Social Science audiobooks

A caça às bruxas e o medo do poder das mulheres - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 24 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

Globalização, acumulação de capital e violência contra as mulheres - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em sua obra, Silvia Federici estrutura sua análise a partir do processo de cercamento e privatização de terras comunais e, examinando o ambiente e as motivações que produziram as primeiras acusações de bruxarias na Europa, relaciona essa forma de violência à ordem econômica. Evidencia, enfim, que marcas desse processo foram deixadas também nos... Read more

Ranting Again - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage.  This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.

Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more

Der Schimmelreiter - Abridged

By: Theodor Storm

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hauke Haien, nach dem Tod des alten Deichgrafen durch seine heimliche Verlobung mit dessen Tochter Elke selbst zum Deichgrafen avanciert, wird von den Dorfbewohnern als Emporkömmling abgelehnt. Nur mühsam kann er seinen Plan für einen neuen Deich, der enormen Landgewinn bedeutet, durchsetzen und die trägen Bauern zur Mitarbeit bewegen. Bei... Read more

Die Indianer Nordamerikas - Abridged

By: Klaus Kamphausen

Narrated by: Wolf Enba

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Eine Dokumentation über das Leben der nordamerikanischen Indianer in der Zeit vor Columbus. "Ich bin das Land, meine Augen sind der Himmel, meine Glieder die Bäume. Ich bin der Fels, die Wassertiefe." (Hopi) Vor der Entdeckung und Eroberung durch den weißen Mann wurde der nordamerikanische Kontinent von etwa 300 verschiedenen... Read more

Caça às bruxas, globalização e solidariedade feminista na África dos dias atuais - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em sua obra, Silvia Federici estrutura sua análise a partir do processo de cercamento e privatização de terras comunais e, examinando o ambiente e as motivações que produziram as primeiras acusações de bruxarias na Europa, relaciona essa forma de violência à ordem econômica. Evidencia, enfim, que marcas desse processo foram deixadas também nos... Read more

Feet on the Street: - Abridged

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... 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

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Warren St. John

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Do dependente ao traficante de drogas ilícitas - Abridged

By: Marcos Machado

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poucos temas provocam tantas reações, diversificadas e contraditórias, quanto a questão das drogas ilícitas. Uma multiplicidade de pontos de vista alimenta o debate, colocando em campos opostos posições conservadoras e progressistas, cientistas e negacionistas, realistas e sonhadores, punitivistas e garantistas, céticos e pragmáticos, religiosos... 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

Traffic - Abridged

By: Tom Vanderbilt

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.

We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber - Abridged

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

Wenn die Gewalt erscheint - Abridged

By: Peter Sloterdijk & Gunnar Heinsohn

Narrated by: Peter Sloterdijk & Gunnar Heinsohn

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1 | Peter Sloterdijk: Wenn die Gewalt erscheint – Versuch über die Explosivität der Bilder Sendung: 26.12.1994 Urszenen der Gewalt finden sich bereits in der griechischen Mythologie. Der blutige Streit zwischen Thyestes und Atreus findet seinen Höhepunkt, als letzterer dem Bruder die eigenen Kinder zum Mahl vorsetzt. Als er erkennt, was ihm... Read more

Caças às bruxas, cercamentos e o fim das relações de propriedade comunal - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste ensaio, Silvia Federici estrutura sua análise a partir do processo de cercamento e privatização de terras comunais e, examinando o ambiente e as motivações que produziram as primeiras acusações de bruxarias na Europa, relaciona essa forma de violência à ordem econômica. Evidencia, enfim, que marcas desse processo foram deixadas também nos... Read more

Voll Porno! - Abridged

By: Christoph Pahl

Narrated by: Daniel Kopp

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Voll Porno?!" Ist Pornokonsum heutzutage alltäglich und normal geworden? Was für Auswirkungen hat er auf mein eigenes Leben, auf meine Beziehungen und auf meinen Umgang mit Sexualität? Christoph Pahl (Jg. 1981) setzt sich gekonnt mit der Thematik auseinander, präsentiert die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Studien und spricht ehrlich über eigene... Read more

Outcasts United - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

Preachers of Hate - Abridged

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Narrated by: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

By: Neil Cavuto

Narrated by: Neil Cavuto

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential newsmakers, from CEOs to politicians -- getting behind the story by connecting with the men and women who made it. And he ends each show with his own personal commentaries -- sometimes witty, often inspiring, and... 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

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

Fast Food Nation - Abridged

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - Abridged

By: Sarah Ban Breathnach

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves. Read more