Social Science audiobooks

Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Abridged

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Gail Sheehy

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

THE ART OF PEACE - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Christopher

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a world full of challenges and conflicts, the quest for peace emerges as an essential and urgent ideal for the survival and prosperity of humanity. While history is marked by wars and violent disputes, the time has come to question and reflect on the true meaning of peace and how we can achieve it in a lasting way. The concept of peace... Read more

Relações Poderosas: Construindo Vínculos Pessoais e Profissionais com Base nos Ensinamentos de Napoleon Hill - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Se você está em busca de uma nova abordagem para alcançar o sucesso em sua vida, este e-book é para você. Contrapondo o método de Napoleon Hill em seu livro "Mais Esperto Que o Diabo", este guia apresenta "críticas" fundamentadas e alternativas eficazes para alcançar seus Ao finalizar a leitura, você terá em mãos uma visão mais clara e... Read more

Semiglücklich in die Zukunft - Abridged

By: Horst Opaschowski

Narrated by: Horst Opaschowski

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie sehen die Deutschen angesichts der Corona-Pandemie in die Zukunft? Basierend auf seiner repräsentativen Studie erzählt Zukunftsforscher Horst Opaschowki in 21 Kapiteln von dem neuen Leben der Deutschen in der Post-Corona-Zeit. Viele Menschen wurden ärmer, aber nicht unglücklicher. Ihr Wohlstandsdenken veränderte sich, und Gesundheit wurde so... Read more

Chuck Klosterman IV - Abridged

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously... 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

Clubland - Abridged

By: Frank Owen

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A fearless journalist's brilliant unveiling of a world of drugs,dancing, money, madness--and murder after midnightClubland is the sensational story of the rise and fall of a decadent nocturnal empire that stretched over several American cities and spawned its own subculture of celebrities and wannabes. Journalist Frank Owen spent nearly a decade... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

The Future of Success - Abridged

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his... Read more

Ladies of Liberty - Abridged

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

“This collection succeeds in emphasizing that many unsung women left their mark well before the suffrage movement.” —Publishers WeeklyFans of #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts, also a celebrated journalist for ABC and NPR, will love this stunning nonfiction picture book, as will parents and educators looking for a more in-depth... Read more

LA SOCIOLOGIE RACONTE SON HISTOIRE - Abridged

By: Miguel Bevaurd

Narrated by: Thomas Célestet

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

·  Ce livre propose un voyage captivant au cœur des idées et des théories qui ont façonné notre compréhension de la vie en société. À travers une exploration des grands penseurs sociologiques et des contextes historiques qui ont influencé leur réflexion, il révèle comment ces concepts ont modelé les dynamiques sociales qui régissent nos... Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... 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

Mais Esperto que o Diabo para Mulheres, Sob os Ensinamentos de Napoleon Hill - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

O livro "Mais esperto que o Diabo" de Napoleon Hill é um clássico do desenvolvimento pessoal que revela as estratégias que o Diabo usa para controlar as mentes das pessoas. Hill entrevista o próprio Diabo, que se autodenomina "Sua Majestade", para aprender sobre suas técnicas de controle. O livro é dividido em três partes: Parte I: O Diabo e... Read more

Reviving Ophelia - Abridged

By: Mary Pipher, PhD

Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating... Read more

Reid Hoffman: Um Mestre por Trás do LinkedIn - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reid Hoffman, nome que ecoa no mundo da tecnologia e do empreendedorismo, é mais do que apenas um cofundador de uma empresa de sucesso. Sua mente visionária e perspicácia para negócios o transformaram em um titã da indústria, inspirando gerações de inovadores e líderes. Este livro narra a trajetória notável de Hoffman, desde suas humildes... 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

Beyond Love - Abridged

By: Dominique Lapierre

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From its first appearance in the late 1970s to the remarkable treatment methods that are now keeping millions alive, AIDS has been a headlining topic for decades. Master storyteller Dominique Lapierre— renowned for his best sellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy— has created his most extraordinary epic of human... Read more

Introduction to Consent Culture and Teen Films - Abridged

By: Michele Meek

Narrated by: Michele Meek

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy audio of the introduction to the book Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in Teen Films read to you by the author.Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. Contemporary movies, on the other hand, now routinely... Read more

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

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O livro "Mais Esperto que o Diabo" foi escrito por Napoleon Hill em 1938 e é um clássico do pensamento pessoal e do desenvolvimento da autoconsciência. No livro, Hill entrevista um homem misterioso que se identifica como "o diabo". O diabo revela a Hill os segredos do sucesso e do fracasso, e Hill compartilha esses segredos com o... Read more

Değişen Beynim - Abridged

By: Sinan Canan

Narrated by: Yüce Armağan Erkek

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bu kitap bizzat sizinle, bizimle ilgili... Anne karnından yaşamımızın sonuna kadar tüm yaşamımızı yönetmek gibi çetin bir işle mükellef o muhteşem et parçasının, yani beyninizin başrolü oynadığı bir macerayı yaşıyoruz hep birlikte. Bu maceranın adı ise "hayat"... Bir sinirbilimci olarak, beyin hakkında herkesin bilmesi gerektiğini... Read more

The Genius Factory - Abridged

By: David Plotz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more

As seis lições (resumo) - Abridged

By: Ludwig Von Mises

Narrated by: Everton Ferreira

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este minilivro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. As Seis Lições reúne as palestras ministradas, em 1959, por Ludwig von Mises na Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA). O autor discute com clareza o capitalismo, o socialismo, o intervencionismo, a inflação, o investimento estrangeiro e as relações entre política e ideias. Em linguagem... Read more

Sag was! Radikal höflich gegen Rechtspopulismus argumentieren - Abridged

By: Philipp Steffan

Narrated by: Alice Hasters & Maximiliane Häcke

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Dieses hochaktuelle Hörbuch gibt wirklich hilfreiche Tipps, wie man Rechtspopulismus erkennt, wie man mit ihm umgeht und vor allem wie man am besten dagegen argumentiert. Es bestärkt junge (und gerne auch ältere) Menschen, eigenständig zu denken, Schlagzeilen zu hinterfragen und angesagte Themen auch mal von einer anderen Perspektive zu... Read more