Download Popular Titles Audiobooks in Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: A Macat Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis

Author: Jacqueline Allan

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1973, Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis is a groundbreaking work that helped lay the foundations of the discipline of social psychology. Much of what we now know about the influences of the early childhood environment on delinquency and anti-social behavior can be traced back to Bandura's work.

In the book, he uses the subject of aggression to demonstrate and explore the usefulness of what is called social learning theory. Previous theories argued that behavior represented a simple, automatic response to environmental cues or that it was a result of subconscious drives. But Bandura suggests that humans are thinking, self-regulating beings who have a degree of influence over their environment. They learn from copying and watching the behavior of others. Aggression challenged ideas about human behavior and particularly questioned existing beliefs about where aggression comes from and how it develops. It also highlighted the role of the media in both generating and maintaining violence in society.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: A Macat Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Author: Jonah S. Rubin

Narrator: Macat.com

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-16

Publisher: Macat International Limited.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

A self-educated man, Eric Hoffer was most likely born in 1898. He wrote in his spare time after doing shifts on the San Francisco docks, where he continued to work, even after becoming a successful author.

Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts who were trying to work out how these movements became so powerful focused on their leaders and the ideas they trumpeted. Hoffer focused on the followers. He saw that people joining mass movements all had common traits. Feeling worn down, they had lost their sense of self-worth and saw in the movement a way to restore some meaning to their lives.

A half-century after the book's initial publication, the terror attacks on the US of September 11, 2001 brought it renewed attention. Why? Because Hoffer created a work that explains not just the events of his day, but the events of ours, too, giving us a way to understand why people behave in seemingly irrational ways.

Members Reviews:

Hoffer not analyzed

True Believer is usually read 2 or 3 times because it not an easy book to read.... I thought this would be much more detailed in its analysis.... it used words and assumptions I never saw in the book.... it over simplified what Hoffer wrote

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

Subtitle: An Introduction

Author: Michel Foucault

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire, rather than the increase of pleasure.

Members Reviews:

Grateful for Foucault on Audible!

I loved the storying of this historical account: Foucault starts with a global perspective of his analytics then sifts through the minutiae, finalizing with a summary not without humor. I am eager to listen to it all again. I slowed down the audio to .85x the original speed so I could absorb the thick descriptions.

Incisive production

Great production. Please consider producing Volumes 2 and 3 of this History of Sexuality work.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Mind Matters

Subtitle: Get out of Your Head and Jump into Life!

Author: Tanya J. Miller

Narrator: Jorie Raine Fradella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-16

Publisher: Tanya J. Miller

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Do you ever get lost in the maze of your mind? When your thoughts start spiraling in a continuous loop - positive or negative - it can seem impossible to consider a different idea or even catch your breath.

If the way you think greatly influences the way you live, then it's important to know how to manage your thoughts and channel their power to improve your life, rather than hinder it.

Mind Matters explores practical ways you can bring balance to your thought life, from replacing anxious thoughts with hopeful ones to curbing unnecessary thinking altogether. It also points out traps that keep you stuck, like "clearing your mind" by airing your thoughts on Facebook.

As you learn the art of controlling your thoughts, you will be able to focus on what you can do in the present to experience the life you want in the future. Whether you struggle with anxious thoughts or just need a few tips to better manage your mind, this easy-to-hear guide provides you with simple instructions you can immediately put into practice.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love

Subtitle: Daily Meditations to Help You Through the Grieving Process

Author: Raymond R. Mitsch, Lynn Brookside

Narrator: Tom Zingarelli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Few losses are as painful as the death of someone close. No valley is as vast as grief, no journey as personal and life changing. Compassionate and wise guides Raymond Mitsch and Lynn Brookside shine a light on the road through grief. They can help you endure the anguish and uncertainty; understand the cycles of grief; sort through the emotions of anger, guilt, fear, and depression; and face the god who allowed you to lose the one you love. A series of thoughtful daily devotions, Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love shares wisdom, insight, and comfort that will help you through and beyond your grief.

Members Reviews:

hard to stay engaged

boring pace . hard to stay engaged with auditor. never finished book. put me to sleep

surprisingly helpful...and often the topic timely.

I found that many times the feelings I was experiencing on a certain day was covered by that days topic.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Standard Deviations

Subtitle: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

Author: Gary Smith

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter "D" are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that drinking a full pot of coffee every morning will add years to your life, but one cup a day increases the risk of pancreatic cancer? All of these "facts" have been argued with a straight face by credentialed researchers and backed up with reams of data and convincing statistics.

As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing. Today, data is so plentiful that researchers spend precious little time distinguishing between good, meaningful indicators and total rubbish. Not only do others use data to fool us, we fool ourselves.

With the breakout success of Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, the once humdrum subject of statistics has never been hotter. Drawing on breakthrough research in behavioral economics by luminaries like Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely and taking to task some of the conclusions of Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt, Standard Deviations demystifies the science behind statistics and makes it easy to spot the fraud all around.

Critic Reviews:

"A very entertaining book about a very serious problem. We deceive ourselves all the time with statistics, and it is time we wised up." (Robert J. Shiller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics)

Members Reviews:

Good read for all empiricist

I have a MSc in statistics, and I have seen countless examples of miss-used statistics in medicine and economics. This book offers a great overview of the most common pitfalls, including several examples of each.

Great examples of failing to understand methodology and lying with stats.

This book will help you become a skeptical consumer of stats and the conclusions drawn from them.

Not a beach read. But worth it

This book highlights all the ways people misuse statistics, and debunks a lot of common myths and pop medical reports. Definitely not for the faint of heart (or faint of mind). But if you can swim through the math it will change the way you read headlines

Authors personal Bias gets in the way

The author literally will explain how something is incorrect or should be doubted. Because it only had correlation and not causation. But he feels he can dispute it by claiming there are other correlations...

