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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 ...

Series series Jacobin
Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski ... Read more

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Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
... Read more

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The Stripper's Guide to Looking Great Naked

by Jennifer Axen, Leigh Phillips ...

"A new spin on bump and grind . . . relays strippers' advice on everything from makeup and wigs . . . [to] the favorite five cliche costumes." — SFGateStrippers are the experts when it comes to getting naked—especially when the topic is looking your best while wearing the least. Authors Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips are "regular" women who interviewed hundreds of strippers to uncover the real ... Read more

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"A new spin on bump and grind . . . relays strippers' advice on everything from makeup and wigs . . . [to] the favorite five cliche costumes." — SFGateStrippers are the experts when it comes to getting naked—especially when the topic is looking your best while wearing the least. Authors Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips are "regular" women who interviewed hundreds of strippers to uncover the real
... Read more
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts

A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff

by Leigh Phillips ...

Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which is nothing less than a form of ecological austerity. Meanwhile, the back-to-the ... Read more

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Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which is nothing less than a form of ecological austerity. Meanwhile, the back-to-the
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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 ...

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7 hours 35 min

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be ... Read more

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Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be
... Read more

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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

A Girl's Guide to Guy Stuff

by Jennifer Axen, Leigh Phillips ...

Ladies: Are you sick of sitting on the bench while the men in your life talk Fantasy Football? Have you always wanted to know how to kick down a door? Build a fire? For any gal who's ready to go head-to-head with the guys on their own turf this book is brimming with sassy, do-it-yourself style. It's chock-full of instructions on the manliest of manly arts, from the highbrow (know the difference ... Read more

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Ladies: Are you sick of sitting on the bench while the men in your life talk Fantasy Football? Have you always wanted to know how to kick down a door? Build a fire? For any gal who's ready to go head-to-head with the guys on their own turf this book is brimming with sassy, do-it-yourself style. It's chock-full of instructions on the manliest of manly arts, from the highbrow (know the difference
... Read more

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Gideon's Promise

A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice

by Jonathan Rapping ...

Narrated by Frank Gerard ...

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based
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Doctors from Hell

The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

by Vivien Spitz ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into ... Read more

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This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into
... Read more

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The Lost World of the Old Ones

Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest

by David Roberts ...

Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range
... Read more

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Betsy Ross and the Making of America

by Marla R. Miller ...

Narrated by Dana Green ...

Unabridged

19 hours 6 min

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman ... Read more

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Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman
... Read more

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On Fascism

12 Lessons from American History

by Matthew C. MacWilliams ...

Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, Matthew C. MacWilliams' On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through American history and compete with our egalitarian, democratic aspirations. Trumpism isn’t new, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, Matthew C. MacWilliams' On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through American history and compete with our egalitarian, democratic aspirations. Trumpism isn’t new,
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An American Plague

The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

by Jim Murphy ...

Narrated by Pat Bottino ...

Unabridged

3 hours 48 min

Powerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor–winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation’s capital—and the eventual triumph over the disease.Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, to flee and brought the workings of the federal government to a ... Read more

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Powerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor–winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation’s capital—and the eventual triumph over the disease.Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, to flee and brought the workings of the federal government to a
... Read more

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The Devil You Know

A Black Power Manifesto

by Charles M. Blow ...

Narrated by JD Jackson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 9 min

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year?The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerFrom journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, ""a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic ... ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year?The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerFrom journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, ""a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic ...
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