Social Science audiobooks

Steve Jobs: A Revolução da Apple - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Steve Jobs, um nome que ecoa no panteão dos gênios inovadores, um visionário que moldou a era digital e revolucionou a forma como interagimos com a tecnologia. Cofundador da Apple Inc., Jobs não apenas criou produtos icônicos, mas também definiu uma filosofia de design e experiência do usuário que continua a inspirar o mundo até... Read more

بين دهاليز الحكايات الشعبية السورية - Abridged

By: نمر سلمون

Narrated by: نمر سلمون

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الحكي مهنة الجدات الأثيرة، بساط سحري يطير بنا حول العالم، عصا سحرية تسرق الدهشة من عيوننا. هل اشتقت لصوت الحكايات القديمة؟ استمع حصريًا ولأول مرة إلى الحكواتي نمر سلمون في كتاب "بين دهاليز الحكايات الشعبية السورية"، وتمتع ب 22 حكاية تراثية باللهجة السورية. نمر سلمون، هو حكواتي ومسرحي سوري، شغوف بالتراث العربي، يكشف لنا صوته خبايا وأسرار الزمان... Read more

Lust auf Archäologie! - Abridged

By: Wolfgang Korn

Narrated by: Bernt Hahn, Ingeborg Wunderlich & Dominik Freib...

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit verblüffendem Einfallsreichtum und originellen Methoden nehmen Archäologen die Spuren der Vergangenheit auf. Wolfgang Korn gibt uns Einblicke in eine Wissenschaft, deren Geschichten sich wie ein Krimi lesen. Wir besuchen die Grabräuber in Ägypten, begeben uns auf die Spur des schlitzohrigen Troia-Entdeckers Heinrich Schliemann, forschen nach... Read more

The Beltway Beast - Abridged

By: Munir Moon

Narrated by: Wayne Jones

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Beltway Beast: Stealing from Future Generations and Destroying the Middle Class, transcends the anger and frustration of American people with their leaders failing to solve the country's problems. It documents our current reality and offers transformational ideas, such as shrinking the Presidential Primary process by utilizing technology,... 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

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

Como Ficar Rico utilizando os Ensinamentos do livro Mais Esperto que o Diabo, de Napoleon Hill - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O livro "Mais Esperto Que o Diabo", de Napoleon Hill, é um clássico do desenvolvimento pessoal que já vendeu mais de 100 milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. No livro, Hill compartilha os ensinamentos que aprendeu com os mais ricos e bem-sucedidos homens de seu tempo, incluindo Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford e Thomas Edison. Neste ebook, vamos... Read more

True Prep - Abridged

By: Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd

Narrated by: Lisa Birnbach

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.

True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping,... Read more

Aus der schönen neuen Welt - Expeditionen ins Landesinnere (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Günter Wallraff

Narrated by: Günter Wallraff

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zum 80. Geburtstag des Autors endlich wieder erhältlich: "Man muss sich verkleiden, um die Gesellschaft zu demaskieren..." - Günter Wallraff. Niemand hat mehr Missstände aufgedeckt als er. Junge Journalisten nehmen sich an ihm ein Vorbild, wenn sie in Rollen schlüpfen, um die dunklen Seiten der gesellschaftlichen Realität aufzudecken - eine... Read more

Aufbruch in die Freiheit - Abridged

By: Tom Doyle, JoAnn Doyle & Greg Webster

Narrated by: Daniel Kopp & Simone Merz

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Hörbuch "Aufbruch in die Freiheit" von Tom und JoAnn Doyle erzählt die Geschichte von Frauen, die mitten in extremen Situationen zu Jesus gefunden haben. Farah liebt ihren Beruf und die schicken Klamotten, die sie sich leisten kann. Als die Familie dringend Geld braucht, um eine lebensrettende OP für ihre Mutter bezahlen zu können, wird... Read more

