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    • How to Make Politicians Work for You
    • By: Graham Steele
    • Narrated by: Graham Steele
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking, how to interpret the “non-answer” in political speech, and acknowledges that in politics, bland is safe....

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    • The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States
    • By: Megan Sholar
    • Narrated by: Margo Vaughn Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women....

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    • Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine
    • By: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich
    • Narrated by: Newt Gingrich
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Former Speaker of the House and best-selling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America....

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    • How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
    • By: Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, Jean Crowder
    • Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Happiness Policy Handbook is the essential resource for policymakers and professionals working to integrate happiness and well-being into governmental processes and institutions....

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    • Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: David Stampone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here, freelance writer Aaron Glantz hones in on the momentous impact of the Iraq war on injured veterans as they return home....

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    • The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
    • By: Martha J. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Kent Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships....

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    • The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
    • By: Jill Filipovic
    • Narrated by: Jill Filipovic
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it....

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    • The True Story of How One Amazing Dog Changed His Owner's Life
    • By: John Tovey, Veronica Clark
    • Narrated by: Philip Ormond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning....

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    • My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor
    • By: LeRoy Chatfield, Jorge Mariscal - contributor
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten....

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    • By: Simon Benson, Geoff Chambers
    • Narrated by: Jason Chong
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In early 2020, COVID-19 breached Australian shores, triggering twin crises: health and economic. The nation had not endured trials of this scale and impact since the Spanish flu and the Great Depression....

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    • The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son
    • By: Marilyn Churley
    • Narrated by: Ellen Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Twenty years after secretly giving up her baby for adoption, then Ontario NDP minister Marilyn Churley found herself fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son....

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    • How to Keep Hope Alive
    • By: Samuel Cohn
    • Narrated by: Jay Webb
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope....

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    • By: James Angelos
    • Narrated by: Peter Cross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of the contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present....

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    • How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies
    • By: Eduardo J. Gómez
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • Junk Food Politics proposes an alternative political science framework that emphasizes how junk food corporations restructure politics and society before agenda-setting ever takes place....

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    • Disaster Cascades in Court
    • By: Susan M. Sterett
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....

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    • Bridging the Distance Between You and Friends with Disabilities
    • By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Jensen
    • Narrated by: Connie Wetzell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Each of us knows someone who is hearing, visually, or mentally impaired, or physically disabled. Millions more suffer from invisible disabilities that can be just as devastating....

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    • Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
    • By: Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor
    • Narrated by: Nneka Okoye, Christina Orman, Stephen Perring
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-21
    • Language: English
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    • Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
    • By: Bob Herbert
    • Narrated by: Bob Herbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream....

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