Showing titles in Sociology
-
-
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
- By: Émile Durkheim
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Religion is at the heart of man’s societies. ‘For a long time,’ Durkheim writes early on in his book, ‘it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin.’ Durkheim decided to examine how and why this phenomenon functioned and evolved - by looking specifically at simple societies and their religions, rather than at religions in more complex or developed societies.
Preview -
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.07 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- By: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall79
-
Performance68
-
Story67
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing, cancer, human life spans and the increasing pace of life but also encourages us to question the world around us.
-
-
Mathematics and beauty without faith
- By Mr Jeremy J Osborn on 22-01-19
Preview -
Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.11 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
After
- A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
- By: Bruce Greyson MD
- Narrated by: Raymond Moody, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Eben Alexander
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall185
-
Performance164
-
Story164
Brought to you by Penguin. What happens when we die? Ten per cent of people whose hearts stop, and then restart, report near-death experiences. Stories of lights, tunnels and reunion with late loved ones have been relayed - and dismissed - since ancient times. But when Dr Bruce Greyson's...
-
-
A suggested model to place NDE experiences
- By Col La Baleine on 17-03-21
Preview -
After
- A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
- Narrated by: Raymond Moody, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Eben Alexander
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-03-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Second Mountain
- The Quest for a Moral Life
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall92
-
Performance80
-
Story79
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Secnd Mountain, written by David Brooks, read by Arthur Morey. Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high...
-
-
It's a good message well delivered but...
- By John Sharpe on 17-02-22
Preview -
The Second Mountain
- The Quest for a Moral Life
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£10.34 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall120
-
Performance108
-
Story108
On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.
-
-
Outstanding
- By SHANE CANNING on 07-06-25
Preview -
Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Sale price: £3.99
Regular price: £14.20
Sale ends inSale has ended -
-
-
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- And Other Conversations About Race
- By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall9
-
Performance8
-
Story8
Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned psychology professor, guides us through how racial identity develops, from very young children all the way to adulthood, in Black families, white families and mixed-race families, and helps us understand what we can do to break the silence, have better conversations with our children and with each other about race, and build a better world.
-
-
Everyone should read this book
- By Jennifer weidner on 03-11-24
Preview -
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- And Other Conversations About Race
- Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Why Won't You Apologize?
- Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts
- By: Harriet Lerner PhD
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall60
-
Performance46
-
Story44
“If you want to know why Harriet Lerner is one of my great heroes, Why Won’t You Apologize? is the answer. This book is a game changer.” —Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rising Strong “Harriet Lerner is one hell of a wise woman. She draws you in with...
-
-
Extraordinary, transformational!
- By jennifer de Ponteves on 11-02-22
Preview -
Why Won't You Apologize?
- Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-01-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£9.71 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Gods of New York
- The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots
- By: Jonathan Mahler
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance9
-
Story9
Brought to you by Penguin. New York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life. But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of the city’s...
-
-
Well written.
- By Rob on 10-01-26
Preview -
The Gods of New York
- The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-08-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.51 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Nothing to Fear
- Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
- By: Julie McFadden
- Narrated by: Julie McFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall21
-
Performance19
-
Story19
What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced end-of-life care and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance? In this empathetic and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden – known online as ‘Hospice Nurse Julie’ – shares the valuable lessons she’s learned in her fifteen years as a palliative care nurse.
-
-
It was not generic enough for me
- By TaraMarie on 17-11-25
Preview -
Nothing to Fear
- Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
- Narrated by: Julie McFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.06 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall82
-
Performance66
-
Story66
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
-
-
Once seen, can it be unseen?
- By Amazon Customer on 16-01-19
Preview -
Seeing Like a State
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.33 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall42
-
Performance37
-
Story37
While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
-
-
A book about construction.
- By Amazon Customer on 21-03-25
Preview -
The Devil in the White City
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Sale price: £5.99
Regular price: £16.67
Sale ends inSale has ended -
-
-
The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall68
-
Performance62
-
Story62
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
-
-
Looked very promising but then disappointing
- By Ras on 28-11-17
Preview -
The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£18.08 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Thomas Sowell Reader
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall58
-
Performance48
-
Story48
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
-
-
Grateful.
- By Elspeth on 05-09-19
Preview -
The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£16.09 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall9
-
Performance8
-
Story8
James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
-
-
A very good read
- By Anonymous on 27-08-24
Preview -
Notes of a Native Son
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.06 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Signs of Murder
- A Small Town in Scotland, a Miscarriage of Justice and the Search for the Truth
- By: David Wilson
- Narrated by: David Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall59
-
Performance55
-
Story54
Before David Wilson became the UK's pre-eminent criminologist, he was just a young boy growing up in the Scottish town of Carluke. As a child, the brutal murder of a young woman rocked this small community, but very quickly a man was arrested for the crime, convicted and put behind bars. For most, life slowly carried on - case closed.
-
-
Quest for truth
- By Mary Carnegie on 27-02-21
Preview -
Signs of Murder
- A Small Town in Scotland, a Miscarriage of Justice and the Search for the Truth
- Narrated by: David Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.35 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Steeple Chasing
- Around Britain by Church
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall36
-
Performance33
-
Story33
From the author of A Tomb With a View - a celebration of the weird and wonderful churches of Britain Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one...
-
-
Superb!
- By E. Mulliner on 25-05-23
Preview -
Steeple Chasing
- Around Britain by Church
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Embarrassment of Riches
- An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators.
Preview -
The Embarrassment of Riches
- An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-11-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£23.24 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Far From The Tree
- A Dozen Kinds of Love
- By: Andrew Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall102
-
Performance91
-
Story90
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all.
-
-
Emotive
- By Alan Doyle on 17-03-15
Preview -
Far From The Tree
- A Dozen Kinds of Love
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-01-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£25.64 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall892
-
Performance747
-
Story740
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland. Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are...
-
-
Read the original essay
- By BDD on 12-07-18
Preview -
Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£10.34 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Another Now
- Dispatches from an Alternative Present from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall155
-
Performance138
-
Story140
Brought to you by Penguin. What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer. Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech...
-
-
sorry yanis
- By John Szwec on 15-09-20
Preview -
Another Now
- Dispatches from an Alternative Present from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-