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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. So begins Upstream , a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature....
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
The Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa peoples live along northern California's Klamath River, and each tribe's ancient culture revolves around the majestic Pacific salmon. Today, four large hydroelectric dams have made salmon extinction a real and frightening possibility. This case study follows tribal members as they confront the owners of the dams-specifically, a global energy giant in Scotland which is subsequently bought out by Warren Buffett's corporate...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explore solutions to the root causes of real-world problems. In this audiobook summary, learn how to solve problems upstream before they ever even happen.
Ever wondered why we spend so much time fixing problems that could have been prevented altogether? In the 2020 book Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, author Dan Heath draws insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional thinkers on how to prevent problems upstream...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stuck in summer school and grieving over her grandfather's death, everything seems to be falling apart for Lolo Weaver, so she hatches a plan to fix things by stealing back her grandfather's dog, whose new owner happens to be a new classmate from summer school.
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