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Ripped Off!
- Overtested, Overtreated and Overcharged: The American Healthcare Mess
- By: Gilbert Simon
- Narrated by: Gilbert Simon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don’t forget that your employer’s share of your premium is coming out of your salary. And unfortunately, you are not alone....
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Ripped Off!
- Overtested, Overtreated and Overcharged: The American Healthcare Mess
- Narrated by: Gilbert Simon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-05-20
- Language: English
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Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don’t forget that your employer’s share of your premium is coming out of your salary. And unfortunately, you are not alone....
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Compassionate Conservatism
- What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
- By: Marvin Olasky
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities....
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The Tragedy of Compassionate Conservatism
- By Dan Collins on 09-25-22
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Compassionate Conservatism
- What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-15-11
- Language: English
- Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities....
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For Discrimination
- Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
- By: Randall Kennedy
- Narrated by: Amani Starnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it championed by some and denounced by others? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations....
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For Discrimination
- Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
- Narrated by: Amani Starnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-15-21
- Language: English
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What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it championed by some and denounced by others? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations....
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In the Weeds
- Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy
- By: Clayton J. Mosher, Scott Atkins
- Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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More and more states are legalizing marijuana in some form. In the Weeds looks at how our society has become more permissive in the past 150 years - even though marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug by the American government....
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In the Weeds
- Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy
- Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-16-19
- Language: English
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More and more states are legalizing marijuana in some form. In the Weeds looks at how our society has become more permissive in the past 150 years - even though marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug by the American government....
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Losing Our Way
- An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
- By: Bob Herbert
- Narrated by: Bob Herbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream....
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Truth.
- By Anejh on 08-03-17
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Losing Our Way
- An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
- Narrated by: Bob Herbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-07-14
- Language: English
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Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream....
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Almost Home
- Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
- By: Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley, Cory Booker - foreword
- Narrated by: Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley, Cory Booker, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets....
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Enlightening..
- By Beverly Steiner on 10-20-13
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Almost Home
- Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
- Narrated by: Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley, Cory Booker, Karla Mosley, Capathia Jenkins, Stephanie J. Block
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-28-13
- Language: English
- Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets....
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The Public Option
- How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality
- By: Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne L. Alstott
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option....
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The Public Option
- How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-30-19
- Language: English
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Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option....
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Getting Paid While Taking Time
- The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States
- By: Megan Sholar
- Narrated by: Margo Vaughn Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women....
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Getting Paid While Taking Time
- The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States
- Narrated by: Margo Vaughn Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-24-17
- Language: English
- The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women....
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Litigating the Pandemic
- Disaster Cascades in Court
- By: Susan M. Sterett
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....
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Litigating the Pandemic
- Disaster Cascades in Court
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-06-24
- Language: English
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As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....
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Barrier-Free Friendships
- Bridging the Distance Between You and Friends with Disabilities
- By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Jensen
- Narrated by: Connie Wetzell
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Each of us knows someone who is hearing, visually, or mentally impaired, or physically disabled. Millions more suffer from invisible disabilities that can be just as devastating....
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eye-opener
- By Vic Bernales on 08-03-16
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Barrier-Free Friendships
- Bridging the Distance Between You and Friends with Disabilities
- Narrated by: Connie Wetzell
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 12-17-11
- Language: English
- Each of us knows someone who is hearing, visually, or mentally impaired, or physically disabled. Millions more suffer from invisible disabilities that can be just as devastating....
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Prisoners of Politics
- Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
- By: Rachel Elise Barkow
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow explains how dangerous it is to base criminal-justice policy on the whims of the electorate....
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Compelling for any Audience
- By joel on 07-17-19
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Prisoners of Politics
- Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-04-19
- Language: English
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With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow explains how dangerous it is to base criminal-justice policy on the whims of the electorate....
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Hostage Nation
- Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
- By: Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes, Jorge Enrique Botero
- Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle set off a series of events that would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war....
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Biased, but interesting...
- By JP on 06-06-19
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Hostage Nation
- Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-13-12
- Language: English
- The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle set off a series of events that would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war....
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume 7
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Byron Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume 7
- Narrated by: Byron Taylor
- Series: Celebrated Crimes, Book 13-15
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-05-18
- Language: English
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Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....
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The Fruit of All My Grief
- Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
- By: J. Malcolm Garcia
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media....
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The Fruit of All My Grief
- Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-10-19
- Language: English
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Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media....
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The American Caste Story
- Human Rights Essays & Poems
- By: DaQuan Lawrence
- Narrated by: ChuiMalik
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world....
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The American Caste Story
- Human Rights Essays & Poems
- Narrated by: ChuiMalik
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-03-23
- Language: English
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The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world....
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Summary of One Child by Mei Fong | Includes Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 22 mins
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One Child provides a compelling personal and journalistic examination of China's infamous one-child policy....
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Summary of One Child by Mei Fong | Includes Analysis
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 03-25-16
- Language: English
- One Child provides a compelling personal and journalistic examination of China's infamous one-child policy....
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- By: Camilla Cavendish
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....
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An excellent book on a difficult subject
- By Maria Isabel de Pina on 03-26-23
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....
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21 BIG IDEAS
- From Recessions to Russians
- By: S. I. Wells
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 52 mins
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Amazon #1 New Release in Political Freedom and in Commerce (August 2018) Rational thought amidst the chaos. 21 Big Ideas that are relevant, serious...
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21 BIG IDEAS
- From Recessions to Russians
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 01-11-24
- Language: English
- Amazon #1 New Release in Political Freedom and in Commerce (August 2018) Rational thought amidst the chaos. 21 Big Ideas that are relevant, serious...
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything
- Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
- By: Laura Carno
- Narrated by: Linda Bruno
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....
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Wonderful Book
- By Andrew Esquivel on 02-16-23
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything
- Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
- Narrated by: Linda Bruno
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-29-16
- Language: English
- Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....
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Decrim
- How We Decriminalized Drugs in British Columbia
- By: Kennedy Stewart
- Narrated by: Kennedy Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia’s strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis....
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Decrim
- How We Decriminalized Drugs in British Columbia
- Narrated by: Kennedy Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-20-23
- Language: English
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A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia’s strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis....
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