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Corporatizing American Health Care
- How We Lost Our Health Care System
- By: Robert W. Derlet
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff. Health care costs the United States more than $11,000 for each person in the country each year - more than double what it costs in most Western European countries to deliver equal or even better care.
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Corporatizing American Health Care
- How We Lost Our Health Care System
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt
- Preaching from the Bully Pulpit (Spiritual Lives)
- By: Benjamin J. Wetzel
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman. While Roosevelt's life has been written about from many angles, no modern book probes deeply into his engagement with religious beliefs, practices, and controversies despite his lifelong church attendance and commentary on religious issues. Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit traces Roosevelt's personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith.
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Theodore Roosevelt
- Preaching from the Bully Pulpit (Spiritual Lives)
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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How Media Ownership Matters
- By: Timothy Neff, Rodney Benson, Julie Sedel, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration or media moguls. Through a comparative analysis of the US, Sweden, and France, as well as interviews of news executives and editors and an original collection of industry data, this book maps and analyzes four ownership models: market, private, civil society, and public.
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How Media Ownership Matters
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Origins of Elected Strongmen
- How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within
- By: Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform.
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The Origins of Elected Strongmen
- How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-01-25
- Language: English
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Revenants of the German Empire
- Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations
- By: Sean Andrew Wempe
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in discourses on nationalism and imperialism.
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Revenants of the German Empire
- Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Exploding Data
- Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
- By: Michael Chertoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era. In offering his compelling call for action, Chertoff argues that what is at stake is not so much the simple loss of privacy, which is almost impossible to protect, but of individual autonomy - the ability to make personal choices free of manipulation or coercion.
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Exploding Data
- Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-09-18
- Language: English
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Malcolm Before X
- African American Intellectual History
- By: Patrick Parr
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In February 1946, when twenty-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and street hustler in Boston. By the time he was paroled in August 1952, he had transformed into a voracious reader, joined the Black Muslims, and was poised to become Malcolm X, one of the most prominent and important intellectuals of the civil rights era. While scholars and commentators have exhaustively detailed, analyzed, and debated Malcolm X's post-prison life, they have not explored these six and a half transformative years in any depth.
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Malcolm Before X
- African American Intellectual History
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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A Chance to Make History
- What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
- By: Wendy Kopp, Steven Farr
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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As the "stunningly successful nonprofit organization, Teach For America" ( New York Times) celebrates its 20th anniversary, its founder Wendy Kopp issues a passionate and inspiring summation of what she and TFA corps members have learned: that educational inequity—the achievement gap—is a solvable problem, and that the key to solving it—in a single classroom, a school, or system-wide—is leadership.
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An interesting and thought provoking study.
- By David on 24-06-13
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A Chance to Make History
- What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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Post-Liberalism
- Recovering A Shared World
- By: Fred Dallmayr
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Liberal democracy is the dominant political ideology in the West today. Taken at face value it suggests an equivalency between its two central components-liberalism and democracy - but as Fred Dallmayr argues here, the two operate in very different registers. The two frequently conflict, endangering our public life. This is evident in the rise of self-centered neo-liberalism as well as autocratic movements in our world today.
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Post-Liberalism
- Recovering A Shared World
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Democratic Marketplace
- How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals
- By: Lisa Herzog
- Narrated by: Janelle Tedesco
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. A narrow view of markets and their aims now dominates thinking about democracy itself. Citizens are ignorant of the deep principles of self-governance, having long since adopted a facile equation between democracy and voting as a consumer choice. Lisa Herzog argues that democracy is still possible, but only if democratic values get embedded in everyday experience―including economic experience. That requires new ways of thinking about markets and their goals.
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The Democratic Marketplace
- How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals
- Narrated by: Janelle Tedesco
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-08-25
- Language: English
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Democracy Unmoored
- Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty
- By: Samuel Issacharoff
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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The 2016 election of Donald Trump focused people's minds on populism, and most of the attention paid to the subject since has been on the threat it poses to wealthy democracies. In Democracy Unmoored, Samuel Issacharoff takes a far wider-angle view of the phenomenon, covering countries from across the globe: Brazil, Poland, Argentina, Turkey, India, Hungary, Venezuela, and more. Just as importantly, he focuses on populism's attack on the institutions of governance.
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Democracy Unmoored
- Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Killing Strangers
- How Political Violence Became Modern
- By: T. K. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to "be in the wrong place at the wrong time". We accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers examines how such violence became "unchained" from interpersonal relationships.
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THOUGHT PROVOKING AND TIMELY
- By S. Moorcroft on 17-01-21
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Killing Strangers
- How Political Violence Became Modern
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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Divested
- Inequality in the Age of Finance
- By: Ken-Hou Lin, Megan Tobias Neely
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely document how the ascendance of finance on Wall Street, Main Street, and among households is a fundamental cause of economic inequality. They argue that finance has reshaped the economy in three important ways. First, the financial sector extracts resources from the economy at large without providing commensurate economic benefits to those outside the financial services industry.
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An overall excellent treatment of the subject
- By Mark J. on 08-02-21
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Divested
- Inequality in the Age of Finance
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Pigs at the Trough
- How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America
- By: Arianna Huffington
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in office cubicles and on factory floors.
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Pigs at the Trough
- How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-01-04
- Language: English
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The Twice-Born
- Life and Death on the Ganges
- By: Aatish Taseer
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Known as the twice-born - first into the flesh and again when initiated into their vocation - the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity.
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The Twice-Born
- Life and Death on the Ganges
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Confronting Saddam Hussein
- George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
- By: Melvyn P. Leffler
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations. In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P. Leffler analyzes why the US chose war and who was most responsible for the decision.
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Confronting Saddam Hussein
- George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-02-23
- Language: English
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Being Social
- The Philosophy of Social Human Rights
- By: Kimberley Brownlee - editor, David Jenkins - editor, Adam Neal - editor
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham, Danielle Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life. This collection of essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum.
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Thought-provoking pie-in-the-sky
- By Dennis Sommers on 02-09-23
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Being Social
- The Philosophy of Social Human Rights
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham, Danielle Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Dinner in Camelot
- The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
- By: Joseph A. Esposito, Rose Styron - Foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed, divergent viewpoints could be respectfully discussed at the highest level, and the great minds of an age might all dine together in the rarefied glamour of "the people's house."
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Dinner in Camelot
- The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Small Town, Big Oil
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-And Won
- By: David W. Moore
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. But three women vehemently opposed the project. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, media, and Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career.
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fake news before fake news
- By rikki on 17-08-20
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Small Town, Big Oil
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-And Won
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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The Land of Flickering Lights
- Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
- By: Michael Bennet
- Narrated by: Michael Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The Land of Flickering Lights is a unique contribution to American political writing at this or any other time. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado lifts a veil on Congress to reveal, in his words, "through a series of actual stories - about the people, the politics, the motives, the money, the hypocrisy, the stakes, the outcome - the pathological culture of the capitol and the consequences for us all."
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The Land of Flickering Lights
- Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
- Narrated by: Michael Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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