Social Science Theory

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    • What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 11 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 évaluations
    • Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’ "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro
    • Auteur(s): Joan Mellen
    • Narrateur(s): Katina Kalin
    • Durée: 12 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the '50s and '60s....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • Conversations About a People’s History
    • Auteur(s): Howard Zinn, Ray Suarez - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Zinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror....

    Prix courant: 17,81 $

    • AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
    • Auteur(s): Parmy Olson
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Flanagan
    • Durée: 9 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. Parmy Olson uses her experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
    • Auteur(s): Russell Cobb
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 9 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • Auteur(s): Charles Murray
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Morris
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

    Prix courant: 21,89 $

    • Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
    • Auteur(s): Gary Rivlin
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Knezevich
    • Durée: 11 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Alan Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 46 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....

    Prix courant: 44,54 $

  • Prix courant: 24,69 $

    • Auteur(s): Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrateur(s): Chris MacDonnell
    • Durée: 12 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Henry Kissinger
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
    • Durée: 37 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

    Prix courant: 38,97 $

    • Mussolini to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrateur(s): Chloe Cannon
    • Durée: 9 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 48 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 évaluations
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

    Prix courant: 35,05 $

    • Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Kyle Longley
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
    • Durée: 11 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales. In the US, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President LBJ. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
    • Auteur(s): Nick Bryant
    • Narrateur(s): Nick Bryant
    • Durée: 20 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • America's Right Turn 1976-1980
    • Auteur(s): Rick Perlstein
    • Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy, Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 45 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • From the best-selling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power....

    Prix courant: 40,97 $

    • 1613-1918
    • Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Beale
    • Durée: 28 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 évaluations
    • This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $

    • Auteur(s): Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 15 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
    • Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
    • Durée: 17 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 évaluations
    • The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....

    Prix courant: 45,44 $

    • Auteur(s): Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
    • Narrateur(s): Kumud Soney
    • Durée: 5 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-09
    • Langue: Hindi
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • हिंदुत्व का विचार’, ‘भारत की प्राचीनतमा’, ‘हमारी राष्ट्रीयता’, ‘समाज का आचरण’, ‘स्त्री सशक्तीकरण’, ‘विकास की अवधारणा’, ‘अहिंसा का सिद्धांत’, ‘बाबा साहेब आंबेडकर’ और ‘भारत का भवितव्य’ जैसे विचारों को परिष्कृत करेगी।.

    Prix courant: 2,66 $