Book description
"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century."--The GuardianNo writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium.--Bill McKibben An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.--The New Yorker A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of 2016 in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.
Sly Bible
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Corny
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Plenty Orange
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Noh Noh
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Take Away
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High Beam
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Yellow Menace
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Virgo Moon
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Twinkle Cutlass
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Stud Buster
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Dr. Jam Man
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High Kingdom Warrior
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Sky Dahlia
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Chuckles
Thanks to ListenBook, I'm now exploring different genres and formats I never thought I would. ListenBook's versatile player features are like having a personal audio assistant β it's that good! π Turning my phone into a portal of stories β this app's ease of use is remarkable! π±π«
Clover Rabbit
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Old Orange Eyes
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Shy Warrior
CUE playlist support is a fantastic feature that allows me to create curated listening experiences for different moods and settings. I love the chapter navigation feature. ListenBook makes it easy to find specific sections.
Lope Lope
Adjusting the tone of the narrator's voice is a unique touch β it's like having a personalized reading. Binaural audio processing is amazing. Reduced my listening fatigue significantly.
Blade
Sharing audiobooks with friends through AirDrop and Sharing on ListenBook Pro is a feature I can't live without. Changing the tone of the sound on ListenBook Pro is a fun way to customize my listening experience. Absolutely love this app! It's made my daily commute so much more enjoyable. The ability to adjust playback speed is a fantastic study aid. I'm absorbing information faster than ever. ListenBookβs playback speed control is very useful. I can listen at my own pace.
Hoover Spark
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience