Gary Roelofs has narrated 20 audiobooks on Listento.it by 25 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is Overcoming Anxiety: How to Overcome Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorders, Separation Anxiety, & More!.
The Deep Dark
Summary
For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine. Mining there, as everywhere, was not an easy life, but regardless of the risk, there was something about being underground, the lure of hitting a deep vein of silver. The promise of good money and the intense bonds of friendship brought men back year after year. Mining is about being a man and a fighter in a job where tomorrow always brings the hope of a big score. On May 2, 1972, 174 miners entered Sunshine Mine on their daily quest for silver. Aboveground, safety engineer Bob Launhardt sat in his office, filing his usual mountain of federal and state paperwork. From his office window he could see the air shafts that fed fresh air into the mine, more than a mile below the surface. The air shafts usually emitted only tiny coughs of exhaust; unlike dangerously combustible coal mines, Sunshine was a fireproof hardrock mine, nothing but cold, dripping wet stone. There were many safety concerns at Sunshine, but fire wasn't one of them. The men and the company swore the mine was unburnable, so when thick black smoke began pouring from one of the air shafts, Launhardt was as amazed as he was alarmed. When the alarm sounded, less than half of the dayshift was able to return to the surface. The others were trapped underground, too deep in the mine to escape. Scores of miners died almost immediately, frozen in place as they drilled, ate lunch, napped, or chatted. No one knew what was burning or where the smoke had come from. But in one of the deepest corners of the mine, Ron Flory and Tom Wilkinson were left alone and in total darkness, surviving off a trickle of fresh air from a borehole. The miners' families waited and prayed, while Launhardt, reeling from the shock of losing so many men on his watch, refused to close up the mine or give up the search until he could be sure that no one was left underground.
©2014 Gregg Olsen (P)2014 Gregg Olsen
Overcoming Anxiety: How to Overcome Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorders, Separation Anxiety, & More!
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Overcoming Anxiety It’s a little know fact that 40 million adults suffer from some form of anxiety. That is 18% of the adult population of the United States. If you or someone you know is part of that statistic then Overcoming Anxiety is a must read. For many people, more women than men, anxiety can be severely debilitating. It can lead to long-term physical and psychological damage if left untreated. The first step in overcoming your anxiety is to understand it and get a proper diagnosis. Overcoming Anxiety will be a valuable resource on your road to recovery. In this book you will learn what are the many causes of anxiety. What kind of stress are you experiencing; acute, episodic, chronic? Recognizing the types of stress you are suffering can help you and your healthcare provider find a more effective treatment. Overcoming Anxiety will also inform you on how this disorder affects your immune system, blood pressure, digestive tract and your mood. Do you know that any number of anxiety disorders can lead to heart attacks, obesity, headaches, and sleep disorders? In this book you will learn the physical and emotional effects of untreated anxiety disorders and how to get help. Panic attacks can erode one’s joy in life and make you a prisoner in your own home to avoid one being triggered in public. Knowing the symptoms of a panic attack and recognizing when one is imminent can help you avoid or lessen the duration of it. How does anxiety manifest itself physically? Until you realize that an anxiety disorder could be behind your symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome or headaches you cannot effectively treat both. You will also read about the dangerous combination of depression and anxiety that can lead to thoughts of suicide and your treatment options. Overcoming Anxiety also recognizes that children can suffer from anxiety disorders, too. If you are a parent with a child you know, or suspect, is suffering from some type of anxiety order, this book will help you help your child get the care and relief they need and deserve. Finally, you will have a 90-day recovery program outlined in detail with goals to work toward each day to take control of your anxiety and banish it from your life for good.
