AuthorSean Connolly
NarratorRobin Houston
Duration1h 52m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Sociology
Key StageKS4
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
This new series provides a thorough account of 20th Century conflicts, whilst supplying more than just a straightforward narrative. Each book tackles a different conflict and examines the effect on ordinary people, provides biographies of the leading figures involved and examines media coverage.
Citizen Guides: What Happens In A Law Court
Author: Dan Lambeth
Author Dan Lambeth
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
Why do we have law courts? What do barristers do? How are judges appointed? What happens in a court of law can have an important effect on you, but do you know how courts actually work, and why? A Franklin Watts title.
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Citizen Guides: What Happens At the Stock Exchange
Author: Soraya Moeng
Author Soraya Moeng
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
What is the London Stock Exchange? Why do companies float on it? The decisions taken at the London Stock Exchange can have an important effect on you, but do you know what actually happens there? A Franklin Watts title.
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Steve Bruce
Author Steve Bruce
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 4h 10m
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organisations, this 'Very Short Introduction' explores the tension between the individual's role in society and society's role in shaping the individual.
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Author: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Author Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Narrator
Duration 1h 54m
Without question one of the most significant books in modern history, 'The Communist Manifesto' is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of Communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilise much of the European establishment, it outlines a view of history as a constant battle...
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Author: Helen Donohoe
Author Helen Donohoe
Narrator Hannah Mercer
Duration 2h 8m
Terrorism is an issue that affects the stability of our world. Acts of terrorism are often in the news and terrorist atrocities have come to touch the lives of many people, as they did in London on 7th July 2005. This audiobook will help you to understand more about the nature of terrorism in our global community and understand why the fight agai...
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What's Your View? the Impact of Big Business
Author: Melanie Jarman
Author Melanie Jarman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 22m
Topics in this audiobook include: are oil companies too powerful? do supermarkets offer choice and value? does the arms trade have benefits for anyone? and should big businesses be allowed into schools?
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Author: Emma Haughton
Author Emma Haughton
Narrator Emma Haughton
Duration 1h
Unnecessary prescription or useful medicine? Creating dependency or solving a problem? Dangerous risk or harmelss fun? Find out all you need to know about drugs and what we really mean by the term drug abuse.
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Author: Paul Wignall
Author Paul Wignall
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 40m
This audiobook provides information on complex issues that teenagers face. The text examines prejudices and includes case studies, facts, figures and points of view.
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Author: Alex Woolf
Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 35m
How and what you buy in shops has repercussions that impact on people worldwide. This audiobook examines the fundamental questions surrounding the issue of consumerism today. What is consumerism? When did consumerism begin? Why do businesses advertise? And are children affected by consumerism?
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Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Peter Singer
Author Peter Singer
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 3h 40m
Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, i...
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