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Public Policy Audiobooks

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    Invisible No More

    Voices from Native America

    Narrated by Jason Grasl ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, "We are still here!" Yet today, Native leaders are at the center of social change, challenging philanthropic organizations that have historically excluded Native people, and fighting for economic and environmental justice.Invisible ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $5.99 USD

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    Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    by Bryan Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Bryan Stevenson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • 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.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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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

    $22.99 USD

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    How Infrastructure Works

    Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

    by Deb Chachra ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us**Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    A City on Mars

    Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

    by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith ...
    Narrated by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith, Brittany Pressley ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 *“Helpfully pulls back the curtain on some of the lesser-discussed challenges to humanity’s off-Earth pursuits . . . Any reader enthusiastic about space settlement will find much to appreciate in this book . . . [The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Tech Coup

    How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

    by Marietje Schaake ...
    Narrated by Lorna Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    Under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware companies sell intelligence tools to anyone who can afford ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 56 min

    Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America.Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Upswing

    How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger more unified ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Dignity

    Seeking Respect in Back Row America

    by Chris Arnade ...
    Narrated by Donte Bonner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 30 min

    **"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --KirkusWidely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.**Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Language of Climate Politics

    Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

    by Genevieve Guenther ...
    Narrated by Genevieve Guenther ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).**In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

    $34.99 USD

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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

    $29.99 USD

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    Unsettled

    What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

    by Steven E. Koonin ...
    Narrated by Jay Aaseng ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    "Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.""Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.""Climate change will be an economic disaster."You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voic... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    How the World Really Works

    The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”*—*Bill Gates“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Accessory to War

    The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang ...
    Narrated by Courtney B. Vance ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    **New York Times BestsellerAn 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Theodore Rex

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Marosz ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Theodore Roosevelt

    Unabridged

    25 hours 50 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”—San Francisco ChronicleWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[Theodore Rex] is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Tiger

    A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    by John Vaillant ...
    Narrated by John Vaillant ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: the tiger is apparently ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    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

    $19.99 USD

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    There Are No Accidents

    The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price

    by Jessie Singer ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Vision of the Anointed

    Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    In this devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past few decades, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more. This is an empirical study in which “politically correct” theory is repeatedly confronted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Big Bets

    How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

    by Rajiv Shah ...
    Narrated by Rajiv Shah ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    “Encouraging…Uplifting...Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires thinking big…this will inspire.” —Publishers Weekly“Raj Shah has written a practical guide to making the world a better place. He knows what he’s talking about, because he’s done it himself. Anyone who wants to make a change in the world, or their own lives, will benefit from this book.” —Bill Gates, Cochair, Bill & Melinda ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    New Cold Wars

    China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

    by David E. Sanger ...
    Narrated by David E. Sanger, Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 6 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon“[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with dangerous developments in the post ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cool It

    The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 14 min

    A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concernsBjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very ... Read more

    $19.99 USD