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    • The Fate of London's Foundlings
    • By: Helen Berry
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised at the London Foundling Hospital, Coram's brainchild, which opened in 1741 and grew to become the most famous charity in Georgian England....

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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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    • 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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    • Why "Yes" Lost the Referendum and Why, if We're Not Careful, We Might End Up Doing It Again
    • By: Jack Foster
    • Narrated by: Jack Foster
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
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    • Jack Foster combines modern political history with indignant polemic in this impassioned account of the failed 2014 Scottish independence referendum. In an attempt to understand the reasons for that defeat....

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    • By: Beate Chelette
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Chelette, a trainer, coach, and speaker imparts her proprietary strategies that can take any woman from being overwhelmed to awesome....

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    • The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
    • By: Michael VanRooyen
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks....

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    • An Excerpt from Long Time Coming
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A letter to Emmett Till, an excerpt from Dyson's longer work, Long Time Coming. Here is a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption....

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    • Individual Rights and the Welfare State
    • By: David Kelley
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government....

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    • Britain Before and After COVID
    • By: Peter Hennessy
    • Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future? Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona)....

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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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    • 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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    • A Living Economy for a Living Earth
    • By: David C. Korten
    • Narrated by: Dana Hickox
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a "Sacred Life and Living Earth" story grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth....

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    • How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity
    • By: Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
    • Narrated by: Steve Forbes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history....

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    • Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine
    • By: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich
    • Narrated by: Newt Gingrich
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Former Speaker of the House and best-selling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America....

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    • How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
    • By: Jamie K. McCallum
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality....

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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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    • 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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    • How the Drug War Broke the Legal System
    • By: The Washington Post
    • Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent "war on drugs"....

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