJ Oberholzer
- Durée: 4 h et 34 min
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Torbjørn Ekelund started to walk - everywhere - after an epilepsy diagnosis affected his ability to drive. The more he ventured out, the more he came to love the act of walking, and an interest in paths emerged. In this poignant, meandering book, Ekelund interweaves the literature and history of paths with his own stories from the trail. As he walks with shoes on and barefoot, through forest creeks and across urban streets, he contemplates the early tracks made by ancient snails and traces the wanderings of Romantic poets, amongst other musings.
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A Promised Land
- Auteur(s): Barack Obama
- Narrateur(s): Barack Obama
- Durée: 29 h et 10 min
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Obama reads this himself!
- Écrit par Meredith le 2020-11-17
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The Nature Fix
- Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
- Auteur(s): Florence Williams
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
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For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the science behind nature's positive effects on the brain.
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A great information source!
- Écrit par Kathleen Holland le 2020-12-20
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The Botany of Desire
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Rayne le 2019-08-19
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Magdalena
- River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
- Auteur(s): Wade Davis
- Narrateur(s): Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe
- Durée: 16 h et 17 min
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Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet.
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Beautiful
- Écrit par Owen Willis le 2021-01-14
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One of Garden & Gun’s Favorite Books of 2020
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.
The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening is one of the quintessential nurturing activities, and yet we understand so little about it. The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people’s lives. Here, Sue Stuart-Smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self.
Stuart-Smith’s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. From her grandfather’s return from World War I to Freud’s obsession with flowers to case histories with her own patients to progressive gardening programs in such places as Rikers Island prison in New York City, Stuart-Smith weaves thoughtful yet powerful examples to argue that gardening is much more important to our cognition than we think. Recent research is showing how green nature has direct antidepressant effects on humans. Essential and pragmatic, The Well-Gardened Mind is a book for gardeners and the perfect listen for people seeking healthier mental lives.
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- 2020-09-13
Author reading doesn't work
The book would be interesting to read, I think, but the narration is mind numbingly monotone and I just couldn't finish it.
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- Claudia in Colorado
- 2020-11-05
Fascinating book about mental health and gardening
I loved this book. The performance is sometimes stilted but the material makes up for it. There are great ideas here for mental health professionals and gardeners alike.
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- Joao G. D. Santos
- 2020-11-12
The Well-Gardened Mind
This book was recommended by a Climate Reality Leader colleague, and it was splendid. I strongly recommend to everyone who wants to heal yourself and why not other people's minds.