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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- By: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- By Steve D Renz on 05-15-18
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
- 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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Population Control
- How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
- By: Jim Marrs
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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America, Jim Marrs argues, has been seized by a culture of death. And who promulgates this culture? Find out....
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I learnedly lot from this book.
- By Ccchhhdghdf on 07-02-15
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Population Control
- How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
- America, Jim Marrs argues, has been seized by a culture of death. And who promulgates this culture? Find out....
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Please Don't Take My Baby
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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"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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An Absorbing Book with Outstanding Narration!
- By Mary Burnight on 09-08-16
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Please Don't Take My Baby
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-26-15
- Language: English
- "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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Hidden
- Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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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....
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One of the happiest stories I've read in a long time
- By Randi shelton on 05-03-16
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Hidden
- Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-24-14
- Language: English
- 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....
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-22-22
- Language: English
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....
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Great Society
- A New History
- By: Amity Shlaes
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- By Robert S. Allen on 02-09-20
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Great Society
- A New History
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-19-19
- Language: English
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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A Baby's Cry
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....
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A baby's cry
- By Sandy Banfield on 02-12-18
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A Baby's Cry
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-29-15
- Language: English
- What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....
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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
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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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For Doers Tired of Spinning Their Wheels
- By Lifelong Learner on 11-18-20
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Believe in People
- Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
- Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-17-20
- Language: English
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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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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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So many words, so little insight
- By Trebla on 03-22-20
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
- Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Slaying Goliath
- The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
- By: Diane Ravitch
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....
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Informative but very preachy
- By jwj on 02-03-20
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Slaying Goliath
- The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-21-20
- Language: English
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Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....
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How Change Happens
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....
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How Change Happens
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-07-19
- Language: English
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The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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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....
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One of the best books I've ever listened to...
- By Dan on 07-29-14
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-30-10
- Language: English
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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....
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The American Health Care Paradox
- Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
- By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....
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great book and points
- By Sean Chady on 09-15-23
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The American Health Care Paradox
- Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-01-18
- Language: English
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For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....
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Hide Your Children
- Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
- By: Liz Wheeler
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....
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Great book!
- By CO-MAC on 10-03-23
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Hide Your Children
- Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....
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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
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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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Required reading
- By Ken Larsen on 02-15-15
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-12-14
- Language: English
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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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United
- Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
- By: Cory Booker
- Narrated by: Cory Booker
- Length: 9 hrs
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United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....
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Refreshing viewpoint
- By Jean on 03-10-16
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United
- Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
- Narrated by: Cory Booker
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 02-16-16
- Language: English
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United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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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....
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An Important Book
- By Stephen Schoenberg on 12-19-11
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-21-11
- Language: English
- 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....
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No Way to Treat a Child
- How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives
- By: Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe....
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Critical read
- By Joshua Cox on 12-10-21
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No Way to Treat a Child
- How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe....
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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
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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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Important addation to the NXIVM story
- By Dennis Hinkamp on 10-20-19
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The Program
- Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
- Narrated by: Toni Natalie
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-27-19
- Language: English
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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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