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Elderhood
- Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
- By: Louise Aronson
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
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As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....
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Well written but too long
- By Eric Troyer on 08-21-20
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Elderhood
- Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-10-19
- Language: English
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As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....
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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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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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Development as Freedom
- By: Amartya Sen
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....
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The book that launched a field
- By Bryan on 06-07-12
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Development as Freedom
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-09-12
- Language: English
- Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....
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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- By: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....
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Informative and riveting personal accounts
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-23
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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....
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What Truth Sounds Like
- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....
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Riffing on a meeting with RFK and James Baldwin
- By Adam Shields on 06-08-18
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What Truth Sounds Like
- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-05-18
- Language: English
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What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....
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It Takes a Village
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....
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Abridged Copy for Audiobooks
- By On a Journey on 06-14-22
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It Takes a Village
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-07-06
- Language: English
- A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....
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The Hospital
- Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
- By: Brian Alexander
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....
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This book says it all about what is wrong with healthcare
- By 042850 on 03-11-21
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The Hospital
- Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....
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Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....
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A Great History Lesson
- By Debby Burton on 12-08-20
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Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....
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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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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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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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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- By: Jason L. Riley
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....
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Required reading
- By Ken Larsen on 02-15-15
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-12-14
- Language: English
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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So many words, so little insight
- By Trebla on 03-22-20
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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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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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- By: Noah Rothman
- Narrated by: Noah Rothman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep....
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Great, fast summer read
- By Joseph Spiegel on 07-18-22
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- Narrated by: Noah Rothman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-05-22
- Language: English
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The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep....
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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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Summary of The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Includes Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 31 mins
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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a self-help book offering advice on how to gain and maintain power, using lessons drawn from parables and the experiences of historical figures....
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Very sexist,bias and inaccurate summary
- By Jeremy on 07-15-17
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Summary of The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Includes Analysis
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 02-12-16
- Language: English
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a self-help book offering advice on how to gain and maintain power, using lessons drawn from parables and the experiences of historical figures....
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Gunfight
- My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
- By: Ryan Busse
- Narrated by: Ryan Busse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point....
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Outstanding
- By Kyle Turner on 10-27-21
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Gunfight
- My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
- Narrated by: Ryan Busse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-19-21
- Language: English
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A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point....
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
- How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
- By: Heather MacDonald
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....
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Shining the cold light of truth . . .
- By Mike on 05-03-05
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
- How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-01-05
- Language: English
- In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....
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