Urban Politics

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    • Written by: Franz Kafka
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2011-04-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug....”

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    • Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • Written by: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....

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    • A Laundry Files Novel
    • Written by: Charles Stross
    • Narrated by: Gideon Emery
    • Series: Laundry Files, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2010-01-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • Written by: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2002-12-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • A Laundry Files Novel
    • Written by: Charles Stross
    • Narrated by: Gideon Emery
    • Series: Laundry Files, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2011-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Determined to discover the contents of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient demons, and apostles of a hideous cult planning to raise the Eater of Souls from the undead.....

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    • A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
    • Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.

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    • Written by: Sophie Bienvenu
    • Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-14
    • Language: French
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • Written by: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-07
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • Written by: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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    • Written by: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Written by: Dan Simmons
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster, Laural Merlington
    • Length: 39 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves....

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • Written by: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Written by: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Written by: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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    • A SEAL Team 666 Novel
    • Written by: Weston Ochse
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Series: SEAL Team 666, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2014-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Tom Clancy meets The X-Files in Weston Ochse's SEAL Team 666 series starring the Navy SEALs who handle supernatural threats....

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    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • Written by: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history....

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