Social Science audiobooks

Thinking with Your Hands

By: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking. In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She... Read more

The Power of One

By: Frances Haugen

Narrated by: Frances Haugen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives.
 
In 2021, when news outlets feasted on “the Facebook Files,” Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens... Read more

Against the Web

By: Michael Brooks

Narrated by: Sam Seder

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web."



As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the "conservative... Read more

All Our Trials

By: Emily L. Thuma

Narrated by: Erica Kane

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual... Read more

Conspirituality

By: Derek Beres, Matthew Remski & Julian Walker

Narrated by: Matthew Remski

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia—peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories.
 
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disturbing social media trend emerged: a large... Read more

These Seats Are Reserved

By: Abhinav Chandrachud

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Reservation or affirmative action is a hugely controversial policy in India. While constitutionally mandated and with historians, political scientists and social activists convinced of its need, many resist it and consider it as compromising 'merit' and against the principle of equality of opportunity.In These Seats Are Reserved, Abhinav traces... Read more

Dr. Nurse

By: Dominique A. Tobbell

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.

Nurses represent the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any... Read more

The Black Reparations Project

By: William Darity, Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen & Lucas ...

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.



A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning... Read more

Norse Mythology: The History of the Norse Pantheon and the Most Famous Myths

By: Charles River Editors & Andrew Scott

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the 13th century laws were memorized by officials... Read more

Women with ADHD

By: Lisa Kennedy

Narrated by: Julie Faber, Anxiety in Relationships Studio, M...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you find yourself constantly struggling with a racing mind, unable to focus on one task at a time? Are you plagued by anxiety and find yourself obsessing over certain activities, even if they lead to exhaustion?If so, you may be one of the many women living with ADHD.Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is a condition that... Read more

The Bridleway

By: Tiffany Francis-Baker

Narrated by: Olivia Mace

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Bridleway by Tiffany Francis-Baker, read by Olivia Mace.

WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023.

Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation’s ecosystems.

Many of us enjoy... Read more

Map Addict

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or... Read more

Do dependente ao traficante de drogas ilícitas - Abridged

By: Marcos Machado

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poucos temas provocam tantas reações, diversificadas e contraditórias, quanto a questão das drogas ilícitas. Uma multiplicidade de pontos de vista alimenta o debate, colocando em campos opostos posições conservadoras e progressistas, cientistas e negacionistas, realistas e sonhadores, punitivistas e garantistas, céticos e pragmáticos, religiosos... Read more

Mise en forme

By: Nicol Mikella

Narrated by: Catherine Brunet

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Après une rupture, la narratrice de Mise en forme voit ses repères lui échapper. Cloîtrée dans sa nouvelle chambre blanche, elle s’adonne à une pratique intensive du fitness, sculptant son corps pour reprendre le contrôle de sa vie. Mais les promesses des influenceuses ne l’aident pas à se sentir mieux. L’été suivant, en vacances à New York,... Read more

The Last Action Heroes

By: Nick de Semlyen

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more.

“Entertaining . . . This is a book that makes you ache for the days when the movie screen belonged not to men who dress in superhero capes but to those who lift... Read more

All the Gold Stars

By: Rainesford Stauffer

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.

Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to... Read more

Burn It Down

By: Maureen Ryan

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions... Read more

Almost Brown

By: Charlotte Gill

Narrated by: Seema Doad

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.

“Almost Brown is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.”—Susan Orlean,... Read more

And Don't F&%k It Up

By: Maria Elena Fernandez

Narrated by: Alec Mapa

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans.

Told over the first ten years, And Don't F&%k It Up tells a cultural history through the stories of the people... Read more

Private Government

By: Elizabeth Anderson

Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it



One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate... Read more

How to Write About Africa

By: Binyavanga Wainaina

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality

“A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian

“Africa is the only continent you can... Read more

Lone Stars Rising

By: Editors of Texas Monthly

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State—and the nation—over the past half century.With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America’s most innovative, culture-altering politicians,... Read more

Ice

By: Amy Brady

Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.

Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes... Read more

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks

By: Bruce E. Johansen & Adebowale Akande

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Adenrele Ojo, Janina Edwards, Kev...

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the... Read more