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Author: Emily Kenway
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Author Emily Kenway
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 50m
Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year. Yet when writer, activist and former policy advi...
View BookAuthor: Frantz Fanon
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Author Frantz Fanon
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 7h 38m
Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors,...
View BookAuthor: Helen Donohoe
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Author Helen Donohoe
Narrator Hannah Mercer
Duration 2h 8m
Terrorism is an issue that affects the stability of our world. Acts of terrorism are often in the news and terrorist atrocities have come to touch the lives of many people, as they did in London on 7th July 2005. This audiobook will help you to understand more about the nature of terrorism in our global community and understand why the fight agai...
View BookAuthor: Adrian Cooper
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Author Adrian Cooper
Narrator Hannah Mercer
Duration 1h 43m
Fair trade is an issue that touches every one us, even if we are not aware of it. This audiobook will help you to understand trade, why it is sometimes unfair and what can be done about it. Find out all about the globalisation of trade, see how the purchase of everyday items affects people all over the world, and discover how fair trade can allev...
View BookAuthor: Alex Woolf
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Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 35m
How and what you buy in shops has repercussions that impact on people worldwide. This audiobook examines the fundamental questions surrounding the issue of consumerism today. What is consumerism? When did consumerism begin? Why do businesses advertise? And are children affected by consumerism?
View BookAuthor: Emma Haughton
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Author Emma Haughton
Narrator Emma Haughton
Duration 1h
Unnecessary prescription or useful medicine? Creating dependency or solving a problem? Dangerous risk or harmelss fun? Find out all you need to know about drugs and what we really mean by the term drug abuse.
View BookWhat's Your View? the Impact of Big Business
Author: Melanie Jarman
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Author Melanie Jarman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 22m
Topics in this audiobook include: are oil companies too powerful? do supermarkets offer choice and value? does the arms trade have benefits for anyone? and should big businesses be allowed into schools?
View BookMarx: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Peter Singer
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Author Peter Singer
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 3h 40m
Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, i...
View BookLondon the Biography: Street Life and People
Author: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
This social history audiobook vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.
View BookCitizen Guides: What Happens At the Stock Exchange
Author: Soraya Moeng
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Author Soraya Moeng
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
What is the London Stock Exchange? Why do companies float on it? The decisions taken at the London Stock Exchange can have an important effect on you, but do you know what actually happens there? A Franklin Watts title.
View BookCitizen Guides: What Happens In A Law Court
Author: Dan Lambeth
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Author Dan Lambeth
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
Why do we have law courts? What do barristers do? How are judges appointed? What happens in a court of law can have an important effect on you, but do you know how courts actually work, and why? A Franklin Watts title.
View BookAuthor: Paul Wignall
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Author Paul Wignall
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 40m
This audiobook provides information on complex issues that teenagers face. The text examines prejudices and includes case studies, facts, figures and points of view.
View BookIdeas of the Modern World: Feminism
Author: Kay Stearman
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Author Kay Stearman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
This audiobook looks at the history of feminism and at its gradual impact on societies throughout the world. It also examines the effect that movements such as fascism and communism had on feminism.
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