Social Systems

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • By: David Peter Stroh
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,085 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 556 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Charles L. Zelden
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Whatever the level of contact, the American judicial system affects peoples' lives. What courts and judges do matters. This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system....

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    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

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    • My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons
    • By: James Morgan Kane
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

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    • By: Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • This eye-opening book tells you everything you need to know about how cops operate, the little things that can get you in trouble, and how to stay free from the hungry jaws of the criminal justice system....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies
    • By: Jonathan Hopkin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Recent elections in the advanced Western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges - from both the left and the right....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World's Oldest Personality Type System
    • By: Dondi Dahlin
    • Narrated by: Dondi Dahlin, Donna Eden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Five Elements brings the wisdom of an ancient healing system to modern listeners, helping them understand themselves - why they do what they do - better....

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    • How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
    • By: Leah Litman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
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    • Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • By: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra....

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    • Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
    • By: Sidney Powell, Harvey A. Silverglate, Adriana Hunter - translator
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors....

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    • How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them
    • By: Paul LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Many of the systems built to serve people do more harm than good. Dr. Paul LeBlanc draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems....

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