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    • How to Escape the Chains of Conventional Wisdom That Keep You Poor
    • By: Zachariah B. Parry JD
    • Narrated by: Zachariah B. Parry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We all know that the government doesn’t generate money; it takes it. Yet, if we're investing our money into a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k), then we're blindly entrusting the government to manage our future income....

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    • Voices of the Oppressed
    • By: John E. Cornish III
    • Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • In the corridors of history, amidst the tumultuous echoes of change, there emerge moments of profound insight that resonate across time and space....

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    • A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
    • By: Zaid Hassan
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges - from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change - are not working....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
    • By: Bob Herbert
    • Narrated by: Bob Herbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream....

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    • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
    • By: Emily Dufton
    • Narrated by: Greg Baglia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana.....

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    • A Manifesto for a Just Society
    • By: Jonathan Rothwell
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A Republic of Equals provides a bold new perspective on how to foster greater political and social equality, while moving societies closer to what a true republic should be....

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    • How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
    • By: William Eggers, Paul Macmillan
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems....

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    • The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
    • By: Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder
    • Narrated by: Lenny Henry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, Sir Lenny Henry draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective and why they are simply not enough....

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    • Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
    • By: Kamal Al-Solaylee
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family....

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    • Human Rights Essays & Poems
    • By: DaQuan Lawrence
    • Narrated by: ChuiMalik
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world....

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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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    • 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 the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair
    • By: Carol Graham
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little studied in economics at present—as an independent dimension of well-being....

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    • From Recessions to Russians
    • By: S. I. Wells
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Amazon #1 New Release in Political Freedom and in Commerce (August 2018) Rational thought amidst the chaos. 21 Big Ideas that are relevant, serious...

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    • We May Not Have It All Together, but Together We Have It All
    • By: Diane Burden Cox
    • Narrated by: Diane Burden Cox
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Anything that alienates and divides us leaves us weak and exposed to disaster. Simple human compassion is more essential to our national resilience and strength than most of us recognize. Shallow values won’t suffice as the foundation of our social and cultural infrastructure....

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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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    • 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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    • Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
    • By: Dale Russakoff
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts - as reformers face off against entrenched unions....

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    • How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
    • By: David Stebenne
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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