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The Fourth Turning Is Here

What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

by Neil Howe ...

Narrated by Neil Howe ...

Unabridged

20 hours 29 min

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like afterward.Thirty years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like afterward.Thirty years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new
... Read more
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Generations

The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge, PhD ...

Narrated by Madeleine Maby ...

Unabridged

16 hours 49 min

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the five generations that make up today’s population, from the bestselling author of Generation Me and iGen. Dr. Jean Twenge has analyzed millions of data points to glean the attitudes, characteristics, and life circumstances that define each generation, resulting in a fascinating look at how they connect, conflict, and compete with each other.Upending the ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the five generations that make up today’s population, from the bestselling author of Generation Me and iGen. Dr. Jean Twenge has analyzed millions of data points to glean the attitudes, characteristics, and life circumstances that define each generation, resulting in a fascinating look at how they connect, conflict, and compete with each other.Upending the
... Read more
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Pollution is Colonialism

by Max Liboiron ...

Narrated by Donna Postel ...

Unabridged

5 hours 42 min

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an
... Read more
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Fractured

Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again

by Jon Yates ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MPThis landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become.Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MPThis landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become.Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so
... Read more
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Abschied von den Boomern (Ungekürzt)

by Heinz Bude ...

Narrated by Wolfgang Wagner ...

Unabridged

2 hours 43 min

Die Boomer nehmen Abschied. Wer zwischen 1955 und 1970 in der Zeit der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge zur Welt gekommen ist, hat den Ruhestand erreicht oder zählt zu den Älteren, die nach und nach ihre Posten freimachen. Die Boomer verbindet das Gefühl, dass es zu viele von ihnen gibt, das spürten sie schon in überfüllten Klassenzimmern und später auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Daraus resultierte eine Haltung ... Read more

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Die Boomer nehmen Abschied. Wer zwischen 1955 und 1970 in der Zeit der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge zur Welt gekommen ist, hat den Ruhestand erreicht oder zählt zu den Älteren, die nach und nach ihre Posten freimachen. Die Boomer verbindet das Gefühl, dass es zu viele von ihnen gibt, das spürten sie schon in überfüllten Klassenzimmern und später auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Daraus resultierte eine Haltung
... Read more
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Counting Americans

How the US Census Classified the Nation

by Paul Schor ...

Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

Unabridged

12 hours 51 min

The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding—particularly its social construction of race—is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population.By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding—particularly its social construction of race—is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population.By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a
... Read more
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Indios, negros y otros indeseables. Capitalismo, racismo y exclusión en América Latina y el Caribe

by Paco Gómez Nadal ...

Narrated by Andrés Macías ...

Unabridged

6 hours 24 min

Es un viaje a la raíz racista de la exclusión en América Latina y el Caribe. Parte de la hipótesis de la estructura colonial del poder y de la vigencia de las tesis racistas para mostrarnos una realidad contemporánea de «exclusión» política de casi doscientos millones de habitantes. El libro alterna el tono periodístico con el ensayístico, pero no trata de ser académico ni finge neutralidad. El ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Es un viaje a la raíz racista de la exclusión en América Latina y el Caribe. Parte de la hipótesis de la estructura colonial del poder y de la vigencia de las tesis racistas para mostrarnos una realidad contemporánea de «exclusión» política de casi doscientos millones de habitantes. El libro alterna el tono periodístico con el ensayístico, pero no trata de ser académico ni finge neutralidad. El
... Read more
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Millennial's Guide to Changing the World, The

A New Generation's Handbook to Being Yourself and Living with Purpose

by Alison Lea Sher ...

Narrated by Carly Robins ...

Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

A guide and blueprint to a purposeful millennial existence―and how we can make a difference.What does it mean to be a millennial in this chaotic world? Beyond Snapchat and Tinder, the consumerist culture we’ve inherited, and quarter-life crises, can a millennial aspire to more?Alison Lea Sher argues, yes, we can! Packing herself up in an RV, Sher embarks on a road trip in hopes of starting a ... Read more

$20.60 CAD

A guide and blueprint to a purposeful millennial existence―and how we can make a difference.What does it mean to be a millennial in this chaotic world? Beyond Snapchat and Tinder, the consumerist culture we’ve inherited, and quarter-life crises, can a millennial aspire to more?Alison Lea Sher argues, yes, we can! Packing herself up in an RV, Sher embarks on a road trip in hopes of starting a
... Read more
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Whiteshift

Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

by Eric Kaufmann ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

23 hours 30 min

Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majoritiesThis is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the ... Read more

$64.57 CAD

Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majoritiesThis is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the
... Read more
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Der starke Sozialstaat

Weniger ist mehr

by Ronnie Schöb ...

Narrated by Klaus B. Wolf ...

Unabridged

6 hours 20 min

Sozialstaat bedeutet Sicherheit für alle, gerade in unsicheren Zeiten wie diesen. Selbst für die, die sich auf der sicheren Seite wähnen. Doch der Glaube an die Stärken unseres Sozialstaates zerfällt, der gesellschaftliche Grundkonsens ist gefährdet. Der renommierte Ökonom Ronnie Schöb präsentiert einen großen Entwurf für eine Modernisierung, die neues Vertrauen schafft. Seine Überzeugung: Wir ... Read more

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Sozialstaat bedeutet Sicherheit für alle, gerade in unsicheren Zeiten wie diesen. Selbst für die, die sich auf der sicheren Seite wähnen. Doch der Glaube an die Stärken unseres Sozialstaates zerfällt, der gesellschaftliche Grundkonsens ist gefährdet. Der renommierte Ökonom Ronnie Schöb präsentiert einen großen Entwurf für eine Modernisierung, die neues Vertrauen schafft. Seine Überzeugung: Wir
... Read more
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Mere livsglæde mindre stress

Forstå dit indre savannemenneske

by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen ...

Narrated by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen ...

Unabridged

4 hours 47 min

I Mere livsglæde mindre stress giver Lisbeth Zornig sine bud på, hvordan man får mere ro og tilfredshed i sin hverdag. Ved at forstå, hvad vi alle sammen kommer af, livet på savannen, forklarer Zornig, hvordan vores kroppe og hjerner i virkeligheden er bygget til noget helt andet, end det liv vi lever i dag. Når man lærer sit indre savannemenneske at kende, kan man også handle på det – og det ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

I Mere livsglæde mindre stress giver Lisbeth Zornig sine bud på, hvordan man får mere ro og tilfredshed i sin hverdag. Ved at forstå, hvad vi alle sammen kommer af, livet på savannen, forklarer Zornig, hvordan vores kroppe og hjerner i virkeligheden er bygget til noget helt andet, end det liv vi lever i dag. Når man lærer sit indre savannemenneske at kende, kan man også handle på det – og det
... Read more
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This Land

America, Lost and Found

by Dan Barry ...

Narrated by Dan Barry, Allan Robertson, Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America: not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America: not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined
... Read more
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When You Learn the Alphabet

Essays

by Kendra Allen ...

Narrated by Nicole Cash ...

Unabridged

5 hours 24 min

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues such as colorism, ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues such as colorism,
... Read more
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The Afrofuturist Evolution

Creative Paths to Self-Discovery

by Ytasha L. Womack ...

Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

Unabridged

11 hours

The spaces revealed through the practice of time manipulation in Black cultures lend themselves to storytelling, a time-hopping process that integrates memory and community.Drawing on disparate philosophies and science behind electronic beat-making, lyricism, dance, memory, myth, and cosmology in the African and African Disaporic traditions, this book seeks to demonstrate relationships between ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The spaces revealed through the practice of time manipulation in Black cultures lend themselves to storytelling, a time-hopping process that integrates memory and community.Drawing on disparate philosophies and science behind electronic beat-making, lyricism, dance, memory, myth, and cosmology in the African and African Disaporic traditions, this book seeks to demonstrate relationships between
... Read more
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Life under Pressure

The Social Roots of Youth Suicide and What to Do About Them

by Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn ...

Narrated by Erin deWard ...

Unabridged

10 hours 34 min

A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop themIn Life under Pressure, Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop themIn Life under Pressure, Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community
... Read more
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Demography

A Very Short Introduction

by Sarah Harper ...

Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

Unabridged

4 hours 2 min

The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person's access to social and natural resources (food, water, education, jobs, sexual partners); and even the length ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person's access to social and natural resources (food, water, education, jobs, sexual partners); and even the length
... Read more
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Je suis noir et je n’aime pas le manioc

by Gaston Kelman ...

Narrated by Jacques Denigelles ...

Unabridged

5 hours 38 min

Gaston Kelman a beau avoir des origines camerounaises, il ne se met pas pour autant à danser le dombolo une fois la nuit tombée. Installé en France depuis vingt ans, ce Bourguignon est l'auteur d'un vivifiant pamphlet contre le racisme ordinaire et son cortège de préjugés. Avec une verve toute voltairienne, il fustige les dangers d'une victimisation outrancière de la communauté noire et tisse par ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Gaston Kelman a beau avoir des origines camerounaises, il ne se met pas pour autant à danser le dombolo une fois la nuit tombée. Installé en France depuis vingt ans, ce Bourguignon est l'auteur d'un vivifiant pamphlet contre le racisme ordinaire et son cortège de préjugés. Avec une verve toute voltairienne, il fustige les dangers d'une victimisation outrancière de la communauté noire et tisse par
... Read more
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One Child

The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

by Mei Fong ...

Narrated by Janet Song ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers.Mei Fong has spent years ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers.Mei Fong has spent years
... Read more
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How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

7 min

More Americans than ever before are spending time in jail despite a drop in the crime rate in the past two decades. That's according to a new report that also found that a disproportionate number of people in jail suffer from mental illness. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Nicholas Turner of the Vera Institute of Justice and Margo Schlanger of the University of Michigan. ... Read more

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More Americans than ever before are spending time in jail despite a drop in the crime rate in the past two decades. That's according to a new report that also found that a disproportionate number of people in jail suffer from mental illness. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Nicholas Turner of the Vera Institute of Justice and Margo Schlanger of the University of Michigan.
... Read more
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Clash of the Generations

Managing the New Workplace Reality

by Valerie M. Grubb ...

Narrated by Randye Kaye ...

Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

Case studies and strategies for more effective multi-generational managementClash of the Generations explores this new and increasingly common workplace phenomenon, and provides strategies to help managers navigate this ever more complex maze. Traditionally, older workers would retire and make room for the next generation; instead, Baby Boomers are now prolonging their time in the workplace, yet ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Case studies and strategies for more effective multi-generational managementClash of the Generations explores this new and increasingly common workplace phenomenon, and provides strategies to help managers navigate this ever more complex maze. Traditionally, older workers would retire and make room for the next generation; instead, Baby Boomers are now prolonging their time in the workplace, yet
... Read more
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Education for Extinction

American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928

by David Wallace Adams ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

18 hours 41 min

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the
... Read more
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Birth-Rate Crisis

Reclaiming Family and Purpose in a Dopamine-Driven World

by Jim Penman, Andrea Pearson ...

Narrated by Tamblyn Lord ...

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min

Birth rates are falling almost everywhere. But why?Governments have spent billions trying to reverse the trend, yet fertility continues to fall. Economists blame housing costs. Sociologists point to changing cultural values. Politicians argue over policy. But what if they’re all focusing on the symptoms rather than the cause?In Birth-Rate Crisis: Reclaiming Family and Purpose in a Dopamine-Driven ... Read more

$22.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Birth rates are falling almost everywhere. But why?Governments have spent billions trying to reverse the trend, yet fertility continues to fall. Economists blame housing costs. Sociologists point to changing cultural values. Politicians argue over policy. But what if they’re all focusing on the symptoms rather than the cause?In Birth-Rate Crisis: Reclaiming Family and Purpose in a Dopamine-Driven
... Read more
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The Story of More

How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

by Hope Jahren ...

Narrated by Hope Jahren ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

**The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction"The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature**Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, ... Read more

$23.00 CAD

**The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction"The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature**Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer,
... Read more
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Before It's Gone

Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America

by Jonathan Vigliotti ...

Narrated by Jonathan Vigliotti ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), i****n the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now.Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), i****n the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now.Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of
... Read more

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