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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- By: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash. In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School.
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SUPERB, insightful and addictive - a must listen
- By Miss on 15-11-16
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- By: Darren McGarvey
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country—our political class.
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Should be read by all
- By iman on 18-07-22
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- By: Torsten Bell
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country – a unique toxicity of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a hopeful case for reclaiming a different future: by building an investment nation of good work, resilient communities and secure homes, a society in which both burdens and prosperity are shared.
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Great listen
- By Matthew D. on 20-06-24
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.
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Oh dear Lord…
- By Lee on 08-02-23
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- By: Mim Skinner
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Did you know that 48 percent of the women in prison have committed an offence in order to support the drug use of someone else? That 46 percent of women in prison report having attempted suicide once in their lifetime? Or that over half of the women in prison have been victims of more serious crimes than the ones they've been convicted of? But this isn't a book about statistics. It's a book about the individual stories of women caught up in our creaking and under-resourced prison system.
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Eye-opening insight into women in prison
- By PAUL CHANDLER on 10-07-19
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Once Were Warriors
- By: Alan Duff
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
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Interweaves Maori violence, softness & community
- By Anthony on 10-12-14
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Once Were Warriors
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Series: Once Were Warriors, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-09-13
- Language: English
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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Do you want to know what’s wrong with nowadays world and society - answers are in this book
- By Ramazon customer on 24-11-18
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-03-17
- Language: English
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Some of Our Parts
- Why we are more than the labels we live by
- By: Laura Kennedy
- Narrated by: Laura Kennedy
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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A thought-provoking exploration of identity, Some of Our Parts casts a philosophical eye over the labels that shape our lives, considering how they can both help us to communicate our values and how they have the potential to trap us. A memoir explored through a life in labels inherited, accrued and cast off, Some of Our Parts considers the power in reclaiming our own story and challenges listeners to question how we define ourselves in a world that is so ready to decide for us.
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Some of Our Parts
- Why we are more than the labels we live by
- Narrated by: Laura Kennedy
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
- By: Christopher Lasch
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.
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Thought provoking
- By Amazon Customer on 20-10-20
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people.
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Brilliant but misleading
- By Mr. Philip E. Bailey on 19-07-22
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
- An Introduction to Marxist Economics
- By: Hadas Thier
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts." Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
- An Introduction to Marxist Economics
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- By: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.
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Fascinating read that offers a genuine alternative
- By Gabriel Akin on 15-03-21
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live." Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable. He examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.
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A moan about capitalism with a poor finale
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-24
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-06-12
- Language: English
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Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant
- How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me About the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
- By: Stephanie Kiser
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover the cost of living. But there is one in-demand job that pays enough to allow Stephanie to stay in the city: nannying for the 1%. Desperate to escape the poverty of her own childhood, Stephanie falls into a job that hijacks her life for the next seven years: a glorified personal assistant to toddlers on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant
- How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me About the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Bad Taste
- Or the Politics of Ugliness
- By: Nathalie Olah
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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This is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual. This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a culture that is saturated by imagery, and the dangerous impact this has on our identities, communities and politics. This book is dedicated to understanding the industries of taste. From the food we eat to the way we spend our free time, Olah exposes the shallow waters of 'good' and 'bad' taste and the rigid hierarchies that uphold this age-old dichotomy.
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A fresh approach
- By Anonymous User on 03-05-24
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Bad Taste
- Or the Politics of Ugliness
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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Hired
- Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
- By: James Bloodworth
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the time trials of a council care worker and the grim reality behind the glossy Uber app, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very front line of low-wage Britain. We all define ourselves by our profession. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain's divisions, journalist James Bloodworth spends six months living and working across Britain, taking on the country's most gruelling jobs.
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A Wigan Pier for the 21st Century
- By Kid Ooshi on 18-07-19
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Hired
- Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-06-19
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What’s Become of the Common Good?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that 'you can make it if you try'. And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump.
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a unified theory of discourse as we know it
- By Stuart Robertson on 05-11-20
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What’s Become of the Common Good?
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Pedigree
- How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
- By: Lauren A. Rivera
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes listeners behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why.
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Invaluable information for university students
- By Amazon Customer on 13-02-18
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Pedigree
- How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
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