Society

Civics & Citizenship Globalization Social Scientists & Psychologists Social Sciences Human Rights History & Theory Philosophy Politics, Society & Current Events Aesthetics
1 - 20 of 465 results
Product List
  • Regular price: $28.80 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $28.80 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $20.33 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.33 or 1 credit

    • Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,290 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
    • By: Massimo Pigliucci
    • Narrated by: Peter Coleman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,052 ratings
    • Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life....

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    • Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    • By: Eric Hoffer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

    Regular price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    • The Price of Progress
    • By: Christopher Ryan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,351 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    • Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect....

    Regular price: $12.88 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $12.88 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Greg Baglia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....

    Regular price: $30.41 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.41 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $4.50 or 1 credit

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Stephen Eric Bronner
    • Narrated by: Justin Price
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philosophical competitors....

    Regular price: $13.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.99 or 1 credit

    • How Randomness Rules Our Lives
    • By: Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,433 ratings
    • Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....

    Regular price: $21.48 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.48 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

    Regular price: $18.91 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.91 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.45 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
    • By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744 ratings
    • Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

    Regular price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    • The Logic of Misogyny
    • By: Kate Manne
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
    • By: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Be Wrong - himself a world-class geometer - comes a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit