Social Science audiobooks

Beyond the Scale - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Christopher

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fight against obesity is a complex journey that goes beyond traditional dietary restrictions. This ebook seeks to explore a holistic and comprehensive approach to meeting this challenge, recognizing that obesity is not just a matter of calories consumed versus calories burned. Rather than focusing solely on diet, let's dive into the many... Read more

Feminismo de barrio - Abridged

By: Mikki Kendall & María Porras Sánchez (Translator)

Narrated by: Marta Martín Jorcano

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El movimiento feminista actual tiene un punto ciego y, paradójicamente, son las mismas mujeres. La mayoría de las feministas rara vez hablan de la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas como una cuestión feminista, pero la inseguridad alimentaria, el acceso a una educación de calidad, los barrios seguros, un salario digno y la atención médica... Read more

The Snakehead - Abridged

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown,... Read more

Alchemy of Love and Lust - Abridged

By: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Narrated by: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Simon & Schuster, The Alchemy of Love and Lust is Theresa L. Crenshaw's guide to how our sex hormones influence our relationships.

The Alchemy of Love and Lust identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes and how hormones can determine the course of... Read more

Nossa ingratidão - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Guga Almeida

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Seremos injustos em lançar à conta da Regência essa política de crimes a favor da escravidão?" Neste artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa ingratidão", publicado no Diário de Notícias, o grande orador se defende das acusações da imprensa por ele supostamente não ter dado o devido crédito à Princesa Isabel no processo abolicionista. Read more

The Courage to Raise Good Men - Abridged

By: Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum

Narrated by: Olga Silverstein

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more

Corona - Abridged

By: Cordt Schnibben (Hg.) & David Schraven (Hg.)

Narrated by: Gregor Höppner

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der dramatische Report unserer Weltkrise Was Ende Dezember 2019 mit Warnungen eines Augenarztes in Wuhan begann, ist in kürzester Zeit zur globalen Pandemie geworden. SARS-CoV-2 ist ein gefährliches Virus, leicht übertragbar, tödlich, aber noch mehr ist Covid-19 der Katalysator einer globalen Umwälzung, die alle Gesellschaften und... Read more

True Notebooks - Abridged

By: Mark Salzman

Narrated by: Mark Salzman

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more

Mais Esperto que o Diabo Para Concurseiros, Sob os Ensinamentos de Napoleon Hill - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O livro Mais Esperto que o Diabo, de Napoleon Hill, é uma obra clássica sobre autoconhecimento, liberdade e sucesso. No livro, Hill apresenta uma entrevista fictícia com o Diabo, na qual o personagem revela os segredos para alcançar o sucesso. Neste ebook, vamos aplicar os ensinamentos do livro Mais Esperto que o Diabo para concursos... Read more

Apocalipsis imbécil - Abridged

By: Florián Recio

Narrated by: Martín Quirós

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pensar ha sido considerado muchas veces como una actividad peligrosa, pero con los avances de la inteligencia artificial, es posible que incluso acabe siendo directamente abolida por la ley. Sirva este libro como revulsivo a la tendencia a mantener el cerebro al ralentí y con riesgo serio de que se nos acabe calando. Guárdelo bajo su almohada y... Read more

The Bitch in the House - Abridged

By: Cathi Hanauer

Narrated by: Cathi Hanauer

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry -- that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made -- about sex, children, love and work -- and explore what's working and what is not. Their... Read more

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape - Abridged

By: V-Day, aja monet, Bella Laia, Black Girls Glow...

Narrated by: Black Girls Glow ft. Anabel Rose, Kikie, Ms. Fu...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black... Read more

Nossa democracia - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Guga Almeida

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Que é um republicano? Qual a característica que distingue uma da outra a república e a monarquia?" Neste artigo intitulado "Nossa democracia", escrita em abril de 1889 – pouco antes, portanto, da Proclamação da República –, Ruy Barbosa promove uma reflexão sobre essa forma de governo, analisando a postura da imprensa da época. Notável, além do... Read more

New York Burning - Abridged

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Beth McDonald

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted. Read more

Ghost Ship - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: A.D.A France-Williams

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of black flourishing. Through conversation with clergy, lay people and campaigners in the Church of... Read more

O dever da oposição - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Tom Bueno

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O texto "O dever da oposição" foi originalmente publicado no Jornal do Comércio, em 1885. Nele, o leitor encontra figurões da história política brasileira como personagens de um debate escrito com o português incorruptível de Ruy Barbosa – dá gosto de ler! No artigo, Ruy dá uma lição aos senadores Paulino de Sousa e João Alfredo sobre os... Read more

O senhor do engenho - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Tiago Torres

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nesta seleção de textos do clássico "Cultura e Opulência no Brasil", são evidenciadas as características deste ícone do Ciclo do Açúcar brasileiro – o senhor do engenho. Antonil discorre aqui, entre outros aspectos, sobre suas posses, seus vínculos com os vizinhos, seu capelão, seus hóspedes e mercadores de açúcar. Read more

Ava's Man - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.

This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible... Read more

Sheryl Sandberg: A Base do Sucesso por Trás do Facebook - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sheryl Sandberg, nome reverenciado no panteão dos titãs da tecnologia, transcende a mera definição de executiva. Filantropa, autora e defensora incansável da equidade de gênero, sua trajetória inspiradora entrelaça triunfos profissionais com um compromisso inabalável com o empoderamento feminino. Saiba Muito Mais... Read more

A Slave No More - Abridged

By: David W. Blight

Narrated by: David W. Blight, Richard Allen & Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.

Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama... Read more

Werbung für die Wahrheit - Abridged

By: Thomas Laschyk

Narrated by: Loris Kubeng

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keine Demokratie ohne Fakten! Wir alle fallen auf Fake News herein. Sie kommen oft als gute Geschichten daher, die in unser Weltbild passen. Aber wie gehen wir damit um, dass rechtsextreme Parteien und gewisse Boulevard-Medien das systematisch nutzen, um Desinformation zu verbreiten? Wie verhindern wir, dass Fakten keine Rolle mehr... Read more

The Logic of Life - Abridged

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune... Read more

West End Girls - Abridged

By: Barbara Tate

Narrated by: Kate O'Sullivan

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Now a Top Ten bestseller. Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war - things would never be the same... Read more

Além da Balança - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A luta contra a obesidade é uma jornada complexa que vai além das restrições alimentares tradicionais. Este ebook busca explorar uma abordagem holística e abrangente para enfrentar esse desafio, reconhecendo que a obesidade não é apenas uma questão de calorias consumidas versus calorias queimadas. Ao invés de se concentrar exclusivamente na... Read more