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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • 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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    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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 New Paradigm for Wellness
    • By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andy Barnett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • 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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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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    • How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Paul Slack
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • 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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    • The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
    • By: Alec Karakatsanis
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • 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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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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    • By: Jonathan Peterson
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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 Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
    • By: Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change....

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    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • "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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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • 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 New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....

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    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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 to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
    • By: Jenny Schuetz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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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