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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty—along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps—as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result?
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as solely profit-driven. In fact, humans have other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.
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Lovely
- By George on 21-06-11
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Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 16-01-08
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society. Having travelled to the industrial north of England on assignment from his editor, Orwell's confronting, stark descriptions of the social injustice, cramped slum housing, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment he encounters are written with unblinking honesty, anger and humanity.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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El hambre [Hunger]
- By: Martín Caparrós
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
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«Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. No hay nada más frecuente, más constante, más presente en nuestras vidas que el hambre–y, al mismo tiempo, para muchos de nosotros, nada más lejano que el hambreverdadera.» Para entenderlo, para contarlo, Martín Caparrós recorrió la geografía del hambre, desde la India, Bangladesh, Níger, Kenia y Sudán hasta naciones desarrolladas como Estados Unidos y España.
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El hambre [Hunger]
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: Spanish
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- By: Ted Conover
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills - how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated into the customs of their unique, shadowy society - men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.
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Honest portrayal of the freight-hopping lifestyle
- By C. P. Lewis on 01-09-20
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-10-08
- Language: English
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Down and Out
- Surviving the Homelessness Crisis
- By: Daniel Lavelle
- Narrated by: Daniel Lavelle
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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As a care-leaver who has experienced homelessness, award-winning investigative journalist Daniel Lavelle has spent his life navigating social services that are not fit for purpose and leave many vulnerable people slipping through the cracks. For though the right to adequate housing is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the reality is another, much grimmer, story.
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This is what is happening!
- By Lorna Williams on 23-09-22
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Down and Out
- Surviving the Homelessness Crisis
- Narrated by: Daniel Lavelle
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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Bob
- No Ordinary Cat
- By: James Bowen
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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A special audio edition for children age 11 and above. "We are all given second chances every day of our lives, but we don't usually take them. Then I met Bob." James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change. Together James and Bob the cat faced the world - and won. A purrfectly true "tail" of love and friendship to make you smile!
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A good story for all animal and people people
- By judy coulton on 11-02-16
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Bob
- No Ordinary Cat
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-02-13
- Language: English
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Poppy the Street Dog
- How an Extraordinary Dog Helped Bring Hope to the Homeless
- By: Michelle Clark
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Michelle Clark has loved animals all her life, filling her home with a menagerie of stray cats and abandoned dogs. But when her outreach work with London's homeless community leads to a chance meeting with a desperate man, and a quest to find a missing Staffie named Poppy, she has no idea that her life will be transformed forever.
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First book ever to make me cry!
- By Lesley Goodman on 27-10-20
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Poppy the Street Dog
- How an Extraordinary Dog Helped Bring Hope to the Homeless
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-10-20
- Language: English
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- By: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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Very Interesting but a bit odd
- By Ali on 01-08-21
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams
- By: Jeff Pearce
- Narrated by: Robin Morrissey
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a postwar Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough, and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which he sold down the markets. Leaving school at the age of 14, he embarked on an extraordinary journey and found himself, before the age of 30, a millionaire. Then, after a cruel twist of fate left him penniless, he, his wife and his children were forced out of their beautiful home.
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An excellent story beautifully told
- By Sheraz Malik on 11-01-19
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A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams
- Narrated by: Robin Morrissey
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- By: Viri Ríos, Ray Campos
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Así no es desmitifica conceptos equivocados y devela verdades incómodas que demasiados mexicanos creen, pero que son falsas. Ideas que asumimos sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e impuestos, pero que son escandalosamente erradas. Burdas mentiras que sirven para justificar las más grandes injusticias de México.
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: Spanish
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- By: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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What secrets do the Las Vegas storm drains keep? What discoveries wait in the dark? What's beneath the neon? Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a flood. He parties with naked crack-heads.
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Great writing, great voicing.
- By Amazon Customer on 23-01-24
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- By: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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On the Clock takes us behind the scenes of the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce to understand the future of work in America - and its present. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest - and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity.
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Excellent
- By Suke on 22-06-23
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the 20th century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents.
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Elites
- Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
- By: Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm DeBevoise - Translated by
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery".
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It will make you reconsider if you let it
- By maria on 14-07-24
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Twilight of the Elites
- Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work. Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised.
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Essential reading
- By Mary Mercy on 10-05-24
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- By: Jacob A. Riis
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure.
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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The Club on the Edge of Town
- A Pandemic Memoir
- By: Alan Lane
- Narrated by: Alan Lane
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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"There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons, no one gets opera. That’s what I believe." A deeply moving memoir of how a group of artists fed their local community during the COVID pandemic. When crisis hits and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theater company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop help shop for those in need. In 15 months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels.
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How need can drive growth in people's hearts and minds
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-23
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The Club on the Edge of Town
- A Pandemic Memoir
- Narrated by: Alan Lane
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-08-22
- Language: English
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- By: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book.
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-07-15
- Language: English
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- By: Katie S. Martin
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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