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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- By: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- By Steve D Renz on 05-15-18
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
- High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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A Disability History of the United States
- By: Kim E. Nielsen
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....
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This is a beautiful book!
- By Mick Rosenthal on 02-21-21
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A Disability History of the United States
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Series: ReVisioning History
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
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Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....
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Believe in People
- Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
- By: Charles Koch, Brian Hooks
- Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....
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For Doers Tired of Spinning Their Wheels
- By Lifelong Learner on 11-18-20
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Believe in People
- Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
- Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-17-20
- Language: English
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People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- By: Jessica Pryce
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....
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A Great Book with Compelling Insights
- By Pbc fun on 03-21-24
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....
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The Cannabis Manifesto
- A New Paradigm for Wellness
- By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
- Narrated by: Andy Barnett
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....
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The cure for a sickly world
- By Randall Mitchell on 08-06-17
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The Cannabis Manifesto
- A New Paradigm for Wellness
- Narrated by: Andy Barnett
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-01-17
- Language: English
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An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
- Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
- By: John Hope Bryant
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....
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Simply a MUST read!
- By Kevin E Crittendon on 11-05-16
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
- Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-22-14
- Language: English
- This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Paul Slack
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....
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Superb as always!
- By Ivanhoe on 08-28-17
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- Narrated by: Paul Slack
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-13-13
- Language: English
- Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....
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Usual Cruelty
- The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
- By: Alec Karakatsanis
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Usual Cruelty is a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American "injustice system" by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it....
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Excellent narrator, life-changing material.
- By Molly on 09-17-20
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Usual Cruelty
- The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-31-20
- Language: English
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Usual Cruelty is a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American "injustice system" by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it....
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- By: Katie S. Martin
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....
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A go to book for nutrition security work
- By Amy on 09-19-22
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-11-21
- Language: English
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Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....
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Healing Justice Lineages
- Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
- By: Cara Page, Erica Woodland, Aurora Levins Morales - foreword
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide listeners through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice....
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Rich, deeply woven and critical at this moment of reckoning!
- By Rae Leiner on 03-14-23
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Healing Justice Lineages
- Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-07-23
- Language: English
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In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide listeners through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice....
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The Sane Society
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....
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Stimulating and insightful
- By T. Holden on 04-07-16
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The Sane Society
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-10-14
- Language: English
- Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....
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Social Security for Dummies
- By: Jonathan Peterson
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....
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Social Security for Dummies
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-12-19
- Language: English
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Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....
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Gradual
- The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
- By: Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change....
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Gradual
- The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-28-23
- Language: English
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A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change....
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Please Don't Take My Baby
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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"I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention," Jade said. "I'll show my mum she's wrong."....
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An Absorbing Book with Outstanding Narration!
- By Mary Burnight on 09-08-16
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Please Don't Take My Baby
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-26-15
- Language: English
- "I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention," Jade said. "I'll show my mum she's wrong."....
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Smoke Signals
- A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
- By: Martin A. Lee
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....
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A hard book for me to rate
- By Blake on 05-08-13
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Smoke Signals
- A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-14-12
- Language: English
- Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....
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Great Society
- A New History
- By: Amity Shlaes
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- By Robert S. Allen on 02-09-20
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Great Society
- A New History
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-19-19
- Language: English
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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A Baby's Cry
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....
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A baby's cry
- By Sandy Banfield on 02-12-18
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A Baby's Cry
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-29-15
- Language: English
- What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....
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How Change Happens
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....
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How Change Happens
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-07-19
- Language: English
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The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated
- The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
- By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller, Paul Solman
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits....
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wow, and I thought I knew a couple of things
- By Treasur2 on 09-07-19
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated
- The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-04-16
- Language: English
- Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits....
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- By: Jenny Schuetz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....
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Good review
- By A. F. Davis on 09-16-22
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 05-31-22
- Language: English
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Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....
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