What Liberal Media? - Abridged

By: Eric Alterman

Narrated by: Eric Alterman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the Liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news? Or is it the conservatives who have identified media bias as a rallying cry around... Read more

1001 Ideen für den Alltag mit autistischen Kindern und Jugendlichen - Abridged

By: Ellen Notbohm & Veronika Zysk

Narrated by: Mike Langhans

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über 1001 innovative wie auch bewährte Tipps unterstützen Eltern, Lehrkräfte und Erzieher*innen im Alltag mit autistischen Kindern und Jugendlichen. Praktisch, alltagsnah und auf die unterschiedlichen Entwicklungsstufen, Lernstile und Fähigkeiten angepasst, werden kreative und einfach anwendbare Ideen aufgezeigt - eine Fundgrube für alle, die... Read more

O Despertar da Consciência: A Filosofia de Napoleon Hill para o Sucesso na Vida Moderna - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Napoleon Hill foi um autor e palestrante motivacional americano que escreveu o livro "Pense e Enriqueça" em 1937. Este livro é um dos livros de autoajuda mais vendidos de todos os tempos e foi traduzido para mais de 50 idiomas. A filosofia de Hill é baseada na ideia de que o sucesso é alcançado por meio de um processo de autodesenvolvimento.... Read more

Maggie's American Dream - Abridged

By: James P. Comer

Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up earning a total of thirteen college degrees between... 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

Por que falar outra vez em caças às bruxas? - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Por que voltar a falar, hoje, sobre caça às bruxas? Silvia Federici revisita os principais temas de sua obra e nos brinda com um ensaio que apresenta as raízes históricas dessas perseguições, que tiveram como alvo principalmente as mulheres. Read more

The Coalwood Way - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.

The strains can be felt within the... Read more

The Last American Man - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable look at a truly pioneering, but thoroughly modern, American hero.Finalist for the National Book Award 2002In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his... Read more

Race Rules - Abridged

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals who act not only as interpreters between black and white America but as bridges between the academy and the street. In this brave, bracing, and vastly readable book, he identifies the hidden rules that... Read more

O Poder do Pensamento Positivo: Sob a Luz de Napoleon Hill - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O pensamento positivo é uma ideia que tem sido explorada por filósofos, religiosos e autores de autoajuda há séculos. A crença básica é que os pensamentos positivos podem ter um impacto significativo em nossa vida, levando a resultados mais positivos. Um dos defensores mais famosos do pensamento positivo foi Napoleon Hill. Em seu livro "Pense... Read more

Be Happy Without Being Perfect - Abridged

By: Alice D. Domar, Ph.D. & Alice Kelly

Narrated by: Alice D. Domar, Ph.D.

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you have trouble going to bed at night when there’s a mess in the kitchen? Do you think you would be happier if only you could lose weight, be a better parent, work smarter, reduce stress, exercise more, and make better decisions? You’re not perfect. But guess what? You don’t have to be. All of us struggle with high expectations from time to... Read more

Ecofeminismo Crítico Justicia y Ética Interespecies - Abridged

By: Cintia Aparecida de Godoy

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O entendimento de que muitos dos conflitos e desigualdades que enfrentamos atualmente advêm de uma construção logica, histórica e filosófica pode apoiar-nos na hora de encontramos alternativas para o imenso caos civilizatório e planetário no qual nos encontramos. Esta obra nos convida a revisitar alguns aspetos, momentos e narrativas históricas... Read more

With My Face to the Enemy - Abridged

By: Robert Cowley

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of powerful, insightful essays about the Civil War by some of the most renowned historians in their field. Read more

Reed Hastings: O Gênio por Trás da Netflix - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nascido em Boston em 1960, Reed Hastings sempre foi um espírito inquieto e empreendedor. Desde cedo, demonstrava interesse por tecnologia e matemática, o que o levou a cursar graduação em Bowdoin e mestrado em ciência da computação em Stanford. Após sua formação, Hastings mergulhou no mundo do empreendedorismo, fundando a Pure Software, empresa... Read more