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Bestsellers
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Narration is completely over the top
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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Caring for the people
- De MariNana en 05-07-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- De: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Stays with me...
- De Rebekah Sue Carolla en 09-23-18
De: Ron Hall, y otros
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- De: David Ambroz
- Narrado por: David Ambroz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- De Everest Mom en 01-14-23
De: David Ambroz
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- De: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrado por: Scott Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Inspiring!
- De April Ackroyd en 10-07-18
De: Scott Harrison, y otros
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
De: Gregg Colburn, y otros
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- De: Jake Bittle
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us....
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Where we're headed
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 03-09-23
De: Jake Bittle
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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A compassionat overview of homelessness in America
- De John F. en 11-29-23
De: Kevin F. Adler, y otros
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- De: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- De WitchCrafter en 06-01-21
De: David Simon, y otros
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- De: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrado por: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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Great listen
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-23
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The End of Poverty
- Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- De: Jeffrey Sachs
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hilgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....
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A Call for Africa
- De Mr Conway en 08-03-12
De: Jeffrey Sachs
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- De: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrado por: Ruby K. Payne
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....
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Understanding your Community.
- De bigronald8 en 10-07-19
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Wealth and Poverty
- A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
- De: George F. Gilder
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time....
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The Original is a Classic
- De Jake en 11-26-13
De: George F. Gilder
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Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- De: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers....
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Delivers less than I had hoped
- De Heartstrings11 en 05-21-10
De: Muhammad Yunus
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
- Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
- De: John Hope Bryant
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....
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Simply a MUST read!
- De Kevin E Crittendon en 11-05-16
De: John Hope Bryant
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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The narrator ruined this book.
- De Ryan Martin en 10-21-18
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- De: Peter Joseph
- Narrado por: Peter Joseph
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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In our interconnected world, self-interest and social interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable....
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A Great Introduction to the new trains of thought
- De Michael en 07-15-17
De: Peter Joseph
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The Meth Lunches
- Food and Longing in an American City
- De: Kim Foster
- Narrado por: Sara Sheckells
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....
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well written
- De Bri en 05-07-24
De: Kim Foster
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- De vic en 02-03-20
De: Nicholas D. Kristof, y otros
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Homeless to Hopkins
- De: Christopher L. Smith
- Narrado por: Timothy French
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Despite the terrible nights, I still woke up, got dressed, and went to my only refuge, my high school. This was my life, often alone, cold, sad, and hungry. My youth was different than most, but this was my reality....
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Inspiring real life story- a must read!
- De Anonymous User en 02-12-24
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- De: Henry George
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....
De: Henry George
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Workin' Our Way Home
- The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
- De: Ron Hall
- Narrado por: Barry Scott
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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"I saw his face." Deborah Hall's words launched the destiny of two men from very different worlds. Ron Hall was an international art dealer with upscale tastes; Denver Moore was a homeless drifter with a dangerous past. Millions have read about their unlikely bond....
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God is in control.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-08-18
De: Ron Hall