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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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    • 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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    • Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
    • By: Dan Meegan
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Find out....

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    • Passport to Peace, Prosperity and Strengthened Diplomacy
    • By: Ken Reiman
    • Narrated by: Chris Koprowski
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In a memoir both personal and public, Ken Reiman, a diplomat with dual nationality, tells the story of his heritage from a Japanese mother and American father, and his lifelong desire to serve the United States as a member of the U.S. Foreign Service in Japan....

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    • The Creation of the Modern American State
    • By: William J. Novak
    • Narrated by: A.W. Miller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....

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    • By: Elizabeth Wynter, Marisha Kashyap, Gaelin Elmore
    • Narrated by: Miranda Elizabeth
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Embark on a transformative journey with "Follow the Love: Permanent Connections Scaffolding," a groundbreaking guidebook meticulously crafted for child welfare stakeholders dedicated to empowering young people navigating the challenging transition out of the foster care system. 

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    • Social Security Retirement and Survivor Benefits for Divorcees
    • By: Jim Blankenship
    • Narrated by: K.M. Sayer
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book provides a concise, easy-to-follow guide for divorcees to learn about Social Security benefits specifically for their situations....

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    • How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies
    • By: Eduardo J. Gómez
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • Junk Food Politics proposes an alternative political science framework that emphasizes how junk food corporations restructure politics and society before agenda-setting ever takes place....

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    • Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy
    • By: Clayton J. Mosher, Scott Atkins
    • Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • More and more states are legalizing marijuana in some form. In the Weeds looks at how our society has become more permissive in the past 150 years - even though marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug by the American government....

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    • The Battle for America's Soul
    • By: John Kasich
    • Narrated by: John Kasich
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • I don't know about you, but I'm troubled by a lot of what I see and hear in America's heartland....

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    • How We Decriminalized Drugs in British Columbia
    • By: Kennedy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Kennedy Stewart
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-23
    • Language: English
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    • A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia’s strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis....

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    • Solving America's Immigration Crisis
    • By: Dirk Chase Eldredge
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This audiobook explains how recent waves of immigration differ from those of earlier eras and suggests new public policy alternatives....

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    • By: Helen Keller
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This is the inspiring autobiography of Helen Keller, blind and deaf since childhood, who experiences the wonder and joys of discovery of the world around her and of literature....

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    • How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
    • By: Michael D. Tanner
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, looks at the reasons for poverty in America and offers a detailed agenda for increasing wealth, incomes, and opportunity....

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    • Conservatives' Approaches Toward Criminals, Police, Criminal Justice, and the Opioid Crisis
    • By: Paul Brakke
    • Narrated by: Lion Templin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Crime in America features selections from a series of six books Paul Brakke wrote on what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. These books deal with the police, courts, and prisons, and consider of some of the crises now facing American society....

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    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

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    • An Intellectual History
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Kevin Deiber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook examines the history of ideas regarding welfare economics, and in particular the American welfare state.

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    • Forging an American Solution
    • By: Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick
    • Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration....

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    • New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge
    • By: Eric Meade
    • Narrated by: Bob Brill
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • We typically view poverty as a technical problem that we can solve with more money, more technology, and more volunteers. But there is an adaptive side to the problem of poverty, as well....

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