Social Systems

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • By: David Peter Stroh
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed....

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    • My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons
    • By: James Morgan Kane
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
    • By: Bernardo Kastrup
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence....

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    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • By: Alexandra Stein
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing explains how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts....

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    • What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
    • By: Pasi Sahlberg, Howard Gardner - foreword, Ken Robinson - afterword
    • Narrated by: Phil Thron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. This Grawemeyer Award-winning book continues to influence education policies globally....

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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 the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • 108 Practices to Calm the Mind, Soothe the Nervous System, and Live Your Life to the Fullest
    • By: Seth J. Gillihan PhD
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 18-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, life-giving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love....

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    • How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Nancy Fraser
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world....

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    • How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
    • By: Antony Loewenstein
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

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    • By: Laura Bates
    • Narrated by: Laura Bates
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform....

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    • Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
    • By: Stanley Cohen
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • By: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise....

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