The Politics & Social Sciences category has 11,027 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 115,402 ratings. The most-rated is 12 Rules for Life.
The Case Against Perfection
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. The Case Against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable.
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Model Thinker
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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja. From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models - from linear regression to random walks and far beyond - that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's "many-model paradigm", which shows the listener how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to leverage data and information to their advantage. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Scott E. Page (P)2021 Hachette Audio
1 Habit for Women Action Takers
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Whether Good or Bad, Habits Shape Who We Are. The cool thing, though, is we can instill in ourselves good habits. Even better, we can change bad habits (aka unHabits) into good habits. In this book, you will find stories from women action takers who are on a mission to make a significant impact on this planet by sharing their habits and unHabits to help you place one foot in front of the other when you need it most. No matter how much you wish, hope, pray, desire, want, or manifest, nothing happens without action. You can see an opportunity staring you in the face, but if your habit is to ignore that opportunity and turn the other way, that opportunity is lost forever. What type of unHabits do you have that you would like to change? What type of habits do you have that you’d like to share with others because that 1 Habit has completely changed your life for the better? Co-Author, Lynda Sunshine West joined 1 Habit Creator, Steven Samblis. to bring you 1 Habit for Women Action Takers. Lynda spent years surrounding herself with positive and uplifting women who have created their lives around their good habits. She decided to bring her friends together to contribute to the next book in the 1 Habit series. A book that will motivate and inspire you to change your life by changing your habits. Even if you were to take only one of the habits in this book and implement it in your life starting right now, this very moment, your life will change forever. 1 Habit will challenge you to take an action step into the unknown. If you have a desire to be more, but don't know where to start, this is the book for you. 1 Habit For Women Action Takers offers small, impactful steps that will help you create the life you have always dreamed of.
©2019, 2020 1 Habit Press, Inc. (P)2021 1 Habit Press, Inc.
Unbound
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The ultimate guide to owning your power - and mastering how to use it. How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much - and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze? Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women - and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences as a dominatrix, her training to become a Taoist nun, and the countless women she has taught to expand their influence, this book offers precise, practical instruction in how to stand in your power, find your voice, and use it well. Learn how to: Embrace your desires as the pathway to your destiny. Ask for - and get - what you need in your life, work, and in the bedroom. Skillfully navigate hearing "no" and any resistance, even your own. Flip power dynamics when someone crosses your boundaries and puts you on the spot. Create new and expanded roles for the people in your life with precise, targeted asks. Whether you're getting crystal clear on exactly what you want, or turning the tables on a man who has shut you up and shut you down, Urbaniak's methods teach women to stand for themselves in every interaction. Part manual, part manifesto, part behind-the-scenes look, Unbound is a how-to guide to the impossible, the outrageous, the unimaginable - a field guide to living your wildest, best, and most satisfying life.
©2020 Kasia Urbaniak (P)2020 Penguin Audio
This Is the Fire
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Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he tells us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.
©2021 Don Lemon (P)2021 Little, Brown & Company
White Fright
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A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of Black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start. In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of Black sexuality. In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction: in battles over lynching, in the policing of Black troops' behavior overseas during World War II, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till. The question was finally settled - as a legal matter - with the Court's definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared interracial marriage a "fundamental freedom". Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.
©2020 Jane Dailey (P)2020 Basic Books
Dispatches from the Race War
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Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to combat racist power structures." (The New York Times) “What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks' truth to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society.” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) "Tim Wise's new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off!" (James W. Loewen, author, Lies My Teacher Told Me) "Tim Wise's latest is more urgent than ever. " (Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy) "A white social justice advocate clearly shows how racism is America's core crisis. A trenchant assessment of our nation’s ills." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) "[Dispatches from the Race War] is a bracing call to action in a moment of social unrest." (Publishers Weekly) "Dispatches from the Race War exhorts white Americans to join the struggle for a fairer society." (Chapter 16) In this collection of essays, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Party’s backlash, the killing of Trayvon Martin, current-day anti-immigrant hysteria, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism, the violent policing of African Americans, and more. Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19 and the widespread protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd. Concise, accessible chapters, most written in first-person, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wise’s proactive approach asks White allies to contend with - and take responsibility for - their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color. Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict and that our future may depend on how - or if - we can resolve it. “To accept racism is quintessentially American,” writes Wise, “to rebel against it is human. Be human.”
©2020 by Tim Wise (P)2021 Audible, Inc.