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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2020
- Language: English
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Living Sustainably
- What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
- By: A. Whitney Sanford
- Narrated by: Effie Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.
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Living Sustainably
- What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
- Narrated by: Effie Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2020
- Language: English
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are; they'll be plagued with gum disease and stand a decent chance of violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did.
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2017
- Language: English
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The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
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The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2021
- Language: English
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Radical Technologies
- The Design of Everyday Life
- By: Adam Greenfield
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Everywhere we turn, a new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future. We're told that innovations - from augmented - reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars - will make life easier, more convenient, and more productive.
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Radical Technologies
- The Design of Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2020
- Language: English
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Stroll
- Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
- By: Shawn Micallef
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.
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Stroll
- Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker’s death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighborhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying. But how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighborhood fall into such ruin?
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt?
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Planet of Slums
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2020
- Language: English
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A Walking Life
- Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
- By: Antonia Malchik
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom. But we can change the course of our mobility. And we need to. Delving into a wealth of science, history, and anecdote, from our deepest origins as hominins to our first steps as babies, to universal design and social infrastructure, A Walking Life shows exactly how walking is essential, and how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act - and how we can reclaim it.
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MUST READ
- By Rachael on 31-08-2020
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A Walking Life
- Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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Cellmates
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- By: Tori Marlan
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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One prisoner’s ninety-year murder conviction becomes another prisoner’s crusade in this ongoing true account of an unlikely friendship forged behind bars and the enduring power of hope. For seventeen years and counting, Robert Chattler has made good on his promise to help exonerate his former cellmate, Lee Harris, who he believes was baited and duped by Chicago PD and buried by the false testimony of a bribed witness. In this emotional story of courage and trust, suspicion and sacrifice, Tori Marlan reveals the uncanny friendship powering an impassioned fight for justice.
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Cellmates
- Southside collection
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Series: Southside collection
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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Uneasy Peace
- The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
- By: Patrick Sharkey
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey gathered data from across the country to understand why this happened. Sharkey puts forth an entirely new approach to confronting violence and urban poverty. At a time when inequality, complacency, and conflict all threaten a new rise in violent crime, and the old methods of policing are unacceptable, the ideas in this book are indispensable.
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Urban spaces, once lost, can be reclaimed
- By Frank S on 16-03-2024
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Uneasy Peace
- The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2018
- Language: English
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King of Dreams
- Exposure collection
- By: Christie Thompson
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 39 mins
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This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an impossible dream and a lie. Peter Candlewood understood the system. That’s how he could commute prison sentences and reunite hopeless families with incarcerated loved ones. For a price. Except there was no Candlewood. No hope. Just a lowly Texas con artist who bet on the desperate - and won. And he wasn’t working alone. The multimillion-dollar deception cost the betrayed more than their savings.
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Interesting
- By Cheryl on 02-12-2021
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King of Dreams
- Exposure collection
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Series: Exposure Collection
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Nature of Our Cities
- Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
- By: Nadina Galle
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more vital. This distancing from nature has sparked crises in mental health, longevity, and hope for the next generation, while also heightening the risks we face from historic floods, heatwaves, and wildfires. Indeed, embracing nature holds untapped potential to strengthen and fortify our cities, suburbs, and towns, providing solutions spanning flood preparation, wildfire management, and promoting longevity.
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The Nature of Our Cities
- Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2024
- Language: English
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- By: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike, and stimulated widespread discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial and government institutions.
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2015
- Language: English
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East-Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world - Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright.
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2021
- Language: English
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Nachruf auf mich selbst
- Die Kultur des Aufhörens
- By: Harald Welzer
- Narrated by: Harald Welzer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Bestseller-Autor Harald Welzer stellt fest, dass unsere Kultur kein Konzept vom Aufhören hat. Deshalb baut sie Autobahnen und Flughäfen für Zukünfte, in denen es keine Autos und Flughäfen mehr geben wird. Und sie versucht, unsere Zukunftsprobleme durch Optimierung zu lösen, obwohl ein optimiertes Falsches immer noch falsch ist. Damit verbaut sie viele Möglichkeiten, das Leben durch Weglassen und Aufhören besser zu machen. Diese Kultur hat den Tod genauso zur Privatangelegenheit gemacht, wie sie die Begrenztheit der Erde verbissen ignoriert.
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Interessant, bereichernd und erfrischend
- By Uté & Stefan on 17-11-2022
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Nachruf auf mich selbst
- Die Kultur des Aufhörens
- Narrated by: Harald Welzer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2021
- Language: German
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The Peter Kropotkin Collection
- An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Mutual Aid, & the Conquest of Bread
- By: Peter Kropotkin
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism. Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralised society based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises.
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The Peter Kropotkin Collection
- An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Mutual Aid, & the Conquest of Bread
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2020
- Language: English
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The City of Tomorrow
- Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
- By: Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Since cities emerged 10,000 years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear - cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions.
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The City of Tomorrow
- Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2016
- Language: English
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- By: Alice Goffman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities. Forty years in, the tough-on-crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system but for their family members and working neighbors.
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2015
- Language: English
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- By: Caylin Louis Moore
- Narrated by: Caylin Louis Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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When Caylin Louis Moore was a young child, his mother gathered her three young children and fled an abusive husband, landing in poverty in a heavily policed, gang-ridden community. When Moore’s father was convicted of murder and his mother was sexually assaulted in the hospital while recovering from open-heart surgery, Moore was forced to enter adulthood prematurely.
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- Narrated by: Caylin Louis Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2019
- Language: English
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