Showing results by publisher "Basic Books" in Social Sciences
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Social Justice Fallacies
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and...
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Book of the century
- By James O on 23-02-24
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Social Justice Fallacies
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 19-09-23
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Parenting
- How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
- By: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Leonard Sax
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed...
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Stark reality put in such a logical and convincing manner.
- By Jack Rossini on 09-08-25
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The Collapse of Parenting
- How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
- Narrated by: Leonard Sax
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Trauma and Recovery
- The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
- By: Judith Lewis Herman MD MD
- Narrated by: Alison Mathews, Xe Sands
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...
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- By Amazon Customer on 30-07-22
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Trauma and Recovery
- The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
- Narrated by: Alison Mathews, Xe Sands
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-12-19
- Language: English
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Venus and Aphrodite
- A Biography of Desire
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit...
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Fabulous
- By Liz on 30-07-21
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Venus and Aphrodite
- A Biography of Desire
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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Freedom Season
- How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy In Freedom Season, acclaimed...
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Well researched book
- By Ben Fitzgerald on 08-10-25
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Freedom Season
- How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Affirmative Action Myth
- Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
- By: Jason L Riley
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many...
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The Affirmative Action Myth
- Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
- By: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Joshua Kane
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...
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Thin and insular
- By BenMcNevis on 25-01-22
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
- Narrated by: Joshua Kane
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- By: Jason L Riley
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance29
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A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering...
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Intelligence and the human spirit. Unputdownable
- By JNG on 14-03-23
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Turning to Stone, a mediation on the stories that rock can tell us about the deep history of our planet To many of us, the Earth’s crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, the Earth’s crust, and every stone within it, is a richly illustrated...
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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Are Men Animals?
- How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short
- By: Matthew Gutmann
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates Why do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From vulgar locker-room talk to mansplaining to sexual harassment, society is too quick to explain...
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Are Men Animals?
- How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
- By: Ellen Karsh, Arlen Sue Fox
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive...
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The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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The Next Apocalypse
- The Art and Science of Survival
- By: Chris Begley
- Narrated by: Chris Begley, Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run...
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The Next Apocalypse
- The Art and Science of Survival
- Narrated by: Chris Begley, Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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Vanguard
- How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- By: Martha S. Jones
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement...
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Coming to Our Senses
- A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World
- By: Susan R. Barry
- Narrated by: Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new model for our senses. We think of perception as a passive, mechanical process, as if our eyes are cameras and our ears microphones. But as neurobiologist Susan R. Barry argues, perception is a...
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Coming to Our Senses
- A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World
- Narrated by: Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color
- An American Family Memoir
- By: Martha S. Jones
- Narrated by: Martha S. Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of How the...
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The Trouble of Color
- An American Family Memoir
- Narrated by: Martha S. Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- By: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-12-18
- Language: English
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Worked Over
- How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
- By: Jamie K McCallum
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality. Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased...
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Worked Over
- How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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