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American Ruin
- Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
- By: Michael Matthews
- Narrated by: Richard Spector
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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When Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. Over dozens of visits, he got to know the people - cops, reporters, and gang members as well as ordinary Detroiters trying to live their lives in peace, and formed deep bonds with them, which led him into places and situations, no writer has ever seen before. American Ruin is the story of Michael’s journey into the soul of this broken city - a shocking, violent, and heartbreaking portrayal of a modern tragedy.
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American Ruin
- Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
- Narrated by: Richard Spector
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2019
- Language: English
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The Hustle of Kim Foxx
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- By: Steve Bogira
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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After the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a white police officer, Chicagoans demanded change. Can a new state’s attorney, the first black woman to hold the position, bring real reform to a broken system? With a brick on her desk from the Cabrini-Green housing project where she spent her childhood, Kim Foxx must adapt her hard-won ideals to the realities of criminal justice in Chicago. In this intimate narrative by award-winning author Steve Bogira, Foxx reveals: “My mother taught me how to be a hustler. Hustle in the sense of work hard, grind - find a way out of no way.”
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The Hustle of Kim Foxx
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- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Series: Southside collection
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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Payback
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- By: Natalie Y. Moore
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 51 mins
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More than two decades after Darrell Cannon was tortured into a false confession of murder, he was finally released from prison with hardly an apology. He wasn’t the only one with a story to tell. Award-winning author Natalie Y. Moore reveals the fight for justice and reparations engineered by Chicago’s Black People Against Police Torture movement. More than one hundred African Americans were brutalized by Chicago Police Department Commander Jon Burge’s sadistic, state-sanctioned “interrogation” ring that operated within the department for decades.
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Payback
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- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Series: Southside collection
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- By: P. D. Smith
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers - the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2013
- Language: English
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
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Captivating
- By Campbell J. Winks on 27-08-2024
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2024
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- By: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all.
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2024
- Language: English
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- By: Ross Perlin
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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The New City
- How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
- By: Dickson Despommier
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.
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The New City
- How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2024
- Language: English
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Piccadilly
- The Circus at the Heart of London
- By: Midge Gillies
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to propel an individual onwards to adventure, romance, or something more sinister. Ever since its iconic Eros statue appeared in 1893, the junction has been a vibrant meeting place, attracting visitors and pleasure-seekers from all walks of life
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Piccadilly
- The Circus at the Heart of London
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-10-2022
- Language: English
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Black in White Space
- The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
- By: Elijah Anderson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings—and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police and attracted national media coverage. Why? In essence, Elijah Anderson would argue, because these were Black people existing in white spaces. In this book, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level.
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An affirming account about being the other.
- By Rowland Chitate on 16-10-2024
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Black in White Space
- The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2022
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- By: Davarian L. Baldwin
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes listeners from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities.
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A piercing piece of work in urban social justice
- By Amazon Customer on 28-11-2022
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2021
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves
- A Word from Forgotten Black America
- By: D. Watkins
- Narrated by: D. Watkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income Black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occurring about them.
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We Speak for Ourselves
- A Word from Forgotten Black America
- Narrated by: D. Watkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2019
- Language: English
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed
- By: Rus Bradburd
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family.
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2018
- Language: English
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Fisherman's Blues
- A West African Community at Sea
- By: Anna Badkhen
- Narrated by: Anna Badkhen
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable - between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval.
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Fisherman's Blues
- A West African Community at Sea
- Narrated by: Anna Badkhen
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2018
- Language: English
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- By: Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2016
- Language: English
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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- By: Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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The remarkable lengths Ruderman and Laker go to for the story - chasing down witnesses on the city's grimmest streets, sifting through archive boxes and hours of surveillance tape for crucial clues, and coaxing reluctant victims to come forward - put their determination to balance motherhood with the career they love to the ultimate test.
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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2014
- Language: English
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A History of Future Cities
- By: Daniel Brook
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
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A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?
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A History of Future Cities
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 29-05-2013
- Language: English
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A los que vienen [To Those Who Come]
- Democracia, desigualdad, justicia, educación, ecología, sexualidad, felicidad explicadas a los jóvenes
- By: Manuela Carmena
- Narrated by: Manuela Carmena, Israel Elejalde
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Un libro para ti, que eres joven. Para ti, porque puedes cambiar las cosas. Manuela Carmena, exalcaldesa de Madrid y jueza durante más de 30 años, es mujer, de izquierdas, progresista, feminista, ecologista, demócrata, patriota (si la patria lo es en positivo), agnóstica, madre y abuela, entre otras muchas cosas.
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Interesante, entretenido y lleno de sabiduría
- By Amazon Customer on 26-07-2021
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A los que vienen [To Those Who Come]
- Democracia, desigualdad, justicia, educación, ecología, sexualidad, felicidad explicadas a los jóvenes
- Narrated by: Manuela Carmena, Israel Elejalde
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: Spanish
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Life After Carbon
- The Next Global Transformation of Cities
- By: Peter Plastrik, John Cleveland
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create - especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe.
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Life After Carbon
- The Next Global Transformation of Cities
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2018
- Language: English
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- By: Alex Rosenblat
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2018
- Language: English
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