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    • Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance
    • By: Carlyn Zwarenstein
    • Narrated by: Christine Horne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing on solidarity between illicit drug users and people in pain, in a wise understanding of what humans need to be well, and in radical drug policies like legalization and safe supply, Carlyn Zwarenstein lays out a vision of a world where suffering is no longer lauded....

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    • The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son
    • By: Marilyn Churley
    • Narrated by: Ellen Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Twenty years after secretly giving up her baby for adoption, then Ontario NDP minister Marilyn Churley found herself fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son....

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    • Passionately Pragmatic Solutions For: Health Care, Taxes, Electoral Reform and More of America’s Problems
    • By: M. Scott Flood
    • Narrated by: Ben Sheedy
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • There was a time in this country when people who were well-off had two homes, and the super-rich may have had three residences. In 2008 a prominent politician was asked how many homes he had. He didn’t know. The number was eight....

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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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    • A Collection of Thoughts and Ideas Regarding the Fall of Western Society
    • By: Timothy Tompkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Blair
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A collection of ideas and thoughts about the decline of western society....

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Policymaking by Other Means
    • By: Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices....

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    • How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way–and How We Fix It
    • By: David Haslam
    • Narrated by: David Haslam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it....

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    • Freedom, Security, Justice
    • By: Jamie Swift, Elaine Power
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19, an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income....

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    • The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty
    • By: Jeff Madrick
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An essential and impossible-to-ignore examination of one of the most pressing, harmful, and heartbreaking problems facing our country: the widespread poverty among American children....

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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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    • Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
    • By: Michael J. Klarman
    • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics....

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    • By: Lucia Kay McBath, Rosemarie Robotham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Lucia Kay McBath
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives....

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    • The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
    • By: Michael A. Cohen, Micah Zenko
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at the history of national security fear-mongering in America and how it distracts citizens from the issues that really matter....

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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 the Supreme Court Unleashed Medical Killing
    • By: Brian Johnston
    • Narrated by: Brian Johnston
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court released two interlocked abortion decisions overturning the laws of all the individual states. Only one of the decisions, Roe v. Wade, tends to get much media attention....

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