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 200 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 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 438 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Scenes from a Slow Civil War
    • By: Jeff Sharlet
    • Narrated by: Jeff Sharlet
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 38 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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    • By: Eamonn McCann
    • Narrated by: Eamonn McCann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Eamonn McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule....

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    • How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
    • By: Josh Cowen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.

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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 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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    • The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
    • By: P. W. Singer
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield....

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    • Dispatches from the American Future
    • By: Stephen Marche
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 473 ratings
    • On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots....

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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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    • What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
    • By: Bryan Doerries
    • Narrated by: Adam Driver
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 761 ratings
    • This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater....

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,201 ratings
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

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    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,177 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....

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