Social Science audiobooks

Listening Is an Act of Love - Abridged

By: Dave Isay

Narrated by: Dave Isay & StoryCorps Participants

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps—the largest oral history project in the nation's history—presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. 

StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting... Read more

Drew Houston: O Revolucionário por Trás do Dropbox - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A tecnologia moldou o mundo moderno de maneiras que poucas outras forças conseguiram. Em meio a essa revolução, uma figura emergiu como pioneira no campo do armazenamento em nuvem: Drew Houston. Co-fundador e CEO do Dropbox, Houston transformou a maneira como armazenamos, compartilhamos e acessamos nossos dados. Este livro explora sua jornada,... Read more

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

Collapse - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Christopher Murney

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization.

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all... Read more

Hard Choices - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant & Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2016 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).

In the... Read more

Howard Schultz: O Mestre por Trás da Starbucks - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Thalita

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Howard Schultz, o nome por trás do gigante do café Starbucks, é mais do que um empresário de sucesso. Ele é um visionário que transformou a maneira como o mundo desfruta dessa bebida, criando uma cultura corporativa única e um modelo de responsabilidade social inovador. Nascido em 1953 no Brooklyn, Nova York, Schultz teve uma infância... Read more

Alchemy of Love and Lust - Abridged

By: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Narrated by: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Simon & Schuster, The Alchemy of Love and Lust is Theresa L. Crenshaw's guide to how our sex hormones influence our relationships.

The Alchemy of Love and Lust identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes and how hormones can determine the course of... Read more

Reviving Ophelia - Abridged

By: Mary Pipher, PhD

Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating... Read more

The Different Drum - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For a World in Conflict...
New Hope for Wholeness in the Modern Age!
A society of rugged individualists and economic competitors A world of nuclear politics and uncontrollable forces For many, modern living means loneliness, disaffection, apathy and isolation.
Is there an escape?

In a startling, life-affirming work by one of America's... Read more

The Other Side of the River - Abridged

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by... Read more

Confesiones de un traficante de personas - Abridged

By: Andrea di Nicola & Giampolo Musumeci

Narrated by: Rodrigo Martínez

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Por primera vez hablan los hombres que controlan el tráfico de personas. ¿Qué hay detrás de las dramáticas imágenes de pateras repletas de migrantes que atraviesan el Mediterráneo? ¿Cómo nace el impulso de abandonarlo todo en busca de una vida mejor, y quién satisface esta demanda en un mundo en el que hasta la desesperación se convierte en... Read more

Da Cultura do Patrimonialismo à Praga da Corrupção - Abridged

By: Gabriel Marciliano Jr.

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Da Cultura do Patrimonialismo à Praga da Corrupção", escrita por Gabriel Marciliano Júnior, é uma obra de extrema importância para a compreensão da corrupção no Brasil. Com uma análise profunda sobre a cultura do patrimonialismo e suas consequências na política e na sociedade brasileira, o livro é uma referência indispensável para estudiosos e... Read more

Larry Ellison: O Visionário por Trás da Oracle - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste livro, embarcaremos em uma jornada pela vida de Larry Ellison, cofundador, CEO e CTO da Oracle Corporation, uma das empresas de software mais influentes do mundo. Desvendaremos sua trajetória, desde suas origens humildes até se tornar um dos homens mais ricos do planeta. Exploraremos suas inovações revolucionárias no mercado de software... Read more

The Coalwood Way - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.

The strains can be felt within the... Read more

Célia é quem não viu - Abridged

By: Ricardo Santos David

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Segundo Célia, os médicos disseram que a entendiam, mas que ela ainda era muito nova e poderia ter outros filhos mais tarde. Eles ainda a alertaram na época de que a criança poderia vir com alguma deficiência ou talvez nem chegasse a nascer. Eu sou nova, sim, mas já sei o que é melhor para mim. Posso ter outros filhos depois, mas nunca serão... Read more

Marissa Mayer: Uma Incansável Inovadora no Vale do Silício - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Marissa Mayer nasceu em Wisconsin em 1975 e se graduou em ciência da computação pela Universidade de Stanford. Após uma breve passagem pelo Goldman Sachs, Mayer ingressou no Google em 1999, tornando-se a 20ª funcionária da empresa. Ao longo de sua carreira no Google, Mayer desempenhou um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento de produtos icônicos... Read more

Armas para la rabia - Abridged

By: Marie-Pier Lafontaine

Narrated by: Cecilia Bona

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imagino este ensayo como un combate. Quisiera escribir un ensayo-enojo, un ensayo-rabia. Que fuera recibido como una avalancha de golpes. Entre una frase y otra, habrá que visualizar energía desplegándose. Habrá que ver los músculos de mis muslos contrayéndose, mi centro de gravedad descendiendo y mis puños en posición de guardia. Habrá que... Read more

Reid Hoffman: Um Mestre por Trás do LinkedIn - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reid Hoffman, nome que ecoa no mundo da tecnologia e do empreendedorismo, é mais do que apenas um cofundador de uma empresa de sucesso. Sua mente visionária e perspicácia para negócios o transformaram em um titã da indústria, inspirando gerações de inovadores e líderes. Este livro narra a trajetória notável de Hoffman, desde suas humildes... Read more

As seis lições (resumo) - Abridged

By: Ludwig Von Mises

Narrated by: Everton Ferreira

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este minilivro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. As Seis Lições reúne as palestras ministradas, em 1959, por Ludwig von Mises na Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA). O autor discute com clareza o capitalismo, o socialismo, o intervencionismo, a inflação, o investimento estrangeiro e as relações entre política e ideias. Em linguagem... Read more

Actual Innocence - Abridged

By: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your... Read more

The Snakehead - Abridged

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown,... Read more

Bound for Canaan - Abridged

By: Fergus Bordewich

Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more

The Rants - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's good news for those that rage at the  evening news, shake their heads at Washington's  business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from  social crisis to political crisis to economic  crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the  nation by its lapels.

Miller respects no  boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more

Satya Nadella: O CEO que Transformou a Microsoft - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Satya Nadella é um nome que se tornou sinônimo da revitalização da Microsoft. Desde que assumiu o cargo de CEO em 2014, ele liderou uma transformação notável da empresa, impulsionando-a para a era da computação em nuvem e dos serviços de software, e expandindo seus horizontes para novos mercados. Este livro é uma biografia completa de... Read more