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The Journey of Humanity
- And the Keys to Human Progress
- By: Oded Galor
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In The Journey of Humanity, Oded Galor offers a revelatory explanation of how humanity became, only very recently, the unique species to have escaped a life of subsistence poverty, enjoying previously unthinkable wealth and longevity. He reveals why this process has been so unequal around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today. He shows why so many of our efforts to improve lives have failed and how they might succeed.
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Delayed Gratification
- By james walker on 20-01-23
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The Journey of Humanity
- And the Keys to Human Progress
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Davos Man
- How the Billionaires Devoured the World
- By: Peter S. Goodman
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative “Davos Men”—members of the billionaire class—chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the global pandemic has hastened a fifty-year trend of wealth centralization.
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Reasonable listen
- By Paul Darlow on 12-04-22
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Davos Man
- How the Billionaires Devoured the World
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- By: Roy Porter
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Sprawling - in a good way
- By Jim on 29-05-13
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-05-09
- Language: English
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
- By: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.
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An eye-opening journey, brilliantly read
- By Jen on 05-02-23
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-01-22
- Language: English
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
- By: Lauren Hough
- Narrated by: Lauren Hough, Cate Blanchett
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe - to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile - but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond 'The Family'. Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next.
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Can't stop until it's finished
- By R. Talbot on 26-05-21
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
- Narrated by: Lauren Hough, Cate Blanchett
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to define and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority.
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Thoughtful, challenging
- By Ed Freshwater on 04-12-18
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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Undercurrent
- A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
- By: Natasha Carthew
- Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes. In the rockpools and hedgerows of the natural world, Natasha found solace in the beauty of the landscape, and in the mobile library she found her means of escape. In her first non-fiction audiobook she returns to the cliff-paths of her childhood.
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Honesty
- By Happy Days Mum on 29-04-24
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Undercurrent
- A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
- Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Housekeeper's Tale
- The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
- By: Tessa Boase
- Narrated by: Tessa Boase
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Using secret diaries, unpublished letters, and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
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Gripping stories, compulsive listening
- By Susan on 22-02-17
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The Housekeeper's Tale
- The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
- Narrated by: Tessa Boase
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Blood and Money
- War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
- By: David McNally
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. Money's emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war.
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Very Insightful but a little preachy in places
- By Anonymous User on 16-08-21
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Blood and Money
- War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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These Are the Plunderers
- How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
- By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance. Morgenson and Rosner investigate some of the biggest names in private equity, exposing how they buy companies, load them with debt, and then bleed them of assets and profits. All while prosecutors and regulators stand idly by.
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These Are the Plunderers
- How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics.
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Haunting Story
- By Emily Marbach on 11-10-15
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-09-14
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
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Too late I found Thomas Sowell
- By Jas Singh on 16-06-18
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Discrimination and Disparities
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-03-18
- Language: English
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people.
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Brilliant but misleading
- By Mr. Philip E. Bailey on 19-07-22
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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Class
- A Memoir
- By: Stephanie Land
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called “an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor” (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.
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Another incredible story!
- By R B. on 08-03-24
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Class
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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Means and Ends
- The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
- By: Zoe Baker
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
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So clear
- By Henry Sahba on 08-05-24
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Means and Ends
- The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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The Stellenbosch Mafia
- Inside the Billionaire's Club
- By: Pieter du Toit
- Narrated by: Dylan Oosthuizen
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans - and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few. Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as ‘The Stellenbosch Mafia’, the very worst example of white monopoly capital. But who really are these mega-wealthy individuals, and what influence do they exert?
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amazing african story
- By Anonymous User on 13-03-24
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The Stellenbosch Mafia
- Inside the Billionaire's Club
- Narrated by: Dylan Oosthuizen
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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Know Your Place
- By: Faiza Shaheen
- Narrated by: Faiza Shaheen
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Dr Faiza Shaheen is a self-confessed stats geek and social mobility success story: from a working class background, she got into Oxford and is now a leading statistician, CEO of CLASS thinktank, and a visiting professor at NYU. But when her mother died after her benefits were cut by austerity measures, she decided to embark on a career in politics. When she lost in the 2019 election to incumbent Iain Duncan Smith, Shaheen decided to reframe her story, and set her own narrative against the statistics she researches.
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An outstanding vision of the future we want, deserve & need
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-24
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Know Your Place
- Narrated by: Faiza Shaheen
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass
- The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
- By: Steven W. Thrasher
- Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, Steven W. Thrasher
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone.
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Fascinating case studies with strong narration
- By Amazon Customer on 12-01-23
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The Viral Underclass
- The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
- Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, Steven W. Thrasher
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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The Book of Trespass
- Crossing the Lines That Divide Us
- By: Nick Hayes
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access.
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80% political commentary
- By Dubster on 31-03-21
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The Book of Trespass
- Crossing the Lines That Divide Us
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Slay In Your Lane
- The Black Girl Bible
- By: Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené
- Narrated by: Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené, Nneka Okoye, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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From education to work to dating, this inspirational, honest and provocative book recognises and celebrates the strides black women have already made, while providing practical advice for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future. Illustrated with stories from best friends Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke’s own lives, and using interviews with dozens of the most successful black women in Britain.
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Incredible
- By Carla Segvic on 01-08-18
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Slay In Your Lane
- The Black Girl Bible
- Narrated by: Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené, Nneka Okoye, Karen Blackett - foreword
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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