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  • Charity Detox Audiobook By Robert D. Lupton cover art

    • Charity Detox

    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

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  • Tell Me How It Ends Audiobook By Valeria Luiselli cover art

    • Tell Me How It Ends

    • An Essay in 40 Questions
    • By: Valeria Luiselli
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....

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  • Locked In Audiobook By John F. Pfaff cover art

    • Locked In

    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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  • Can't Pay, Won't Pay Audiobook By The Debt Collective, Astra Taylor - foreword cover art

    • Can't Pay, Won't Pay

    • The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
    • By: The Debt Collective, Astra Taylor - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings

    • The truth is that there has never been a lack of money for things like housing, education, and health care. Millions of people never needed to be forced into debt for those things in the first place....

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  • How Change Happens Audiobook By Cass R. Sunstein cover art

    • How Change Happens

    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....

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  • Regulating the Poor Audiobook By Cloward Fox Piven cover art

    • Regulating the Poor

    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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  • Future Histories Audiobook By Lizzie O'Shea cover art

    • Future Histories

    • What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
    • By: Lizzie O'Shea
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art, and poetry in our technological present.....

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  • That Used to Be Us Audiobook By Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum cover art

    • That Used to Be Us

    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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  • Power Shift Audiobook By David R. Ayón, George L. Pla cover art

    • Power Shift

    • How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America
    • By: David R. Ayón, George L. Pla
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....

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  • Make America Healthy Again Audiobook By Nicole Saphier cover art

    • Make America Healthy Again

    • How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
    • By: Nicole Saphier
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

    • In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed America's health care system....

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  • Unusual Punishment Audiobook By Christopher Murray cover art

    • Unusual Punishment

    • Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985
    • By: Christopher Murray
    • Narrated by: John N Gully
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Unusual Punishment details the explosive story of failed reform at one Washington State penitentiary....

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  • My Parents' Keeper Audiobook By Jody Gastfriend, Patrick J. Kennedy - foreword cover art

    • My Parents' Keeper

    • The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving
    • By: Jody Gastfriend, Patrick J. Kennedy - foreword
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • A guide to caring for aging and ailing family members, which offers expert advice, illuminating vignettes, and a compassionate approach to building constructive, mutually gratifying relationships....

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  • Crippled Audiobook By Frances Ryan cover art

    • Crippled

    • Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
    • By: Frances Ryan
    • Narrated by: Georgie Morrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse....

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  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition Audiobook By Walter I. Trattner cover art

    • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition

    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • By: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare....

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  • A Republic of Equals Audiobook By Jonathan Rothwell cover art

    • A Republic of Equals

    • A Manifesto for a Just Society
    • By: Jonathan Rothwell
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • A Republic of Equals provides a bold new perspective on how to foster greater political and social equality, while moving societies closer to what a true republic should be....

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  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Audiobook By Anne Case, Angus Deaton cover art

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  • United Audiobook By Cory Booker cover art

    • United

    • Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
    • By: Cory Booker
    • Narrated by: Cory Booker
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 640 ratings

    • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....

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  • “Prisons Make Us Safer” Audiobook By Victoria Law cover art

    • “Prisons Make Us Safer”

    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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  • Beyond These Walls Audiobook By Tony Platt cover art

    • Beyond These Walls

    • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
    • By: Tony Platt
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

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  • Conform Audiobook By Glenn Beck cover art

    • Conform

    • Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
    • By: Glenn Beck
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Glenn Beck (introduction)
    • Series: The Control, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • #1 best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US....

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