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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....
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An Important Book
- By Stephen Schoenberg on 12-19-11
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-21-11
- Language: English
- Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....
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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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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- By: Alicia Garza
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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Black Lives Matter is not about rioting: read this
- By Miracle on 10-21-20
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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-20-20
- Language: English
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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Population Control
- How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
- By: Jim Marrs
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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America, Jim Marrs argues, has been seized by a culture of death. And who promulgates this culture? Find out....
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I learnedly lot from this book.
- By Ccchhhdghdf on 07-02-15
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Population Control
- How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
- America, Jim Marrs argues, has been seized by a culture of death. And who promulgates this culture? Find out....
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- By: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- By Katie on 12-31-19
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-26-18
- Language: English
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In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....
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We've Got You Covered
- Rebooting American Health Care
- By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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From a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....
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real solutions to our healthcare system
- By kris p. on 03-26-24
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We've Got You Covered
- Rebooting American Health Care
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-25-23
- Language: English
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From a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....
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The Constitution of Liberty
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....
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very detailed and important
- By Big Kyle 570 on 06-17-20
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The Constitution of Liberty
- The Definitive Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-20-19
- Language: English
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From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....
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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Mark Winston
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....
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Excellent book for budding education professionals
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-17
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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- Narrated by: Mark Winston
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-23-10
- Language: English
- Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....
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One of the best books I've ever listened to...
- By Dan on 07-29-14
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-30-10
- Language: English
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In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....
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Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- By: Alisa Roth
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....
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Great required reading
- By K. C. H on 01-16-19
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Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-25-18
- Language: English
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Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....
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The Rage of Innocence
- How America Criminalizes Black Youth
- By: Kristin Henning
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, DC’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people....
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Very Enlightening!
- By Dr. Laurel E. Thompson on 02-01-22
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The Rage of Innocence
- How America Criminalizes Black Youth
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, DC’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people....
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-22-22
- Language: English
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....
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Victims No Longer
- The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
- By: Mike Lew
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....
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Excellent book so glad it is im audio now
- By EFROSINI KOKALIARI on 09-30-23
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Victims No Longer
- The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....
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The Socialist Manifesto
- The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
- By: Bhaskar Sunkara
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....
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Not that radical actually
- By Evan on 05-31-19
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The Socialist Manifesto
- The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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Mix of Genetic Science and Ideology
- By James on 10-12-21
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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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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The Origins of Woke
- Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
- By: Richard Hanania
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....
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New view of Civil Rights law
- By Customer on 11-04-23
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The Origins of Woke
- Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-19-23
- Language: English
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Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....
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What We Owe Each Other
- A New Social Contract for a Better Society
- By: Minouche Shafik
- Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....
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Not the Good Place Book but worth listening to:
- By Thomas Gimbel on 04-11-22
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What We Owe Each Other
- A New Social Contract for a Better Society
- Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- By: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....
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Behavioral Science Applied
- By Alex McCurdy on 06-13-17
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-15-15
- Language: English
- If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....
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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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