Social Science audiobooks

Nossa democracia - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Guga Almeida

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Que é um republicano? Qual a característica que distingue uma da outra a república e a monarquia?" Neste artigo intitulado "Nossa democracia", escrita em abril de 1889 – pouco antes, portanto, da Proclamação da República –, Ruy Barbosa promove uma reflexão sobre essa forma de governo, analisando a postura da imprensa da época. Notável, além do... Read more

Nossa veracidade - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Tom Bueno

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A extinção do elemento servil foi, no sentido mais estrito da palavra, uma conquista popular". O artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa veracidade", de onde se extraíram estas palavras, foi publicado no Diário de Notícias em 3 de abril de 1889, portanto, quase um ano depois da assinatura da Lei Áurea. Uma defesa veemente do autor perante os... Read more

Rashtriya Aandolanat Ra Swa Sangh

By: Sudhir Joglekar

Narrated by: Neha Naik

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

स्वतंत्रता आंदोलनात संघाचा सहभाग होता परंतु संघानी त्याचे श्रेय घेतले नाही. संघसंस्थापक डॉ. हेडगेवार यांनी स्वातंत्र्य संग्रामात भाग घेण्यासाठी आपल्या डाँक्टरी पेशाचा स्वेच्छेने त्याग केला. डॉ. हेडगेवार यांचा जन्म १ एप्रिल,१८८९ साली नागपूर मध्ये झाला. नागपूर मध्ये १९०४-१९०५ मध्ये स्वातंत्र्य चळवळीचे वारे वाहू लागले. त्या आधी इथे पोषक वातावरण... Read more

Time for the world to learn from Africa

By: Ruth Finnegan

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps into the gap with a prize... Read more

The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat

By: Austin J. Bell

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Excavated from a waterlogged archaeological site on the shores of subtropical Florida by legendary anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1896, the Key Marco Cat has become a modern icon of heritage, history, and local identity. This book takes listeners into the deep past of the artifact and the Native American society in which it was... Read more

New York Jew

By: Alfred Kazin

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more

Living a Committed Life

By: Lynne Twist

Narrated by: Lynne Twist

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What would life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist.

How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond,... Read more

Immigration

By: Carl J. Bon Tempo & Hasia R. Diner

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present



The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the... Read more

Disability Pride

By: Ben Mattlin

Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals,... Read more

Hoodoo for Health and Success

By: Amina Waynes

Narrated by: Daiannie Vera

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic that works for Health and Success, even if you are a beginner!The essence of Hoodoo is the search for earthly advantage through magic.Almost everyone aspires to be prosperous. You would probably like your financial goals to be achieved at the desired time, whether you have a regular day job or are a struggling entrepreneur attempting... Read more

The Flowering Wand

By: Sophie Strand

Narrated by: Sophie Strand

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

• Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables

• Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s... Read more

African American Slave Medicine

By: Herbert C. Covey

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal,... Read more

Red Valkyries

By: Kristen Ghodsee

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists



Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda... Read more

Scorched Earth

By: Jonathan Crary

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism



In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the... Read more

Hate and Reconciliation

By: Guido Cuyvers

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Hatred is human and current. It is an intrinsic part of what can happen between people. Personal experiences can lead people to hate someone. In society and even on a global level, hatred is again and again the motor of misunderstanding and often also of violence between people. Sometimes hate smolders almost unconsciously; at other times he is... Read more

Black Cats & Evil Eyes

By: Chloe Rhodes

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection investigates the origins of our most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which we still find ourselves abiding by today. Hundreds of the beliefs passed down through the generations have their foundations in our ancestors' efforts to ward off evil, which they blamed for hardship, illness, and injustice in times when... Read more

Believe Her

By: Michael James Emberger

Narrated by: Kristina Rothe

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Yes you will absolutely be reborn, yes you will rebuild something more beautiful than before, but essentially a death took place in that moment and that is irreversible…”-a Survivor It is an honor and a privilege to be an ally to a survivor of sexual assault. She allows you close to her pain and you help her heal—with no expectations on her.... Read more

Gestalt en palabras pequeñas

By: Francisco Fernández Romero

Narrated by: Marco Lubián

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Las palabras, las grandes y las pequeñas, son puentes que nos unen. Nunca nacen solas. Hay tantos autores que han escrito grandes y luminosas palabras sobre la Gestalt. Yo escribo palabras pequeñas porque creo que también importan. Escribir es mi forma de aprender, pensar, de hacerme preguntas, de intentar contestarlas, de perderme y, a veces,... Read more

Hoodoo for Love and Protection

By: Amina Waynes

Narrated by: Daiannie Vera

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to bring Love and Protection in your life and that of others, even if you are a beginner?The essence of Hoodoo is the search for earthly advantage through magic."Hoodoo for Love and Protection" is an upgrade to the book "Hoodoo for Beginners". It will teach you to use Hoodoo to bring Love and Protection with 30+ ready-to-use Spells... Read more

Sunjata and Bakaridjan Koné: Two Captivating Legends from Mali

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Michael Reaves

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you like epic tales that sing the deeds of the world’s greatest heroes?If so, you will love this volume of epics from the West African country of Mali. Each is full of battles and derring-do, magic, and prophecies based on historical events. The Epic of Sunjata tells the tale of the great thirteenth-century king of the Mali Empire, Sunjata... Read more

The Melodramatists

By: Howard Nemerov

Narrated by: Kelly Burke

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Nemerov's first novel, 'The Melodramatists' is a parody of life in 20th Century America. When wealthy Nicholas Boyne is committed to a mental health facility, his two daughters, Claire and Susan, are left to their own devices. Susan embarks on an ill-fated affair with her psychiatrist, while Claire undergoes a spiritual awakening and sets about... Read more

La fuerte razón para estar juntos

By: Peter Sloterdijk

Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro surge de la inversión de la pregunta que ordenaba un proyecto intelectual. En el lapso entre 1998 y 2004, Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe, 1947) gesta, en el monumental proyecto Esferas, su apuesta más vasta para explicar la historia de la humanidad indagando en el carácter pneumático de toda comunidad. Guiaba su mano la siguiente... Read more

Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni

By: Krzysztof Toeplitz

Narrated by: Jędrzej Fulara

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Powieść autora scenariusza do ikonicznego serialu "Czterdziestolatek"!Skąd się wzięła polska kultura masowa i jakie są jej główne atuty? Na czym polega fenomen dostępu do szybkiego przepływu informacji i łatwo przyswajalnej, taniej rozrywki? ,,Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni" to zbiór szkiców o społecznym oddziaływaniu środków masowego przekazu i... Read more

La madre de todas las preguntas - Abridged

By: Rebecca Solnit & Lucía Barahona (Translator)

Narrated by: Marta Martín Jorcano

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un nuevo libro de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust, que ilumina, entre otras cosas, la manera en que se entretejen la historia del silencio y la historia de las mujeres. "Hay una nueva revolución feminista en marcha, y Rebecca Solnit es una de sus voces más poderosas y cautivadoras."—Barbara Ehrenreich "No esperen un libro... Read more