Social Science audiobooks

Ein Herz und eine Pflege - Vom Glück, für andere da zu sein (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Rashid Hamid

Narrated by: Denis Moschitto

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Salam alaikum, Erwin! Wie kann ich helfen?" Rashid Hamid führt seinen Hamburger Pflegedienst mit viel Einsatz und Liebe. Die Begegnungen mit den alten Menschen zaubern ihm ein Lächeln ins Gesicht, auch wenn der Pflege-Alltag manchmal mühsam sein kann. In seinem Hörbuch erzählt Rashid, warum er sich für diesen Job entschieden hat _ und es immer... Read more

DISASTER PREPARATION

By: Percival Moore

Narrated by: Peter Finch

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Disaster Preparation: A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Disaster Preparedness" is a vital resource for individuals and families looking to proactively safeguard themselves against unforeseen emergencies. This book offers a step-by-step approach to preparing for various disasters and ensuring the safety and well-being of loved... Read more

Self-Care for Latinas

By: Raquel Reichard

Narrated by: Asatta Jones

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gifting the girlies this book could seriously help them elevate their well-being and life.” —Refinery29

“The self-help book Latinas have been waiting for. The ultimate reminder for us all to make time to better our lives, joy, and self-care routines.” —Hip Latina

Prioritize your well-being with more than 100 exercises designed specifically to... Read more

Violent Delights, Violent Ends

By: Nicole von Germeten

Narrated by: Angela Juarez

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the listener beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony—colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing... Read more

The Abolitionist’s Journal

By: James D. Richardson

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824–1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away. Their journey brought them to the brink of the racial divide in America, revealing how his great-great-grandfather... Read more

The War on Critical Race Theory

By: David Theo Goldberg

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Critical Race Theory" is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities.



In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He... Read more

The Emancipation Circuit

By: Thulani Davis

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new... Read more

Ways of Eating

By: Merry White & Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.



From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces listeners to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to... Read more

Intercourse

By: Andrea Dworkin

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed—but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she's best known for—in which she provoked... Read more

Nice is Not Enough

By: C.J. Pascoe

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good.



Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's "regime of kindness" to underline how the culture operates as a Band-Aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive... Read more

Popular Crime

By: Bill James

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime—now available in paperback.

The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique,... Read more

Believe-In-You Money

By: Jessica Norwood

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a huge racial wealth gap in America today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth—but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success.



Merging historical information and data, along with tactical examples and... Read more

Rebuilding Trust

By: Morgan Johnson MA, LPC

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the ways relationships fall apart, betrayal can rock us to the core. And yet, for couples or partners who want to stay together and do the work, healing is possible. The old relationships that no longer serve us can be dismantled and reassembled into deeper, stronger, more satisfying bonds than we ever imagined.



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In Church as It Is In Heaven

By: Timothy Paul Jones & Jamaal E. Williams

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Mike Lenz

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Heaven is multiethnic. Are you ready for that?



The Bible tells us that the congregation gathered around God's heavenly throne will be "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language," all singing the praises of the Lamb. God's intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed community of ethnic diversity.



But... Read more

Prisoner's Dilemma

By: William Poundstone

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Should you watch public television without pledging? Exceed the posted speed limit? Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner's dilemma one of the great unifying concepts... Read more

Extraordinary Wing Women

By: Kimothy Joy

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendshipWingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.While researching her first book, That’s What She Said, Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success. Each of them were propelled forward by a supporter—a wing... Read more

Stamped from the Beginning

By: Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell

Length: 23 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.



In... Read more

Unfractured

By: Skot Welch

Narrated by: Skot Welch

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Together we can change the conversation—and change the world.



We're often left in dead-end debates on racial tensions, foolishly expecting solutions from a culture obsessed with canceling and dividing. But what if the church could create a more effective dialogue?



For over two decades, Skot Welch has been a key advisor on diversity and inclusion... Read more

Coping with Chronic Illness - 7 Habits that Really Help

By: Julie Boyle

Narrated by: Heather Lucy

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Managing chronic illness is no laughing matter. It often hurts more than just physically, and that fact can have far-reaching consequences.Feelings of frustration with ongoing pain and fatigue can be difficult for those who are "not in your boat" to understand.Through fifty years of trial and error, I have discovered a combination of 7 simple... Read more

Park Cruising

By: Marcus McCann

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.



Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his... Read more

How to Survive in Medieval England

By: Toni Mount

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, iPads, internet, and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you're fortunate, horseback, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can... Read more

The Black Joy Project

By: Kleaver Cruz

Narrated by: Pascale Armand

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking and necessary love letter to a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, The Black Joy Project is Humans of New York meets The Black Book""A patchwork quilt of ... moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient emotional and verbal spice for the soul."" – Michael W. Twitty, culinary and cultural... Read more

How Migration Really Works

By: Hein de Haas

Narrated by: Matthew Spencer

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap​).

As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines?

Drawing... Read more

O Grande Livro da Maçonaria

By: Claudio Blanc

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Originada a partir de fenômenos históricos e sociais muito diversos, a moderna maçonaria foi organizada em obediências em 1717 em Londres, dando origem à chamada maçonaria especulativa ou seja, filosófica. Descrita, como uma associação essencialmente filosófica e filantrópica, como um sistema moral ilustrado por símbolos ou como uma ordem... Read more