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  • The World I Live In Audiobook By Helen Keller cover art

    • The World I Live In

    • By: Helen Keller
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This is a beautiful description of Helen Keller's discoveries as she learns to appreciate, through the sense of touch, the world around her. Loss of sight and hearing only increase her joy of life and its treasures....

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  • I Never Called It Rape - Updated Edition Audiobook By Robin Warshaw cover art

    • I Never Called It Rape - Updated Edition

    • The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
    • By: Robin Warshaw
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens, Gloria Steinem, Wheatley Tanner Letters LLC
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term "acquaintance rape" and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today....

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  • A Mother's Job Audiobook By Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • The Hardhat Riot Audiobook By David Paul Kuhn cover art

    • The Hardhat Riot

    • Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
    • By: David Paul Kuhn
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody....

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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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  • 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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  • Saving Danny Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Saving Danny

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car....

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  • Automating Inequality Audiobook By Virginia Eubanks cover art

    • Automating Inequality

    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings

    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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

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  • Why the New Deal Matters Audiobook By Eric Rauchway cover art

    • Why the New Deal Matters

    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • The New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises....

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  • The Genetic Lottery Audiobook By Kathryn Paige Harden cover art

    • The Genetic Lottery

    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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  • The American Health Care Paradox Audiobook By Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • 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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  • Pay Up Audiobook By Reshma Saujani cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • 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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  • We've Got You Covered Audiobook By Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein cover art

    • We've Got You Covered

    • 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....

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  • Don't Go to College Audiobook By Michael Robillard MA MA PhD, Timothy Gordon MA PhL JD cover art

    • Don't Go to College

    • A Case for Revolution
    • By: Michael Robillard MA MA PhD, Timothy Gordon MA PhL JD
    • Narrated by: Axel Bosley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • An examination of how America’s colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled....

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  • Viking Economics: Audiobook By George Lakey cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 08-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....

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  • The Nurture Effect Audiobook By Anthony Biglan cover art

    • The Nurture Effect

    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • By: Anthony Biglan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

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  • The Marketing of Evil Audiobook By David Kupelian cover art

    • The Marketing of Evil

    • How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom
    • By: David Kupelian
    • Narrated by: David Kupelian
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift wrapped, and sold to them as though it had great value....

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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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  • State of Emergency Audiobook By Patrick J. Buchanan cover art

    • State of Emergency

    • The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day....

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