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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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educate yourself
- By keji kujjo on 10-04-18
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
- A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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Smoke Signals
- A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
- By: Martin A. Lee
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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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....
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A hard book for me to rate
- By Blake on 05-08-13
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Smoke Signals
- A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-14-12
- Language: English
- 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....
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- By: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....
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Powerful
- By myurko on 12-29-16
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-06-16
- Language: English
- How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....
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Pay Up
- The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
- By: Reshma Saujani
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988....
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Depiction of the second shift- spot on. Everything else fell flat more political rhetoric
- By HeidiRay on 06-03-22
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Pay Up
- The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-15-22
- Language: English
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We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988....
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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- By: Alicia Garza
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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Black Lives Matter is not about rioting: read this
- By Miracle on 10-21-20
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The Purpose of Power
- How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
- Narrated by: Alicia Garza
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-20-20
- Language: English
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....
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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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The Diversity Delusion
- How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
- By: Heather Mac Donald
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....
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Definition of the campus 'diversity' issue
- By Wayne on 09-10-18
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The Diversity Delusion
- How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-04-18
- Language: English
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By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....
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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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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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Bootstrapped
- Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
- By: Alissa Quart
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....
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A great look at an American myth
- By Daniel Alexander on 04-07-23
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Bootstrapped
- Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-14-23
- Language: English
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....
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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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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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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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Viking Economics:
- How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too
- By: George Lakey
- Narrated by: Chris Roman
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....
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We’ll researched book
- By Sami on 08-22-19
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Viking Economics:
- How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too
- Narrated by: Chris Roman
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-07-17
- Language: English
- George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- By: Katie S. Martin
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....
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A go to book for nutrition security work
- By Amy on 09-19-22
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-11-21
- Language: English
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Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....
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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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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 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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The Cannabis Manifesto
- A New Paradigm for Wellness
- By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
- Narrated by: Andy Barnett
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....
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The cure for a sickly world
- By Randall Mitchell on 08-06-17
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The Cannabis Manifesto
- A New Paradigm for Wellness
- Narrated by: Andy Barnett
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-01-17
- Language: English
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An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....
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Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....
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A Great History Lesson
- By Debby Burton on 12-08-20
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Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....
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