Social Policy

41 - 60 of 465 results
Product List
    • 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....

    Regular price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    • Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
    • By: Lisa McGirr
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
    • By: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....

    Regular price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    • Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
    • By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
    • Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....

    Regular price: $19.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.56 or 1 credit

    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

    Regular price: $38.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $38.00 or 1 credit

    • The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
    • By: Diana Greene Foster PhD
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz, full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists....

    Regular price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

    Regular price: $15.47 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.47 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • The poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past....

    Regular price: $26.13 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $26.13 or 1 credit

    • Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
    • By: Tammy Bruce
    • Narrated by: Tammy Bruce
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A woman of contradictions, "a gun-toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist", Tammy Bruce is standing in line to become the next Ann Coulter....

    Regular price: $17.96 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.96 or 1 credit

    • 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 1,126 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

    Regular price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    • By: Jonathan Peterson
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    • 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 632 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....

    Regular price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    • A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
    • By: Monica Potts
    • Narrated by: Monica Potts
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • An acclaimed journalist returns home to Arkansas to understand how two similar childhoods could result in drastically different fates....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership