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Poverty, by America
- Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
- Durée: 5 h et 40 min
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A Powerful Message
- Écrit par Jezel le 2023-07-01
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Auteur(s): Andrea Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
- Durée: 21 h et 10 min
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Well Written & Well Read
- Écrit par Terence K O'Riordan le 2023-06-14
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The End of Poverty
- Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Sachs
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hilgartner
- Durée: 13 h et 47 min
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Auteur(s): Timothy Noah
- Narrateur(s): John Allen Nelson
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal....
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Auteur(s): J. D. Vance
- Narrateur(s): J. D. Vance
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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Great social analysis wrapped in storytelling
- Écrit par Erin le 2018-09-20
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Auteur(s): Matthew O'Brien
- Narrateur(s): Alan Carlson
- Durée: 7 h et 26 min
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Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....
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Poverty, by America
- Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
- Durée: 5 h et 40 min
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A Powerful Message
- Écrit par Jezel le 2023-07-01
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Auteur(s): Andrea Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
- Durée: 21 h et 10 min
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Well Written & Well Read
- Écrit par Terence K O'Riordan le 2023-06-14
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The End of Poverty
- Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Sachs
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hilgartner
- Durée: 13 h et 47 min
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Auteur(s): Timothy Noah
- Narrateur(s): John Allen Nelson
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal....
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Auteur(s): J. D. Vance
- Narrateur(s): J. D. Vance
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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Great social analysis wrapped in storytelling
- Écrit par Erin le 2018-09-20
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Auteur(s): Matthew O'Brien
- Narrateur(s): Alan Carlson
- Durée: 7 h et 26 min
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Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- Auteur(s): Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrateur(s): Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Durée: 9 h et 7 min
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....
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it was excellent, totally absorbing.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-08-03
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- Auteur(s): Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
- Durée: 11 h et 50 min
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide.....
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Grace Can Lead Us Home
- A Christian Call to End Homelessness
- Auteur(s): Kevin Nye
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Nye
- Durée: 5 h et 24 min
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On any given night, more than half a million Americans and Canadians find themselves sleeping on the streets, in shelters, cars, and other places not meant for human habitation. Yet as this crisis continues to grow, it remains one of the least talked about—especially in churches....
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Auteur(s): Daniel L. Hatcher
- Narrateur(s): Colleen Patrick
- Durée: 9 h et 40 min
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Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- Auteur(s): Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrateur(s): Brendan Hunter
- Durée: 9 h et 13 min
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Auteur(s): David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, David Simon
- Durée: 25 h et 28 min
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Chercher Sam
- Auteur(s): Sophie Bienvenu
- Narrateur(s): Maxime Mailloux
- Durée: 2 h et 52 min
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Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....
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Exceptionnel
- Écrit par Loulou Charron le 2020-05-20
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
- Durée: 11 h et 3 min
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Deeply Sad Learning
- Écrit par Christan le 2019-01-15
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Auteur(s): Ben Austen
- Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- Auteur(s): Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrateur(s): Scott Harrison
- Durée: 10 h et 14 min
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Not what I expected - but I'm glad I listened
- Écrit par J. Paul Nadeau le 2022-02-22
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Auteur(s): Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrateur(s): Katriona O'Sullivan
- Durée: 6 h et 48 min
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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So many emotions
- Écrit par CLAIRE le 2024-05-30
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Auteur(s): Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Stephanie Land
- Durée: 8 h et 34 min
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Not climatic without context
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-02-29
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Auteur(s): Oskar Jensen
- Narrateur(s): Oskar Jensen
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Auteur(s): Katherine Boo
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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beautiful
- Écrit par Grace le 2021-01-17
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- Auteur(s): Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Durée: 9 h et 59 min
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Inspiring and emotional
- Écrit par Paulo Carneiro le 2019-01-29
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- Auteur(s): Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrateur(s): Ruby K. Payne
- Durée: 6 h et 12 min
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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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Colburn and 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, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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Leaving Breezy Street
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Brenda Myers-Powell, April Reynolds - contributor
- Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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When Breezy, as she came to call herself, hit the streets of Chicago as a prostitute in 1973 she was barely a teenager. But she was pretty and funny as hell, and determined to support her daughters and make a living....
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- Auteur(s): William Easterly
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 14 h et 35 min
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The White Man's Burden is a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor....
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Interstate 69
- The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
- Auteur(s): Matt Dellinger
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 12 h et 45 min
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infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas....
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- Auteur(s): Tracy Kidder
- Narrateur(s): Tracy Kidder
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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The Diaspora of Belonging
- Gentrification, Systems of Oppression, and Why Our Cities Are Out of Place
- Auteur(s): Jay Sharma
- Narrateur(s): Jay Sharma
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay Sharma explores the history of systemic racism, structural oppression, and state-sanctioned discrimination and injustice as it relates to urban settings. Sharma demonstrates how calculated decisions regarding our cities are....
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- Auteur(s): Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Kevin F. Adler
- Durée: 9 h et 17 min
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Auteur(s): Jake Bittle
- Narrateur(s): Matt Godfrey
- Durée: 10 h et 26 min
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A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us....