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Inconspicuous Consumption

The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

by Tatiana Schlossberg

Narrated by Tatiana Schlossberg

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min
**"A compelling-and illuminating-look at how our daily habits impact the environment."--Vanity Fair"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--Vogue"Shows how even the smallest decisions can have profound environmental consequences."--The New York ... Read more
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Impossible Subjects

Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

by Mae M. Ngai

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged

14 hours 32 min
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s-its ... Read more
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Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

by David Harvey

Narrated by Joe Barrett

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min
Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century: his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more
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Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

Narrated by Bryan Stevenson

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min
**#1 *NEW YORK TIMES *BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and made a lasting impact on our ... Read more
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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

Narrated by Dion Graham

Unabridged

11 hours 4 min
***WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION ***From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America* *In this brilliant,heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is ... Read more
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The Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by David Wallace-Wells

Unabridged

8 hours 33 min
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, ... Read more
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America: The Farewell Tour

by Chris Hedges

Narrated by Fred Sanders

Unabridged

14 hours 17 min
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.America, says Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that ... Read more
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Accessory to War

The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

by Neil deGrasse Tyson and 1 more

Narrated by Courtney B. Vance

Unabridged

18 hours 38 min
An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the ... Read more
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This Changes Everything

Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

Narrated by Ellen Archer

Unabridged

20 hours 44 min
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The ... Read more
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

Narrated by Mark Deakins

Unabridged

26 hours 36 min
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeDescribed by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president. ... Read more
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Charged

The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

by Emily Bazelon

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged

13 hours 1 min
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy“This harrowing, often ... Read more
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On Fire

The Case for the Green New Deal

by Naomi Klein

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min
#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic ... Read more
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Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

Narrated by Cathy O'Neil

Unabridged

6 hours 23 min
**Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times BestsellerA former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric**We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not ... Read more
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The American Health Care Paradox

Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

by Elizabeth H. Bradley and 1 more

Narrated by Emily Durante

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min
For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make ... Read more
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Drawdown

The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

by

Narrated by Christopher Solimene

Unabridged

18 hours 53 min
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described ... Read more
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Inconvenient Facts

The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know

by Gregory Wrightstone

Narrated by Brian Holsopple

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min
You have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and “experts” saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and poison ivy—to name a few—are all blamed on our “sins of emissions” from burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Yet, you don’t quite buy into this human-caused ... Read more
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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

Narrated by Susie Berneis

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min
Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT—a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide—on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the damage they’ve caused to wildlife, birds, bees, ... Read more
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A World of Three Zeros

The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by Dan Woren

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the ... Read more
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We Are the Weather

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Unabridged

5 hours 6 min
This program is read by the author.Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of ... Read more
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The Green New Deal

Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin

Narrated by David Cochran Heath

Unabridged

7 hours 52 min
An urgent, workable plan to confront climate change and transform America's economy for a post-fossil fuel world from the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Industrial Revolution.A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. The Green New Deal has caught fire in activist circles and become a central focus in the national conversation, setting the agenda for a new ... Read more
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The Scandal of Money

Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

by George Gilder

Narrated by Corey M. Snow

Unabridged

5 hours
Why do conservatives have such a hard time winning the economic debate in the court of public opinion? Simple, George Gilder says: Conservatives misunderstand economics almost as badly as liberals do. Republicans have been running on tax cut proposals since the era of Harding and Coolidge without seriously addressing the key problems of a global economy in decline. Enough is enough. Gilder, author ... Read more
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Bowling Alone

The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

Narrated by Arthur Morey

Unabridged

18 hours 56 min
Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work—but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious achievement.”Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how ... Read more
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How to Think Seriously about the Planet

The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

by Roger Scruton

Narrated by Simon Prebble

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the overexploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the ... Read more
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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

by Stefano Mancuso

Narrated by Gibson Frazier

Unabridged

4 hours 14 min
"In this thought-provoking, handsomely illustrated book, Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso considers the fundamental differences between plants and animals and challenges our assumptions about which is the ‘higher’ form of life.” —The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating…full of optimism…this quick, accessible read will appeal to anyone with interest in how plants continue to surprise us.” ... Read more
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