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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- By: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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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. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- By Katie on 12-31-19
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-26-18
- Language: English
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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. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....
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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- By: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....
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Informative and riveting personal accounts
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-23
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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....
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Hide Your Children
- Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
- By: Liz Wheeler
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....
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Great book!
- By CO-MAC on 10-03-23
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Hide Your Children
- Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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Mix of Genetic Science and Ideology
- By James on 10-12-21
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
- Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Inflamed
- Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- By: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
- Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....
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Starts off well!
- By TLCohen on 08-12-21
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Inflamed
- Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-03-21
- Language: English
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Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....
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What We've Become
- Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
- By: Jonathan M. Metzl
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.
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What We've Become
- Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: English
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In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.
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The Two-Income Trap
- Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
- By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....
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Read All Your Worth Insteas
- By Lewis E. Weil on 05-19-15
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The Two-Income Trap
- Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-05-14
- Language: English
- In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....
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The War on Alcohol
- Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
- By: Lisa McGirr
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history....
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Snarky and Woke
- By St Germain on 01-14-24
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The War on Alcohol
- Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-30-21
- Language: English
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Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history....
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....
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An Important Book
- By Stephen Schoenberg on 12-19-11
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-21-11
- Language: English
- Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....
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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- By: Alicia Garza
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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Black Lives Matter is not about rioting: read this
- By Miracle on 10-21-20
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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-20-20
- Language: English
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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Bleeding Out
- 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
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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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Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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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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Hidden
- Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past....
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One of the happiest stories I've read in a long time
- By Randi shelton on 05-03-16
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Hidden
- Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-24-14
- Language: English
- The poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past....
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Social Security for Dummies
- By: Jonathan Peterson
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....
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Social Security for Dummies
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-12-19
- Language: English
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Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....
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The Age of Dignity
- Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
- By: Ai-jen Poo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....
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Excellent book about aging
- By Ezra Schwartz on 07-05-24
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The Age of Dignity
- Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-28-15
- Language: English
- The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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educate yourself
- By keji kujjo on 10-04-18
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
- A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
- By: Alison Kafer
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-19-21
- Language: English
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Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....
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The Long Game
- A Memoir
- By: Mitch McConnell
- Narrated by: Mitch McConnell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....
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Painfully Hypocritical
- By Nicholas on 12-30-20
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The Long Game
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Mitch McConnell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-31-16
- Language: English
- The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....
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Victims No Longer
- The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
- By: Mike Lew
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....
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Excellent book so glad it is im audio now
- By EFROSINI KOKALIARI on 09-30-23
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Victims No Longer
- The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....
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A Disability History of the United States
- By: Kim E. Nielsen
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....
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This is a beautiful book!
- By Mick Rosenthal on 02-21-21
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A Disability History of the United States
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Series: ReVisioning History
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
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Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....
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