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    • What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
    • By: Lizzie O'Shea
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art, and poetry in our technological present.....

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    • When America's Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam
    • By: Richard Severo, Lewis Milford
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A disturbing chronicle of the US government’s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-Miles....

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    • How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise
    • By: Robert L. Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
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    • At a time of fierce political divisiveness, From Here to Security is a refreshingly balanced, non-ideological guide to solving what may be our nation's most pressing policy challenge: achieving retirement security for all....

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    • How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
    • By: Anya Kamenetz
    • Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....

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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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    • A Mission to Restore Absent Fathers
    • By: Charles Marvin
    • Narrated by: Drew Hobson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Most child advocates agree that fatherlessness goes beyond the boundaries of race and socio-economic status - and is the root of almost every social ill faced by children in our society....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • How to Make Politicians Work for You
    • By: Graham Steele
    • Narrated by: Graham Steele
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice
    • By: Aviva Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Moe Egan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Aviva Chomsky breaks down the concepts, terminology, and debates for activists, students, and anyone concerned about climate change. She argues that science is not enough to change course....

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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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
    • By: Zach Norris
    • Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....

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    • Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    • By: Mary O'Hara
    • Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

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    • You Can’t Put a Straight Leg on a Crooked Man
    • By: Kevin S. Garrison
    • Narrated by: Bryson Carr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A heartwarming debut memoir about finding meaning in the face of loss. Garrison is a proficient writer with an inspiring story, but his self-awareness and insight into disability give weight to his memoir....

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    • Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror
    • By: J.D. Hayworth, Joseph J. Eule
    • Narrated by: J.D. Hayworth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....

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    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

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    • By: Judy Ryan
    • Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • In July 2016, inner-city resident Judy Ryan found a young man—one of ‘her regulars'—slumped and quiet at her gate. He had overdosed from heroin. Fortunately, that man lived. But Judy had reached breaking point....

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