Social Work History

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    • Written by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
    • Written by: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Leading anthropologist James Suzman presents a revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work....

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    • Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
    • Written by: James Livingston
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem....

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • Written by: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-31
    • Language: English
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    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • Written by: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • Written by: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
    • Written by: Mary Pipher
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with the newest members of the American family - refugees....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • Written by: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 2019-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • Written by: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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    • How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health
    • Written by: Jonathan Foiles
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • In his clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, walks us through these and other troubling examples of bias in mental health, placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry and the DSM....

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    • Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
    • Written by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....

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    • A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
    • Written by: Richard Twiss
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2022-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America....

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    • A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
    • Written by: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2023-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek present a vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics....

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • Written by: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World
    • Written by: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Jamie Metzl
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways.

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • Written by: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
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    • In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....

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    • How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
    • Written by: Elizabeth Anderson
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Jania
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

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    • Transforming Religious Metaphor (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
    • Written by: Joseph Campbell, Eugene Kennedy - editor
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors - and their misinterpretations - with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship....

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    • How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
    • Written by: Elizabeth Green
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2014-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art....

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