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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 860
Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 06-20-17
De: Anu Partanen
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- De: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- De Katie en 12-31-19
De: Virginia Eubanks
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Third World America
- How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
- De: Arianna Huffington
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation - that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. It's the dark flipside of the American Dream - an American Nightmare of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad... but with a ray of hope
- De Maciej en 10-20-10
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- De: David K. Shipler
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 146
Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- De Cynthia en 07-28-12
De: David K. Shipler
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The Redemption of Bobby Love
- A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice
- De: Bobby Love, Cheryl Love
- Narrado por: Harvey Reaves, Cheri VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and children: “What is your name? No, what’s your real name?” Bobby’s thirty-eight-year secret was out. As a Black child in the Jim Crow South, Bobby found himself in legal trouble before his 14th birthday. Sparked by the desperation he felt in the face of limited options and the pull of the streets, Bobby became a master thief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heart Wrenching and Heart Warming
- De ArizonaBorn en 01-01-22
De: Bobby Love, y otros
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Viral Justice
- How We Grow the World We Want
- De: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrado por: Ruha Benjamin
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book!
- De Avie Kearney en 05-21-23
De: Ruha Benjamin
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After America
- Get Ready for Armageddon
- De: Mark Steyn
- Narrado por: Mark Steyn
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 622
In his giant New York Times best seller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction. What will a world without American leadership look like? It won’t be pretty—not for you and not for your children. America’s decline won’t be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a café until extinction. No, America’s decline will be a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Facts
- De Peter en 11-11-11
De: Mark Steyn
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American Dreams
- Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
- De: Marco Rubio
- Narrado por: Ricardo Suri
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a US senator. That was the American Dream - our country's central promise to its people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive and compelling path for renewal.
- De gary en 06-03-15
De: Marco Rubio
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A Bittersweet Season
- Caring for Our Aging Parents - And Ourselves
- De: Jane Gross
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents. Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- De Anne en 08-10-11
De: Jane Gross
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- De: Andre M. Perry
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More about Black lives than property
- De J. Craig en 04-13-22
De: Andre M. Perry
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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- De: Malcolm Harris
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
Everyone knows "what's wrong with millennials". Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation trophies". Simon Sinek says we have low self-esteem. An Australian millionaire says millennials could all afford homes if we'd just give up avocado toast. Thanks, millionaire. This millennial is here to prove them all wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A devastating dream of revolution
- De Kevin Tierney Jr en 11-23-17
De: Malcolm Harris
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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- De: Mei Fong
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Book Club Discussion Ever!!
- De Rachael W. Schettenhelm en 05-01-17
De: Mei Fong
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No, They Can't
- Why Government Fails - But Individuals Succeed
- De: John Stossel
- Narrado por: John Stossel
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 609
The government is not a neutral arbiter of truth. It never has been. It never will be. Doubt everything. John Stossel does. A self-described skeptic, he has dismantled society's sacred cows with unerring common sense. Now he debunks the most sacred of them all: our intuition and belief that government can solve our problems. In No, They Can't, the New York Times best-selling author and Fox News commentator insists that we discard that idea of the "perfect" government - left or right - and retrain our brain to look only at the facts, to rethink our lives as independent individuals - and fast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Must Listen
- De dan en 04-27-12
De: John Stossel
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The Liberal Invasion of Red State America
- De: Kristin B. Tate
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Progressive upper-middle-class urbanites are deserting expensive liberal meccas like New York and San Francisco and flocking to traditionally red states like Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Texas. The result is a sudden, confusing purpling of small-town America. School boards and local governments are being reorganized around the progressive agendas of pushy transplants. Neighborhoods are becoming unrecognizable. And the implications for future Congressional and presidential elections are staggering.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and back up with facts
- De Jason en 01-23-20
De: Kristin B. Tate
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- De: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrado por: Kate Harper
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row - a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year - and they're still rising. Case and Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class.
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2 out of 5 stars
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So many words, so little insight
- De Trebla en 03-22-20
De: Anne Case, y otros
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Arguing with Socialists
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Glenn Beck, Jeremy Lowell
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 862
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 854
In Arguing with Socialists, New York Times best-selling author Glenn Beck arms listeners to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go. With his trademark humor, Beck lampoons the resurgence of this bankrupt leftist philosophy with thousands of stories, facts, and arguments for anyone who is willing to ask the hard questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Its great...whatever
- De Jon en 04-08-20
De: Glenn Beck
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Dirty Work
- Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
- De: Eyal Press
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for Conservatives
- De Nice guy en 11-05-21
De: Eyal Press