Social Sciences

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Yuval Noah Harari
• Narrated By Derek Perkins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the 21st century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.

The Psychopath Test

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Jon Ronson
• Narrated By Jon Ronson

This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon soon finds himself, unexpectedly, on an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness.

Outliers: The Story of Success

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By John Safran
• Narrated By John Safran

No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure, he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black puppet master among the white nationalists? And this Muslim fundamentalist who geeks out on Monty Python? Is there a secret radicalisation network operating in John’s own Jewish suburb?

Who Rules the World?: Reframings

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Brian Jones
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Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world. Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing policies and actions, calling our politicians, institutions and media to account. The culmination of years of work, Who Rules the World? is Chomsky's definitive intellectual investigation into the major issues of our times.

The God Delusion

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Richard Dawkins
• Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2007.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2007.
Winner of the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
As the author of many classic works on science and philosophy, Richard Dawkins has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now focuses his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

Mastery

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Robert Greene
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force's last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene's fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world's masters.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Jon Ronson
• Narrated By Jon Ronson

From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Douglas Murray
• Narrated By Robert Davies
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Greg McKeown
• Narrated By Greg McKeown
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Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload? Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised? Do you ever feel busy but not productive? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an essentialist. In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a leadership and strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens
• Narrated By Christopher Hitchens

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.

Blink

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments, and particular rules and principles. This audiobook shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices, and in everyday life.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Seth Godin
• Narrated By Seth Godin
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Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make our world work, and always have. The new opportunity is that it's easier than ever to find, organize, and lead a tribe. The Web has enabled an explosion of all kinds of tribes - and created shortage of people to lead them. This is the growth industry of our time. Tribes will help you understand exactly what's at stake, and why YOU can and should lead a tribe of your own.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.

Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Marshall Rosenberg
• Narrated By Marshall Rosenberg

On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths, addressing our unrecognized needs and emotions, and honoring those same concerns in others. With this adaptation of the best-selling book of the same title, Marshall Rosenberg teaches in his own words.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Narrated By David Chandler

Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory. Not all swans are white, and not all events, no matter what the experts think, are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Steven Pinker
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

We’ve all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, “What is the world coming to?” But we seldom ask, “How bad was the world in the past?” In this startling new book, the best-selling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell

Why did crime in New York drop so suddenly in the mid-90s? How does an unknown novelist end up a best-selling author? Why is teenage smoking out of control, when everyone knows smoking kills? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? Why did Paul Revere succeed with his famous warning?

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Gabor Maté
• Narrated By Daniel Maté
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Best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and details what is needed to liberate ourselves. Starting with a close view of his drug-addicted patients, Dr. Maté looks at his own history of compulsive behavior, weaving a story of real people who struggle with addiction with the latest research on addiction and the brain. In a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Joseph Campbell
• Narrated By Arthur Morey, John Lee, Susan Denaker

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 27 mins)
• By David France
• Narrated By Rory O'Malley
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How to Survive a Plague by David France is the riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease.

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Niki Brantmark
• Narrated By Ana Clements

Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom - meaning 'just enough'. At its core is the idea that we can strike a healthy balance with the world around us without having to make extreme changes and without denying ourselves anything. This delightful audiobook, written by Niki Brantmark, founder and curator of the award winning interior design blog My Scandinavian Home, gives a taste of the philosophy behind Lagom and shows how to include some of the principles in our daily lives.

The ABC's of LGBT+

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Ashley Mardell
• Narrated By Amy Melissa Bentley

The 21st century has seen very positive movement for LGBT+ rights. In the last few years, the overturning of DOMA, the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Marriage Equality Act, American transgender politicians elected to office, and landmark moments such as Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world under the leadership of an openly gay CEO have advanced LGBT awareness and understanding. In a world full of LGBT questions, The ABC's of LGBT+ has the answers.

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Ron Hall
• Narrated By Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
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A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible, no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana...and an East Texas honky-tonk...and, without a doubt, inside the heart of God. It unfolds at a Hollywood hacienda...an upscale New York gallery...a downtown Dumpster...a Texas ranch.

Flames after Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Monte Akers
• Narrated By Todd Waites

What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]", that set Monte Akers to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive of three black men who were almost certainly innocent of it. This was followed by a month-long reign of terror as white men killed blacks while local authorities concealed the real identity of the white probable murderers and allowed them to go free.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By Start Publishing Notes
• Narrated By Michael Gilboe

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section.

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
• Narrated By Derek Perkins
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This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trailblazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society.

On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nick Riggle
• Narrated By Nick Riggle
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In this engaging, fun, and astute investigation of a thoroughly contemporary condition, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle argues that our collective interest in being awesome (and not sucking) marks a new era in American culture, one that is shaped by relatively recent social, political, and technological shifts.

These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Deborah Meier, Emily Gasoi
• Narrated By Lorna Raver, Emily Zeller
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In These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur Award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her 50-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an "apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy". Through an intergenerational exchange with her former colleague and fellow educator Emily Gasoi, the coauthors analyze the last several decades of education reform, challenging narrow profit-driven conceptions of school success.

Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand on Menstrual Equality

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
• Narrated By Teri Clark Linden

In Periods Gone Public, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf - the woman Bustle dubbed one of the nation's "badass menstrual activists" - explores why periods have become a prominent political cause. From eliminating the tampon tax, to enacting new laws ensuring access to affordable, safe products, menstruation is no longer something to whisper about.

On Dialogue: 2nd Edition

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 48 mins)
• By David Bohm
• Narrated By Don Hagen

Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses, and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.

The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Randall James Sasaki
• Narrated By Damian Salandy

Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of Japan in AD 1281 as well as the history of shipbuilding in East Asia. He has created a timber category database, analyzed methods of joinery, and studied contemporary approaches to shipbuilding in order to ascertain the origins and types of vessels that composed the Mongol fleet.

Riot Days

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Maria Alyokhina
• Narrated By Kate Lock

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in. 'People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.'

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Rachel Sherman
• Narrated By Liz Thompson
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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.

County of Sacramento v. Lewis: Case Briefing

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By A. Biographer
• Narrated By 411 Audio

This book may change your life. Or it may not. Either way, you will become more informed about the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution!

Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Paula Lavigne, Mark Schlabach
• Narrated By Therese Plummer

For several years, campuses and sports teams across the country have been plagued with accusations of sexual violence, and they've been criticized for how they responded to the students involved. In Violated, two ESPN investigative reporters provide listeners with a shocking narrative of sexual crimes committed against women and a university's culture that kept them quiet.

Alcohol: A History

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Rod Phillips
• Narrated By Fajer Al-Kaisi
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Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety.

Three Philosophical Works: Morbid Reflections; Money & Morality; Freedom, Determinism & Psychopathy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By J. M. Kuczynski
• Narrated By Mitchell Johnson

Some of Kuczynski's better known medium-scale works on psychopathy and psychopathology.

Education Is Bullshit: Let Me Prove It

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Peter Woods
• Narrated By Jon Turner

This book is about the line of bullshit all the universities are telling you. There is a big conspiracy out there and I want to share it with you. Please listen to this audiobook before you take the plunge and sign up for college. Thank you and enjoy.

Entitled to Slavery: A Blueprint for Breaking the Chains That Threaten American Exceptionalism

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Michael Abbott Jr.
• Narrated By Ken Harris
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