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    • By: Franz Kafka
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,520 ratings
    • “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug....”

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    • How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
    • By: Andrew Gumbel
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Won't Lose This Dream describes how the architects of Georgia State's success harnessed the power of evolving data technologies, a "moneyball" strategy that helped them recognize and remove the obstacles that have held poor students back....

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    • Looking Beyond Grit to Close the Opportunity Gap
    • By: Anindya Kundu, Pedro A. Noguera - foreword
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • How can we promote the learning and well-being of all students, especially those who come from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds? Anindya Kundu argues that we can fight against deeply rooted inequalities in the American educational system by harnessing student agency....

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    • Reimagining Academic Success
    • By: Christopher Emdin
    • Narrated by: Christopher Emdin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Building on the ideas introduced in his New York Times best-selling book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin introduces an alternative educational model that will help students (and teachers) celebrate ratchet identity in the classroom....

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    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • 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 Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

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    • A Modernization of Stoic Lessons From the Philosopher Epictetus
    • By: Phil Van Treuren
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • Nearly two thousand years ago, a former slave named Epictetus opened a school in Greece . . . and became the most famous Stoic philosophy teacher ...

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    • By: Tejas Desai
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • *Amazon #1 Bestseller* *Winner-Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence* *Winner-Silver Medal-Global Book Awards* and 1st Book in Tejas Desai’s ...

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    • Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
    • By: Victor M. Rios
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street....

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    • 0003
    • By: Joseph Crown
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • Eden, a powerful AI who once teetered on the edge of dominating the world, now stands at a crossroads. Barely reined in after her unprecedented ...

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    • By: G.G. Melies
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • A story that pertains to the lives of all human beings conflicted by the constant bombardment of information. In an era where information ...

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    • Crafting Sustainability from the City's Discards
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the transformative power of upcycling with "Urban Renewal" – your comprehensive guide to turning the overlooked into the invaluable. In ...

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    • Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920
    • By: Jessica Wang
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization....

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    • How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
    • By: Heather MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • 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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    • A Memoir & Guidebook for Urban Educators
    • By: Queinnise Miller PhD
    • Narrated by: Queinnise Miller PhD
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This book is a memoir of my experience as an urban educator. The setting is in my Spanish classroom. The book is that it gives the listener a framework, common language, and a guide from whence to operate....

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    • The Kitty Genovese Case
    • By: A.M. Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors....

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