Showing results by publisher "Canongate Books" in Social Sciences
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- By: Annabelle Hirsch, Eleanor Updegraff - translator
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.
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Brilliant
- By Lee on 10-03-24
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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Billy No-Mates
- How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem
- By: Max Dickins
- Narrated by: Max Dickins
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that that he wasn’t the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless studies from across the world have confirmed that men have fewer close friends than women–and the problem gets worse the older men get. But what goes wrong? And what can men do about it? Dickins is going to find out. His funny and charmingly candid search takes him to the doors of world-leading experts.
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So funny, so insightful
- By Joe W on 26-10-22
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Billy No-Mates
- How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem
- Narrated by: Max Dickins
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Wolfish
- The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom
- By: Erica Berry
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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The wolf is so often depicted as the male predator, preying on the vulnerable girl/woman who strays from the path; the she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who sit outside the accepted boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry openly recounts her own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening experiences as a woman to try to understand how we navigate our fears when threat can seem constant.
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Wouldn’t recommend
- By AmazonAccount13453 on 20-11-23
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Wolfish
- The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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My Lady Parts
- A Life Fighting Stereotypes
- By: Doon Mackichan
- Narrated by: Doon Mackichan
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Doon Mackichan is best known for her comedy characters in the hugely popular Brass Eye, Smack the Pony and Toast of London - but throughout her career there are parts she's refused to take and roles she's been forced to play. The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar. In My Lady Parts, Doon shares her experience on stage, screen and in real life, examining how our culture still expects women to adhere to certain stereotypes - and punishes those who don't.
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A Tour de force
- By Anonymous User on 25-09-23
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My Lady Parts
- A Life Fighting Stereotypes
- Narrated by: Doon Mackichan
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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My Name Is Why
- By: Lemn Sissay
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and triumph.
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Painful reading
- By candide on 01-09-19
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My Name Is Why
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- By: Pragya Agarwal
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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We've all heard the sayings that girls should be 'sugar and spice and all things nice', while 'boys don't cry'. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women—especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history—and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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(M)otherhood
- On the Choices of Being a Woman
- By: Pragya Agarwal
- Narrated by: Pragya Agarwal
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to childbirth, defining women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood, and whether they can have children or not. Dr Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices around motherhood to examine the broader societal and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about this issue - including education, economic status, feminism, race and more.
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Raw and honest
- By Esse on 23-12-23
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(M)otherhood
- On the Choices of Being a Woman
- Narrated by: Pragya Agarwal
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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Bi
- The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
- By: Dr Julia Shaw
- Narrated by: Dr Julia Shaw, John Sackville, Lauryn Allman
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer some of the questions that many people have about bisexuality. In Bi, Julia Shaw explores how people have defined and measured bisexuality during its long and important history. She looks at behavioural bisexuality in animals, and investigates whether there is a bi gene. She introduces some famous bi activists and scholars whom everyone should know.
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Good introduction if you ignore the last chapters
- By Nick S on 09-01-23
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Bi
- The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
- Narrated by: Dr Julia Shaw, John Sackville, Lauryn Allman
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-06-22
- Language: English
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream? The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes. This book is not simply about what the brain is but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research.
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There are some good bits but overall very labored
- By Roger D. on 08-11-20
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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Figuring
- By: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists - mostly women, mostly queer - whose public contribution has risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience and appreciate the universe.
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Simply beautiful!
- By Amazon Customer on 26-04-20
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Figuring
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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A Short History of Myth
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Human beings have always been myth makers. Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into the history of myth takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the mythology of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years.
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Robotic reader
- By richard2 on 23-02-19
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A Short History of Myth
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-06-12
- Language: English
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Amateur
- By: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.
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An extremely interesting insight
- By MS on 30-03-23
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Amateur
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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In Miniature
- How Small Things Illuminate the World
- By: Simon Garfield
- Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places, and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule food and a dozen more intricately examined pursuits. Each object considered plots the course of a new miniature byway and in unexpected ways lets us see our world in a whole new light....
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In Miniature
- How Small Things Illuminate the World
- Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Timecode of a Face
- By: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, best-selling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen tradition, 'your face before your parents were born' is your original face. Who are you? What is your true self? What is your identity before or beyond the dualistic distinctions, like father/mother and good/evil, that come to define us?
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Deeply humane
- By Cosmin Briciu on 26-03-23
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Timecode of a Face
- Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Things I Have Withheld
- By: Kei Miller
- Narrated by: Kei Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.
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One of the best books audible has to offer
- By Nadine on 09-06-21
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Things I Have Withheld
- Narrated by: Kei Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-05-21
- Language: English
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Black Ghosts
- A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China
- By: Noo Saro-Wiwa
- Narrated by: Noo Saro-Wiwa
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China's 'Black Ghosts', African economic migrants in the People's Republic, who live in separate communities and are vigorously involved in the trade between the continents. Her fascinating encounters include a Ghanaian cardiac surgeon, a drug dealer, a visa overstayer, a Nigerian popstar who sings in Chinese and men married to Chinese women who speak English with Nigerian accents.
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Amazing stories and some many insights on Nigerians and China.
- By A Oliveira on 06-02-24
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Black Ghosts
- A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China
- Narrated by: Noo Saro-Wiwa
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-11-23
- Language: English
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Rise
- Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way
- By: Gina Miller
- Narrated by: Gina Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. Gina successfully challenged the UK government's authority to trigger Article 50 - the formal notification to leave the European Union - without parliamentary approval. For standing up for what she believed was right, Miller became the target of not just racist and sexist verbal abuse but physical threats to her and her family.
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One in a million
- By andersoon on 02-10-19
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Rise
- Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way
- Narrated by: Gina Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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A century on from the first votes for women in the UK, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson asks what we still stand to learn from the Suffragettes. Examining recent women's rights movements, the worlds of politics and technology, social media and changes in the law, Winterson celebrates how far we have come but demands that we do more. There is still so far to go, so much courage we still need to find. Witty and wise, incisive and inspiring, Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a powerful reminder of the need for true equality and an urgent call to arms.
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Essential reading
- By Leya Jane Moore on 09-03-19
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Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-02-19
- Language: English
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The Safety Net
- Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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The advent of the internet has been one of the most significant technological developments in history. In this thought-provoking and ground-breaking work David Eagleman, author of international best seller Sum, presents six ways in which the net saves us from major existential threats: pandemics, poor information flow, natural disasters, political corruption, resource depletion and economic meltdown.
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The Safety Net
- Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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