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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,817 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,067 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did....

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 937 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • An International Perspective
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
    • By: Benjamin Lorr
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,774 ratings
    • In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store....

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    • Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 786 ratings
    • A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,598 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,770 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,413 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59,680 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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    • How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
    • By: Will Storr
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Full of thrilling and unexpected connections among history, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become. Selfie tells the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately - because it's us....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 690 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • By: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

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