Social Science Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony

In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government's aim of assimilation. The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch was held. The occasion: the raising of a totem pole carved by Robert Davidson, the first the community had seen in close to 80 years. From then on, the community publicly reclaimed, from the Elders who remained to share it, the knowledge that has almost been lost. Sara Florence Davidson, Robert's daughter, would become an educator. Over the course of her own education, she came to see how the traditions of the Haida practiced by her father - holistic, built on relationships, practical, and continuous - could be integrated into contemporary educational practices. From this realization came the roots for this book.

Robert Davidson, Sara Florence Davidson (Author), Gary Farmer, Sara Florence Davidson (Narrator)

Audiobook

Pot Psychology's How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People

Nobody needs advice, but everybody wants it. Conversely, everybody wants to give advice but we need to. It's in our blood...because we're stoned. That's the point. And what better way to legitimize two stoned people's need to babble advice than with a book? Allow us to introduce ourselves: We're Tracie and Rich. We go way back. We met as teenagers in 1998, during our freshman year at NYU. We were at a dorm party, where lesbians and gay men were making out. Tracie had short hair and glasses; Rich approached and asked, "Do you like Ani DiFranco?" That was not a come-on. We didn't kiss (and Tracie is not a lesbian, anyway), but we did shotgun a joint. From there, a friendship was born. Flash forward 12 years. We host an Internet video series in which we answer viewer-submitted questions, solving their problems with the help of an herbal remedy. Basically we get stoned and tell people how to live their lives. We give our two cents (or is that 420 sense?) on all of life's non-problems from party etiquette, problems in the workplace, what religion to be, to whether or not your boyfriend/girlfriend/parent/friend/teacher/pet is gay. At this point, we want to get higher, and take things to the next level. We've already gotten inside people's heads-now we want to get in their pants. With a pocket guide, pervert. It is intended to be a reference guide for people to carry through life. Because you never know when life will present a non-problem outside of a wifi hot zone. (And that's a non-problem solved right there.) ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Rich Juzwiak, Tracie Egan Morrissey (Author), Authors, Lindsay Mound, Rich Juzwiak, S, Tracie Egan Morrissey (Narrator)

Audiobook

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. Too often, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism, used as a force of oppression, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. By looking at the symbolic and etymological histories of the sun, moon, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter, we can trace and understand the politics of magic--and challenge our own practices, interrogate our truths, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. Fearless, radical, and fresh, Sparkly Kat's Postcolonial Astrology ushers in a new wave of astrology revival, refusing to apologize for its magickism and connecting its power to the spirituality and politics we need now. Intersectional, inclusive, and geared towards queer and POC communities, it uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets, sun, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history, redefine the body in the world, and assert our politics of the personal, in astrology and all things.

Alice Sparkly Kat (Author), Henriette Zoutomou (Narrator)

Audiobook

postChristian: What's Left? Can We Fix It? Do We Care?

It's the end of Christianity as we know it. But it's not a catastrophe-it's an opportunity. Thousands are walking away from the church. Christians are grappling with their faith. And both believers and nonbelievers wondering-what's coming next? Fearless and provocative, spiritual trailblazer Christian Piatt offers a roadmap to the future of faith with an unflinching examination of the church today. What's left? Pairing the best "virtues" and worst "scandals" of Christianity, Piatt invites us to abandon institutional religion for deeper, truer faith. Can we fix it? Guided by the biggest historical, religious, and pop-cultural pioneers of the postChristian era, he demonstrates how to save the best of what Christianity has to offer-and how to rediscover and reinvent the rest. Do we care? There's plenty of good left in Christianity-if we dare to be as scandalously graceful and loving as Jesus Himself. Bold and insightful, POSTCHRISTIAN dares Christians to break out of the box and invites outsiders into the fold as we revolutionize faith for a postmodern world.

Christian Piatt (Author), Christian Piatt (Narrator)

Audiobook

Post-Truth

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples-claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote-and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism-specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth-in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

Lee C. McIntyre, Lee Mcintyre (Author), Matthew Josdal (Narrator)

Audiobook

Post Grad: Five Women and their First Year Out of College

An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university. Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four of her peers in order to delve more deeply into what the world now offers a female college graduate, and how the world perceives them. Each of the five girls in this diverse group were expected to attend college—but most had no clear expectations for their futures post-graduation. And as Kitchener follows each member of the group, it becomes harder to reduce them to stereotypes, harder either to defend or to judge their choices. Kitchener navigates expertly between the very personal and the wider sociological perspectives as she outlines a chronological year in the lives of all five women, illuminating and clarifying each one of their choices, victories, and foibles. Both a broad and an intensely individual exploration, Post Grad is a portrait of the shifting environment of that important year after graduation, as well as an intimate look at how a select group of very different individuals handles its challenges—navigating family tensions, relationships, jobs, and that ever-elusive notion of independence.

Caroline Kitchener (Author), Amanda Dolan (Narrator)

Audiobook

Portraits of Childfree Wealth: 26 stories about how being Childfree impacts your life, wealth, and

Have you ever wondered what people without children do with all their free time and money? Do you assume that they must have a lot of both? The truth is more complex than that! Childfree people come from as many different backgrounds and life circumstances as people with children do. Some are partnered, and some are not. Some are well-educated, some aren't. Some are independently wealthy, and some are just scraping by. Dr. Zigmont's 'Portraits of Childfree Wealth' is a collection of 26 vignettes based on interviews with Childfree people. He adds his own significant insights, as both a fellow Childfree professional and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. This book is an eye-opening look at the lives of people in the United States who deliberately chose not to become parents, and if you're in the same boat, you'll find a lot to relate to here. If you have children, you'll learn how the other half lives. And if you're a finance professional, you'll see how money still plays a role for people who don't have to worry about leaving assets to their children. In Portraits of Childfree Wealth, Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP®, interviews 26 individuals and couples to understand their lives. Each portrait provides a different perspective on Childfree Wealth from a diverse population across the US. There are stories from people who are barely making ends meet and others who have achieved FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) or FILE (Financial Independence, Live Early). Being Childfree does not automatically make people rich, as we still suffer from income disparities. The difference is that if a Childfree person is barely making ends meet now, they would have drowned if they had a child.

