Social Systems Theory

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • Auteur(s): David Peter Stroh
    • Narrateur(s): Tia Rider
    • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • Auteur(s): Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrateur(s): Zoleka Vundla
    • Durée: 8 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Rudd
    • Durée: 9 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide....

    Prix courant: 20,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 10 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Essays on a Failing System
    • Auteur(s): Wolfgang Streeck
    • Narrateur(s): David Skulski
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
    • Auteur(s): Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaeufer
    • Narrateur(s): Wayne Shepherd
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Astra Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
    • Durée: 12 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
    • Auteur(s): Moises Naim
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Kugler
    • Durée: 12 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Nancy Fraser
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Udall
    • Durée: 7 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
    • Auteur(s): Steven Brill
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 17 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jay Stevenson
    • Narrateur(s): Sally Scott
    • Durée: 12 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Socrates' admonition that "the unexamined life is not worth living" still resonates with many people, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy is a great introduction to that mental exercise. Jay Stevenson skillfully covers the subject both historically and topically....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Toobin
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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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
    • Auteur(s): Jeremy Young
    • Narrateur(s): Aries Studio
    • Durée: 5 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Emotions, affect regulation, and interpersonal social behavior are psychological processes that define how people react to events, environmental difficulties, and other people....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
    • Auteur(s): Michael S. Sherry
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 12 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
    • Auteur(s): Raymond Baker
    • Narrateur(s): Dave Clark
    • Durée: 10 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 26,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
    • Auteur(s): Orly Lobel
    • Narrateur(s): Dominique Dibbell
    • Durée: 12 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • When Politics Worked
    • Auteur(s): Chris Matthews
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Matthews
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is a firsthand, one-of-a-kind story of the friendship between President Reagan and the Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
    • Auteur(s): Eric Laursen, Maia Ramnath - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bea Flowers
    • Durée: 9 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. But what exactly is “the state”? The State is like a vast operating system for ordering and controlling relations among human society, the economy, and the natural world....

    Prix courant: 19,19$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Complexity Made Simple: The Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, and Creating Lasting Results
    • Auteur(s): Zoe McKey
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Doyle
    • Durée: 2 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
    • Auteur(s): Leah Litman
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-05-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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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.

    Prix courant: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

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