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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- Auteur(s): William C. Rhoden
- Narrateur(s): William C. Rhoden
- Durée: 9 h et 49 min
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From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States.
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A must read for all black athletes.
- Écrit par MR.M le 2021-05-12
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- Narrateur(s): William C. Rhoden
- Durée: 9 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings....
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Andrew Lambert
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 13 h et 43 min
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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge - winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal - turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline.
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 13 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2018-11-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....
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The Despot's Apprentice
- Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
- Auteur(s): Brian Klaas, David Talbot - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 9 h et 23 min
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Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like the "despot's apprentice", an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including attacking the press, threatening rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoings, using nepotism to staff the White House, and countless other techniques. Donald Trump is borrowing tactics from the world's dictators and despots.
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How doomed the US Is with a dying democracy!
- Écrit par Linda Lisa Jones le 2023-12-25
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The Despot's Apprentice
- Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 9 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2018-01-09
- Langue: Anglais
- An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world's dictators explains Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American democracy....
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Early True Believers
- The Untold Story of Silicon Alley
- Auteur(s): Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Fisher
- Narrateur(s): Vanessa Grigoriadis
- Durée: 4 h et 23 min
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Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship. The series features the stories of a forgotten cohort of early internet visionaries, countercultural social networks, the digital gold rush, and the lavish events that came with it, including one held in an underground Tribeca bunker that abruptly ended in a police raid—a harbinger of the upheaval to come.
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Pretty good
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-09-24
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Early True Believers
- The Untold Story of Silicon Alley
- Narrateur(s): Vanessa Grigoriadis
- Durée: 4 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2024-07-18
- Langue: Anglais
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Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship.
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The Indian World of George Washington
- The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
- Auteur(s): Colin G. Calloway
- Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
- Durée: 23 h et 17 min
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Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of Native American leaders' interactions with Washington, from his early days as surveyor of Indian lands to his military career against both the French and the British to his presidency.
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The Indian World of George Washington
- The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
- Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
- Durée: 23 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2019-01-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Colin Calloway's biography offers a fresh portrait of the most-revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told. It invites us to look again at the history of America's beginnings and see the country in a whole new light....
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Flourishing
- Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
- Auteur(s): Miroslav Volf
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
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More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well.
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Stretching but good
- Écrit par RickSch le 2022-11-29
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Flourishing
- Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2016-01-21
- Langue: Anglais
- More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives....
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Halting State
- Auteur(s): Charles Stross
- Narrateur(s): Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Durée: 13 h et 27 min
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The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
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Halting State
- Narrateur(s): Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Série: Halting State, Livre 1
- Durée: 13 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2010-06-23
- Langue: Anglais
- The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination....
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Law and Leviathan
- Redeeming the Administrative State
- Auteur(s): Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 4 h et 57 min
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Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime.
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Law and Leviathan
- Redeeming the Administrative State
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 4 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-15
- Langue: Anglais
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Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions....
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
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In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing, and representation.
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Profoundly vulnerable and robustly analytical
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-04-07
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- Narrateur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-26
- Langue: Anglais
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A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression, and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott....
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Auteur(s): Robert A. Caro
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 40 h et 29 min
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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Awesome.
- Écrit par Kevin le 2018-07-22
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Série: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Livre 1
- Durée: 40 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2013-12-10
- Langue: Anglais
- This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country....
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1932
- The Rise of Hitler and FDR - Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
- Auteur(s): David Pietrusza
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 19 h et 3 min
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Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president - ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests - doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate-monger Adolf Hitler.
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1932
- The Rise of Hitler and FDR - Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 19 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-30
- Langue: Anglais
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Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president....
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Clearing the Plains
- Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
- Auteur(s): James Daschuk, Elizabeth A. Fenn - foreword, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
- Narrateur(s): J.D. Nicholsen
- Durée: 21 h et 17 min
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In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s “National Dream.” It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day.
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must read for all canadians
- Écrit par Bren H le 2023-01-16
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Clearing the Plains
- Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
- Narrateur(s): J.D. Nicholsen
- Durée: 21 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2022-11-15
- Langue: Anglais
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Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada....
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Stories of Your Life and Others
- Auteur(s): Ted Chiang
- Narrateur(s): Abby Craden, Todd McLaren
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection.
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Brilliant
- Écrit par Langer MD le 2018-06-21
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Stories of Your Life and Others
- Narrateur(s): Abby Craden, Todd McLaren
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2014-02-10
- Langue: Anglais
- This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories....
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The Trump Tapes
- Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
- Auteur(s): Bob Woodward
- Narrateur(s): Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
- Durée: 11 h et 29 min
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The Trump Tapes explodes with the exclusive, inside story of Trump’s performance as president—in his own words as he is questioned, even interrogated by Woodward, on the president’s key responsibilities from managing foreign relations to crisis management of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the job Trump seeks again. How did he do the first time? This is the authentic answer, laying bare his repeated failures, obsessions, and grievances.
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Trump is a loser
- Écrit par Chris Mackie le 2022-11-02
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The Trump Tapes
- Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
- Narrateur(s): Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
- Durée: 11 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2022-10-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Featuring more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews. In this up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency, listeners will hear Trump as Woodward did....
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Disloyal: A Memoir
- The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
- Auteur(s): Michael Cohen
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 11 h et 50 min
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Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trump’s lawyer and “fixer”, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump’s business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration.
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Only few books make it to my 5 star list
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-09-13
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Disloyal: A Memoir
- The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 11 h et 50 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-08
- Langue: Anglais
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The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- Auteur(s): Christian Goeschel
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
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From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. Goeschel, a scholar of 20th-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public.
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-25
- Langue: Anglais
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From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....
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The American Slave Coast
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
- Auteur(s): Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
- Narrateur(s): Robin Eller
- Durée: 30 h et 37 min
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The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could be decommissioned only by emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States.
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The American Slave Coast
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
- Narrateur(s): Robin Eller
- Durée: 30 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2015-12-27
- Langue: Anglais
- The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....
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From Here to Equality
- Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
- Auteur(s): William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
- Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
- Durée: 14 h et 3 min
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Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved.
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From Here to Equality
- Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
- Durée: 14 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-20
- Langue: Anglais
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Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- Auteur(s): Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
- Durée: 12 h et 29 min
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Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
- Durée: 12 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2020-03-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Iain M. Banks
- Narrateur(s): Peter Kenny
- Durée: 6 h et 20 min
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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
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Fun read!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-28
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Narrateur(s): Peter Kenny
- Série: Culture, Livre 4
- Durée: 6 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2014-01-23
- Langue: Anglais
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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art....
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