Social Science Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins-the Pandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this superb and widely acclaimed translation of the complete Mahabharata, Bibek Debroy takes on a great journey with incredible ease.

Bibek Debroy (Author), Abhishek Sharma (Narrator)

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Mahabharata Vol 9

Bibek Debroy (Author), Abhishek Sharma (Narrator)

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Majority Minority

How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about largescale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people's reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Justin Gest looks to the past. In Majority Minority, Gest wields historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors produce different social outcomes. Gest concludes that states hold great power to shape public responses and perceptions of demographic change through political institutions and the rhetoric of leaders. Through subsequent survey research, Gest also identifies novel ways that leaders can leverage nationalist sentiment to reduce the appeal of nativism-by framing immigration and demographic change in terms of the national interest.

Justin Gest (Author), Clark Cornell (Narrator)

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Make it Happen: How to be an Activist

‘Make It Happen reminds us that people of any age can create change in their communities. From finding allies to setting goals, everyone who wants to contribute to a better future can learn from Amika's book.’ Malala Yousafzai GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON’T GIVE UP. In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn’t afford tampons or sanitary towels. Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by the government. Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global campaign from their bedroom. And Amika will show you how, in this essential guide to being an activist. With chapters on finding your crowd and creating allies, going public with your campaign, how to use social media effectively and how to look after your mental health while protesting, Amika will show you how you can effect real and lasting change in your community, on the streets of your city, on your social media feed, in your country and in YOUR world. • Is the environment being overlooked in favour of driving profits? • Do you see injustice and suffering all around you? • Have you hit upon a way to make the world a better place? This – rallying cry, stories and lessons, and interviews from Amika’s fellow protestors and other changemakers, including Caroline Criado-Perez, Deborah Frances-White, Adwoa Aboah, Nicola Mendelsohn and Scarlett Curtis – is your book. It’s not too late. You’re not too young. You are important. Rise up and be the change you want to see.

Amika George (Author), Amika George, To Be Announced (Narrator)

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Make it Work

Make it Work: Practical Advice for a Strong and Lasting Relationship to Make Your Marriage Work Love is a beautiful journey, but it's not always a smooth ride. Relationships require effort, patience, and a willingness to grow together. A healthy relationship is one that is built on trust, respect, and mutual understanding. In this audiobook, we delve into the practical steps and techniques for making relationships work. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reignite the spark, this guide offers valuable insights and tools to help you build a strong, lasting bond with your partner. With a focus on communication, empathy, and mutual understanding, you'll learn how to navigate the ups and downs of relationships and create a strong foundation for a lifetime of love. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - What Makes a Relationship Healthy - Improving Communication in Couples - Healing and Fostering Trust - Practical Ways to Take Care of Your Relationship - Date Night Ideas to Keep the Passion Alive - Tips on Saving a Relationship on the brink of collapse - When to Seek Professional Support or Counseling for Couples - And many more! If you want to learn on what it takes to create and maintain a lasting relationship, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

Riley Walker (Author), Steven Myles (Narrator)

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Make Marriage Built to Last Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Survive Your First Year of Marriage and Make Marr

Make Marriage Built to Last Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Survive Your First Year of Marriage and Make Marriage Work and Last Do you feel like your marriage is in trouble? Don’t be another statistic and let it end in divorce! Marriage isn't just trying to survive. It is more meaningful than that. Marriage is about making sacrifices for the one that you truly love. According to statistics, 50% of marriages end up in divorce. While this is not a promising number, you don’t have to belong to the numbers that end in divorce if you know how to handle and keep your marriage strong. Doing small things can be a big help and make the relationship less dramatic in the sense of arguments. And you have to focus on communication skills because this is one of the most important aspects of marriage. In this bundle, you will learn about how to survive your first year of marriage and not just the first year, it will teach you how to make your marriage last. You will learn what to focus on during your first year of marriage. If your marriage is already in trouble, it will also teach you tips on how you can rebuild your relationship and save your marriage. You will learn how to ignite passion once more and make your marriage exciting again. You will learn how to recognize and solve the problems in your marriage. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - Survive Your First Year of Marriage: The Best Guide on How to Build a Strong Foundation During Your First Year of Marriage and Keep Your Marriage Blissfully Happy - Make Marriage Work and Last: The Essential Guide on the Effective Ways to Save Your Marriage and Make It Last, Learn Tips on Trust, Communication and Intimacy in Marriage Get your copy of Make Marriage Built to Last 2 in 1 Bundle today!

S.K. Whitney, Yasmine Anthony (Author), John Hays, Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)

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Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling

Podcasting is the fastest-growing media platform in the world, with currently 650,000 podcasts out there, in 100 languages, and offering over 20 million episodes. And we're only at the beginning. More and more podcasts appear every day, and more and more entrepreneurs, businesses, individuals, and distributors, like Spotify, are getting into this world. One person many people turn to for help launching their podcasts is Eric Nuzum, a veteran of NPR and Audible who's had a hand in creating and launching over 130 podcasts. And the reason is that Nuzum understands the essentials of what makes a podcast work and knows how to help creators shepherd their vision from rough idea to finished product. Make Noise brings all the wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking that any individual or business needs to make a successful podcast. He identifies core principles-such as create empathetically, i.e., think like the audience listens, and stay focused on what's unique to you and what you have to say. He helps listeners come up with a "Ten Word Description" that will guide them throughout the creative process and then gets into how-tos-how to develop character, story, voice; how to conduct an effective interview; how to be mindful of the limitations of audio (be more like Hemingway than Faulkner). He provides the rules of storytelling, advice on how to test-drive an idea, and, when it's all ready, how to develop your audience.

