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    • The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
    • By: Jack Shuler
    • Narrated by: Miles Meili
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tainted drug supplies, inadequate civic responses, and prevailing negative opinions about people who use drugs, the poor, and those struggling with mental health issues lead to thousands of preventable deaths each year while politicians are slow to adopt effective policies....

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    • 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
    • By: Alex Zamalin
    • Narrated by: Chris Baetens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • An uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate....

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    • A New Diet to Lost Weight
    • By: Laura Jessy Highbury
    • Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Matt Zwolinski, Miranda Perry Fleischer
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • The motivating idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is radically simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. This book provides the average citizen with all the information they need to understand current debates about the UBI....

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    • Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
    • By: John D. Graham
    • Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest....

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    • My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor
    • By: LeRoy Chatfield, Jorge Mariscal - contributor
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
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    • The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten....

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    • Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
    • By: Melissa Fay Greene
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
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    • The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency....

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    • Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
    • By: James Stone
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from health care to education to inequality....

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    • How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal
    • By: Brink Lindsey
    • Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-12
    • Language: English
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    • The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter....

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    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor...there is almost no debate in the scientific community. This audiobook examines the science behind today’s most contentious debates....

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    • Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Maya Schenwar
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans....

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    • The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
    • By: Martha J. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Kent Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-14
    • Language: English
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    • Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships....

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    • In My Own Unique Ways
    • By: Galeeb Kachra
    • Narrated by: Galeeb Kachra
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Do you want to help achieve change, but don't know how? Other books don't give you practical examples that are within your own reach. This book showcases real cases, based on Galeeb's international experience....

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    • A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
    • By: Isabel Losada
    • Narrated by: Isabel Losada
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-17
    • Language: English
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    • In Isabel Losada's extraordinary For Tibet with Love, she explores whether it's possible for an ordinary person to change the world....

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    • Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
    • By: Frances Ryan
    • Narrated by: Georgie Morrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse....

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    • The Native American Struggle for Environmental Justice
    • By: John Guthrie
    • Narrated by: Justice Margowski
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • When a water protector proclaims "water is life", they speak not just in slogan form, but as part of an ancient philosophy that dates back millennia....

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    • Human Rights Essays & Poems
    • By: DaQuan Lawrence
    • Narrated by: ChuiMalik
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-23
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    • The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world....

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    • The Big Business of Dope in the US and Mexico
    • By: Beto O'Rourke, Susie Byrd
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
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    • The War on Drugs doesn't work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O'Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso's sister city, Ciudad Juarez, has become the deadliest city in the world....

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