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    • Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    • By: Mary O'Hara
    • Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

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    • Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
    • By: Zach Norris
    • Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....

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    • Forging an American Solution
    • By: Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick
    • Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration....

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    • Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror
    • By: J.D. Hayworth, Joseph J. Eule
    • Narrated by: J.D. Hayworth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....

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    • A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
    • By: Zaid Hassan
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges - from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change - are not working....

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    • An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform
    • By: Phyllis Vine
    • Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
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    • Professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism....

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    • How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
    • By: Ryan Meili
    • Narrated by: Ryan Meili
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics–and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health....

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    • A New Diet to Lost Weight
    • By: Laura Jessy Highbury
    • Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem....

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    • Voices of the Oppressed
    • By: John E. Cornish III
    • Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • In the corridors of history, amidst the tumultuous echoes of change, there emerge moments of profound insight that resonate across time and space....

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    • Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
    • By: Joe Soss, Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler
    • Narrated by: Alby Heredia
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, Remaking America connects the dots to provide insight into the remarkable social and political changes of the last three decades....

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    • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
    • By: Tony Platt
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

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    • Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
    • By: J. Malcolm Garcia
    • 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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    • By: Eric R. Crouse
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-20
    • Language: English
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    • This book examines the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution....

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    • Conservatism and the Common Good
    • By: Rick Santorum
    • Narrated by: Rick Santorum
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Packed with credibility and proven alternatives to our nation's problems, It Takes a Family is a must-listen for understanding and implementing the crucial elements of a successful society....

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    • Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Maya Schenwar
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans....

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    • Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
    • By: Rachel Elise Barkow
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way–and How We Fix It
    • By: David Haslam
    • Narrated by: David Haslam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it....

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    • The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
    • By: Martha J. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Kent Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships....

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