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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    • 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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    • 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 3 évaluations
    • 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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    • 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

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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

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    • Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
    • Auteur(s): Noam Chomsky
    • Narrateur(s): Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 3 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

    Prix courant: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 11 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This eye-opening book tells you everything you need to know about how cops operate, the little things that can get you in trouble, and how to stay free from the hungry jaws of the criminal justice system....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 21 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 évaluations
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

    Prix courant: 34,96$ 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: 20,22$ 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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    • 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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    • 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 24 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 Canadian Government and the Residential School System
    • Auteur(s): John S. Milloy, Mary Jane Logan McCallum - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Wesley French
    • Durée: 17 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children....

    Prix courant: 44,38$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 44,38$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, a Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
    • Auteur(s): Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 10 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • We all know that life in prison ain't grand, but the utter horror of it springs from the pages of this autobiography, written by a one-time death-row inmate....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
    • Auteur(s): Leah Thomas
    • Narrateur(s): Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop, Erin Walker
    • Durée: 4 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change....

    Prix courant: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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