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  • Locked In Audiobook By John F. Pfaff cover art

    • Locked In

    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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  • For the Love of Community Engagement Audiobook By Becky Hirst, Dr. Wendy Sarkissian cover art

    • For the Love of Community Engagement

    • Insights from a Personal Expedition to Inspire Better Public Participation
    • By: Becky Hirst, Dr. Wendy Sarkissian
    • Narrated by: Linda Quinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need to learn a new way of doing things....

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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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  • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue Audiobook By Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod cover art

    • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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  • The Solution Revolution Audiobook By William Eggers, Paul Macmillan cover art

    • The Solution Revolution

    • How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
    • By: William Eggers, Paul Macmillan
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems....

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  • Winning the Future Audiobook By Newt Gingrich cover art

    • Winning the Future

    • A 21st Century Contract with America
    • By: Newt Gingrich
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • The dangers are manifold: Terrorism. Judges who think they're God (and who are anti-God). Rising economic challenges from China and India....

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  • Change the Story, Change the Future Audiobook By David C. Korten cover art

    • Change the Story, Change the Future

    • A Living Economy for a Living Earth
    • By: David C. Korten
    • Narrated by: Dana Hickox
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a "Sacred Life and Living Earth" story grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth....

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  • “Prisons Make Us Safer” Audiobook By Victoria Law cover art

    • “Prisons Make Us Safer”

    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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  • How the Other Half Learns Audiobook By Robert Pondiscio cover art

    • How the Other Half Learns

    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings

    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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  • A Baby's Cry Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • A Baby's Cry

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....

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  • Dignity Audiobook By Chris Arnade cover art

    • Dignity

    • Seeking Respect in Back Row America
    • By: Chris Arnade
    • Narrated by: Donte Bonner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings

    • Widely acclaimed writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten - both urban and rural, blue state and red state - and indicts the elitists who've left them behind....

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  • The Conscience of a Liberal Audiobook By Paul Krugman cover art

    • The Conscience of a Liberal

    • By: Paul Krugman
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • In Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform of American politics....

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  • Social Security Disability Revealed Audiobook By Spencer Bishins cover art

    • Social Security Disability Revealed

    • By: Spencer Bishins
    • Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....

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  • Long Time Coming Audiobook By Michael Eric Dyson cover art

    • Long Time Coming

    • Reckoning with Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings

    • 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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  • First They Came for the Gun Owners Audiobook By Mark W. Smith cover art

    • First They Came for the Gun Owners

    • The Campaign to Disarm You and Take Your Freedoms
    • By: Mark W. Smith
    • Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Best-selling author and attorney Mark W. Smith exposes the all-encompassing nature of the anti-gun lobby’s attack on the right to keep and bear arms—and how it serves as a proxy to empower government to control other important aspects of our lives....

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  • The Two-Income Trap Audiobook By Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi cover art

    • The Two-Income Trap

    • Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
    • By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
    • Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....

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  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition Audiobook By Walter I. Trattner cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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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  • 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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  • Building the Great Society Audiobook By Joshua Zeitz cover art

    • Building the Great Society

    • Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
    • By: Joshua Zeitz
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice....

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  • Gaffs Audiobook By Rory Hearne cover art

    • Gaffs

    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

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