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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- By: Torsten Bell
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country – a unique toxicity of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a hopeful case for reclaiming a different future: by building an investment nation of good work, resilient communities and secure homes, a society in which both burdens and prosperity are shared.
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Thorough and insightful
- By Anonymous User on 14-06-24
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.
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Oh dear Lord…
- By Lee on 08-02-23
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
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Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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Looked very promising but then disappointing
- By Ras on 28-11-17
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
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Very Important People
- Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- By: Ashley Mears
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men.
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A book that should have been an article
- By penny rodgers on 26-07-20
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Very Important People
- Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 29-05-20
- Language: English
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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Do you want to know what’s wrong with nowadays world and society - answers are in this book
- By Ramazon customer on 24-11-18
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-03-17
- Language: English
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- By: Kristen Ghodsee
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, then come along for an exploration of how we can change women's lives for the better.
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Excellent and enlightening read
- By LA on 13-10-23
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Six Degrees of Separation
- By: John Guare
- Narrated by: Chuma Hunter-Gault, Alan Alda, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, a weathy art dealer and his wife are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment when an unexpected young guest arrives - and changes their lives forever. Performed by a full cast starring Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz, and Chuma Hunter-Gault.
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Six Degrees of Separation
- Narrated by: Chuma Hunter-Gault, Alan Alda, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-03-01
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What’s Become of the Common Good?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that 'you can make it if you try'. And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump.
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a unified theory of discourse as we know it
- By Stuart Robertson on 05-11-20
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What’s Become of the Common Good?
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- By: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.
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Fascinating read that offers a genuine alternative
- By Gabriel Akin on 15-03-21
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live." Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable. He examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.
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Massively important book
- By J R on 05-02-24
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-06-12
- Language: English
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past 30 years.
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Impossible to hear this boring robotic narration
- By Anonymous User on 21-09-21
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- 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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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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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- By: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
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At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain’s past through the lives of eighteen figures at this crucial age.
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-08-24
- 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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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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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.
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An annoying book but with some merit
- By Megan on 23-12-21
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- By: Mim Skinner
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Did you know that 48 percent of the women in prison have committed an offence in order to support the drug use of someone else? That 46 percent of women in prison report having attempted suicide once in their lifetime? Or that over half of the women in prison have been victims of more serious crimes than the ones they've been convicted of? But this isn't a book about statistics. It's a book about the individual stories of women caught up in our creaking and under-resourced prison system.
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Eye-opening insight into women in prison
- By PAUL CHANDLER on 10-07-19
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Class Dismissed
- When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
- By: Anthony Abraham Jack
- Narrated by: Anthony Abraham Jack
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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A provocative and much-needed book, Class Dismissed paints an intimate and unflinchingly candid portrait of the challenges of undergraduate life for disadvantaged students even in the elite schools that invest millions to diversify their student body. Moreover, Jack offers guidance on how to make students’ path to graduation less treacherous—guidance colleges would be wise to follow.
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Class Dismissed
- When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
- Narrated by: Anthony Abraham Jack
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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