©2014 Proxy Publishing (P)2015 Proxy Publishing
Sneaky, Brilliant, and Diabolical Revenge Tactics: To Unhinge and Disarm the Malignant Narcissist
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Life with a narcissist is daunting, harrowing, and unpredictable. He is self-absorbed, self-sufficient, and self-serving. He is haughty, arrogant, and oblivious to your wishes, desires, dreams, and goals. He is rude and envious toward others. He has terrible behavior and even worse manners. He is untrustworthy and incapable of any true and consistent feelings worthy of anyone else's attention. Life with a narcissist is all-consuming, isolated, and draining. He is lacking any adult skills or abilities to meet another person's needs and so he misbehaves and acts out in order to take your attention away from his all-consuming deficits. He is truly only half of a man - and maybe that is generous. He often falls through on his responsibilities to you, up to and including simply meeting your sexual needs. Why do women run to these men in droves? What causes them to drop at the feet of narcissists, seemingly begging for their punishment and negative behaviors? There are deficits that are often present in the woman who seeks out or inadvertently falls prey to a petty narcissist. The narcissist seeks out only specific types of women, and he turns a blind eye to others. There are only certain types of women who have a deficit or an over-interest in dating emotionally immature men such as narcissists. We seek to define these in order to bring a broader knowledge to those who suffer at the hands of narcissists and why narcissists seek out these types for their amusement. If someone tells you a lie enough times, it will eventually be accepted as the truth. You will feel belittled and small so the other person can feel superior and tall. Are you susceptible to falling prey to a narcissist and vulnerable to becoming victimized by them? Which category type do you fall under? This audiobook seeks to teach you revenge tactics you can use to unhinge any narcissist. Narcissists can be girls or guys. Narcissists can be mothers, sisters, brothers, partners, grandparents, fathers, bosses, coaches, teachers, police officers, judges, politicians, and more. You are not immune to their treatment. You must learn to fight back! This audiobook approaches everything from the perspective of the narcissist being male, but we all know narcissists can be female or mixed gender. Please keep this in mind while listening to the audiobook; the tactics can (and do) apply to any narcissistic person in any role and any relationship to you.
©2019 J.B. Snow Publishing (P)2019 J.B. Snow Publishing
Water 4.0
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The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future
Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing the early Roman aqueducts, fountains, and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the development of drinking water and sewage treatment systems - the second and third revolutions in urban water. He offers an insider’s look at current systems that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, treatment plants, and storm sewers to provide water that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential.
"Sedlak...has contributed a gem to the growing shelf of books on the emerging crisis surrounding water.... An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology." (Nature)
"The book is filled with intriguing historical detail...[and] stimulates political reflection as well." (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"An intriguing history of human water use. Packed with riveting stories and examples." (Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network)
©2014 David Sedlak (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens
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UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald R. Prothero and Tim Callahan explore why such demonstrably false beliefs thrive despite decades of education and scientific debunking. Employing the ground rules of science and the standards of scientific evidence, Prothero and Callahan discuss a wide range of topics including the reliability of eyewitness testimony, psychological research into why people want to believe in aliens and UFOs, and the role conspiratorial thinking plays in UFO culture. They examine a variety of UFO sightings and describe the standards of evidence used to determine whether UFOs are actual alien spacecraft. Finally, they consider our views of aliens and the strong cultural signals that provide the shapes and behaviors of these beings. While their approach is firmly based in science, Prothero and Callahan also share their personal experiences of Area 51, Roswell, and other legendary sites, creating a narrative that is sure to engross both skeptics and believers.
©2017 Donald R. Prothero, Timothy D. Callahan (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Human Network
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When Emma is liberated from the mind-controlling effects of a power A.I.'s nanites against her will, she battles withdrawal and discovers that her brother is determined to destroy the A.I. with which she has spent so many years. Now she must choose between the life she's known and the brother she never meant to leave behind. This story was a Writers of the Future honorable mention.
©2015 Angela Cavanaugh (P)2015 Angela Cavanaugh
How to Be a Successful Introvert
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At least one out of four people prefers to avoid the limelight, tends to listen more than they speak, feels alone in large groups, and requires lots of private time to restore their energy. These people are introverts. Whether they realize it not, they can lead successful and fulfilling lives just like their extroverted counterparts. How to Be a Successful Introvert explains how to use their unique personality type to their advantage in different environments. It explains how to make the most out of the workplace, dating, and social interactions.
©2015 GoodBooks, Publications (P)2015 Symone Goodsn
The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
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Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. But why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying? In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution, Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: The persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons. They explain why the Cold War superpowers raced so feverishly against each other; why the creation of "mutual assured destruction" does not ensure peace; and why the rapid technological changes of the 21st century will weaken deterrence in critical hotspots around the world. By explaining how the nuclear revolution falls short, Lieber and Press discover answers to the most pressing questions about deterrence in the coming decades: How much capability is required for a reliable nuclear deterrent, how conventional conflicts may become nuclear wars, and how great care is required now to prevent new technology from ushering in an age of nuclear instability. The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "This is the most important book written about nuclear strategy since the Cold War." (John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, author of The Great Delusion) "Fresh and compelling analysis...calls into question the purported nuclear revolution in world politics." (Brad Roberts, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) "A must-read." (Nuno Monteiro, Yale University)
©2020 Cornell University (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks
Effects of Bad Parenting and What to Do About It
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Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, college dropouts, college graduation delays, insensitivity, impulsivity, casual sexual practices with friends, and overprivileged kids. More than a recipe for cures, this guidebook carefully translates complicated psychopathology into straight forward, easy-to-understand language.
©2009 Douglas H. Ruben (P)2014 Douglas H. Ruben
God's Crazy Parlour of Sweet Consent
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"Come look through this window to see what isn't there where we have dates that simmer in the sun and we have barracuda timing and ideograms in the points of rust to shake your gates as you yawn," said the Sultan, selling dates.
©2015 dean moriarty (P)2015 dean moriarty
Angel Steel
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When virgin warrior Braga learns from a cross-cult sorcerer that Fate has chosen her to steal the sword of a rogue angel, she lights out on a dangerous quest from mystical Hag Mountain to other worlds, and even into the bowels of hell. With her soul in the balance, she and the mist-walking sorcerer encounter all manner of damned souls, demons, the living dead, and noble fighters. A sweeping tale of vengeance and manipulative evil, Angel Steel takes you on an intriguing trip into the dark fantastic. Bonus Story: An Eldritch Steel tale of Rorc, a barbarian seeking the scourge that walks on two legs. He and his warhorse, Demon, must deal with shape-shifters and unearthly monsters before their journey's mysterious end.
©2013 Grand Mal Press (P)2015 Grand Mal Press
Battle of Surigao Strait
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Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing documentary material, including newly discovered accounts and a careful analysis of U.S. Navy action reports, to create a new and more detailed description of the action. In several respects, Tully's narrative differs radically from the received versions and represents an important historical corrective. The book is published by the Indiana University Press.
©2009 Anthony B. Tully (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
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The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death? As humanity moves further into the 21st century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged landscapes and accumulated death that still surround us, as well as his own childhood isolation, his lust for alcohol and women, and his waning hope for a future. We witness post-Katrina New Orleans and terrorist-bombed Bali; we encounter our shared actions with the animal world and the desirous need for consumption; we see the clash and erosion of our physical and figurative borders, the savagery of our own civilization. A man of his time and out of time, Bowden seeks acceptance and a will to endure what may lie ahead. The book is published by University of Texas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "Bowden manages to write about these currently unfashionable topics with humor, style, and laconic compression." (Edward Abbey) "Here is the new American nature writing - resourceful, funny, personal, full of good facts, words of the locals, hard-hitting but not self-righteous." (Gary Snyder) "Bowden is a blood-and-guts journalist with a poet’s sensibility, a noirish naturalist, a ferociously inquisitive witness to life’s glory and horror." (Booklist)
©2009 Charles Bowden (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
Travel Tales Collections: African Safaris 1
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Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collections: African Safaris 1 features three select African wildlife travel stories, including Cape buffaloes, errant hippos, and even a wayward hyena named "Spot". African Safaris 1 is the very first of the Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories about African safaris from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Future Collections of African safari travel stories will include additional wildlife encounters as well as other interesting aspects of African safaris. Travel Tales Collections are groups of three very interesting, similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, scams, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually several hundred Collections on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available.
©2014 Michael Brein, Inc. (P)2014 Michael Brein, Inc.
