Social Systems Theory

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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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    • 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 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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    • Complexity Made Simple: The Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, and Creating Lasting Results
    • By: Zoe McKey
    • Narrated by: Anna Doyle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Apply systems thinking in your problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without the need to become a technical professional. Think in Systems is a concise information manual offering high-level problem-solving methods for personal and global issues....

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    • From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
    • By: Moises Naim
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....

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    • From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
    • By: Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaeufer
    • Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Find out....

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    • Essays on a Failing System
    • By: Wolfgang Streeck
    • Narrated by: David Skulski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated....

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    • Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
    • By: Orly Lobel
    • Narrated by: Dominique Dibbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future....

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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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    • The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
    • By: Jeffrey Toobin
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history....

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    • Unlock Vagus Nerve’s Healing Power by Improving Your Vagal Tone With Self-Help Exercises to Relieve Stress, Anxiety and Depression – Autonomic Nervous System & Polyvagal Theory
    • By: Jeremy Young
    • Narrated by: Aries Studio
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Emotions, affect regulation, and interpersonal social behavior are psychological processes that define how people react to events, environmental difficulties, and other people....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • Fundamental Concept and Biological Evolution. A Complete Self-help Guide to Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System
    • By: Martha Blaine
    • Narrated by: Stephen Ray
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The polyvagal theory is a hypothesis that places that the vagus nerve is interconnected with and is sensitive to affect the flow from the body toward the brain....

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    • How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
    • By: Raymond Baker
    • Narrated by: Dave Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 13-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Our current democratic capitalist system is close to imploding. This book is the first to reveal the secret financial system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy....

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    • How the Supreme Court Came to Run on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
    • By: Leah Litman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

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    • Comparing the E.U.and U.S.
    • By: Skip Worden PhD
    • Narrated by: Melanie Francisco
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2018
    • Language: English
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    • This collection of essays suggests that the EU and US are both cases of modern federalism at the empire political-level and scale....

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    • Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System
    • By: Philip Kotler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With a piercing clarity, Philip Kotler explains 14 major problems undermining capitalism, including: persistent poverty....

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    • Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
    • By: Steven Brill
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-2015
    • Language: English
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    • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry....

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    • The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System
    • By: Dmitrii Furman
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule"....

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    • Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save It
    • By: Eric Robert Morse
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2013
    • Language: English
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    • In this stunning new story of political economy, author Eric Robert Morse examines why the modern system has become so unwieldy and explains what must be done to correct it....

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