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Innocent
- Confessions of a Welfare Mom
- By: B. Morrison
- Narrated by: B. Morrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother....
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Innocent
- Confessions of a Welfare Mom
- Narrated by: B. Morrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-15-22
- Language: English
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Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother....
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The Solution Revolution
- 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
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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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Good overview of an evolving field
- By Ananda Harrison on 02-22-16
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The Solution Revolution
- How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-30-14
- Language: English
- 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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Yield for Oncoming Greatness (YFOG): Capping Capitalism
- By: Matt N Tabrizi
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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The American system is broken: our great nation has become corrupt, inefficient, and mired in ideological debate....
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Yield for Oncoming Greatness (YFOG): Capping Capitalism
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-18-15
- Language: English
- The American system is broken: our great nation has become corrupt, inefficient, and mired in ideological debate....
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Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
- By: David Niose
- Narrated by: David Smalley
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious Right. Today, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group....
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Captured a moment leading up to 2012
- By Gary on 06-02-14
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Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
- Narrated by: David Smalley
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-24-13
- Language: English
- A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious Right. Today, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group....
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Happy Woman Happy World
- By: Beate Chelette
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Chelette, a trainer, coach, and speaker imparts her proprietary strategies that can take any woman from being overwhelmed to awesome....
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Happy Woman Happy World
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-15-14
- Language: English
- 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 Triangle Fire, Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York
- By: Richard Greenwald
- Narrated by: Tom Kruse
- Length: 10 hrs
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America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late 19th and early 20th century....
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Almost painful to listen to
- By Dan on 09-24-15
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The Triangle Fire, Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York
- Narrated by: Tom Kruse
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 05-19-15
- Language: English
- America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late 19th and early 20th century....
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Return
- Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
- By: Kamal Al-Solaylee
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Thoughtful Reflections on Returning to Home Countries
- By Theo Horesh on 02-25-22
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Return
- Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-07-21
- Language: English
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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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Guerilla Guide to Brain Tumors
- Shameless Dirty Tricks to Beat the System and Stay Alive!
- By: Skip Goebel
- Narrated by: Joseph Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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For sure - this is the cancer book for rednecks! Only someone who survived boot camp would even understand. Twenty-six years of brain cancer makes me infinitely qualified to speak on survival. I hope the audible gives it justice....
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Guerilla Guide to Brain Tumors
- Shameless Dirty Tricks to Beat the System and Stay Alive!
- Narrated by: Joseph Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-30-19
- Language: English
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For sure - this is the cancer book for rednecks! Only someone who survived boot camp would even understand. Twenty-six years of brain cancer makes me infinitely qualified to speak on survival. I hope the audible gives it justice....
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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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The Science Behind the Debates
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor...there is almost no debate in the scientific community. This audiobook examines the science behind today’s most contentious debates....
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Ignore the title
- By Niall on 10-20-20
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The Science Behind the Debates
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor...there is almost no debate in the scientific community. This audiobook examines the science behind today’s most contentious debates....
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The Stolen Year
- How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
- By: Anya Kamenetz
- Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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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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Excellent review of the pandemic for all parts or the community
- By CK on 12-15-22
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The Stolen Year
- How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
- Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-23-22
- Language: English
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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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The Great Divide
- Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....
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Disappointing
- By A. Hill on 11-25-15
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The Great Divide
- Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-04-15
- Language: English
- With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume 7
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Byron Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume 7
- Narrated by: Byron Taylor
- Series: Celebrated Crimes, Book 13-15
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-05-18
- Language: English
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Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....
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Whatever It Takes
- 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
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J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....
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Fantastic!!!
- By Elissa on 02-28-06
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Whatever It Takes
- Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror
- Narrated by: J.D. Hayworth
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-06
- Language: English
- J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....
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From Here to Security
- How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise
- By: Robert L. Reynolds
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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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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From Here to Security
- How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise
- 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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Cutting It Out
- By: Samuel G. Blythe
- Narrated by: JIm Killavey
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Using the same common sense approach that worked so well in his enormously successful book The Art of Getting Thin, Samuel G. Blythe focused this time on how he gave up alcohol....
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Cutting It Out
- Narrated by: JIm Killavey
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-02-11
- Language: English
- Using the same common sense approach that worked so well in his enormously successful book The Art of Getting Thin, Samuel G. Blythe focused this time on how he gave up alcohol....
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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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A Life of One's Own
- Individual Rights and the Welfare State
- By: David Kelley
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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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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Well argued but could be more concise
- By WILL on 11-20-19
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A Life of One's Own
- Individual Rights and the Welfare State
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-09-17
- Language: English
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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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Becoming Dads
- A Mission to Restore Absent Fathers
- By: Charles Marvin
- Narrated by: Drew Hobson
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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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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Becoming Dads
- A Mission to Restore Absent Fathers
- 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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Anti-Harassment Training Does Not Work
- Transformative Learning: Moving Information from Head to Heart
- By: Dr. Candy Khan
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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No employer wants its employees to be bullied and harassed at the workplace. On the contrary, most employers offer an anti-harassment training to ...
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Anti-Harassment Training Does Not Work
- Transformative Learning: Moving Information from Head to Heart
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-12-24
- Language: English
- No employer wants its employees to be bullied and harassed at the workplace. On the contrary, most employers offer an anti-harassment training to ...
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