Social Systems

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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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    • Auteur(s): Ben Austen
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Austen
    • Durée: 4 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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?

    Prix courant: 25,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrateur(s): Richard V. Reeves
    • Durée: 4 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

    Prix courant: 18,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • Auteur(s): Alexandra Stein
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Ericksen
    • Durée: 12 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • Auteur(s): Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 7 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • Auteur(s): Robert B. Reich
    • Narrateur(s): Robert B. Reich
    • Durée: 6 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 évaluations
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Voices of Resistance
    • Auteur(s): Angela Davis - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards, David Sadzin
    • Durée: 10 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of Black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): B. R. Ambedkar
    • Narrateur(s): Chandrahas Shetty
    • Durée: 10 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Uncover the historical and social roots of caste discrimination in Who Were the Shudras? by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. This groundbreaking work challenges the traditional narratives of Hindu society, offering a meticulous examination of the origins and status of the Shudra caste.

    Prix courant: 2,66$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 2,66$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Criminal Justice System on Trial
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin Perrin
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding
    • Durée: 11 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Based on first-hand interviews with survivors, people who have committed offences, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.

    Prix courant: 23,07$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • Auteur(s): Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 14 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • Auteur(s): Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Sorensen
    • Durée: 13 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
    • Auteur(s): Jack Schneider, Jennifer Berkshire
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 7 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways - and how to fight back....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • Auteur(s): Peter Zeihan
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Durée: 16 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 évaluations
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

    Prix courant: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation
    • Auteur(s): Aaron Zebley, James Quarles, Andrew Goldstein
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Interference tells the behind-the-scenes story of the investigation that shook America to its core—the Mueller investigation that presented the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election—as told by Robert Mueller’s closest colleagues.

    Prix courant: 24,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Deer
    • Narrateur(s): Rainy Fields
    • Durée: 7 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Future of the System that Rules the World
    • Auteur(s): Branko Milanovic
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 8 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A John Hope Franklin Center Book
    • Auteur(s): Immanuel Wallerstein
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Filbrich
    • Durée: 4 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered 30 years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world....

    Prix courant: 20,10$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles
    • Auteur(s): Nicole Redvers N.D.
    • Narrateur(s): Essie Bartosik
    • Durée: 8 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidence-based research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processes....

    Prix courant: 43,07$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 43,07$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 10 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit