Social Science audiobooks

A sociedade do engenho - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Tiago Torres

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste texto, os textos selecionados de "Cultura e Opulência no Brasil", do cronista Antonil, apresentam o entorno do engenho, no que diz respeito às pessoas que constituíam sua sociedade. Citam-se, entre outras, os feitores, o mestre do açúcar, o purgador do açúcar, o caixeiro, os escravos e os familiares. Read more

Pelas minas do ouro - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Mauro Schames

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ler a obra de Antonil tem muito de ler um jornal ou guia – mas as notícias e os cenários são do início do século XVIII. Neste excerto, destacam-se as minas de ouro e todo seu entorno: a qualidade do metal, as gentes, a corrupção e a política do quinto. Pitoresco demais, o texto fala da mineração em Curitiba e no Pico do Jaraguá, de uma pepita do... Read more

O senhor do engenho - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Tiago Torres

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nesta seleção de textos do clássico "Cultura e Opulência no Brasil", são evidenciadas as características deste ícone do Ciclo do Açúcar brasileiro – o senhor do engenho. Antonil discorre aqui, entre outros aspectos, sobre suas posses, seus vínculos com os vizinhos, seu capelão, seus hóspedes e mercadores de açúcar. Read more

A carta de Caminha: destaques - Abridged

By: Pero Vaz de Caminha

Narrated by: Dalton Barone

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Primeiro documento a descrever o Brasil, a Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha conta como foi o desembarque dos navegantes portugueses no que hoje é a chamada Costa do Descobrimento – Porto Seguro e entorno. Considerada por muitos poética, a carta ao rei D. Manuel I narra o primeiro encontro de índios e colonizadores, bem como a primeira missa no Brasil. Read more

Na lavra do tabaco - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Dalton Barone

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Características de um movimento econômico pouco explorado nos estudos da história do Brasil são retratadas nesta seleção de textos do clássico "Cultura e Opulência no Brasil": o tabaco. Dentre outros aspectos, Antonil conta ao leitor sobre a semeadura e o trato da plantação, a confecção da chamada "corda" até a confecção e a qualidade do produto... Read more

Pensar el siglo XX

By: Tony Judt & Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Luis Ignacio González

Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra póstuma de Tony Judt, un recorrido impecable por la historia intelectual del siglo pasado. El siglo XX se erige como la edad de las ideas, un tiempo en el que, para bien o para mal, el pensamiento de unos pocos se impuso sobre las vidas de muchos. De una claridad y lucidez sin precedentes, el último libro de Tony Judt, uno de los más... Read more

1968. Estado y Universidad

By: Gerardo Estrada Rodríguez & Carlos Monsiváis

Narrated by: Ricardo Méndez

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este libro de Gerardo Estrada es uno de los caminos más seguros para penetrar en la sociedad mexicana y sobre todo en su sistema político» - Alain Touraine, del prólogo Esta edición ampliada y actualizada de 1968, Estado y Universidad - una obra ya clásica- nos recuerda el verdadero valor de un movimiento que fue el germen de la "sociedad... Read more

21 lecciones para el siglo XXI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Vuelve Harari Autor de Sapiens, best seller del momento con más de diez millones de copias vendidas en todo el mundo. Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado. Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro. 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI es una exploración de nuestro presente. ¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos... Read more

I Bought a Mountain

By: Thomas Firbank

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAM
And an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones

'One of the great no-holds-barred life-adventures in the wilds of the British landscape.' ADAM NICOLSON

Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells the remarkable story of how 21-year-old Thomas Firbank decided on impulse to purchase a... Read more

Milinda

By: Manasa Yendluri

Narrated by: Nagamani

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ఎండ్లూరి మానస కథలు చదువుతూ ఉంటే కుల వివక్ష సమకాలీన అవతారం అవగతమవుతుంది. మనుషుల ప్రవర్తన మీద హిందూ సంస్కృతి భావజాలాల పట్టు ఎంత బలంగా ఉందో కనిపిస్తుంది. టెక్నాలజీని తలదన్నుతున్న కులాలజీ అనుభవంలోకొస్తుంది. మన ఆర్థిక హోదాలతో నిమిత్తం లేని సాంఘీక హోదా మనల్ని ఉక్కిరి బిక్కిరి చేస్తుంది. దళిత క్రైస్తవ స్త్రీవాదం నుంచి జనరల్ స్త్రీవాదం వరకు పరచుకున్న... Read more

Outpacer

By: Alex Holt

Narrated by: Alex Holt

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Over the past decade a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organization looks and feels like.

Each... Read more

Yaarada Konda

By: Unudurti Sudhakar

Narrated by: Ramya Ponangi

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

జాలరుల కుగ్రామంగా మొదలైన విశాఖపట్నం , రెండో ప్రపంచ యుద్ధం తరువాత మహానగరంగా అవతరించడానికి మూలకారణమైన భౌగోళిక విశేషం యారాడ కొండ. విశాఖపట్నం ఎదుగుదలకు అదొక కొండగుర్తు. ఎంతో మందికి ఉపాధినీ, కొంత మందికి సంపదనూ ప్రసాదించిన బంగారు కొండ అది. ఆ కొండ విశాఖపట్నం కథను చెప్పుకొస్తే అది ఎలా ఉంటుంది? గడచిన వందేళ్ల కాలంలో అక్కడి మనుషులూ, వాళ్ల ఆశలు, ఆశయాలూ,... Read more

The Case for Basic Income

By: Jamie Swift & Elaine Power

Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic... Read more

Rebound

By: Perry King

Narrated by: K.C. Collins

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. “The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie... Read more

Migration and Family

By: Ephraim Osaghae

Narrated by: Radostin Radev

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Family in the context of migration and cultural diversity is rarely discussed at the gates of ideas today. Search Amazon or Google, and you’ll be amazed at how well we’ve avoided this subject. Yet, a happy home is critical to life abroad or anywhere for that matter.Resident in Australia, Ephraim Osaghae, has taken the lid off several hot... Read more

8 Billion and Counting

By: Jennifer D. Sciubba

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformationAs the world nears eight billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are... Read more

The Tomorrow Game

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence.

In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community.

At... Read more

Salty

By: Alissa Wilkinson

Narrated by: Erin deWard

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?



That's the question film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson answered as she gathered a hypothetical table of women who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom.



Ella Baker, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Agnes Varda, Elizabeth David, Edna... Read more

Black Looks

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to... Read more

Disguised as Clark Kent

By: Danny Fingeroth

Narrated by: Danny Fingeroth

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.Jewish Identity has... Read more

A Beautiful Child

By: Matt Birkbeck

Narrated by: Skye Borgman

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE

Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.

A student at Forest Park High School... Read more

Inheritance

By: Baynard Woods

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same.

"Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus 

Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world... Read more

The Little Locksmith

By: Katharine Butler Hathaway

Narrated by: Julia Atwood

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine remains immobile... Read more

How to Influence People

By: Damian Hoffman

Narrated by: Marsh Craig & Pia Nebrada

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to have a stronger influence over people without coming across as aggressive or pushy? Be able to read anyone like an open book? Then you need to keep reading...
Recent scientific studies have demonstrated one intriguing fact: people can be influenced to do nearly anything, under the right circumstances. In the famous Stanford Prison... Read more