Public Philosophy

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    • How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • By: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,654 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • By: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

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    • Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School
    • By: Courtney E. Martin
    • Narrated by: Courtney E. Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors....

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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,341 ratings
    • Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....

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    • 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world - exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production....

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    • The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
    • By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Caitlin Rivers illuminates the role of epidemiology in all our lives, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • Reforming Public Theology
    • By: James K. A. Smith
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this culmination of his highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy....

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    • Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Jamie East
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all....

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    • Our Collective Responsibility
    • By: Martha C. Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day....

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    • How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
    • By: Dorothy A. Brown
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....

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