War Sociology

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
    • By: Adrian Tinniswood
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • As World War I drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes....

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    • How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing....

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    • The Forging of SEAL Class 228
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,204 ratings
    • With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world....

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    • By: Richard Overy
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight.

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    • Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
    • By: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

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    • Earning the Navy SEAL Trident
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 561 ratings
    • The Finishing School is essential listening for anyone who wants to know what goes into the making of America's best warriors....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
    • By: David Vine
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire....

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    • America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
    • By: Steve Fainaru
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with several groups of security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day....

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    • Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations....

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    • Building Empathy in a Fractured World
    • By: Jamil Zaki
    • Narrated by: Jamil Zaki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait - something we’re born with or not - but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort....

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    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • By: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

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    • JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
    • By: Peter Dale Scott
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy....

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    • A Meditation on Religion and Warfare
    • By: Mark Juergensmeyer
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • God at War explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jolyon Mitchel, Joshua Rey
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Jolyon Mitchell and Joshua Rey consider both sides of the age-long drama of war and religion, challenging assumptions at the most fundamental level....

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