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The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- By: Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence—like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality—has become routine and relentless. And like a horde of locusts devouring everything in their path, the unchecked plague of violence ruins lives, blocks the road out of poverty, and undercuts development.
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The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell, Richard Hoggart - introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Obiora
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Michael Obiora
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2021
- Language: English
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- By: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book.
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2015
- Language: English
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- By: Darren McGarvey
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country—our political class.
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Loved this book
- By luke rushton on 06-01-2023
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2022
- Language: English
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Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as solely profit-driven. In fact, humans have other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.
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I enjoyed it
- By Anonymous on 31-10-2022
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Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2008
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- By: Henry George
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism".
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2022
- Language: English
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Making It
- How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
- By: Jay Blades
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sunday Times bestseller, Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless, by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. We had our hardships, and there were times that we didn’t have a lot of food...
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Making It
- How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2025
- Language: English
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Nemesis
- One Man and the Battle for Rio
- By: Misha Glenny
- Narrated by: Misha Glenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution while everyone around him drew guns and partied.
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factual
- By Anonymous on 25-12-2019
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Nemesis
- One Man and the Battle for Rio
- Narrated by: Misha Glenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2015
- Language: English
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Anti-Social
- The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
- By: Nick Pettigrew
- Narrated by: Nick Pettigrew
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other’s throats. That’s hard enough at the best of times but when government cuts mean that hospitals, social services and police are all at breaking point, the possibility of complete chaos is never far away. This is an urgent, timely but, most of all, hysterically funny true story of a life spent working with the people society wants to forget and the problems that nobody else can resolve.
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Highly Recommended for Executives and Boards
- By Adehl C. on 17-08-2023
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Anti-Social
- The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
- Narrated by: Nick Pettigrew
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-07-2020
- Language: English
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From the impoverished districts of Paris to the streets of London, Orwell recounts his experiences on the bottom rung in some of Paris’ most famous kitchens, his time on the streets of London with a colourful cast of characters and offers biting social commentary on everything from accommodation and privilege to diet and language. Part memoir, part social commentary, Down and Out in Paris and London is a sobering analysis of poverty and society in two of the world’s wealthiest cities.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-12-2021
- Language: English
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- By: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting...
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-02-2022
- Language: English
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Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- By: Philip E. DeVol, Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi Smith
- Narrated by: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth-shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.
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change the world of those around you
- By Anonymous on 17-01-2020
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Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- Narrated by: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2014
- Language: English
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Motherland
- A Memoir
- By: Paula Ramón, Julia Sanches - translator, Jennifer Shyue - translator
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw their quality of life deteriorate. Public services no longer functioned. Money lost its value. Her mother couldn’t afford to buy food, which was increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramón’s family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they love.
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Motherland
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- By: Jake Bittle
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement...
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)...
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2023
- Language: English
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty
- By: Henry George
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land speculation is the root cause of wealth disparities, advocating for a single tax on land value to promote fairness and reduce poverty. This influential work is critical for understanding economic and social theories regarding land reform and taxation.
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Progress and Poverty
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Saturday Place
- By: Alice Peterson
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Holly's husband died, and she's lonely. She needs to do something to save herself, quickly. Next thing she knows she's interviewing for a voluntary cooking job, surprised to be ambushed by a scruffy man who looks like he has a past. Angus has messed up. He's lost the respect of his family and has none for himself. If it weren't for his brother and friend who run the café, he'd be sleeping on the streets. Angus is about ready to give up—until he meets Holly, who sparks something in him. Then Lauren arrives from the homeless shelter.
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The Saturday Place
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2024
- Language: English
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- By: Peter Joseph
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make "personal success" virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig deeper—rethinking the very foundation of our social system.
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2024
- Language: English
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- By: Lorna Tucker
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine... The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker 'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER 'Truly changes your perception of what the...
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2025
- Language: English
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