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Hack Your Bureaucracy
- Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
- By: Marina Nitze, Nick Sinai
- Narrated by: Julian Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact with Hack Your Bureaucracy. From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you.
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Better for Senior and Mid-Level Employees than New Ones
- By Grayson Walther on 07-04-23
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Hack Your Bureaucracy
- Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
- Narrated by: Julian Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-13-22
- Language: English
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Bureaucracy in America
- The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government (Studies in Constitutional Democracy)
- By: Joseph Postell
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by unelected officials in agencies where legislative, executive, and judicial powers are combined. This threatens constitutionalism and the rule of law.
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Bureaucracy in America
- The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government (Studies in Constitutional Democracy)
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy
- Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler
- By: Mark Schwartz
- Narrated by: Erick Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy. Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy.
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Meh
- By Jessie on 04-18-24
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The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy
- Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler
- Narrated by: Erick Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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The Utopia of Rules
- On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
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Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice...though he also suggests there may be something perversely appealing - even romantic - about bureaucracy.
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Not his most serious book, but still really great
- By David Pereplyotchik on 11-19-19
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The Utopia of Rules
- On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 10-23-18
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Common Sense
- How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS
- By: Martin Lindstrom
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves - and our companies - of the bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape that plague every office.
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90% frustrated whining 10% useful content
- By Michael P. Kennedy on 02-04-21
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The Ministry of Common Sense
- How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-19-21
- Language: English
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Bureaucracies
- Advantages, Disadvantages, Effects, and Future
- By: Louis Bevoc
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 27 mins
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ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on bureaucracies, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Bureaucracies are formal organizations with structured hierarchies. They have strict protocols in place to maintain control at all levels. Public and private businesses operate under bureaucracies, but the term is commonly used when referring to government organizations and universities. This eBook discusses the advantages and disadvantages of bureaucracies. It also analyzes the effects bureaucracies have on organizations and the ...
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Bureaucracies
- Advantages, Disadvantages, Effects, and Future
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 12-07-23
- Language: English
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A Happy Bureaucracy
- A Post-Apocalyptic Parody Novel (The Happy Bureaucracy, Book 1)
- By: M.P. Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Arthur McDowell works for the most indestructible employer left in post-apocalyptic America: the IRS. Safe and sound inside a government bunker, Arthur is proud to be just another drone. But for an ambitious man (and excellent typist) such as Arthur, a promotion to supervisor is just around the corner. Arthur's world flips when instead of a becoming supervisor, the brass makes him a census-taker. His task: to head out into the irradiated streets armed with paperwork and red tape. Assigned to him is a drug-addicted bodyguard, Rabia Duke, who could care less if they survive.
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A Happy Bureaucracy
- A Post-Apocalyptic Parody Novel (The Happy Bureaucracy, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Series: The Happy Bureaucracy, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-11-21
- Language: English
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Organizational Design and Structure + Bureaucracies
- 2 Books in 1
- By: Louis Bevoc
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on organizational design and structure or bureaucracies, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Organizational Design and Structure Workplace culture is determined by organizational design and structure. These two concepts work together to accomplish the goals and objectives of the organization. Along the way, they define management style, establish the working environment, and make sure that work related tasks are completed in an accurate and timely manner. Specifically, this eBook ...
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Organizational Design and Structure + Bureaucracies
- 2 Books in 1
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-04-24
- Language: English
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Monopolies in Business + Bureaucracies
- 2 Books in 1
- By: Louis Bevoc
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on monopolies or bureaucracies, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Monopolies This book explores monopolies in business. First, it examines the causes, next it focuses on the effects, then it analyzes advantages and disadvantages, and last it discusses methods of regulation. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. Bureaucracies This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of bureaucracies. It also analyzes the ...
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Monopolies in Business + Bureaucracies
- 2 Books in 1
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-04-24
- Language: English
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A Marvellous Light
- The Last Binding, Book 1
- By: Freya Marske
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known.
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From Good to OK
- By Little J on 11-08-21
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A Marvellous Light
- The Last Binding, Book 1
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Series: The Last Binding, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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Regulatory Hacking
- A Playbook for Startups
- By: Evan Burfield, J. D. Harrison
- Narrated by: Evan Burfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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As start-ups use technology to shape the way we live, work, and learn, they're taking on challenges in sectors like health care, infrastructure, and education, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong package on your doorstep. These start-ups inevitably have to face governments responsible for protecting citizens through regulation. Love it or hate it, we're entering the next era of the digital revolution: the Regulatory Era.
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For the courageous entrepreneur
- By Ac Smith on 01-29-22
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Regulatory Hacking
- A Playbook for Startups
- Narrated by: Evan Burfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-19-18
- Language: English
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Close Enough for Government Work
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Discover the truth about the government consuming your tax dollars from a now-retired federal employee of more than thirty-seven years. Chock full of amusing (and sometimes horrific) anecdotes (as well as the author's entertaining cartoons), no one who pays taxes and wonders how their money is being spent should miss this book. It’s only one man’s look at one federal organization’s inefficiency, but are the other ones any better? We can only hope. But if they aren’t and if you read this book, you can also chuckle at the lunacy.
