Social Science audiobooks

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

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

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

Finnish Animal Myths and Legends

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the arrival of Christianity, early inhabitants of Finland practised animistic nature-based belief, where everything in nature had its own place and spirit. Some of the historical artefacts show that belief in the totem animals was strong as well. Learn about the history of ancient Finland and some of the intriguing animal myths. How the... Read more

Popularizing the Past

By: Nick Witham

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation’s history.
 
What’s the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars... Read more

La mente parasitaria

By: Gad Saad

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay una guerra contra la verdad. Si no la ganamos, la libertad será su víctima El compromiso de Occidente con la libertad, la razón y el liberalismo nunca ha estado tan amenazado como ahora. El peligro procede de las opresivas fuerzas de la corrección política. Gad Saad, científico del comportamiento evolutivo, expone las malas ideas —lo que él... Read more

Rasputín

By: Edvard Radzinsky

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez & Sara Gómez

Length: 24 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Los archivos secretos Rasputín, una de las figuras más fascinantes y polémicas del siglo XX, ha permanecido encubierto en el mito de su propia invención desde su extraordinario ascenso al poder de la corte de Nicolás y Alexandra, los últimos zares de Rusia. Hasta ahora. Edvard Radzinsky, el autor del best seller internacional El último zar, se... Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Turkije (Gökmen Dogan)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Wat valt op, als je als buitenlander naar Nederland verhuist? Nederland presenteert zich graag als gastvrij en tolerant land, maar hoe wordt daar daar door nieuwkomers over gedacht? Dit is hun verhaal.In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en... Read more

Abroad in Japan

By: Chris Broad

Narrated by: Chris Broad

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and... Read more

Disobedient Bodies

By: Emma Dabiri

Narrated by: Emma Dabiri

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

«En esta conmovedora autobiografía que no podrás soltar, un joven poeta relata la inolvidable historia de su desgarradora migración hacia Estados Unidos desde El Salvador a los nueve años, considerada 'el viaje mítico de nuestra era'.» —Sandra Cisneros Viaje. Mis padres empezaron a usar esa palabra hace más o menos un año: “un día vas a hacer un... Read more

My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary

By: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Narrated by: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help people as they discussed difference, race and inclusion. My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary aims to do just that.

This A-Z pocket guide is for people who are entering the workplace... Read more

Gangster's Paradise

By: Jared Savage

Narrated by: Stephen Lovatt

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand.
Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker who helped a gang whisk a shipping container... Read more

Cult Trip

By: Anke Richter

Narrated by: Olivia Mortimer-Eade

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults
At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman - a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint - who will change the course of her life and career. Over the next ten years,... Read more

In the Form of a Question

By: Amy Schneider

Narrated by: Amy Schneider

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm and funny.” —The New York Times * “Refreshingly no-holds-barred.” —USA TODAY * “Delightful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An inspirational, witty, and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself as well as a passionate “ode to learning”... Read more

Extremely Online

By: Taylor Lorenz

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet, revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off—“terrific,” as the New York Times calls it, “Lorenz…is a knowledgeable, opinionated guide to the ways internet fame has... Read more

Cruel and Usual Punishment

By: Nonie Darwish

Narrated by: Carol Jacobanis

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a... Read more

Black Grief/White Grievance

By: Juliet Hooker

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Joana Garcia reveals howrace shapes expectations about whose losses matter In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are... Read more

The Hank Show

By: McKenzie Funk

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin & McKenzie Funk

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a prologue read by the author.

The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of.

The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man—as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity... Read more

Strong Girls, Strong World

By: Dale Hanson Bourke

Narrated by: Dale Hanson Bourke

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

You Can Make a Global Impact―One Girl at a Time

In Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face―and the tangible ways we can each make a difference. Filled with personal stories,... Read more

Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook

By: Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer

Narrated by: Aven Shore

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings.

Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the characters.

With characters from Norse myths coming to... Read more

Collision of Power

By: Martin Baron

Narrated by: Liev Schreiber

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a prologue and epilogue read by the author.

A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech—for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money.

Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a... Read more

A Fire at the Center

By: Karen Van Fossan

Narrated by: Dana Weddle

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands. This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist... Read more

The War on Men

By: Owen Strachan

Narrated by: Axel Bosley

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Men—and masculinity in general—are under attack. For society to succeed, we need strong men to lead us in all areas of life.The war on men is a war on civilization.Strong men are not “toxic.” If they go away, evil men take their place, and weak men offer no resistance.The idea that masculine men—assertive, risk-taking, single-minded—are a... Read more