Social Systems

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • By: David Peter Stroh
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed....

    Regular price: $15.56

    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons
    • By: James Morgan Kane
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

    Regular price: $18.12

    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • By: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 314 ratings
    • A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • Managing the Nervous System & Regulating Emotions
    • By: Maria Colomy
    • Narrated by: Gerhard Weigelt
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Dysregulation is often referred to as being triggered or upset. Quite often people who are unaware of their dysregulation are angry, explosive, or they might shut down or be overly emotional....

    Regular price: $3.99

    • The Best Way Schools in Urban Areas Improve Student Behavior and Academic Results
    • By: Victor Moody
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-25
    • Language: English
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    • Drawing on experience in general and special education, Victor Moody - Dean of Students, presents the PBIS Playbook, revealing the #1 school-wide ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World's Oldest Personality Type System
    • By: Dondi Dahlin
    • Narrated by: Dondi Dahlin, Donna Eden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • The Five Elements brings the wisdom of an ancient healing system to modern listeners, helping them understand themselves - why they do what they do - better....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • By: Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • This eye-opening book tells you everything you need to know about how cops operate, the little things that can get you in trouble, and how to stay free from the hungry jaws of the criminal justice system....

    Regular price: $21.49

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Charles L. Zelden
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Whatever the level of contact, the American judicial system affects peoples' lives. What courts and judges do matters. This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

    Regular price: $24.95

    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 108 Practices to Calm the Mind, Soothe the Nervous System, and Live Your Life to the Fullest
    • By: Seth J. Gillihan PhD
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, life-giving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love....

    Regular price: $6.87

    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,096 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Amanda Tyler
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The concept of habeas corpus - literally, to receive and hold the body - empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the basis on which they are being held by the government and grant prisoners their freedom when they are held unlawfully....

    Regular price: $13.99

    • African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
    • By: Niambi Michele Carter
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....

    Regular price: $17.19

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