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Close Enough for Government Work
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-28-24
- Language: English
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Organizational Development + Organizational Design and Structure
- 2 Books in 1
- By: Louis Bevoc
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on organizational development or organizational design and structure, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Organizational Development This book explains organizational development in a way that is easily understood by anyone. It introduces the concept, discusses its stages, describes it in action, highlights its benefits and drawbacks, and suggests methods for its improvement. The text is educational and informational, and it is applicable to real-world organizational change. ...
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Organizational Development + Organizational Design and Structure
- 2 Books in 1
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-07-23
- Language: English
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The Safety Anarchist
- Relying on Human Expertise and Innovation, Reducing Bureaucracy and Compliance
- By: Sidney Dekker
- Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of workers, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed. Many incident and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent safety performance on low-consequence events tends to increase the risk of fatalities and disasters.
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Killed it Sidney.
- By Adrian on 05-20-18
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The Safety Anarchist
- Relying on Human Expertise and Innovation, Reducing Bureaucracy and Compliance
- Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-22-17
- Language: English
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1984 Is a Giant Bureaucracy
- By: J.-M. Kuczynski
- Narrated by: J.-M. Kuczynski
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The world described by Orwell in 1984 is a giant bureaucracy. Stalin's Russia was a giant bureaucracy. Totalitarian states are giant bureaucracies.
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1984 Is a Giant Bureaucracy
- Narrated by: J.-M. Kuczynski
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 07-04-17
- Language: English
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Did You Do Your Homework?
- One substitute teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom.
- By: Aaron Braxton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 58 mins
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DID YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK? is more than just a critically acclaimed and award-winning solo show; it's a transformative journey through the world of public-school education. This powerful play explores the comical, tragic, and inspiring aspects of the American urban educational system, following the remarkable journey of a substitute teacher navigating the inner-city classroom bureaucracy. DID YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK? highlights the importance of nurturing our youth to lead productive, capable lives, and showcases the diversity and resilience of the students within our public schools. As each ...
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Did You Do Your Homework?
- One substitute teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom.
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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The Price of Bureaucracy
- Removing Section 8 Landlord Pain Points Through the Investment in Technology
- By: Dr. Michael C. Threatt
- Narrated by: Reuben J. Tapp
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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This is the perfect book on the Section 8 program for a real estate investor, property manager, real estate professional, housing authority employee, real estate developer, HUD employee, professor, student, or politician. Although the Section 8 program is America’s largest rental housing program; Section 8 voucher holders cannot find affordable units to rent around the country. Section 8 voucher holders feel like they have won the "Golden Ticket" or the "Powerball Lottery" but do not have anywhere to cash their winning ticket.
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The Price of Bureaucracy
- Removing Section 8 Landlord Pain Points Through the Investment in Technology
- Narrated by: Reuben J. Tapp
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-19-23
- Language: English
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Le Bureau des affaires occultes
- Le Bureau des affaires occultes 1
- By: Eric Fouassier
- Narrated by: Benjamin Jungers
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Automne 1830, dans un Paris fiévreux encore sous le choc des Journées révolutionnaires de juillet, le gouvernement de Louis-Philippe, nouveau roi des Français, tente de juguler une opposition divisée mais virulente. Valentin Verne, jeune inspecteur du service des mœurs, est muté à la brigade de Sûreté fondée quelques années plus tôt par le fameux Vidocq. Il doit élucider une série de morts étranges susceptible de déstabiliser le régime. Car la science qui progresse, mêlée à l'ésotérisme alors en vogue, inspire un nouveau type de criminalité.
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Excellente histoire et narration
- By Sophie Vrignaud on 09-02-23
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Le Bureau des affaires occultes
- Le Bureau des affaires occultes 1
- Narrated by: Benjamin Jungers
- Series: Le bureau des affaires occultes, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: French
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They're Your Rules, Break Them!
- 50 Ways to Smash Silos, Bust Bureaucracy and Create a High-Performance Culture
- By: Douglas Kruger
- Narrated by: Douglas Kruger
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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They're Your Rules, Break Them! offers 50 innovative ways of looking at your business as a long-term, dynamic, progressive entity. Here you will find 50 ways to ditch the atrophying forces and create an exponentially achieving, high-performance culture in your organization. Disruption is everywhere. Rather than suffering its blows, what if you could institutionalize it into your business? What if, rather than being rigid and rule-bound, you could make your business "ever changing" within?
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A must read
- By Roxanne on 09-05-17
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They're Your Rules, Break Them!
- 50 Ways to Smash Silos, Bust Bureaucracy and Create a High-Performance Culture
- Narrated by: Douglas Kruger
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-14-17
- Language: English
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In the 25 years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. Mandelbaum argues that the widespread peace ended because three major countries put an end to it with aggressive nationalist policies aimed at overturning the prevailing political arrangements in their respective regions.
