Social Science audiobooks

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

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - Abridged

By: Bernard Goldberg

Narrated by: Bernard Goldberg

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at ""ordinary"" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous)...the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose... Read more

She Comes First: Introduction - Abridged

By: Ian Kerner

Narrated by: Ian Kerner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Every man’s must-read. Tell your guy to put down the remote and pick up She Comes First.”
—Cosmopolitan Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First—an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest—You’re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner’s “cool sense of humor and an... 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

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

Peter Mayle's Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle & Patrick Macnee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a... 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

McMafia - Abridged

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the... Read more

An Imperfect God - Abridged

By: Henry Wiencek

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery

When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding... Read more

America's Women - Abridged

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-centuryIn this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over... Read more

Atrévete a hacer las cosas a tu manera - Abridged

By: Iolanda Batallé Prats

Narrated by: Iolanda Batallé Prats

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

«Iolanda Batallé Prats es sencillamente necesaria.»  Cristina Fallarás La escritora, editora y directora de una institución Iolanda Batallé despliega en este audiolibro, narrado por ella misma, un relato íntimo y vivencial que va más allá de un manual sobre liderazgo. Es un alegato personal y liberador, emotivo, directo y lúcido que, con coraje,... Read more

Talking Back - Abridged

By: Andrea Mitchell

Narrated by: Andrea Mitchell

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A frank, highly engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir by one of today's most respected journalists.

Read by the author
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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

The Feminine Mistake - Abridged

By: Leslie Bennetts

Narrated by: Leslie Bennetts

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really ""have to"" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the... Read more

الغرق - Abridged

By: حمور زيادة

Narrated by: خالد الذهبي

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

تكدس الأهالي أمام العيادة رجالاً ونساءً وأطفالاً. ستعيش هذه الحكاية طويلاً وتمتزج بالونس. "ليلة حنة عبد الحفيظ البدري لُدِغ عبد الرازق". ستتبدل الحكاية وتتغير. تزاوجها تفاصيل متخيلة، وتفارقها حقائق حدثت. في الونس لا يهم ما حدث. إنما يهم أن تكون الحكاية ممتعة حين تُروى Read more

The Progress Paradox - Abridged

By: Gregg Easterbrook

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it... Read more

Faster - Abridged

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: James Gleick

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.

Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers,... 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

La felicidad, desesperadamente - Abridged

By: André Comte-Sponville

Narrated by: Ángel Morón

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

" ¡Qué feliz sería si fuese feliz! Estas palabras de Woody Allen quizá dicen lo esencial: que estamos separados de la felicidad por la misma esperanza que la persigue. La sabiduría, al contrario, sería vivir de verás, el lugar de esperar vivir. En esa dirección apuntan las lecciones de Epicuro, de los estoicos, de Spinoza, o, en Oriente, de... Read more

The Tipping Point - Abridged

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a... Read more

The Confident Woman - Abridged

By: Joyce Meyer

Narrated by: Pat Lentz

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What keeps women from being their best? Joyce has been helping women better themselves by helping identify emotional barriers and physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles in their lives for years. Now she provides another answer-confidence.

Our society has an insecurity epidemic, women in particular. Compensating by pretending to be secure-a... Read more

The Lakota Way - Abridged

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are six stories from Joseph Marshall’s award-winning book, The Lakota Way, read by the author and enriched with musical performances by noted American Indian musicians Keith Bear, Joseph Fire Crow, and Andrew Vasquez.Rich with history and folklore, these traditional Lakota stories about life remain as relevant today as when they were first... 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

After - Abridged

By: Steven Brill

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After is an astounding, inspiring, and exciting account of America in the first year of the September 12th era. Based on 347 on-the-record interviews and revelations from memos of government meetings, court filings and other documents, award winning journalist Steven Brill takes us inside the critical dramas of the year after the September 11... Read more