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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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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    • Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
    • By: Carrie Goldberg, Jeannine Amber
    • Narrated by: Carrie Goldberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody's Victim invites listeners to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws....

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    • How to Fix America's Police
    • By: Norm Stamper
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency....

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    • America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
    • By: Steven Waldman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Just as Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time....

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    • How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
    • By: Jenny Schuetz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....

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    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • Reports from a Divided Nation
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Here they are, the 2000s, and Barbara Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career....

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    • 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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    • The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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