Cfp® Jay Zigmont, Phd (Author), Cfp® Jay Zigmont, Phd (Narrator)

Audiobook

PornoXplotación

PornoXplotación es una bofetada de realidad para quienes creen que la pornografía es ajena a sus vidas. Es, también, una llamada de atención destinada a informarnos y sensibilizarnos sobre el porno, un fenómeno que traspasa las fronteras digitales y que puede desencadenar efectos devastadores al ser ritualizado por menores y adultos en las calles, en los colegios y en nuestros hogares con un simple clic desde el móvil. La pornografía es un negocio opaco y poderoso, capta a mujeres y niñas engañadas con suculentas ofertas económicas para trabajar como modelos webcam, explota a actrices y actores que terminan devastados por un negocio en constante búsqueda de 'carne fresca' y amasa fortunas gracias a los consumidores, millones de internautas cada vez más jóvenes —incluso niños—, a los que engancha para controlarlos a través de sus datos, su dinero y su vida. Mabel Lozano y Pablo J. Conellie han invertido años de investigación y volcado toda su experiencia en este libro único e impactante que hará temblar los cimientos de la industria del sexo. Elaborado gracias a valientes y duros testimonios reales jamás contados, que hablan de sueños rotos y vidas destrozadas a uno y otro lado de la pantalla.

Mabel Lozano, Pablo J. Conellie (Author), Gerard Flores, Inma Ortiz (Narrator)

Audiobook

Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes listeners behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

Heather Berg (Author), Camille Quinn (Narrator)

Audiobook

Por qué no soy feminista

Un rechazo sin concesiones al feminismo actual y un potente manifiesto revolucionario. Jessa Crispin cree que, en algún momento de su trayectoria, el movimiento de liberación de la mujer sacrificó sus principales objetivos a cambio de lograr cierto grado de aceptación por parte de la sociedad, y a partir de entonces se fue degradando hasta caer en la irrelevancia, la banalidad y la cobardía. Con su libro Por qué no soy feminista, Crispin pretende que el feminismo recupere la acidez y la fuerza de sus inicios. Vivimos en un mundo corrupto diseñado por el patriarcado para subyugar, controlar y destruir a todo aquel que lo desafíe, y la única respuesta posible para el feminismo es la revolución. Este es el grito radical y valiente que Crispin lanza en este nuevo manifiesto feminista: con él exige que las mujeres luchen para erradicar la opresión que padecen alrededor del mundo. Grabado en español ibérico (España).

Jessa Crispin (Author), Diana Alonso (Narrator)

Audiobook

Por qué creemos en mierdas (Why We Believe in Bullshit): Cómo nos engañamos a nosotros mismos (How w

Nunca conseguirás que un negacionista cambie de opinión. Nunca antes en la historia de la humanidad hemos tenido más acceso a información que ahora. Nunca antes nuestro conocimiento sobre el mundo en el que vivimos y su funcionamiento ha sido comparable al que tenemos ahora. Y sin embargo, ¿cómo es posible que creamos firmemente en bulos y supersticiones? ¿Por qué damos por buenas y difundimos historias y noticias que nunca han ocurrido? ¿Qué explica que, a pesar de las evidencias, no estemos dispuestos a cambiar de opinión o a modificarla siquiera? Las respuestas a estas preguntas, como veremos en el libro, tienen que ver con múltiples causas. Para empezar, analizaremos por qué los seres humanos distamos mucho de ser seres racionales. Entenderemos cómo procesamos la información de una manera que está lejos de ser objetiva porque, en definitiva, buscamos creer lo que queremos creer. Examinaremos por qué nuestra memoria no es fiable y cómo elaboramos falsos recuerdos de una manera perfecta. Un viaje apasionante que nos ayuda a comprender que casi todo lo que creemos sobre el mundo y sobre nosotros mismos está mal.

Ramon Nogueras (Author), Jordi Salas (Narrator)

Audiobook

Por qué compramos la burra (Why We Buy the Donkey)

Descubre cómo nos convencen y cómo convencemos a los demás, y aprende a defenderte de los malos usos de la persuasión. En ocasiones nos sorprende que consigan que hagamos algo que no queremos: comprar un cachivache que no necesitamos, apoyar unas ideas que, si las pensamos un poco, son una memez, meternos en negocios ruinosos o situaciones que, en retrospectiva, eran una mala idea. Solemos hablar del poder de la publicidad, de la propaganda, o de que un conocido nuestro tiene una labia infalible, pero no entendemos bien que la persuasión funciona por una serie de mecanismos psicológicos que nos predisponen a querer ser convencidos de ciertas cosas, de ciertas maneras. Y pensar que somos personas racionales y bien informadas, o que somos difíciles de persuadir, nos hace a n m s susceptibles a serlo. Además, también creemos que basta con meros argumentos y datos para persuadir a alguien, y luego nos choca que, pese a tener buenas evidencias, los demás no nos hagan caso. En Por qué compramos la burra, Ramón Nogueras explica las razones por las que estas circunstancias ocurren con tanta frecuencia y a gente tan diversa, de qué mecanismos se sirven para convencernos, qué trucos ponen en práctica para conseguir sus objetivos y qué señales podemos identificar para estar alerta.

Ramon Nogueras (Author), Jordi Salas (Narrator)

Audiobook

Social Science Audiobooks in Non-Fiction