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: 05-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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: 10-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons
    • By: James Morgan Kane
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

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    • By: Laura Bates
    • Narrated by: Laura Bates
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • State Initiatives to Achieve Preparedness Against an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Catastrophe
    • By: Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. In a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, the entire population of the US could be at risk....

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    • The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, a Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
    • By: Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • We all know that life in prison ain't grand, but the utter horror of it springs from the pages of this autobiography, written by a one-time death-row inmate....

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    • 108 Practices to Calm the Mind, Soothe the Nervous System, and Live Your Life to the Fullest
    • By: Seth J. Gillihan PhD
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 18-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, life-giving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love....

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    • By: B. R. Ambedkar
    • Narrated by: Chandrahas Shetty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Uncover the historical and social roots of caste discrimination in Who Were the Shudras? by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. This groundbreaking work challenges the traditional narratives of Hindu society, offering a meticulous examination of the origins and status of the Shudra caste.

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    • Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
    • By: Stanley Cohen
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself....

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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: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • 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: 18-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Renée Lettow Lerner
    • Narrated by: Cathi Colas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • This Very Short Introduction shows how and why societies around the world have used juries, charting the spread of the twelve-person jury from England to the British colonies in America, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean....

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    • How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives
    • By: Naomi Schaefer Riley
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe....

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    • How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them
    • By: Paul LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Many of the systems built to serve people do more harm than good. Dr. Paul LeBlanc draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems....

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