Social Science audiobooks

The Calling - Abridged

By: Catherine Whitney

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a bluff north of Seattle, overlooking the glorious vista of Puget Sound and the white-capped Olympics, stands Rosary Heights, the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Dominic of the Holy Cross. On a dark night in 1997, a catastrophic mudslide shifts the ground beneath the motherhouse and threatens to send it crashing into the water below. By... Read more

Como Ter Tráfego Instantâneo e Aumentar suas Vendas - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O livro Como Ter Tráfego Instantâneo e Aumentar suas Vendas de EDITORIAL, MAX é um guia completo para quem deseja aumentar a visibilidade do seu negócio na internet. Com dicas práticas e eficientes, o autor ensina como atrair mais clientes e aumentar as vendas. Mas será que essas estratégias são suficientes para garantir o sucesso? O que mais o... Read more

Cowboys Full - Abridged

By: James McManus

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate.

Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global—but especially an American—phenomenon. It describes how... Read more

He-Motions - Abridged

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you find it difficult to express how you feel and what you need in your personal relationships?
Do you have trouble communicating and developing relationships with other men?
Does the weight of responsibility drag you down?
Do you wonder why it seems difficult to get the support and encouragement you need from your wife?
Do you often feel that... 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

Positively Fifth Street - Abridged

By: James McManus

Narrated by: James McManus

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rough sex, black magic, and the science--and eros--of gambling.

Meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas.

James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23-million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly... Read more

The Gold of Exodus - Abridged

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.

In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Abridged

By: Helen Morrison

Narrated by: Helen Morrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life... Read more

O capitalismo é incompatível com a verdadeira democracia e a paz: nossa resposta é o internacionalismo feminista - Abridged

By: Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser

Narrated by: Rennata Airoldi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Moradia inacessível, salários precários, saúde pública, mudanças climáticas não são temas comuns no debate público feminista. Mas não seriam essas as questões que mais afetam a esmagadora maioria das mulheres em todo o mundo? Inspiradas pela erupção global de uma nova primavera feminista, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya e Nancy Fraser,... Read more

Cronicamente online: existe vida além das redes? - Abridged

By: Dayhara Martins

Narrated by: Karina Coviello Boscaino

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Você já pensou em reconquistar o controle do próprio tempo em uma era dominada pelas notificações e pela necessidade incessante de conexão? A partir de conceitos como FOMO e nomofobia, Cronicamente online oferece insights sobre o impacto psicológico das redes sociais e traz estratégias para criar uma relação mais saudável com a tecnologia,... Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Abridged

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

The Chalice and the Blade - Abridged

By: Riane Eisler

Narrated by: Riane Eisler

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice and the Blade, in which she combined original theory with noted scholarship to tell a new story of our cultural origins. Drawing evidence from literature, art, sociology, archeology, politics, and economics, she eloquently reconstructs a prehistoric... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

Guns, Germs and Steel - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age... 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

Cómo ser culto - Abridged

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Sonia Gómez

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El universo literario en una cáscara de nuez ¿Has perdido el hábito de leer por placer? ¿Hay libros que crees que deberías conocer, pero te parecen demasiado complicados? Cómo ser culto es la guía de referencia para disfrutar de las mejores historias. A través de relatos breves y entretenidos sobre cinco géneros literarios –ficción,... Read more

War & Peace in the Workplace - Abridged

By: Jeanne Martinson

Narrated by: Jeanne Martinson & M.G. Bucholtz

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ever wonder why we just can't get along? Why we react to each other the way we do? Most conflict in the workplace comes from our differences - both our diversity in the big "D" issues such as race, gender, or ability but also diversity in the small "d" issues such as values, marital and family status, age, or thought processes. Diversity can be... Read more

Lies and Fairy Tales That Deny Women Happiness - Abridged

By: Jeanne Martinson

Narrated by: Jeanne Martinson

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As women, we have grown up to believe in stories that impact our abilities, desires, roles, and potential. Some of these stories are presented as "fairy tales" - myths we hear as small children that program our perspectives to determine whether we become a victim or a self-determined woman. From Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and... Read more

Living History - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword​​

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor... Read more

Espacios para parir diferente - Abridged

By: Georgina Sánchez Ramírez

Narrated by: Óscar Sánchez Ramírez

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolibro, de manera contundente y suspicaz, nos lleva a cuestionarnos el modelo aprendido sobre el acto de parir y de nacer, a través de las narrativas de algunas usuarias de Casas de Parto que son una opción cálida y amorosa para dar a luz, atendidas por parteras profesionales, pertenecientes a un movimiento del siglo XXI en pro del... Read more

Moralische Ambition - Wie man aufhört, sein Talent zu vergeuden und etwas schafft, das wirklich zählt (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Rutger Bregman

Narrated by: Julian Mehne

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Buch handelt von Pionieren. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Menschen, die vor moralischer Ambition nur so strotzten: Abolitionisten, Suffragetten, Helden des Widerstands und Bürgerrechtlerinnen, von Menschen, die nicht nur Ideale hatten, sondern ihre Karrieren auch nach diesen Idealen ausrichteten - und den Lauf der Welt veränderten. Wie... 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

Hard Choices - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant & Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2016 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).

In the... Read more

The Fortune Tellers - Abridged

By: Howard Kurtz

Narrated by: Howard Kurtz

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks has produced an insatiable demand for financial intelligence. On television and the Internet, commentators and analysts are not merely reporting the news, they are making news in ways that provide huge... Read more