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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
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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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Informative and riveting personal accounts
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-23
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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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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
- 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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Gunfight
- My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
- By: Ryan Busse
- Narrated by: Ryan Busse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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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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Outstanding
- By Kyle Turner on 10-27-21
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Gunfight
- My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
- Narrated by: Ryan Busse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-19-21
- Language: English
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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
- 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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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Paul Slack
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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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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Superb as always!
- By Ivanhoe on 08-28-17
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- Narrated by: Paul Slack
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-13-13
- Language: English
- 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
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- By: Alisa Roth
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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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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Great required reading
- By K. C. H on 01-16-19
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Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-25-18
- Language: English
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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
- The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
- By: Alex Berenson
- Narrated by: Alex Berenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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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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The case against cannabis
- By Wayne on 01-10-19
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Tell Your Children
- The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
- Narrated by: Alex Berenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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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
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Regulating the Poor
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-21
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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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
- Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
- By: Dinesh D'Souza
- Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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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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Very informative.
- By Amahra on 08-11-18
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Death of a Nation
- Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
- Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-31-18
- Language: English
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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
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....
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Stimulating and insightful
- By T. Holden on 04-07-16
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The Sane Society
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-10-14
- Language: English
- Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
- By: Alison Kafer
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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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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Feminist, Queer, Crip
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-19-21
- Language: English
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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
- 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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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
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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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Excellent book so glad it is im audio now
- By EFROSINI KOKALIARI on 09-30-23
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Victims No Longer
- The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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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
- 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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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
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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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life changing
- By Amazon Customer on 02-03-23
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Broken
- How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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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
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- By: Jessica Pryce
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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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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A Great Book with Compelling Insights
- By Pbc fun on 03-21-24
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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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
- 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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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
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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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Superficial and uninformative
- By steven langston on 12-07-20
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From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
- A History of Social Welfare in America
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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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
- 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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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Mark Winston
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Excellent book for budding education professionals
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-17
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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- Narrated by: Mark Winston
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-23-10
- Language: English
- 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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