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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave - Related by Herself
- Written by: Mary Prince
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave - Related by Herself
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release Date: 04-03-16
- Language: English
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Hidden America
- From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
- Written by: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.” Hidden America intends to fix that. Like...
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Hidden America
- From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 13-09-12
- Language: English
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Cheerful Money
- Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
- Written by: Tad Friend
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden -- to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics.
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Cheerful Money
- Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 18-03-10
- Language: English
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Der stille Raub: Wie das Internet die Mittelschicht zerstört und was Gewinner der digitalen Revolution anders machen
- Written by: Gerald Hörhan
- Narrated by: Matthias Lühn
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Binnen weniger Jahre wird die digitale Revolution die Gesellschaft komplett verändern. Wenige werden reich, viele arm, und die Mittelschicht wird es nur noch in den Geschichtsbüchern geben. Gerald Hörhan, Harvard-Absolvent, Investmentbanker und Internet-Unternehmer, zeigt, was die künftigen Gewinner der digitalen Revolution jetzt tun müssen und warum alle anderen untergehen.
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Der stille Raub: Wie das Internet die Mittelschicht zerstört und was Gewinner der digitalen Revolution anders machen
- Narrated by: Matthias Lühn
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 25-02-17
- Language: german
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The Upside of Inequality
- How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
- Written by: Edward Conard
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement. Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly everyone...
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The Upside of Inequality
- How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- Written by: Jason L. Riley
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer Black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 12-08-14
- Language: English
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The Progress Paradox
- How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
- Written by: Gregg Easterbrook
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous...
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The Progress Paradox
- How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 30-12-03
- Language: English
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Shame
- How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
- Written by: Shelby Steele
- Narrated by: Randall Bain
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans and their failure to offer a viable way forward for American society. The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress.
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Shame
- How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
- Narrated by: Randall Bain
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 25-02-15
- Language: English
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- Written by: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
- The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
- Written by: Annelise Orleck
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the...
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
- The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Isn't That Rich?
- Written by: Richard Kirshenbaum
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth - of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating glimpse behind the gilded curtain into the swanky restaurants and eye-popping vacation destinations where the one percent gathers.
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Isn't That Rich?
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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Once Were Warriors
- Written by: Alan Duff
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
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Once Were Warriors
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Series: Once Were Warriors, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-13
- Language: English
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Ain’t No Makin’ It
- Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
- Written by: Jay MacLeod
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
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This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and the "Hallway Hangers". Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved listeners and challenged ethnic stereotypes.
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Ain’t No Makin’ It
- Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 24-03-14
- Language: English
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Falling Behind
- How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
- Written by: Robert H Frank
- Narrated by: Robert H Frank
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.
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Falling Behind
- How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Robert H Frank
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 01-03-10
- Language: English
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Billionaire Democracy
- The Hijacking of the American Political System
- Written by: George R. Tyler
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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We are told that, when we vote and elect representatives, we gain a voice in government and its policies. Yet, it hasn't translated our preferences into higher living standards for the majority of us. In America, the wealthy few have built a system that works in their favor, while maintaining the illusion of democracy. American voters have little influence on policies engineered by lawmakers. Political scientists call it the "income bias", causing lawmakers to compete to satisfy preferences of donors from the top one percent instead of the middle class.
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Billionaire Democracy
- The Hijacking of the American Political System
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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To Marry an English Lord
- Written by: Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus quotes and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette - To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.
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To Marry an English Lord
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions
- Dispatches from the Working Class
- Written by: J. R. Helton
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor.
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions
- Dispatches from the Working Class
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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Privilege
- The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
- Written by: Shamus Rahman Khan
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. In Privilege, Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the past 150 years.
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A Century of Wealth in America
- Written by: Edward N. Wolff
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
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Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900. A Century of Wealth in America demonstrates that the most remarkable change has been the growth of per capita household wealth.
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A Century of Wealth in America
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- Written by: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults.
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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