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What the Coronavirus in America Had Wrought
- Facing the Dangers of a New Conformity
- By: Thomas Winterbottom
- Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
- Length: 1 hr
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This book examines the disturbing trend toward social and political conformity in America in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic....
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What the Coronavirus in America Had Wrought
- Facing the Dangers of a New Conformity
- Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 01-12-24
- Language: English
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This book examines the disturbing trend toward social and political conformity in America in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic....
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Karl-Ludwig Sand
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 5
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children....
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Karl-Ludwig Sand
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 5
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Series: Celebrated Crimes, Book 5
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-06-14
- Language: English
- To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children....
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This Is Ohio
- The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
- By: Jack Shuler
- Narrated by: Miles Meili
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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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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This Is Ohio
- The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
- Narrated by: Miles Meili
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
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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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All Is Not Lost
- 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
- By: Alex Zamalin
- Narrated by: Chris Baetens
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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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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All Is Not Lost
- 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
- 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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American Obesity Problem
- A New Diet to Lost Weight
- By: Laura Jessy Highbury
- Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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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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American Obesity Problem
- A New Diet to Lost Weight
- 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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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Matt Zwolinski, Miranda Perry Fleischer
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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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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Comprehensive, clear and evenhanded
- By Mats Gezelius on 10-01-23
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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- 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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Obama on the Home Front
- Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
- By: John D. Graham
- Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Obama on the Home Front
- Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
- Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-02-17
- Language: English
- 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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To Serve the People
- 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
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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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To Serve the People
- My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor
- 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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The Underdogs
- Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
- By: Melissa Fay Greene
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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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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A nice good read!
- By Natalie Baranski on 04-05-22
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The Underdogs
- Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-17-16
- Language: English
- 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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Five Easy Theses
- Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
- By: James Stone
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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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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- By C.Tarbet on 01-21-17
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Five Easy Theses
- Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-05-16
- Language: English
- 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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Human Capitalism
- How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal
- By: Brink Lindsey
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Well writing. The audio production was excellent.
- By 2LC on 04-25-18
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Human Capitalism
- How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-21-12
- Language: English
- The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter....
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The Science Behind the Debates
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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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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Ignore the title
- By Niall on 10-20-20
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The Science Behind the Debates
- 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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Locked Down, Locked Out
- Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
- By: Maya Schenwar
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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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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Locked Down, Locked Out
- Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-05-14
- Language: English
- 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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Legacies of the War on Poverty
- The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
- By: Martha J. Bailey
- Narrated by: Kent Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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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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Does *not* work well as an audiobook
- By Tatiana A. Stone on 02-09-23
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Legacies of the War on Poverty
- The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
- Narrated by: Kent Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-07-14
- Language: English
- Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships....
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How I Changed the World
- In My Own Unique Ways
- By: Galeeb Kachra
- Narrated by: Galeeb Kachra
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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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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How I Changed the World
- In My Own Unique Ways
- 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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For Tibet, with Love
- A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
- By: Isabel Losada
- Narrated by: Isabel Losada
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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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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An Introduction to Tibet
- By Dolores Plate on 06-19-20
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For Tibet, with Love
- A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
- Narrated by: Isabel Losada
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-30-17
- Language: English
- 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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Crippled
- Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
- By: Frances Ryan
- Narrated by: Georgie Morrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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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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Crippled
- Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
- Narrated by: Georgie Morrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-27-20
- Language: English
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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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Water Is Life
- The Native American Struggle for Environmental Justice
- By: John Guthrie
- Narrated by: Justice Margowski
- Length: 40 mins
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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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Water Is Life
- The Native American Struggle for Environmental Justice
- 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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The American Caste Story
- Human Rights Essays & Poems
- By: DaQuan Lawrence
- Narrated by: ChuiMalik
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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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 American Caste Story
- Human Rights Essays & Poems
- Narrated by: ChuiMalik
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-03-23
- Language: English
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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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Dealing Death and Drugs
- 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
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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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Dealing Death and Drugs
- The Big Business of Dope in the US and Mexico
- 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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