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    • How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair
    • By: Carol Graham
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little studied in economics at present—as an independent dimension of well-being....

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    • America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
    • By: Steven Waldman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Just as Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time....

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    • Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America
    • By: Dr. William J. Bennett, Robert A. White
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • William J. Bennett amd co-author Robert White provide strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
    • By: John D. Graham
    • Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest....

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    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

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    • An Excerpt from Long Time Coming
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A letter to Emmett Till, an excerpt from Dyson's longer work, Long Time Coming. Here is a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption....

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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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    • Public and Private in America
    • By: Andrew Stark
    • Narrated by: Christopher Prince
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • With the growth of the U. S. government under the Obama administration, the perennial debate over where to draw the line between public and private has come to the fore yet again.....

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    • Outspoken by Pluto
    • By: Ben Tippet
    • Narrated by: Saul Jones
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve....

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    • Immigration Reform and America's Future
    • By: William A. Schwab
    • Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
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    • Right to DREAM makes a compelling argument for the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform....

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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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    • 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
    • By: Alex Zamalin
    • Narrated by: Chris Baetens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • An uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate....

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    • By: Laurence M. Vance
    • Narrated by: Clifton Hall
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A collection of 19 essays on the constitutional, moral, philosophical, and practical aspects of the U.S. government's failed War on Drugs....

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    • The Battle for America's Soul
    • By: John Kasich
    • Narrated by: John Kasich
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • I don't know about you, but I'm troubled by a lot of what I see and hear in America's heartland....

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    • By: Ray Bradbury
    • Narrated by: William Coon
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Mad! Impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night - and life condensed by radiation into eight days....

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    • My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities
    • By: Soledad O'Brien, Rose Marie Arce
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • O'Brien offers her candid, clear-eyed take on where we are as a country and where we're going....

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    • How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
    • By: Jamie K. McCallum
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality....

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