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Social Policy Audiobooks

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    Consequences of Capitalism

    Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News–from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Brief History of Equality

    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Healing Justice Lineages

    Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

    Narrated by Sanya Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineagesWe reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Happiness Policy Handbook

    How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    Authors are leaders in their field,Musikanski is the Executive Director of the Happiness Alliance,Rhonda Phillips is Dean of Purdue Honors CollegeJean Crowder is a consultant and former federal politicianPhillips and Rhonda are directors of the Happiness Alliance, a nonprofit that provides tools, resources and knowledge to policy makers and communitiesThis "happy trio" of authors are all extremely ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Never Silent

    ACT UP and My Life in Activism

    by Peter Staley ...
    Narrated by Peter Staley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Pandemic Pivot

    A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, the Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South

    by John Feffer ...
    Narrated by John Feffer ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    Transformative change can come out of the COVID-19 crisis, which has exposed everything that's wrong with decades of the world's governments betting on militarism, competition, and wealth creation. A return to sanity and humane governance is still possible. We need a pandemic pivot. In June and July of 2020, the Institute for Policy Studies invited sixty-eight of the world's leading thinkers and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Jonathan M. Metzl's Dying Of Whiteness

    by Everest Media ...
    Narrated by AI Marcus ...

    Abridged

    41 min

    Please note:This audiobook has been generated using AI Voice. This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Support Group meets at the public library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and provides community for people who have lost loved ones to suicide. #2 However, in the past twenty years, a more conservative and progun legislature and citizenry have relaxed ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Defund Fear

    Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment

    by Zach Norris ...
    Narrated by Adam Lazarre-White ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishmentAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Long Time Coming

    Reckoning with Race in America

    Narrated by Michael Eric Dyson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    "As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters--addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney--invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. Don't miss this." -- AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by Michael Eric Dyson.From the New York ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The End of Policing

    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed: ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Abolition of Sex

    How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls

    by Kara Dansky ...
    Narrated by Kara Dansky ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight!The so-called “transgender” agenda is a misogynistic assault on the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and is being fueled by a massive, vicious, and well-funded industry.Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the “transgender” agenda, or the so-called “gender identity” movement, poses to all of us—especially women and girls—nor do they ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Viral Cultures

    Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

    by Marika Cifor ...
    Narrated by Kate Udall ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Genetic Lottery

    Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

    Narrated by Katherine Fenton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton makes a provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society.In The Genetic Lottery, ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Un México posible

    Una visión disruptiva para transformar a México

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    Una perspectiva de cambio para que nos convirtamos en el país que deseamos, capaz de transitar por el siglo XXI con una visión incluyente, eficaz y entusiasta. México está lleno de gente talentosa y capaz, y posee un vibrante espíritu emprendedor. Sin embargo, el modelo actual de desarrollo no responde a las nuevas circunstancias y paradigmas de las economías basadas en el conocimiento y la ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Collective Bargain

    Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

    by Jane McAlevey ...
    Narrated by Jane McAlevey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Political Game, The

    Engage and Transform Your Life From Apathy To Empowerment

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    In this book Thibault introduces us to the political "5-3-5 Framework" and the V3SM "V3 Story Model." No, this is not about cars but it will definitely ignite your engine and get you moving in the right direction.The Political Game will take what used to be very complex, supercharge your policy engine and within 15 minutes if you can't nail an issue and get on course, then you really don't have an ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    Narrated by Dean Sluyter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Just Dope

    A Leading Attorney's Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

    Narrated by Sanya Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement.Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether you’re popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra jolt of caffeine, unwinding with a perfectly rolled joint, or availing yourself of harder substances, chances ... Read more

    $61.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Progress, Really?

    One man's view of social progress in America

    Narrated by Peter Serefine ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 46 min

    This is a quick read about one perspective on the past, current, and future state of American culture, government, and social standing. The author points out many areas of our country that are straying from its fundamental basis and how continual complacency and acceptance of minority opinions for the sake of appeasing the entitled is quickly leading us toward socialism and overall destruction of ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Diversity Delusion

    How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    **This program includes an introduction read by the author.By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning.**America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It

    by Rory Hearne ...
    Narrated by Rory Hearne ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and many on the brink of homelessness, the Irish housing crisis has defined the ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Public Option

    How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options-yet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Our Kids

    The American Dream in Crisis

    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial