Social Science audiobooks

Chinese mythologie

By: Marijke van Bergen

Narrated by: Roy van den Groot

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In het weelderige landschap van de Chinese mythologie ontvouwen zich eeuwenoude verhalen als delicate lotusbloemen, elk petal gedrenkt in de rijke geschiedenis en diepgaande betekenis van het Oosten. "Hemelse Vertellingen" nodigt je uit voor een betoverende reis door de mysterieuze rijken van goden, godinnen, mythen en sagen die diep verankerd... Read more

No me toques el pelo

By: Emma Dabiri

Narrated by: Francia Alcántara

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El pelo negro nunca es «solo pelo». Alisado. Estigmatizado. «Domado». Celebrado. Borrado. Gestionado. Apropiado. Siempre incomprendido. El pelo negro nunca es «solo pelo». Este libro trata de por qué el cabello negro es importante y de cómo puede considerarse un modelo de descolonización. A lo largo de una serie de ensayos irónicos e informados,... Read more

El dilema del omnívoro

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Sebastián Rosas

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

En este revolucionario libro, Michael Pollan, uno de los escritores más brillantes, originales y elocuentes de Estados Unidos, aborda la aparentemente sencilla pregunta de qué deberíamos comer, ofreciéndonos unas respuestas que tienen profundas implicaciones políticas, económicas, psicológicas e incluso morales para todos nosotros. ¿Qué... Read more

The Value Gap

By: Courtney Brannon Donoghue

Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces... Read more

Spotting Danger for Travelers

By: Gary Dean Quesenberry

Narrated by: Gary Dean Quesenberry

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Spotting danger before it happens while traveling alone or with your family is a skill that can be developed and may even save your life. So, you've decided to go on vacation. Good for you! Unfortunately, when planning a getaway, you must think about more than just the fun stuff; you must also consider your personal safety and the safety of... Read more

Imagine More

By: Stephanie Nelson

Narrated by: Stephanie Nelson

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Discouraged that you will never fulfill your dreams? Stephanie Nelson, creator of the wildly successful Coupon Mom movement, shares an inspiring, motivating roadmap for achieving dreams, saving money, and giving generously with big faith.If you feel stuck in life and unable to make progress toward your deepest hopes and... Read more

Raising Hell, Living Well

By: Jessica Elefante

Narrated by: Jessica Elefante

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore.
 
“A weirdly practical approach to some ancient questions that have become trickier lately.”—Jaron Lanier,... Read more

Opinions

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Roxane Gay

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling... Read more

Worlds Without End

By: Chris Impey

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Planet Earth, it turns out, may not be the best of all possible worlds—and lately humanity has been depleting resources, decimating species, and degrading everything needed for life. Meanwhile, human ingenuity has opened up a vista of habitable worlds well beyond our wildest dreams of outposts on Mars. Worlds without End is an expertly guided... Read more

First, Best

By: Steven L. Reed & Fagan Harris

Narrated by: Steven L. Reed

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn’t built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader.

As a proud son of a civil rights leader, Steven L. Reed grew up hearing stories about how his father integrated Montgomery lunch counters and took advice directly... Read more

Naked

By: Fancy Feast

Narrated by: Fancy Feast

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain and Emily Witt, celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker Fancy Feast gives readers a backstage pass to the nightlife and sex industries, examining our cultures hang-ups and obsessions with bodies, desire, and even love

When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of "Cabaret," she... Read more

Means and Ends

By: Zoe Baker

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.



Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their... Read more

The Deadly Rise of Anti-science

By: Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep, working around the clock to develop a nonprofit COVID-19 vaccine and to keep the public informed. During that time, he was one of the... Read more

Afrikaanse mythologie

By: Marijke van Bergen

Narrated by: Roy van den Groot

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Welkom in de rijke en betoverende wereld van Afrikaanse mythologie, waarin de hemel en aarde doordrongen zijn van goddelijke krachten, heldhaftige avonturen en tijdloze verhalen die generatie na generatie worden doorgegeven. Dit boek neemt je mee op een reis door de diverse culturen van Afrika, waar goden en godinnen, mythische wezens en... Read more

Blood Farm

By: Cara McGoogan

Narrated by: Cara McGoogan

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis.

By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive... Read more

Believe-in-You Money

By: Jessica Norwood

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Offering a revolution in Black business financing, this book centers the entrepreneur and responds to the systemic failures surrounding Black wealth building.

America has a huge racial wealth gap 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... Read more

Nobility in Small Things

By: Craig R. Smith, M.D.

Narrated by: Braden Wright & Craig R. Smith, M.D.

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two, repeat. Until March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries all over the world.

Craig Smith, M.D., Chairman of the Department of... Read more

American Man

By: Lawrence Jones

Narrated by: Lincoln Wright

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fox News star Lawrence Jones delivers the common sense book America needs more than ever in this definitive takedown of the left’s never-ending attacks on masculinity.

A generation ago it was understood that men and women were unique, yet interdependent, and designed by God to be that way. Today, the woke crowd wants you to believe masculinity... Read more

A Refugee's American Dream

By: Leth Oun

Narrated by: Tim Lounibos

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S." Thus begins Leth Oun's poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields—having spent a torturous three years, eight months, and ten days imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge—Oun thrived in America, learning English,... Read more

Obesidade Infantil - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade infantil é um problema de saúde pública crescente que envolve o acúmulo excessivo de gordura corporal em crianças e adolescentes. Essa condição é uma das preocupações mais prementes da atualidade, dado seu impacto substancial na saúde e bem-estar das gerações mais jovens. Este capítulo discutirá a definição e prevalência da obesidade... Read more

Obesidade & Nutrição - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade é uma condição de saúde complexa caracterizada pelo excesso excessivo de gordura corporal, que pode ter efeitos na saúde física e emocional. No mundo contemporâneo, a obesidade se tornou uma epidemia global, afetando pessoas de todas as idades, gêneros e origens étnicas. Compreender a obesidade e sua relação intrínseca com a nutrição... Read more

Além da Balança - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A luta contra a obesidade é uma jornada complexa que vai além das restrições alimentares tradicionais. Este ebook busca explorar uma abordagem holística e abrangente para enfrentar esse desafio, reconhecendo que a obesidade não é apenas uma questão de calorias consumidas versus calorias queimadas. Ao invés de se concentrar exclusivamente na... Read more

A Relação entre Obesidade & Atividades Esportivas - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade tem emergido como uma das preocupações de saúde mais significativas do século XXI, impactando indivíduos, comunidades e sistemas de saúde em todo o mundo. O aumento alarmante nas taxas de obesidade tem despertado a atenção de profissionais de saúde, pesquisadores e formuladores de políticas, impulsionando a busca por estratégias... Read more

Obesidade Desvendada - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade, uma condição identificada pelo excesso de gordura corporal, tornou-se uma epidemia global com impactos abrangentes na saúde pública e individual. Neste capítulo, vamos explorar as nuances da obesidade, abordando sua definição médica, sua relação com o índice de massa corporal (IMC) e os efeitos abrangentes que têm na saúde física e... Read more