Social Science Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Everyone meets the Grim Reaper at some point, so why not learn a little more about it beforehand? There are many ways for life to come to an end, but there may be some you’ve never thought about before: lack of sleep, extreme heat, being…unpopular? Listen in as Seeker breaks down everything about death from how it feels, what is smells like and even the possibility of an afterlife in this curated audio collection.

Seeker (Author), Aneeta Akhurst, Anthony Carboni, Julia Wilde, Julian Huguet, Laci Green, Lissette Padilla, Natalia Reagan, Tara Long, Trace Dominguez (Narrator)

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Grappling: White Men's Journey from Fragile to Agile

What started as an internal whisper has become a steady rumble. It’s getting louder, feeling heavier the more you try to ignore it. If you’re a white man in America, you have a decision to make: become an agent of change or a victim of progress. White men have found themselves entrenched in a privileged status quo for centuries. Old patterns and learned behaviors have contributed to their success, but things are changing; our world is evolving. We’re tackling racism and sexism head-on. White masculinity, as we know it, is in the midst of a revolution. In Grappling, Andrew Horning helps you identify the best man you can be in a rapidly evolving world. By focusing on intrapersonal and interpersonal elements, Andrew provides you with practical tools for navigating today’s complex issues and balancing masculinity with accountability. Learn how to utilize compassion and courage to rewrite your story, understand your true strengths, and realize the freedom that comes with self-discovery.

Andrew Horning (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation

Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this "deeply reported and illuminating" (The New York Times Book Review) corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. "The best business book I've read since Bad Blood."-Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company-the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive upside of the original without the same apparent health risks and bad press. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Adam Bowen and James Monsees began working on a device that was meant to save lives and destroy Big Tobacco, but they ended up baking the industry's DNA into their invention's science and marketing. Ultimately, Juul's e-cigarette was so effective and so market-dominating that it put the company on a collision course with Philip Morris and sparked one of the most explosive public health crises in recent memory. In a deeply reported account, award-winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Etter shows how Philip Morris's struggle to innovate left Willard desperate to acquire Juul, even as his own team sounded alarms about the startup's reliance on underage customers. And she shows how Juul's executives negotiated a lavish deal that let them pocket the lion's share of Philip Morris's $12.8 billion investment while government regulators and furious parents mounted a campaign to hold the company's feet to the fire. The Devil's Playbook is the inside story of how Juul's embodiment of Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" ethos wrought havoc on American health, and how a beleaguered tobacco company was seduced by the promise of a new generation of addicted customers. With both companies' eyes on the financial prize, neither anticipated the sudden outbreak of vaping-linked deaths that would terrorize a nation, crater Juul's value, end Willard's career, and show the costs in human life of the rush to riches-while Juul's founders, board members, and employees walked away with a windfall.

Lauren Etter (Author), Gabra Zackman (Narrator)

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Betrayed by Work: Women's Stories of Trauma, Healing and Hope after Being Fired

Emotionally, getting fired is one of life's most difficult experiences. When women get fired, it is often devastating, traumatic, and isolating. We experience a sudden powerlessness that can destroy our confidence and feelings of self-worth. We grieve. We feel broken. It affects our self-esteem, our financial well-being, our professional identity, and our ability to look for other work-in short, it affects our entire way of life. How, then, does a woman navigate the emotional impact of this event? With other women. You are not alone. In Betrayed by Work, authors Julia Erickson, MBA, and Suzanne Vosburg, PhD, bear witness to the stories of women just like you-and just like them. This book shows how women lost their jobs, describes what happened to them immediately and in the aftermath, validates women's feelings about being fired, and offers a source of hope and companionship to those of us coping with either our own job loss or the sudden job loss of someone we know or love. In listening to this book, discover: true stories from women who are honest about how they were fired and what they felt while being let go; key points to help process each story and apply its lesson to your own experience; and practical takeaways and suggestions to help you cope in the immediate aftermath of your job loss.

Julia Erickson Mba, Julia Erickson, Mba, Suzanne Vosburg Phd, Suzanne Vosburg, Ph.D. (Author), Raechel Wong (Narrator)

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Quizzes for Married Couples: Fun Relationship Questions and Quizzes for Couples to Take Together

Over 301 fun quiz questions to help you learn more about that stranger sleeping next to you!If you want a fun and entertaining way to further connect with your partner and strengthen your relationship, then you’ve come to the right place... Marriage life can be quite the rollercoaster, but it is a journey well worth it! It may seem unbelievable, but even after years of marriage, there are still so many new things you can learn and find out about one another. Discovering unique random quirks, habits, and ideas will allow you to have fun conversations and build a stronger bond. It’s also way more rewarding than sitting next to each other on the couch binge-watching a show or lying in bed next to each other scrolling on your phones! Here’s just a little of what you will discover inside “Quizzes for married couples”... - Quickfire, warm-up questions to see how the two of you achieve that perfect balance of love and responsibility. - Thought-provoking quizzes to help you navigate the difficulties life can throw at you together. - A fun look at memories in the rearview mirror along with quizzes that look to the future. - One word... intimacy. (This quiz section can get spicy!) - 16 entertaining quiz topics (including hobbies, food & drinks, pets, traveling, and money) to keep you laughing and connecting. - Bucket list questions for the couples that know it’s never too late to get started and follow a dream. ... and much, much more. This is a fun interactive listen for all couples! Ready to get to quizzing and learning more about one another? Then download this audiobook now.

