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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 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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The Turnaway Study
- The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
- By: Diana Greene Foster PhD
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz, full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists....
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Scientific Research on Women's Reproductive Health
- By Clinton Conley on 07-09-21
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The Turnaway Study
- The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz, full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists....
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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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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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Priced Out
- The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
- By: Uwe E. Reinhardt, Paul Krugman - Foreword by, William H. Frist - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive - and why it doesn't have to be....
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A great book for someone who studies healthcare and economics
- By Samuel on 06-03-19
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Priced Out
- The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive - and why it doesn't have to be....
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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 Program
- Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
- By: Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin
- Narrated by: Toni Natalie
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology....
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Important addation to the NXIVM story
- By Dennis Hinkamp on 10-20-19
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The Program
- Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
- Narrated by: Toni Natalie
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-27-19
- Language: English
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Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology....
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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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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
- Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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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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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 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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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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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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Inflamed
- Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- By: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
- Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....
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Starts off well!
- By TLCohen on 08-12-21
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Inflamed
- Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-03-21
- Language: English
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Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....
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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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Social Security Disability Revealed
- By: Spencer Bishins
- Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....
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Objective explanation of the process
- By Ashley on 05-16-24
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Social Security Disability Revealed
- Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-11-23
- Language: English
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A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- By: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....
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Powerful
- By myurko on 12-29-16
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-06-16
- Language: English
- How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....
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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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