American Sociology

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    • The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Tyler Cowen
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. The problem is that Americans today have broken from this tradition....

    Prix courant: 31,16$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • Auteur(s): Evan Osnos
    • Narrateur(s): Evan Osnos
    • Durée: 17 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

    Prix courant: 32,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • Auteur(s): Paul Starr
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 24 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Katrina Hazzard-Donald
    • Narrateur(s): Sharell Palmer
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Journey Through American Loneliness
    • Auteur(s): Kristen Radtke
    • Narrateur(s): Kristen Radtke
    • Durée: 1 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This - a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society....

    Prix courant: 11,66$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 11,66$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • Auteur(s): Kim Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Em Grosland
    • Durée: 12 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick - How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life
    • Auteur(s): Raymond Francis
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Gilvezan
    • Durée: 9 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In The Great American Health Hoax, Francis exposes the truth about how to stay healthy and introduces us to a way of life that can become a "highway to health", while he quite effectively demonstrates that we really don't have to be sick....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
    • Auteur(s): Shelby Steele
    • Narrateur(s): Randall Bain
    • Durée: 4 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Truth About Lies About Indians
    • Auteur(s): Darrell Dennis
    • Narrateur(s): Darrell Dennis
    • Durée: 7 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap. With a large dose of humour and irreverence, he untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations....

    Prix courant: 19,76$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
    • Auteur(s): William Deresiewicz
    • Narrateur(s): Mel Foster
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically....

    Prix courant: 35,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Amelia Stein
    • Narrateur(s): Amanda Carlin
    • Durée: 6 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Since the eviction of Occupy protestors from encampments in many cities throughout the world, smaller and more targeted occupations have continued....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 13 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Grose
    • Narrateur(s): Suehyla El-Attar
    • Durée: 6 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Americans in Debt
    • Auteur(s): Teresa A. Sullivan, Jay Lawrence Westbrook, Elizabeth Warren
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 11 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder and Memory in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Laura Tillman
    • Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 17 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.

    Prix courant: 35,34$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jordan Henderson
    • Narrateur(s): Jordan Henderson, Mark Stobbart
    • Durée: 7 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Captain, father, leader, a fearless ambassador for the causes he believes in and a world-class midfielder, Jordan Henderson is all of these things—and it is why he is one of the most widely respected players of his generation....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America
    • Auteur(s): Mark Mathabane
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Mathabane uses his experiences with race in both South Africa and in America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a fresh, timely, and provocative approach....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • At the 40th anniversary of King's assassination, acclaimed public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson reevaluates the fate of America, specifically Black America, since that date....

    Prix courant: 14,09$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin Y. Fong
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Caffrey
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit