Christopher Grove -- Non-fiction Audiobook Demo 2018
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Christopher Grove, Narrator four Excerpts from published nonfiction. Audiobooks. Fire and Brimstone. The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 By Michael Punk. Penguin Random House Audio. Somehow a sellout clung to the timbers, probing into the darkness. His lantern came into contact with the exposed cloth on the cable. It burst into flames. Reflexively Seller recoiled, his lantern arm, sparking a second set of flames behind him. John, Cellar, yell Tebaldi! I got my lamp too close. Baldy clambered round to Salah's position, and the two men worked furiously to stamp out the first set of flames. For an instant, it seemed to work. But then I remembered Baldy. The fire immediately broke out in the cable on the opposite side. Furiously, they flail that this second outbreak, but the fire by now was taking on a life of its own. The downdraft, which had initially suck the fire downward, turned up draft now pulled from above. The fire began to race up the half mile of shaft above the 2400 station, feeding on the tinder dry, chemically treated timbers solo began to confront the enormity of his mistake. For God's sake, get the men out, he yelled, Get him out! There is no doubt that at this juncture, minutes after the start of the fire, Ernest Solo could have saved himself, though the main shaft was ablaze and it's hoist no longer a viable option, other clear avenues of escape were within easy reach. With his long years of experience, Salau knew the mine workings as well as the streets surrounding his own home. There is no record of his thoughts, says Ernest Salau made the decision that sealed his own fate that night, but we know he did not run away the right kind of crazy. A True Story of teamwork. Leadership in High Stakes Innovation by Adam Stelle Zehner Penguin, Random House Audio Pete during a long breath, as if absorbing all the data that had been crunched in the past 36 hours, along with all the opinions expressed. 11 with 50 years of life experience. Then, he said, we'll make the change, prepare the command for transmission and radiate the command. So just before 9 a.m. Saturday, 39 hours after had begun our assessment, we altered the three numbers that pinpoint the center of navigation. 14 minutes later, the time required for a round trip transmission between Earth and near Mars. The spacecraft reported back that the change had been received on the update completed. At least a sneer is, It could tell. Had we just screwed the pooch? Or had we averted an O ring moment culprit behind the Challenger disaster and saved the entire mission, there would be no way to know. For 36 hours during that time, the spacecraft would have traveled 400,000 more miles and gone through the tortuous seven minutes it would take for the rover to enter Mars atmosphere, descend to the surface and land on the Red Planet safely. The seven minutes of terror ah, History of the United States and five crashes. Stock market meltdowns that Defined a Nation by Scott Nations. Harper Audio. The physician on staff of the exchange was the 51 year old Dr Francis Glazebrook. He had treated shell shock cases during World War and saw the same symptoms among the assembled traders. His prices fell and fortunes evaporated on October 29th 1929. The five men Bankers Consortium met around midday, and though they wanted to support the market, the selling was so wanted, the talk was the only weapon they had. They issued a statement that they would be buyers if the air pockets LaMontagne mentioned the previous week materialized, but there was little else they could. Dio, one n. Y S E security guard said the traders were like a bunch of crazy men. Every once in a while, you'd see some poor devil collapse and fall to the floor. The Dow closed on Tuesday, October 29th a 230.7 a loss of 30.57 points, or 11.7% as 16 million, 410,000 and 30 shares traded, by far the most ever. The Dow had lost 23% in just two days, and it was 39.6% below the high reached less than two months before the route was complete. The Great Depression would follow, caused in part by the economy's unprecedented reliance on the spending of what would now be called the 1% spending that was drastically reduced along with the financial circumstances of the wealthy. Herbert Hoover, a man who had risen to global prominence through his work helping the poorest in Europe following World War, didn't know how to help Americans impoverished in the wake of the crash. Hoover would later write that had relied too much on the advice of his treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, who was wealthy almost beyond understanding and therefore insulated from the worst deprivations of the crash and ensuing depression. Mellon was also an incredibly callous and moralist prig who believe the crash would purge the rottenness out of the system. And then people will work harder. Livermore Moral life values will be adjusted. An enterprising people will pick up the Rex from less competent people. The Dow, which had closed at 381.17 on September 3rd, 1929 would close at 41.22 on July 8th, 1932. It wouldn't make a new all time high until November 23rd 1954 more than 25 years after the crash. Sonic Wind. The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a renegade Doctor became the Fastest Man on Earth By Craig Ryan. Penguin Random House Audio When the steps disembarked and by here that January 29 years after Bagby had arrived, it was 85 degrees, and they found the coastal plains and flattering jungles exotic. The couple gorged on the local fruits, mango, strawberry, guavas and delicious bananas and introduce themselves to the mostly friendly but equally exotic inhabitants. Bahia had once been the capital of the Portuguese slave trade in the New World and had become, by the early 20th century, the center of a rich Afro Brazilian culture. It was a lush, extravagant land bursting with millions of souls seemingly ripe for the picking. The Steps had never known luxury and did not expect to find it in South America. Yet with Charles his appointment as president and director of the American Baptist College, they found themselves in Sconce Tin, the 47 room compound of a former Portuguese noblemen. The property overlooked tamarind and bamboo covered hills. About by here, they told us, Oh Santos, all Saints bay. Still, the steps understood from the first that Brazil would also be a brutal place. There were drenching rains, followed by drought, biting insects and tropical disease. Even worse, with a heartbreaking hunger and poverty that surrounded them. An economic bubble. The in Salem n two that a burst in Brazil two decades before the steps arrival had led to years of spiralling inflation, food shortages and disease. On more than one occasion, the worst of the cases fell on their doorstep to die.