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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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Under the Weather
- COVID-19 Biosocial System Dynamics
- By: Austin Mardon, Tina Wu, Grace Lethbridge, and others
- Narrated by: Daniel Klassen
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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The pathophysiology of COVID-19 garners much attention in health care settings, but the illness is not limited to its biological impact—the pandemic’s effects are a mosaic of social, economic, political, environmental, and evolutionary influences....
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Under the Weather
- COVID-19 Biosocial System Dynamics
- Narrated by: Daniel Klassen
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-22-22
- Language: English
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The pathophysiology of COVID-19 garners much attention in health care settings, but the illness is not limited to its biological impact—the pandemic’s effects are a mosaic of social, economic, political, environmental, and evolutionary influences....
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Promised Land
- How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
- By: David Stebenne
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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A groundbreaking work of history about the American middle class - its rise, why it faltered, and who truly benefited from its dominance....
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Middle Class was middle of the Road
- By Amazon Customer on 07-18-20
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Promised Land
- How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-14-20
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking work of history about the American middle class - its rise, why it faltered, and who truly benefited from its dominance....
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything
- Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
- By: Laura Carno
- Narrated by: Linda Bruno
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....
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Wonderful Book
- By Andrew Esquivel on 02-16-23
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Government Ruins Nearly Everything
- Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
- Narrated by: Linda Bruno
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-29-16
- Language: English
- Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....
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This Stops Today
- Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
- By: Gwen Carr, Dave Smitherman - contributor, Hillary Clinton - foreword
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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In This Stops Today, Gwen Carr, Eric Garner's mother, shares the tragedies she has faced, recalls her son's life and death, and recounts her newfound role as an activist. Her book recounts a life of family, community, and of a woman who now speaks for those who no longer can....
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Mothers Who Lost Their Boys To Police Brutality
- By Rita on 11-28-18
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This Stops Today
- Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-01-18
- Language: English
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In This Stops Today, Gwen Carr, Eric Garner's mother, shares the tragedies she has faced, recalls her son's life and death, and recounts her newfound role as an activist. Her book recounts a life of family, community, and of a woman who now speaks for those who no longer can....
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....
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His comparisons are faulty and the biased
- By kelly on 07-10-13
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-05-11
- Language: English
- America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....
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The Full Catastrophe
- By: James Angelos
- Narrated by: Peter Cross
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of the contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present....
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The Full Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Peter Cross
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-19-15
- Language: English
- In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of the contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present....
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The Happiness Policy Handbook
- How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
- By: Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, Jean Crowder
- Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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The Happiness Policy Handbook is the essential resource for policymakers and professionals working to integrate happiness and well-being into governmental processes and institutions....
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The Happiness Policy Handbook
- How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
- Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-12-20
- Language: English
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The Happiness Policy Handbook is the essential resource for policymakers and professionals working to integrate happiness and well-being into governmental processes and institutions....
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Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform
- By: David Pettinicchio
- Narrated by: Greg Douras
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the well-being of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard....
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Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform
- Narrated by: Greg Douras
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-09-20
- Language: English
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Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the well-being of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard....
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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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Entry Lessons
- The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration
- By: Jorja Leap
- Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families....
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Great work
- By Amazon Customer on 10-11-23
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Entry Lessons
- The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration
- Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-26-22
- Language: English
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Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families....
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Social Security for the Suddenly Single
- Social Security Retirement and Survivor Benefits for Divorcees
- By: Jim Blankenship
- Narrated by: K.M. Sayer
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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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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Numbers numbers numbers
- By Rose Akers on 01-09-19
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Social Security for the Suddenly Single
- Social Security Retirement and Survivor Benefits for Divorcees
- Narrated by: K.M. Sayer
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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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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Another Day in the Death of America
- A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
- By: Gary Younge
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....
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- By SJ on 07-01-17
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Another Day in the Death of America
- A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-04-16
- Language: English
- In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....
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Power Shift
- How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America
- By: David R. Ayón, George L. Pla
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....
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Power Shift
- How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-16-20
- Language: English
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Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....
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Health Justice Now
- Single Payer and What Comes Next
- By: Timothy Faust
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won....
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Simplistic and warped version of US Healthcare
- By David V. Gallegos on 09-26-19
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Health Justice Now
- Single Payer and What Comes Next
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won....
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Defund Fear
- Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
- By: Zach Norris
- Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....
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Essential Reading
- By Amazon Customer on 06-29-21
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Defund Fear
- Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
- Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....
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Life Is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers
- Introduction by Vice President Mike Pence - Foreword by Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- By: Marjorie Dannenfelser
- Narrated by: Marjorie Dannenfelser
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Ahead of the pivotal 2020 elections, momentum is building across America to revisit the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that struck down laws protecting unborn children and their mothers nationwide....
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Very informative and well written.
- By Chris on 02-19-23
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Life Is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers
- Introduction by Vice President Mike Pence - Foreword by Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Narrated by: Marjorie Dannenfelser
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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Ahead of the pivotal 2020 elections, momentum is building across America to revisit the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that struck down laws protecting unborn children and their mothers nationwide....
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Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work
- Australia's Parenthood Trap
- By: Annabel Crabb
- Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world....
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Annabel rocks
- By Lina on 09-18-19
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Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work
- Australia's Parenthood Trap
- Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-09-19
- Language: English
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When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world....
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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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The Effective Citizen
- How to Make Politicians Work for You
- By: Graham Steele
- Narrated by: Graham Steele
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking, how to interpret the “non-answer” in political speech, and acknowledges that in politics, bland is safe....
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The Effective Citizen
- How to Make Politicians Work for You
- Narrated by: Graham Steele
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-01-19
- Language: English
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A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking, how to interpret the “non-answer” in political speech, and acknowledges that in politics, bland is safe....
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