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This generation of students who have grown up in the 21st century are the most social, the most empowered, and also the most anxious youth population in human history. If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone. The latest research presented in this audiobook, however, illuminates a surprising reality: The success of the next generation doesn’t depend entirely on them. Their best chance of success starts when adults choose to believe in them, challenge them, and walk with them through the nine greatest challenges today’s youth will face.

In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, “slaves of the state” were leased to private companies. The prisoners earned no wages, yet they manufactured furniture, animal harnesses, carpets, and combs, which consumers bought throughout the North. Then one young man challenged the system.

While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body, a man whose love for others was unshakable. He was a man who refused to fight alone and, in so doing, mobilized a global army to combat one of the most devastating diseases on earth: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Gordon Braxton was in his second year of college before anybody bothered to speak to him about sexual violence, despite the fact that he already knew friends and family members that had survived sexual assault. Unfortunately, this is a common experience, as many young men and boys, especially Black boys, do not have an opportunity to discuss their views on sexual violence and what role they might play in preventing it. Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture supports the training of a rising generation by providing commentary from an experienced educator.

In Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity. The authors offer inspirational solutions to the dramatic downturn in giving in the US, showing us how to re-establish the interconnection that drives reciprocity, love, and generosity.

Taking up that challenge and drawing from Baldwin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't will spur today's progressives from conviction to action. It is not enough, authors Hollowell and McGhee urge us, to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. True and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin's radical challenge for moral commitment. Called to move from dreams of justice to living it out in communities, churches, and neighborhoods, we can show that we truly mean it.

The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of change—even though they are not lawyers or judges.

"Challenges of Getting a Product Made in the USA" is from the July 27, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Gregory Schmidt and narrated by Kristi Burns.

The legal and diplomatic challenges Trump would face in re-instituting Iran sanctions make it hard to see how he could rebuild effective international economic pressure on Iran. 

"The Challenge of Cutting Coal Dependence" is from the August 30, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Eduardo Porter and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"Startups Take On Challenge of Fusion" is from the October 27, 2015 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Dino Grandoni and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Il primo Quiz Podcast Show in italiano della storia dell'umanità. Il più grande compendio di cultura che si sia mai sentito in podcast, con umiltà.

In this series, guests from across UCL and beyond share their innovative solutions and ideas for addressing societal challenges, discussing topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective and inspiring and encouraging us to think differently about issues of local, national and global concern.

"Known for Deal-Making Acumen, New U.N. Leader Will Face Tough Challenges" is from the October 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"U.S. Record on Refugees Reflects Domestic and Global Challenges" is from the US section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Senquapta and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

In recent years, Germany has emerged as Europe’s preeminent power not only because of the strength of its economy but also because of the extraordinary stability of its political system. Chancellor Angela Merkel is the embodiment of this stability: for most of the past decade, she has been able to govern as a centrist, unconstrained by the right-wing populist groups that have become a major force in all of Germany’s neighbors.

"Trumps Challenge: Which Putin to Deal With" is from the November 25, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Sestanovich and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"Viacom Chief Challenges Redstone's Competency in Lawsuit" is from the May 23, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Emily Steel and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"After a Comeback, New Challenges for Yellowstone's Grizzly Bears" is from the May 02, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Jim Robbins and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Brazil's Abortion Restrictions Compound Challenge of Zika Virus" is from the May 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Brent Mcdonald and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.