Social Systems

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • By: David Peter Stroh
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • 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?

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    • A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
    • By: Steve Bogira
    • Narrated by: Mark Kamish
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country....

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    • How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
    • By: Jenny Schuetz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....

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    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • By: Alexandra Stein
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World's Oldest Personality Type System
    • By: Dondi Dahlin
    • Narrated by: Dondi Dahlin, Donna Eden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Five Elements brings the wisdom of an ancient healing system to modern listeners, helping them understand themselves - why they do what they do - better....

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    • My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons
    • By: James Morgan Kane
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

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    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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    • On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
    • By: Bernardo Kastrup
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence....

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    • Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex
    • By: Mike Magee MD
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars....

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    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • By: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra....

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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,071 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    • By: Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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