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“chris bates”

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  • Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives

    Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

    by Ken Issitt ...
    Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Game Changer

    An Aussie's Transformative US College Tennis Journey

    by Chris Bates ...
    ‘Game Changer’ is the story of one young Aussie tennis player’s inspirational journey to redefine success and ‘making it’ in the most unlikely of places.Ever since age eleven, Chris Bates, has been in search of success. As one of Australia’s best young tennis players, he was constantly confronted by the ever present ‘wisdom’ of Australian tennis coaches who insisted if you didn’t ‘make it’ by the ... Read more

    $5.69 USD

  • Your Best Brain: Discover the Secrets to Biohacking Maximum Mental Performance

    by Chris Bates ...
    "Your Best Brain: Discover the Secrets to Biohacking Maximum Mental Performance" is an essential guide to unlocking your brain's full potential. In this book, you will learn cutting-edge techniques and strategies that can help you achieve peak cognitive performance and mental clarity.Biohacking is a relatively new field that focuses on using the latest discoveries in nutrition science and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Storage Auction Profits (Beginner's guide to success for winning storage unit auctions)

    by Chris Bates ...
    SECRETS TO STORAGE AUCTION RICHES REVEALED!The storage auction television shows Storage Wars and Auction Hunters make it look real easy. Rare treasures and mega profits are just one bid away. What they don't show you is all the storage units they lost money on, all the time spent emptying the units, and the huge effort it takes to find buyers for the items. Knowing how and where to start can be ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    I Want a Better Catastrophe

    Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

    by Andrew Boyd ...
    Narrated by Chris Bates ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomersWith global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers — from activist Tim DeChristopher to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    All We Can Save

    Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

    Narrated by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus0, Janet Mock1, Bahni Turpin2, Alfre Woodard3 ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 5 min

    Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Bright Green Lies

    How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It

    by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    "This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered."—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia WorksBright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Railway Boy

    by Mitchell Deaver ...
    Rural North Yorkshire in the 1950s is the setting for Railway Boy, a heart-warming and nostalgic journey of exploration that describes a young boy's love for railways and describes the surprising lengths to which he would go in pursuit of that passion. Rich in period detail, the autobiographical novel begins with the family of author Mitchell Deaver uprooting from a small market town and moving to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • British Railways in the 1950s and ’60s

    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 699 - Shire Library
    As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport.After attempting to maintain pre-war networks and technology in the 1950s, a reversal of policy in the 1960s brought line closures, new ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

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    The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Vikas Adam, Inés del Castillo ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 42 min

    From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • On The Slow Train

    Twelve Great British Railway Journeys

    by Michael Williams ...
    This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Railway Man

    by Mitchell Deaver ...
    Railway Man begins with author Mitchell Deaver paying a nostalgic visit to Bickle signal box, base of boyhood adventures described in his first book Railway Boy. Shortly after, he leaves rural Yorkshire for life in the big cities. It is 1968. Railway Man describes the emotionally devastating draw-down of steam traction on British Railways. Three steam sheds remain: Carnforth, Lostock Hall and Rose ... Read more

    $3.99 USD