Social Science audiobooks

Blood Farm

By: Cara McGoogan

Narrated by: Cara McGoogan

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis.

By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive... Read more

Obesidade & Nutrição - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade é uma condição de saúde complexa caracterizada pelo excesso excessivo de gordura corporal, que pode ter efeitos na saúde física e emocional. No mundo contemporâneo, a obesidade se tornou uma epidemia global, afetando pessoas de todas as idades, gêneros e origens étnicas. Compreender a obesidade e sua relação intrínseca com a nutrição... Read more

A Relação entre Obesidade & Atividades Esportivas - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade tem emergido como uma das preocupações de saúde mais significativas do século XXI, impactando indivíduos, comunidades e sistemas de saúde em todo o mundo. O aumento alarmante nas taxas de obesidade tem despertado a atenção de profissionais de saúde, pesquisadores e formuladores de políticas, impulsionando a busca por estratégias... Read more

Obesidade Desvendada - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade, uma condição identificada pelo excesso de gordura corporal, tornou-se uma epidemia global com impactos abrangentes na saúde pública e individual. Neste capítulo, vamos explorar as nuances da obesidade, abordando sua definição médica, sua relação com o índice de massa corporal (IMC) e os efeitos abrangentes que têm na saúde física e... Read more

Além da Balança - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A luta contra a obesidade é uma jornada complexa que vai além das restrições alimentares tradicionais. Este ebook busca explorar uma abordagem holística e abrangente para enfrentar esse desafio, reconhecendo que a obesidade não é apenas uma questão de calorias consumidas versus calorias queimadas. Ao invés de se concentrar exclusivamente na... Read more

Obesidade Infantil - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Antônio

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A obesidade infantil é um problema de saúde pública crescente que envolve o acúmulo excessivo de gordura corporal em crianças e adolescentes. Essa condição é uma das preocupações mais prementes da atualidade, dado seu impacto substancial na saúde e bem-estar das gerações mais jovens. Este capítulo discutirá a definição e prevalência da obesidade... Read more

Finnish Animal Myths and Legends

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the arrival of Christianity, early inhabitants of Finland practised animistic nature-based belief, where everything in nature had its own place and spirit. Some of the historical artefacts show that belief in the totem animals was strong as well. Learn about the history of ancient Finland and some of the intriguing animal myths. How the... Read more

La mente parasitaria

By: Gad Saad

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay una guerra contra la verdad. Si no la ganamos, la libertad será su víctima El compromiso de Occidente con la libertad, la razón y el liberalismo nunca ha estado tan amenazado como ahora. El peligro procede de las opresivas fuerzas de la corrección política. Gad Saad, científico del comportamiento evolutivo, expone las malas ideas —lo que él... Read more

Popularizing the Past

By: Nick Witham

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation’s history.
 
What’s the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars... Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Turkije (Gökmen Dogan)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Wat valt op, als je als buitenlander naar Nederland verhuist? Nederland presenteert zich graag als gastvrij en tolerant land, maar hoe wordt daar daar door nieuwkomers over gedacht? Dit is hun verhaal.In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en... Read more

Rasputín

By: Edvard Radzinsky

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez & Sara Gómez

Length: 24 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Los archivos secretos Rasputín, una de las figuras más fascinantes y polémicas del siglo XX, ha permanecido encubierto en el mito de su propia invención desde su extraordinario ascenso al poder de la corte de Nicolás y Alexandra, los últimos zares de Rusia. Hasta ahora. Edvard Radzinsky, el autor del best seller internacional El último zar, se... Read more

My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary

By: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Narrated by: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help people as they discussed difference, race and inclusion. My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary aims to do just that.

This A-Z pocket guide is for people who are entering the workplace... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

«En esta conmovedora autobiografía que no podrás soltar, un joven poeta relata la inolvidable historia de su desgarradora migración hacia Estados Unidos desde El Salvador a los nueve años, considerada 'el viaje mítico de nuestra era'.» —Sandra Cisneros Viaje. Mis padres empezaron a usar esa palabra hace más o menos un año: “un día vas a hacer un... Read more

Abroad in Japan

By: Chris Broad

Narrated by: Chris Broad

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and... Read more

Disobedient Bodies

By: Emma Dabiri

Narrated by: Emma Dabiri

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and... Read more

Cult Trip

By: Anke Richter

Narrated by: Olivia Mortimer-Eade

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults
At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman - a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint - who will change the course of her life and career. Over the next ten years,... Read more

Gangster's Paradise

By: Jared Savage

Narrated by: Stephen Lovatt

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand.
Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker who helped a gang whisk a shipping container... Read more

The Ballot and the Bible

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

Narrated by: Kaitlyn Schiess

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"A nuanced look at America's legacy of scriptural language." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)



How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own?



In The Ballot and the Bible, Kaitlyn... Read more

A Fire at the Center

By: Karen Van Fossan

Narrated by: Dana Weddle

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands. This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist... Read more

Black Moon Lilith Rising

By: Adama Sesay

Narrated by: Adama Sesay

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Moon Lilith Rising is unlike any other astrology book out there on multiple fronts: it is a comprehensive exploration of the placement of Lilith in astrology, it's a deep exploration into the misunderstood myth and archetype of Lilith, and it incorporates shadow work and spiritual alchemy. The book begins with an ode to Lilith, anecdotal... Read more

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

By: Sara Ahmed

Narrated by: Sara Ahmed

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world  Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”? If so, you might be a feminist... Read more

The Hank Show

By: McKenzie Funk

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin & McKenzie Funk

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a prologue read by the author.

The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of.

The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man—as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity... Read more

Strong Girls, Strong World

By: Dale Hanson Bourke

Narrated by: Dale Hanson Bourke

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

You Can Make a Global Impact―One Girl at a Time

In Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face―and the tangible ways we can each make a difference. Filled with personal stories,... Read more

Cruel and Usual Punishment

By: Nonie Darwish

Narrated by: Carol Jacobanis

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a... Read more