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Historia5 out of 5 stars 111
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions - those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Valid points made, but contradictory as well...
- De Julian C. Young en 01-28-22
De: Kimberly Jones
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- De: David K. Shipler
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 147
Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- De Cynthia en 07-28-12
De: David K. Shipler
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Haiti After the Earthquake
- De: Paul Farmer
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep, Edoardo Ballerini, Edwidge Danticat
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you read one book about Haiti make it this one
- De Bryan en 06-07-12
De: Paul Farmer
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In Our Backyard
- Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
- De: Nita Belles
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. Nor is it something that just happens to "other people," such as runaways or the disenfranchised. Even kids in your own neighborhood can fall victim. But they don't have to.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good entry to learning about HT
- De Justicepirate en 12-05-16
De: Nita Belles
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I Shall Not Hate
- A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
- De: Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish---now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"---captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece. By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A story worth reading, but terrible narration
- De BL Lucas en 04-11-12
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A Bittersweet Season
- Caring for Our Aging Parents - And Ourselves
- De: Jane Gross
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents. Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- De Anne en 08-10-11
De: Jane Gross
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Wuhan Diary
- Dispatches from a Quarantined City
- De: Fang Fang, Michael Berry - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In-depth look at life under quarantine
- De Yan Chen en 06-18-20
De: Fang Fang, y otros
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America: The Farewell Tour
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012
America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narrator for the book
- De H U Rehman en 10-01-18
De: Chris Hedges
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- De: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- De Katie en 12-31-19
De: Virginia Eubanks
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Thrive
- Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
- De: Dan Buettner
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
In the first book to identify demographically proven happiness hotspots worldwide, researcher and explorer Dan Buettner documents the happiest people on earth and reveals how we can create our own happy zones. Detailing extraordinary new discoveries and meticulous research on four continents, Buettner observes happiness in unlikely places and gleans surprising insight into what generates contentment and what it means to thrive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Around the world with circular reasoning
- De Andy en 05-17-11
De: Dan Buettner
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Viral Justice
- How We Grow the World We Want
- De: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrado por: Ruha Benjamin
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 46
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book!
- De Avie Kearney en 05-21-23
De: Ruha Benjamin
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It Was All a Dream
- A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
- De: Reniqua Allen
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great statistics and facts
- De Eve en 05-18-19
De: Reniqua Allen
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Putin Country
- A Journey into the Real Russia
- De: Anne Garrels
- Narrado por: Anne Garrels
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 312
In Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of the nation's heartland. We meet ostentatious mafiosos, upwardly mobile professionals, impassioned activists, scheming taxi drivers with dark secrets, and beleaguered steel workers. We discover surprising subcultures, like the LGBT residents of Chelyablinsk who bravely endure an upsurge in homophobia fueled by Putin's rhetoric of Russian "moral superiority" yet still nurture a vibrant if clandestine community of their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting dive into Russia today
- De Keith en 03-25-16
De: Anne Garrels
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- De: Nick Reding
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 883
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 470
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 476
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but insubstantial
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 02-10-10
De: Nick Reding
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Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
- Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
- De: Michael Mather
- Narrado por: Trevor Thompson
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Pastor Mike Mather arrived in Indianapolis thinking that he was going to serve the poor. But after his church’s community lost nine young men to violence in a few short months, Mather came to see that the poor didn’t need his help - he needed theirs. This is the story of how one church found abundance in a community of material poverty. Viewing people - not programs, finances, or service models - as their most valuable resource moved church members beyond their own walls and out into the streets, where they discovered folks rich in strength, talents, determination, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story filled reimagining of ministry
- De Adam Shields en 04-27-20
De: Michael Mather
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To the End of June
- The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
- De: Cris Beam
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system - the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good dissertation
- De Nim en 03-13-19
De: Cris Beam