Government Reform

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    • Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
    • Auteur(s): Justin Driver
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 19 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America
    • Auteur(s): Jo Napolitano
    • Narrateur(s): Dani Cervone
    • Durée: 8 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Moore, Arthur B. Laffer
    • Narrateur(s): Adam North
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Trumponomics, conservative economists Stephen Moore and Arthur B. Laffer offer a well-informed defense of the president's approach to trade, taxes, employment, infrastructure, and other economic policies....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Stone
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 7 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What do people do when they count? What do numbers really mean? We all know that people can lie with statistics, but in this groundbreaking work, eminent political scientist Deborah Stone uncovers a much deeper problem....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
    • Auteur(s): Seamus McGraw
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 6 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Richard L. Hasen
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to vote. Richard Hasen argues that American democracy can and should do better in assuring that all eligible voters can cast a meaningful vote that will be fairly counted....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
    • Auteur(s): Max Felker-Kantor
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE programs brought the War on Drugs into schools.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
    • Auteur(s): Steven Brill
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 16 h
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
    • Auteur(s): Jason Stein, Patrick Marley
    • Narrateur(s): Gregg A. Rizzo
    • Durée: 13 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • When Wisconsin became the first state in the nation in 1959 to let public employees bargain with their employers, the legislation catalyzed changes to labor laws across the country....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children
    • Auteur(s): G. Gregory Moo
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • NEA's Reach for Power exposes the National Education Association (NEA) for what it really is and provides a hands-on guide for teachers, parents, and communties to increase their voices in bringing education back to the children....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Dean Robertson
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-09-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity
    • Auteur(s): W. Norton Grubb
    • Narrateur(s): Troy Klein
    • Durée: 12 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ten Reforms to Reclaim Our Republic
    • Auteur(s): Neal Simon
    • Narrateur(s): Neal Simon
    • Durée: 6 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • George Washington’s nightmare has been realized. Despite his warning about the negative effects of party loyalties, the US government has become paralyzed by partisanship, allowing national challenges to go unaddressed....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
    • Auteur(s): Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
    • Narrateur(s): Lungile Lallie
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track? In his new book, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles these questions and more....

    Prix courant: 19,03$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,03$ ou 1 crédit

    • Reclaiming Our Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence Lessig
    • Narrateur(s): Lawrence Lessig
    • Durée: 10 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
    • Auteur(s): Tony Platt
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
    • Durée: 12 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How China's Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise
    • Auteur(s): Carl Minzner
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 9 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it - political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth - are unraveling....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
    • Auteur(s): Rachel Wahl
    • Narrateur(s): Colleen Patrick
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): William G. Howell, Terry M. Moe
    • Narrateur(s): James Romick
    • Durée: 8 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today’s Students
    • Auteur(s): Connor Boyack, Corey DeAngelis
    • Narrateur(s): Connor Boyack
    • Durée: 4 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned, “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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