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  • The Coming Insurrection Audiobook By The Invisible Committee cover art

    • The Coming Insurrection

    • Intervention, Book 1
    • By: The Invisible Committee
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe....

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  • Vanishing New York Audiobook By Jeremiah Moss cover art

    • Vanishing New York

    • How a Great City Lost Its Soul
    • By: Jeremiah Moss
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....

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  • No Way to Treat a Child Audiobook By Naomi Schaefer Riley cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • 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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  • That Used to Be Us Audiobook By Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum cover art

    • That Used to Be Us

    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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  • Disability Pride Audiobook By Ben Mattlin cover art

    • Disability Pride

    • Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
    • By: Ben Mattlin
    • Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....

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  • Teeth Audiobook By Mary Otto cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • 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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  • The Hospital Audiobook By Brian Alexander cover art

    • The Hospital

    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings

    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

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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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  • Safe Audiobook By Mark Daley cover art

    • Safe

    • A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
    • By: Mark Daley
    • Narrated by: Mark Daley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • Safe offers a deeply personal window into what happens when the universal longing for family crashes up against the unique madness and bureaucracy of a child protection system that often fails to consider the needs of the most vulnerable parties of all—the children themselves.

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  • Hidden Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Hidden

    • 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....

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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 131 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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  • Runaway Girl Audiobook By Casey Watson cover art

    • Runaway Girl

    • A Beautiful Girl. Trafficked for Sex. Is There Nowhere to Hide?
    • By: Casey Watson
    • Narrated by: Kate Lock
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation....

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  • Conform Audiobook By Glenn Beck cover art

    • Conform

    • Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
    • By: Glenn Beck
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Glenn Beck (introduction)
    • Series: The Control, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • #1 best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US....

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  • Aftershock Audiobook By Matthew Green cover art

    • Aftershock

    • The Untold Story of Surviving Peace
    • By: Matthew Green
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return....

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  • Our Kids Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam cover art

    • Our Kids

    • The American Dream in Crisis
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
    • It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....

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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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  • 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 Third Pillar Audiobook By Raghuram Rajan cover art

    • The Third Pillar

    • How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
    • By: Raghuram Rajan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp, Raghuram Rajan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings

    • From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization....

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  • Digital Barbarism Audiobook By Mark Helprin cover art

    • Digital Barbarism

    • A Writer's Manifesto
    • By: Mark Helprin
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Helprin offers a defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language, and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators....

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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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