Our Changing Menu
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Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. Their story is rounded out with a primer on the global food system, the causes and impacts of climate change, and what we can all do. Our Changing Menu is a celebration of food and a call to action - encouraging listeners to join with others from the common ground of food to help tackle the greatest challenge of our time. The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "Anyone interested in detailed analysis about how climate change is already affecting our food system must read Our Changing Menu!" (Fredrick Kirschenmann, Iowa State University) "Our food choices have to change...Our Changing Menu tells you why, how, and even what that change might taste like."(Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now) "Helps us understand how to think about food." (World Wildlife Fund Review)
©2021 Cornell University (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness
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Are aliens among us? Take a trip straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth!
Here are more than 40 true eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, that describe in detail personal encounters with alien beings and their craft. The stories come from all over the world and from witnesses in all walks of life - people just like you. Every story is analyzed by a commentary that explores our involvement with alien beings - and why.
Read about:
Astonishing close encounters with craft that defy explanations
Astounding face-to-face experiences with aliens, including abductions
The hybrid human-alien presence on Earth
Men In Black, missing time, time slips and crop circles
©2018 Michael Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley (P)2018 Visionary Living Inc.
No Perfect Secret
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A single secret begets a layer of lies. Anna Nesmith believes she has it all: a great marriage, a dream job, and a home of her own. But when a State Department investigator begins asking questions, Anna's ordered world implodes. Frank Caburn is man to the bone and manufactures testosterone like Frito Lay does chips. Instantly attracted to Anna, he is determined to make her his own - if only she can pick through the emotional rubble to find her bruised heart can love once again.
©2014 Jackie Weger (P)2015 Jackie Weger
Who Is an Evangelical?
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A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today. Evangelicalism is arguably America’s most controversial religious movement. Non-evangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what “evangelical” means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white Republicans. Many may recall that 81 percent of self-described white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, and they may well wonder at the seeming hypocrisy of doing so. In this illuminating audiobook, Thomas Kidd draws on his expertise in American religious history to retrace the arc of this spiritual movement, illustrating just how historically peculiar that political and ethnic definition (white Republican) of evangelicals is. He examines distortions in the public understanding of evangelicals and shows how a group of “Republican insider evangelicals” aided the politicization of the movement. This book will be a must-listen for those trying to better understand the shifting religious and political landscape of America today. The book is published by Yale University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. Praise for the book: “A concise but assured history of the evangelical movement.” (Atlantic) “Examines evangelicalism with clarity and insight, through the telling of a riveting story.” (Russell Moore, president, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention) “Part history, part lament, this book offers a bracing introduction to evangelicalism in America.” (Catherine A. Brekus, author of Sarah Osborn’s World)
©2019 Thomas Kidd (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Black Ops - Blitz on Pakistan
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Osama bin Laden is dead, and the sensational mission to the compound in Abbottabad is rightly hailed as a heroic Navy Seal operation. But is Al-Qaeda now stronger or weaker? A chance raid into Pakistani bandit country, Waziristan, throws up fresh intel that points to a new threat. Another warlord has emerged, a man who claims to be the brother of Osama bin Laden. Although unheard of in the West, murderous terrorists are about to follow his banner and launch a new jihad in their fanatical and never-ending religious wars. A conflict that threatens the peace and security of the world. Bravo Platoon is called back into action. They are tasked to infiltrate the sovereign territory of Pakistan, and carry out extreme measures to prevent a recurrence of the evil perpetrated by Osama on the US. The story is set against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the secret fight against the Pakistan Taliban in the Northern Territories. A fight that involves the very latest in military technology, yet above all requires the bravery and sacrifice of one of the finest SpecOps units in the world. The Navy Seals. This time Seal Team Bravo have to fight for their lives in a series of bitter, running battles against a tough, well-equipped and fanatical enemy. Black Ops IV is an action packed sequel to the best-selling Seal Team Bravo - Black Ops series, I, II and III. Once again, the clandestine, thrilling and dangerous world of the Navy SEALs is brought into sharp and vivid focus.
©2012 Eric Meyer (P)2018 Swordworks Books
Eat like a Local - Bulgaria
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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local - Bulgaria by author Iliyana Stoyanova offers the inside scoop on the best of the Bulgarian cuisine. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination. In this audiobook, you will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This book will not tell you exact addresses or hours, but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture. By the time you finish listening to this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next culinary destination.
©2020 CZYK Publishing (P)2021 CZYK Publishing