Social Science audiobooks
The Body Language of Dating
By: Tonya Reiman
Narrated by: Tonya Reiman
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Nationally renowned body language expert Tonya Reiman turns her attention to romance—explaining how to read the signals of your date, your mate, or that cutie across the bar—and never get rejected again!
Attraction : It’s biological. It’s physical. It’s chemical. It’s mental. But it doesn’t end there. It’s also: Detectable. Manageable.... Read more
Going Solo
By: Eric Klinenberg
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal changeRenowned sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living and examines the seismic impact it’s... Read more
View audiobookHow to Be Black
By: Baratunde Thurston
Narrated by: Baratunde Thurston
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and... Read more
View audiobookIn Our Prime
By: Patricia Cohen
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas
comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the
concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up
the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet
the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important
and... Read more
Population Tide in the Philippines
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
While Philippine leaders debate, poor fishing families embrace birth control to ease pressure on over-fished reefs. Part of a new project called Food for 9 Billion that looks at the challenges of feeding the world in a time of social and environmental change, Sam Eaton of Homelands Productions reports. Read more
View audiobookLa domination masculine
By: Pierre Bourdieu
Narrated by: Pierre Tissot
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
La domination masculine est tellement ancrée dans nos inconscients que nous ne l'apercevons plus, tellement accordée à nos attentes que nous avons du mal à la remettre en question. La découverte des permanences oblige à renverser la manière habituelle de poser le problème : quels sont les mécanismes et les institutions qui accomplissent le... Read more
View audiobookSilver Like Dust
By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage,... Read more
View audiobookGreedy Bastards
By: Dylan Ratigan
Narrated by: Dylan Ratigan
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
DYLAN RATIGAN’S mission is to uncover never-before-seen solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: government corruption, corporate communism, an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a broken educational system. In this groundbreaking book, Ratigan makes a case that America has the opportunity to prosper,... Read more
View audiobookFraternity
By: Diane Brady
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • The Plain Dealer
The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor
On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the... Read more
Poor Economics
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in... Read more
Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 5: Integration, Zuwanderung und Soziale Demokratie
By: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Lesebücher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Möglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbständig anzunähern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugänge aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verständlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einführung zu den großen Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen.... Read more
View audiobookWhy Are Fewer Americans Getting Married?
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Fewer Americans are tying the knot nowadays, according to a new Pew Research report that showed 51 percent of the adult population is married, compared to 1960 when 72 percent of the country was. Ray Suarez discusses the changing demographics of marriage in the United States with Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College. Read more
View audiobookA Safeway in Arizona
By: Tom Zoellner
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootingsOn January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held by US representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and thirteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head.Award-winning... Read more
View audiobookJacqueline Kennedy
By: author
Narrated by: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy, ...
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, with this expansive illustrated book which includes interviews, recordings and other exclusive materials.
To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States.
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded... Read more
The Magic Room
By: Jeffrey Zaslow
Narrated by: Sandra Burr & Jeffrey Zaslow
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride’s reflections into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful
By: Katie Piper
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'
When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.
But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare ...
After being... Read more
Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, business and economics correspondent Paul Solman explores how retailers are faring in an economy that's increasingly divided between the haves and the have-nots. Read more
View audiobookMWF Seeking BFF
By: Rachel Bertsche
Narrated by: Annie Wood
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted... Read more
View audiobookFables de la Fontaine en Argot
By: Jean De la Fontaine
Narrated by: Gérard Gervais
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
« Tous les vieux schnocks de l’Académie devaient encore être endormis… » -Pierre Perret « Langue de la misère », comme le disait Victor Hugo, langue des marginaux et des « mal vus » depuis le XIIIe siècle, l’argot a pour premier objectif d’exclure tout non-initié de la conversation. Ce langage détourné, multiforme, désinhibé, mutant, a pourtant ... Read more
View audiobookGossip
By: Joseph Epstein
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in
modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the keen observer
and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter,
despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary
human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art,
Epstein... Read more
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: James Weldon Johnson
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the “Ex-Colored Man,” which is the only name by which the protagonist is referred, represents what, at the time was, a social contradiction of race... Read more
View audiobookHarlem Is Nowhere
By: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared a common hope that Harlem would become the ground from which... Read more
View audiobookThe Spirit Level
By: Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor
have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level,
based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One
common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree
of equality among their members. Further, more unequal... Read more
The Prisoner's Wife
By: Asha Bandele
Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In her senior year of college, asha bandele and a group of other writers went to a prison to read their works for a Black History Month program. There, she met Rashid, a man who was serving 20 to life for murder, a man who spoke softly and wisely, a man who would become asha's soul mate. This is her account of a relationship that has thrived... Read more
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