Eric Nuzum (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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Make Someone Happy: Favorite Postings

This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be as welcome as flowers in a mailbox.

Elizabeth Berg (Author), Elizabeth Berg (Narrator)

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Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus

One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve your brainpower-for life. The human brain is not a static organ; it's plastic, which means it can grow and change. But just like a muscle, you have to exercise it. In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman gives you the comprehensive fitness plan you need to "exercise" your way to a healthier brain. By taking advantage of the immense cognitive potential of your brain, you can think smarter, not harder, solving the complexities and problems that occur every day. In this all-inclusive book, you'll find easy strategies to train deep, insightful, and strategic thinking in order to realize your brain's maximum cognitive capacity. With her years of experience, Dr. Chapman will introduce you to the very latest research in brain science, with an emphasis on the cutting-edge findings related to the frontal lobe. She'll show you how to tailor a brain fitness program to fit your own needs. From cover to cover, she shares tips and techniques that can be practiced throughout life to promote vigorous cognitive brain health at every age. Whether you're a boomer-age "thinker" or a millennial-era "finder," Make Your Brain Smarter will help you to take charge of your frontal-lobe command center and create the bright and vibrant brain that you crave-and will need in order to have a healthy, happy rest of your life. "The founder of the Center for Brain Health reviews recent research in brain studies and techniques to keep brains in peak condition...A decent cross section of research and practical ideas about exercising and maintaining brain function."-Kirkus Reviews

Sandra Bond Chapman, Shelly Kirkland (Author), Karen White (Narrator)

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Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge

Society is changing, which means it's time for dating to evolve. Millennial and Gen Z women are more than capable of seeking out what-and who-they want. They're standouts in the classroom and champions on the playing fields. They're leaders in the workplace and trailblazers in city halls, state houses, and Congress. So why would we tell a generation of badass women that they're not allowed to be bold when it comes to finding love? Why should they have to sit back and wait (and wait and wait) for men to find them? In Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge, Jon Birger, author of Date-onomics, offers women bold new strategies for finding the one. Backed by research showing that women can win at romance by making the first move with the men of their choice, Birger explains why: it's better to choose than to be chosen; the 'play hard to get' method is not only outdated but grounded in bad science; the first move does not have to be a big move; it's time to log off of dating apps and date men you actually know; the workplace can be a terrific place to meet a long-term romantic partner . . . and more! Make Your Move is an honest, solution-based guide to finding love that lasts. If you're tired of playing by old rules, look no further: Make your move and win.

Jon Birger (Author), Michael Butler Murray (Narrator)

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Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times

These are the kinds of stories we need right now. While the news is filled with villains and villainy, we do see a few famous heroes now and again. But what about the everyday heroes? The people going out of their way bring a little love into someone else's life? They deserve a time in the spotlight to inspire us all. Life can be tough—but it helps to know other people have come through hard times with a smile on their face. In Make Your Own Sunshine, Janice Dean shares inspiring stories that will lift your spirit and touch your heart. Good people are all around us doing selfless deeds, from a firefighter who bravely battled for his colleague’s health after 9/11 to a good Samaritan who secretly pays for the coffees of everyone in line behind him. You can’t help but smile reading about the teacher who cut her hair to make her student feel better. And you may shed a tear when you hear the story of the dad who never missed writing a napkin note for his daughter, including stashing extra notes in case he lost his batter with cancer. From a young man who makes bow ties for dogs waiting to be adopted to an Uber driver who brightened a new mom’s day by helping her buy baby clothes, the heroes in this story will warm your heart and stick in your mind. Janice has made it her mission to uncover and document these good stories to inspire us and gives us a much-needed boost of optimism. All we have to do is open our minds and our hearts, to look for the light on a cloudy day. Because as she reminds us, if we don’t make our own sunshine—who will? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Janice Dean (Author), Janice Dean (Narrator)

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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people marched, rallied, held vigils, and engaged in direct actions to protest and draw attention to state and vigilante violence against Black people. What began as outrage over the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer, and accelerated during the Ferguson uprising of 2014, has evolved into a resurgent Black Freedom Movement, which includes a network of more than fifty organizations working together under the rubric of the Movement for Black Lives coalition. Employing a range of creative tactics and embracing group-centered leadership models, these visionary young organizers, many of them women, and many of them queer, are not only calling for an end to police violence, but demanding racial justice, gender justice, and systemic change. In Making All Black Lives Matte, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anticapitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community.

Barbara Ransby (Author), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Narrator)

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Social Science Audiobooks in Non-Fiction