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A good treatment
- By Joe Mancini on 08-23-22
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Administrative Burden
- Policymaking by Other Means
- By: Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices.
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Essential for Public Administrators
- By Josh on 10-16-23
By: Pamela Herd, and others
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Building a Winning Culture in Government
- A Blueprint for Delivering Success in the Public Sector
- By: Patrick R. Leddin PhD, Shawn D. Moon
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Our government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the many challenges involved in motivating large, multi-layered and highly regulated organizations. It's no surprise that many government organizations report that their employees are less engaged than ever and that leaders feel helpless to change the situation. In many cases, employees and government leaders are caught in a vicious cycle. Performance declines, scrutiny increases, and employee paralysis ensues. How do you break this cycle and begin building successful government?
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Rough but worth it?
- By Jason Lehne on 11-26-22
By: Patrick R. Leddin PhD, and others
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Taxes in America
- What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd Edition
- By: Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Arguments about taxation are among the most heated - no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved.
By: Leonard E. Burman, and others
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The Fifth Risk
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? In the days following the 2016 inauguration, government personnel searched for answers that didn’t exist, while White House staff scoured halls for employees who would never be appointed.
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Awkward and Disappointing
- By Amit M on 10-04-18
By: Michael Lewis
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Economics Rules
- The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
- By: Dani Rodrik
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline. Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world - but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right.
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awesome book
- By Josh Armstrong on 04-26-16
By: Dani Rodrik
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The Chevron Doctrine
- Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State
- By: Thomas W. Merrill
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, this judicial review has been highly deferential: courts must uphold agency interpretations of unclear laws as long as these interpretations are "reasonable." But the Chevron doctrine faces backlash from constitutional scholars and, now, from Supreme Court justices who insist that courts, not administrative agencies, have the authority to say what the law is. Recognizing that Congress cannot help relying on agencies to carry out laws, Merrill rejects the notion of discarding the administrative state.
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks
- How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
- By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional collapse. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle.
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Even the well-informed will learn something here
- By Rob on 07-01-12
By: Thomas E. Mann, and others
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Gang Leader for a Day
- A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- By: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatest managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
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Listen to this one first
- By DanO on 01-15-08
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
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Seneca - On the Shortness of Life: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- By: Lucius Seneca, James Harris
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 59 mins
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De Brevitate Vitae (frequently referred to as On the Shortness of Life in English) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives man enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly.
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Terrible narration. Sorry I purchased this one!
- By Ellis Vee on 01-12-17
By: Lucius Seneca, and others
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Working with Emotional Intelligence
- By: Daniel Goleman
- Narrated by: Aaron Meza
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Do you work for an emotionally intelligent organization? In his phenomenal best seller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. mapped the territory where emotional intelligence meets I.Q. - where we apply what we know to how we live. In Working with Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Goleman shows why emotional intelligence has become the new yardstick of success for CEOs and junior hires alike. Also, in abridged.
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Endless facts
- By Edward on 11-20-04
By: Daniel Goleman
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
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Robotic narrator
- By Shahin on 09-19-18
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- By Steve Pagano on 10-05-15
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
- A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
- By: Julie Yip-Williams
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Joshua Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Then, at age 37, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it - a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining.
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Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time
- By Cristina on 02-18-19
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Grand Skill
- Salvos, Book 6
- By: V.A. Lewis
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Now stronger than ever, Salvos finally returns from the Bloodied Gulf! After learning a Grand Skill thanks to her father's unconventional training, it was time to depart for the human lands. Much has happened since she was gone. For one, demons are running wild and hunting her companions. For another, everything else has become so much...weaker.
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Loved it.
- By Mandymomof3boyz on 06-20-23
By: V.A. Lewis
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On Critical Race Theory
- Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
- By: Victor Ray
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity. Ray draws upon the radical thinking of giants such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to clearly trace the foundations of critical race theory in the Black intellectual traditions of emancipation and the civil rights movement.
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Save 4- hours of time
- By Chuck Adkins on 02-06-23
By: Victor Ray
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The Bucharest Legacy
- The Rise of the Oligarchs
- By: William Maz
- Narrated by: Doug Maybee
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole’s handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin recognizes that name—Boris is the code name of Hefflin’s longtime KGB asset. If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. What’s more, this makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency.
By: William Maz
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In the Country of Others
- A Novel
- By: Leila Slimani, Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family.
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No redeeming characters.
- By Free as a bird on 08-30-23
By: Leila Slimani, and others
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- By: Richard Rothstein
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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Better suited to print than audio
- By ProfGolf on 02-04-18
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Nine Black Robes
- Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
- By: Joan Biskupic
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players.
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Another 3 star effort from Biskupic
- By Richard Spitaleri Jr. on 04-16-23
By: Joan Biskupic