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  • Heat Wave Audiobook By Eric Klinenberg cover art

    • Heat Wave

    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

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  • Believe in People Audiobook By Charles Koch, Brian Hooks cover art

    • Believe in People

    • Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
    • By: Charles Koch, Brian Hooks
    • Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

    • People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....

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  • Gunfight Audiobook By Ryan Busse cover art

    • Gunfight

    • My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
    • By: Ryan Busse
    • Narrated by: Ryan Busse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 631 ratings

    • A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point....

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  • The Program Audiobook By Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin cover art

    • The Program

    • Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
    • By: Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin
    • Narrated by: Toni Natalie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings

    • Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology....

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  • The Great Degeneration Audiobook By Niall Ferguson cover art

    • The Great Degeneration

    • How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Paul Slack
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....

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  • Insane Audiobook By Alisa Roth cover art

    • Insane

    • America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
    • By: Alisa Roth
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings

    • Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....

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  • Tell Your Children Audiobook By Alex Berenson cover art

    • Tell Your Children

    • The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
    • By: Alex Berenson
    • Narrated by: Alex Berenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 540 ratings

    • An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug - facts the media has ignored as the US rushes to legalize cannabis....

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  • Regulating the Poor Audiobook By Cloward Fox Piven cover art

    • Regulating the Poor

    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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  • Death of a Nation Audiobook By Dinesh D'Souza cover art

    • Death of a Nation

    • Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
    • By: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,594 ratings

    • Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left....

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  • The Sane Society Audiobook By Erich Fromm cover art

    • The Sane Society

    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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  • Feminist, Queer, Crip Audiobook By Alison Kafer cover art

    • Feminist, Queer, Crip

    • By: Alison Kafer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....

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  • Please Don't Take My Baby Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Please Don't Take My Baby

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • "I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention," Jade said. "I'll show my mum she's wrong."....

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  • Victims No Longer Audiobook By Mike Lew cover art

    • Victims No Longer

    • The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
    • By: Mike Lew
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
    • Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....

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  • Please Stop Helping Us Audiobook By Jason L. Riley cover art

    • Please Stop Helping Us

    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125 ratings

    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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  • Broken Audiobook By Paul LeBlanc cover art

    • Broken

    • How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them
    • By: Paul LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Many of the systems built to serve people do more harm than good. Dr. Paul LeBlanc draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems....

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  • Broken Audiobook By Jessica Pryce cover art

    • Broken

    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....

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  • High-Risers Audiobook By Ben Austen cover art

    • High-Risers

    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition Audiobook By Walter I. Trattner cover art

    • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition

    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • By: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare....

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  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Audiobook By Anne Case, Angus Deaton cover art

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  • Savage Inequalities Audiobook By Jonathan Kozol cover art

    • Savage Inequalities

    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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