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Helping Children Succeed

Subtitle: What Works and Why

Author: Paul Tough

Narrator: Paul Tough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 98 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success.

Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to children's mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school? And what practical steps can the adults who are responsible for them - from parents and teachers to policy makers and philanthropists - take to improve their chances for a positive future?

Tough once again encourages us to think in a brand new way about the challenges of childhood. Rather than trying to "teach" skills like grit and self-control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish.

Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood adversity - one designed to help many more children succeed.

Members Reviews:

The environment matters

My paying job is to manage data for an after school program that works in low income areas and targets low performing students at low performing school. I am always interested in the latest theories and practices that seem to be successful. But I have been working at this job for nearly 15 years. And my wife has been a teacher for even longer. I have seen trends come and go. Solutions are never fast or simple because the problems have been long in coming and are infinitely complex.

Paul Tough is a journalist, a writer for the New York Times and a contributor to This American Life. This is his second book on this theme (the first was How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character). This is a very short book, 145 pages, less than 4 hours of audio. And in that short number of pages there are still 23 chapters. Tough opens by charting out why children from difficult backgrounds have difficulty in school and life. Adversity, stress, trauma, neglect, low attachment and other adversities all impact development. Some of these can literally change DNA, but all impact development of young children, which has a very long term impact on future development.

Helping Children Succeed is more than diagnosing the problem, Tough also attempts to chart out some of the failed solutions and some of the potential viable solutions. There is no pretense that solving problems of education is easy. But because of differences of demographics, population trends and birth rates, the majority of children in schools are now poor, minority or from other difficult to educate subgroups.

Where I think Tough is right is that character issues, internal motivation and 'grit' is more important in the long term than base intelligence. The question is how to develop the internal, and often precognitive, skills that allow kids to do the hard work that is necessary to overcome their educational difficulties.

Tough is not particularly easy on the education system. The culture of control and zero tolerance of students, especially of minority students does not help students develop internal motivation.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Dear Little Ones

Subtitle: A Book About Dissociative Identity Disorder for Young Alters

Author: Jade Miller

Narrator: Darci Wantiez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-16

Publisher: Jade Miller

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

A book about dissociative identity disorder, written for young alters. The book helps young alters understand their experiences as part of a multiple system.

Members Reviews:

Thanks

I'm 28 and found out I have DID a few months ago. I met some of my alters for the first time a few days ago. One of them is 5 and very scarred. She hides in closets and feels very alone. I'm going to play this book every night while I fall asleep. This really helped her. Thank you so much

Thank you - I needed this

It's crazy that something so simple and short would have such an impact but it did. Thank you for all that you do. I'm 37 years old and this really helped me...

Worked perfect!

I believe this helped him immensely. Thank you so much for putting this little book together!

Amazing book!

Hi. I'm an alter! My name is Kaylie and I am six years old. My daddy put this book on for me and I really liked it. It's my favourite book now! One of the bigger ones inside is helping me spell and so is daddy. This book made me feel safe. I know it isn't my fault. Thank you Jade!!!!!!

Wonderful book

Thank you for this wonderful book. It was really really amazing. I really enjoy reading it. So did our young insiders. They got a lot out of it. I would recommend this book to anyone with D I D, it is a wonderful resource. Thank you Jade. I hope you write more books in the future.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Sleep Revolution

Subtitle: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

Author: Arianna Huffington

Narrator: Agapi Stassinopoulos

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 411 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post and the author of the number-one New York Times best seller Thrive , delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world - a revolution that can transform our lives.

Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis of sleep deprivation, with devastating effects on our health, our happiness, our job performance, and our relationships. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep, she writes, can we take control of our lives, live more fully, and be more engaged with ourselves and with the world and more able to meet the inevitable challenges we all face.

In Thrive, Arianna Huffington introduced her audience to the importance of sleep as a part of redefining success through well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. The topic struck such a powerful chord, resonating so intensely with her audiences around the world, that she realized the power of sleep needed a full exploration. The result is a sweeping, scientifically rigorous, and deeply personal look at sleep, from its history through the ages and the current crisis of sleep deprivation to the mysteries of dreams and the golden age of sleep science that is revealing all the ways sleep plays a vital role in our health, happiness, well-being, and productivity.

In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna identifies the many ways our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted undermines our health and our decision making and ravages our relationships, our work lives, and even our sex lives. She takes on sleep from every angle, exploring the latest science on sleep, the manipulative and dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also presents scientific recommendations and expert tips on how we can all achieve better and more restorative sleep and learn how to make the power of sleep work for us.

Most important, by highlighting the many areas where sleep's benefits are being rediscovered - from the world of sports and technology to college campuses, the hotel industry, and even workplaces around the world - she points the way forward to amazing innovations, reforms, and inventions rooted in our new love affair with sleep.

In today's 24/7, fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually harried, and sleep-deprived world, the hunger for sleep is only getting stronger.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Crazy Like Us

Subtitle: The Globalization of the American Psyche

Author: Ethan Watters

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible that America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for?

In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world. The blowback from these efforts is just now coming to light: It turns out that we have not only been changing the way the world talks about and treats mental illness - we have been changing the mental illnesses themselves.

Critic Reviews:

"Mental-health professionals should pay attention, and shrewd investors in pharmaceuticals may take interest in Watters's guess as to what disorder is likely to be big in the near future." (

Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Worth listening to

A great blend of story and research to examine the role of American psychology and psychiatrics on the rest of the world. Good narrator. I finished this book in just a few days.

Enlightening Look

I thought this book was excellently written! Well put together and good documentation of research, but told as interesting stories to help the reader understand the issues. Very relevant to understanding American culture of mental health and how it relates to other cultures!