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    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • By: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....

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    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • A History of How We Spend Our Time
    • By: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Matt Jamie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present....

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    • Government for Kids | Children's Government Books
    • By: Universal Politics
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • For children wanting to acquire information on the many federal bodies and regulations that keep a government working, this is the book to have. This book discusses how government collect taxes, and for what purpose....

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    • The Politics of Us and Them
    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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    • A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse
    • By: Jem Bendell
    • Narrated by: Matthew Slater
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world. Escaping the efforts of panicking elites, we can advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics and practical action in a broken world....

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    • Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
    • By: New Scientist
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • How Numbers Work takes a tour of this mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them....

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    • By: Ian Dunt
    • Narrated by: Ian Dunt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get a firm sense that something has gone terribly wrong....

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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time....

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    • America's Invisible Crisis
    • By: Nicholas Eberstadt
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • By: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives....

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    • The Daily Aus Explains How the World Works (and Why You Should Care)
    • By: Zara Seidler, Sam Koslowski
    • Narrated by: Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • No Silly Questions is here to lay out the facts and principles behind the day's headlines. Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski, creators of The Daily Aus, are like your super well-informed mates who you can rely on to quickly bring you up to speed....

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    • And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
    • By: Alyssa Mastromonaco
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this....

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    • Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
    • By: Byung-Chul Han
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Series: Byung-Chul Han: The Collected Audio Works
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.

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    • Why Life Has Got So Hectic
    • By: Oliver Burkeman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • There's a ritual of the modern workplace - one you've heard and most likely indulged in yourself. It's the call and response we go through when you ask a workmate how they're doing: 'Busy!' 'So busy.' It is pretty obviously a boast disguised as a complaint....

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    • Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
    • By: Sam Freedman
    • Narrated by: Sam Freedman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. Wages have been stagnant for years, even as the cost of housing rises inexorably. Why is everything going wrong at the same time.

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