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Rethinking Incarceration
By: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States has 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's incarcerated. We have more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. There are more jails and prisons than degree-granting colleges and universities, and in many places more people live... Read more
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The Reagans
By: Anne Edwards
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So Nancy Davis... Read more
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Just Responsibility
By: Brooke A. Ackerly
Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning.... Read more
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Arrest-Proof Yourself
By: Dale C. Carson & Wes Denham
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you listen to this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.
More people than ever are getting arrested—usually for... Read more
Silicon States
By: Lucie Greene
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to the Silicon States.
Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide. But Silicon Valley does not answer to the electorate; nor have they been voted into office. And... Read more
The Bulldog Track
By: Peter Phelps
Narrated by: Peter Phelps
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.
March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of... Read more
In Defense of Nuance
By: Magnus Vinding
Narrated by: RJ Bayley
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
We appear to find ourselves in a crisis of polarization and failed communication. What can we do about it?This essay argues that part of the solution may be that we all make a deliberate effort to follow certain virtues that are quite straightforward, if difficult to practice. Simply put, we should strive to be charitable toward our adversaries,... Read more
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21 lecciones para el siglo XXI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Las mejores obras contemporáneas para escuchar Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado. Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro.21 lecciones para el siglo XXI es una exploración de nuestro presente. ¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos ecológicos o las tecnologías disruptivas? ¿Qué podemos hacer contra la... Read more
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Bounty Hunter 4/3
By: Jason Delgado & Chris Martin
Narrated by: Jason Delgado
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A brand new recording read by the author.
The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor.
The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his... Read more
Winners Take All
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.
Former New York Times columnist... Read more
It's Time to Fight Dirty
By: David Faris
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The American electoral system is clearly falling apart—as evidenced by the 2016 presidential election. In It's Time to Fight Dirty, David Faris offers accessible, actionable strategies for American institutional reform which don't require a constitutional amendment, and would have a lasting impact on our future.
With equal amounts of playful... Read more
Six Days of Impossible
By: Robert Adams
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Six days in Hell define every SEAL that moves past the point of no return in their minds. Robert Adams, MD, brings the experiences of his classmates into view with real, difficult to believe experiences, described in frightening detail by the men that lived through the frigid cold, filthy muddy... Read more
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51 Imperfect Solutions
By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state... Read more
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The Captured Economy
By: Brink Lindsey & Steven M. Teles
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Yet economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between equity and efficiency—that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. That is why our current predicament is so puzzling: today, we are faced with both a stagnating economy and... Read more
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In the Shadow of Korematsu
By: Eric K. Yamamoto
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris–San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America—an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by... Read more
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Unapologetic
By: Charlene Carruthers
Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.
Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic... Read more
Foxtrot in Kandahar
By: Duane Evans
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Kandahar. The ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern part of the country, the U.S.-supported Northern Alliance (the Afghan organization opposed to the Taliban regime) has made progress on the battlefield, but in the south, the country is still under... Read more
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Hubert Humphrey
By: Arnold A. Offner
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well-known high points: the civil rights speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention that risked his political future; his... Read more
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.
13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of... Read more
A Politically Incorrect Feminist
By: Phyllis Chesler
Narrated by: Phyllis Chesler
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism.
Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and... Read more
Scots and Catalans
By: J.H. Elliott
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland.
This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period,... Read more
American Fix
By: Ryan Hampton
Narrated by: Ryan Hampton
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where's the outrage?
Ryan Hampton is a... Read more
Real Enemies
By: Kathryn S. Olmsted
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows... Read more
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To the Ramparts
By: Ralph Nader
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
America's number one citizen Ralph Nader's latest book shows us how unchecked corporate power has led to the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations—both Republican and Democratic—that have led our nation to its... Read more
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