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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- By: Torsten Bell
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country.
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Great listen
- By Matthew D. on 20-06-24
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- Narrated by: Torsten Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country.
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- By: Owen Jones
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....
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The excessive accents actually harm the point
- By Emiliya Decheva on 11-05-17
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-03-17
- Language: English
- In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- By: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
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Brilliant but misleading
- By Mr. Philip E. Bailey on 19-07-22
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
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An excellent critique of economy and politics
- By Anonymous User on 21-04-24
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Series: Critique of Political Economy, Book 1-3
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-04-23
- Language: English
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- By: Mim Skinner
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, Jailbirds is this year's book you need to listen to....
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Eye-opening insight into women in prison
- By PAUL CHANDLER on 10-07-19
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The Prison Teacher
- Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
- Narrated by: Mim Skinner
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, Jailbirds is this year's book you need to listen to....
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
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For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....
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Nice listen with lots of real world factss
- By Gary S. on 16-10-19
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 13-09-19
- Language: English
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For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....
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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
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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....
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Should be read by all
- By iman on 18-07-22
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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: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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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....
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....
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Just someone reading out statistics
- By Susan on 04-07-11
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-03-11
- Language: English
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....
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Angel Meadow
- Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
- By: Dean Kirby
- Narrated by: Nigel Gair
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs....
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Great book, poor audio
- By laura on 23-08-20
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Angel Meadow
- Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
- Narrated by: Nigel Gair
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-06-20
- Language: English
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Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs....
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Too late I found Thomas Sowell
- By Jas Singh on 16-06-18
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Discrimination and Disparities
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-03-18
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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The Yoga Manifesto
- How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
- By: Nadia Gilani
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Writer and pioneering yoga teacher Nadia Gilani presents a powerful love letter to yoga and an urgent manifesto for its recovery....
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Self righteous!!!!
- By Cheryl on 15-11-23
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The Yoga Manifesto
- How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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Writer and pioneering yoga teacher Nadia Gilani presents a powerful love letter to yoga and an urgent manifesto for its recovery....
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The Trolls of Wall Street
- How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
- By: Nathaniel Popper
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets....
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The Trolls of Wall Street
- How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets....
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Dragged up Proppa
- Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
- By: Pip Fallow
- Narrated by: Pip Fallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Dragged Up Proppa marks the arrival of a major literary working class voice that needs to be listened to....
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To a family friend
- By jeff on 09-12-23
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Dragged up Proppa
- Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
- Narrated by: Pip Fallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-03-23
- Language: English
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Dragged Up Proppa marks the arrival of a major literary working class voice that needs to be listened to....
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- By: Peter Linebaugh
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....
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Simply brilliant.
- By Howard on 05-11-24
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....
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The People's Republic of Walmart
- How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
- By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....
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A fascinating argument for Socialist planning
- By Sean Burke on 09-07-23
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The People's Republic of Walmart
- How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- By: Roy Porter
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers....
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Sprawling - in a good way
- By Jim on 29-05-13
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-05-09
- Language: English
- In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers....
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....
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Haunting Story
- By Emily Marbach on 11-10-15
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-09-14
- Language: English
- A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
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Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....
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Looked very promising but then disappointing
- By Ras on 28-11-17
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
- Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....
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Lost in Work
- Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
- Narrated by: Libby Mai
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-12-22
- Language: English
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How work stole our lives and what we can do about it....
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