Mr. & Mrs. L (Author), Tracey Yuen (Narrator)

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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being 'American' means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and who have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called 'the cause of freedom.' It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. The Cause of Freedom carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning.

Jonathan Scott Holloway (Author), William Andrew Quinn (Narrator)

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We've Been Here All Along: Wisconsin's Early Gay History

The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin’s gay history from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression—from the anti-vice crusades of the early twentieth century to the post-war labeling of homosexuality as an illness to the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. In We’ve Been Here All Along, R. Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his own extensive archive to uncover previously hidden stories of gay Wisconsinites. This book honors their legacy and confirms that they have been foundational to the development and evolution of the state since its earliest days

R. Richard Wagner (Author), Vance Bastian (Narrator)

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Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen

Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over the next fifty years women's lives were transformed, not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother, nor by marrying princes, but by education, work, birth control-and feminism. This book is about the reshaping of women's lives, loves, and dreams since 1950, the year in which Walt Disney's film Cinderella gave expression to popular ideas of romance, and at a time when marriage was a major determinant of female life chances and teenage girls dreamed of Mr. Right and happy endings. It ends with the runaway success of Disney's Frozen, in 2013-a film with relevance to very different times. Along the way, it illuminates how women's expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted, asking bold questions about how women's lives have been transformed since 1950. How have women's changing life experiences been mirrored in new expectations about marriage, intimacy, and family life? How have new forms of independence through education and work, and greater control over childbearing, altered women's life ambitions? And were feminists right to believe that sexual equality would improve relationships between men and women?

Carol Dyhouse (Author), Rachael Beresford (Narrator)

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America's Date Rape Dad: Why Bill Cosby Did It And Why America Didn't Give a Dam

Xavier James (Author), Chaz Kendricks (Narrator)

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How Yoga came to Britain with Suzanne Newcombe: From an esoteric concept to a mainstream activity

Over three sessions Suzanne explores how yoga came to Britain, covering the individuals and movements that influenced the exchange between the yoga from India, and the cast of characters in Britain that eagerly received these exotic ideas and practices that have become part of mainstream, modern life. - Session 1: Suzanne introduces British travelogues from India in the seventeenth century, the influences of colonial India and the Theosophical Society, Watkins Bookshop, Jiddu Krishnamurti, the physical culture movement, the presentations of yogic powers and how medical science searched for answers before penicillin, the first appearance of yoga on British television in the 1940's and Paul Brunton. - Session 2: We hear about the importance of B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga, Gerald Yorke and the Inner London Education Authority, Swami Sivananda, the first yoga studios in Britain, Pattabhi Jois and Derek Ireland. - Session 3: Suzanne emphasises the importance of The Beatles, The Asian Music Circle, the hippie trail, the arrival of Indian gurus, Gandalf's Garden, drug culture and the expansion of consciousness, Centre House, Yogini Sunita, Wilfred Clark and the Wheel of British Yoga and the contradictions between tradition and authenticity.

Suzanne Newcombe (Author), Suzanne Newcombe (Narrator)

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Find Everlasting Love Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Making Love Last and Love and Relationships

Find Everlasting Love Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Making Love Last and Love and Relationships There are no perfect relationships and even couples who profess to deeply love each other will face troubles in their relationships at some point. A healthy relationship is characterized by two people sharing a common goal for exactly what you want the relationship to be and where you want it to go. It’s important to be on the same page so you can manage expectations. All relationships require hard work, commitment, and dedication to last. The secrets to an amazing marriage are found in the foundation! That’s right...your happiness in marriage will be directly related to the health and stability of your relationship’s foundation. This bundle will teach you how to keep the romance burning in your relationship. You will learn what it takes to make your relationship last. Learn what it takes to maintain a loving and caring relationship so your marriage can keep strong. In this 2 in 1 Bundle, you will get the following audiobooks: - Making Love Last: The Comprehensive Guide on What Makes Marriage Last, Discover the Proven Ways on How to Keep the Spark Alive and Feel Like Newlyweds Forever - Love and Relationships: The Ultimate Guide on Love and How to Make Relationships Work, Discover What It Takes to Build a Lasting Relationship Falling in love can be easy but staying in love is where the hard work is. Every marriage needs a healthy dose of ongoing romance to add spice, delight, and fun to the relationship. If you want to learn more about Find Everlasting Love, download a copy of this audiobook today!

E.S. Davin, R.M. Orson (Author), Marcus Mulenga, Todd Studder (Narrator)

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Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City

Structures of Indifferenceexamines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination.

Adele Perry, Mary Jane Logan Mccallum (Author), Wesley French (Narrator)

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Social Science Audiobooks in Non-Fiction