Social Science audiobooks

Subliminal Psychology

By: Christopher Kingler

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wished you could penetrate someone's mind? Are you one of those people who are drawn to exploring the depths of the human psyche?Are you tired of being prey to emotional predators and manipulators and want to learn the art of subliminal psychology to fully protect yourself?
The relationship between the conscious and the subconscious... Read more

Room at the Table: Encouraging Stories from Special Needs Families

By: Stephanie Pavlantos & Starr Ayers

Narrated by: Mark Levigne & Michelle Levigne

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a special needs child or know someone who is? Room at the Table: Encouraging Stories from Special Needs Families is rooted in the 2 Samuel 9 account of King David, who extended kindness to Jonathon's disabled son, Mephibosheth, and granted him a seat at the king's table.Author Stephanie Pavlantos, the mother of Matthew with cerebral... Read more

Mama. Ultima îmbrățișare

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Mihai Baranga

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"O carte captivantă și generoasă, plină de compasiune și de revelații despre viaţa animalelor, dar şi despre viaţa oamenilor." — YUVAL NOAH HARARI În Mama. Ultima îmbrățișare, Frans de Waal explorează bogăția emoțională a vieții animalelor – începând cu Mama, o venerabilă femelă-cimpanzeu care s-a atașat profund de biologul Jan van Hooff.... Read more

Suntem îndeajuns de inteligenți pentru a înțelege inteligența animalelor?

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Mihai Baranga

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Suntem îndeajuns de inteligenți pentru a înțelege inteligența animalelor? ne poartă într-o călătorie fascinantă prin lumea surprinzătoare a cogniției animalelor, care nu sunt niște simple mașinării ce răspund la stimuli și reacționează mânate numai de instinct. Autorul ne arată felul în care cercetările din ultimele decenii au descoperit că... Read more

Bonobo și ateul

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Mihai Baranga

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ediție cu ilustrațiile autorului În Bonobo și ateul, Frans de Waal folosește cunoștințele dobândite în zeci de ani de cercetare a primatelor, și a speciei bonobo în particular, pentru a aprofunda cu ochiul fin al eseistului cultural, versat în istoria artei și în filozofie, probleme fundamentale ale naturii umane. Care este izvorul moralității... Read more

How to Make People Like You

By: Christopher Kingler

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family?Are you curious about how to get or keep your dream job?Would you like to quickly connect with whoever you want without making a bad impression?
This manual is divided into three parts to facilitate understanding:The first part◆ Understanding people's... Read more

La Colonia LeBarón

By: Sally Denton

Narrated by: Joel Valdez

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

El 4 de noviembre de 2019 un grupo de hombres armados abrió fuego contra tres vehículos en los que viajaba la familia LeBarón. Murieron tres mujeres y seis de sus hijos, apenas niños, mientras que otros cinco resultaron heridos. Las víctimas pertenecían a la comunidad mormona que se instaló en el norte de México cuando en su país, Estados... Read more

México, manual de usuario

By: Chumel Torres

Narrated by: Chumel Torres

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

El país -como cada seis años, o mejor dicho: cada año- se encuentra en un momento crítico de inestabilidad económica, corrupción, deshonestidad política, indolencia ante los problemas sociales...¿y ahora quién podrá defendernos? Fiel a su estilo y con un humor salvaje, Chumel Torres ofrece en este libro una reflexión sobre lo que nos distingue... Read more

Crónicas desde la región más violenta

By: author

Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo & Juan Carlos González

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Éste es el segundo libro del equipo de Sala Negra de El Faro y puede considerarse también la segunda parte de Crónicas Negras. La sección de investigación de violencia del periódico digital más prestigioso de América Latina fue creada en 2011 con un propósito: entender la violencia en el triángulo norte de Centroamérica, una de las esquinas más... Read more

Big Love

By: Brooke Blurton

Narrated by: Brooke Blurton

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful ... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion' Osher Gunsberg'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all generations and backgrounds. I... Read more

El arte de pensar

By: Rolf Dobelli

Narrated by: Luis Ignacio González

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rolf Dobelli estudia los «errores de lógica» más imprevisibles para descubrir por qué sobrevaloramos nuestros propios conocimientos, por qué algo no se vuelve más cierto porque millones de personas lo consideran así, y por qué nos enfrascamos en teorías cuya falsedad está comprobada. Quien sabe lo fácil que a menudo es equivocarse, está mejor... Read more

Islam

By: Hamed Abdel-Samad

Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Nun kommen die Muslime nach Europa nicht mehr als Eroberer, sondern als Migranten. Die meisten von ihnen sind friedliche Menschen, die keine politischen Ziele verfolgen. Doch der Islamismus wandert mit ein und will sein altes Projekt in Europa vollenden. Man könnte sagen: Während das Boot des Islamismus in der arabischen Welt sinkt, wird der... Read more

What the Children Told Us

By: Tim Spofford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.



Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. The psychological... Read more

Listening in the Dark

By: Amber Tamblyn

Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn, Dr. Mindy Nettifee, Dr. Nicole A...

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Huma Abedin are among the impressive list of authors contributing to this powerful collection of essays that takes a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition... Read more

Through a Trail of Tears

By: Gloria Petgrave Scoggins

Narrated by: Evelyn Carter

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the context of the global struggle of Black or Brown skin women, there have been many women who fought against the white supremacist system and who have not been included in the historical narratives. Simply put, Ermestine Martin’s courage and perseverance in fighting the real estate industry laid the foundation upon which obtaining property... Read more

The Come Up

By: Jonathan Abrams

Narrated by: Dion Graham, Diontae Black, Torian Brackett, La...

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire
 
“The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most... Read more

The Tiger and the Cage

By: Emma Bolden

Narrated by: Emma Bolden

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine—from a history of labeling women “hysterical” and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis, despite more than a century of documented cases.... Read more

Half American

By: Matthew F. Delmont

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction
• A New York Times Notable Book
• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor... Read more

Guerrilla Gardening

By: David Tracey

Narrated by: David Tracey

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to greening cities -- with or without permissionThe term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an... Read more

A More Just Future

By: Dolly Chugh

Narrated by: Dolly Chugh

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Getting To We Words Create Worlds Award

In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, “welcome, and urgent invitation” (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relationship we have with our country’s complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future.... Read more

Haunted in America

By: Leslie Rule

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From best-selling author Leslie Rule comes a collection of stories about things that go bump in the night — true accounts collected from her years of research on ghostly encounters in the United States, including revised and updated content in Rule's singular voice.

Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, you’ll find a... Read more

Speculative Futures

By: Johanna Hoffman

Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.

Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design,... Read more

Speaking my Soul

By: John Russell Rickford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its... Read more

The Economy of Cities

By: Jane Jacobs

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary... Read more