Social Science Theory

Liste de produits
    • 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
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    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): Tom Nichols
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Nichols
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • 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 $

    • 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: 39,38 $

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    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Clark
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Clark
    • Durée: 33 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....

    Prix courant: 41,14 $

    • 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 $

  • Prix courant: 24,69 $

    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • Auteur(s): Richard Rothstein
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
    • Auteur(s): Saul Perlmutter PhD, Robert MacCoun PhD, John Campbell PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Paulino
    • Durée: 11 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • The Politics of Catastrophe
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Narrateur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Durée: 16 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 évaluations
    • Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • Auteur(s): René Girard
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 17 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

    Prix courant: 30,69 $