Tag: Audible

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/04/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeBarbarian Days: A Surfing Life
    by William Finnegan

    ⭐ Pulitzer Prize Winner ⭐
    Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.

    Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter.

    Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses – off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the listener in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly – he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay on Maui – is served up with rueful humor. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world’s greatest waves.

    As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying listeners with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Billy Budd, Sailor

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/03/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Billy Budd, SailorBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

    Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Melville’s Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil.

    Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor’s charm and good nature put the men around him at ease. Ship life agreed with Billy. He made friends quickly and was well liked, which infuriated John Claggart, the ship’s cold-blooded superior officer.

    Mutiny was a continual threat greatly feared by naval officers. Even minor offences were dealt with harshly to keep crews in their place, regardless of whether the accused was guilty or innocent.

    The envious Master-at-Arms becomes obsessed with the destruction of the ‘Handsome Sailor’ and torments the young man until his false accusations lead to an eventual charge of treason against Billy.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Practice Perfect

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/02/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting BetterPractice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better by Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway

    Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice.

    We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness – wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen – we’d spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves. This is a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions.

    In this book, the authors engage the dream of better, both in fields and endeavors where participants know they should practice and also in those where many do not yet recognize the transformative power of practice. And it’s not just whether you practice. How you practice may be a true competitive advantage. Deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolutionize our most important endeavors. The clear set of rules presented in Practice Perfect will make us better in virtually every performance of life. The "how-to" rules of practice cover such topics as rethinking practice, modeling excellent practice, using feedback, creating a culture of practice, making new skills stick, and hiring for practice.

    A hands-on resource to practice, the rules within will help to create positive outliers and world-changing reservoirs of talent.

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