Social Work History

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    • A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
    • By: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Leading anthropologist James Suzman presents a revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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    • A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
    • By: Richard Twiss
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America....

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    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • By: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
    • By: Gillian Thomas
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever....

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    • How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
    • By: Elizabeth Green
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art....

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    • A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth Century United States
    • By: Kristin Celello
    • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage....

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    • A Judge’s View
    • By: Justice Stephen Breyer
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America’s highest judicial body....

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    • How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Jamie Metzl
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways.

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    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 785 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....

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    • A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
    • By: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek present a vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics....

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    • What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
    • By: Wendy Kopp, Steven Farr
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In this inspiring, optimistic book, TFA’s founder and president Wendy Kopp shows concretely that the achievement gap can be closed, and delineates what it will take to close it....

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    • The Secret History of Neoliberalism
    • By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism—and shows us how to fight back.

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    • Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....

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