Social Science audiobooks

Extracampo - Abridged

By: Angelo Marcos Canuto da Silva

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O Brasil tem a terceira maior população carcerária do mundo, ficando atrás apenas dos Estados Unidos e China. O cotidiano do cárcere é uma realidade de quase um milhão de brasileiros e pouco sabemos a respeito desses excluídos do Brasil. Homens e mulheres que carregam o estigma de presidiário e, mesmo após o cumprimento da pena, irão conviver... Read more

Célia é quem não viu - Abridged

By: Ricardo Santos David

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Segundo Célia, os médicos disseram que a entendiam, mas que ela ainda era muito nova e poderia ter outros filhos mais tarde. Eles ainda a alertaram na época de que a criança poderia vir com alguma deficiência ou talvez nem chegasse a nascer. Eu sou nova, sim, mas já sei o que é melhor para mim. Posso ter outros filhos depois, mas nunca serão... Read more

Poor

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and... Read more

Fight Like a Girl

By: Della O’Sullivan

Narrated by: Della O’Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too – it may not look the same as your power, but it’s there and I can claim it.’ It should never be a woman’s job to have to protect herself – but choosing to learn about self-defence can be incredibly liberating. Fight Like... Read more

Madres arrepentidas

By: Orna Donath

Narrated by: Esther Cordero

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Aman a sus hijos, pero se arrepienten de ser madres. #madresarrepentidas es un tratado de pensamiento radical que no dejará indiferente a nadie. #madresarrepentidas pone sobre la mesa algo de lo que apenas se habla: las muchas mujeres que, una vez han sido madres, no han encontrado la «profetizada» plenitud. Aman a sus hijos por a su vez no... Read more

X Marks the Spot

By: Michael Scott

Narrated by: Michael Scott

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses preserved in ice and astonishing lost rituals - this is the story of archaeology.

Professor Michael Scott uncovers the true stories behind history's most monumental discoveries, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way. Full of extraordinary characters - from glory hunters... Read more

Routes - Abridged

By: Rhiya Pau

Narrated by: Farhana Kalique

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on... Read more

Mitos africanos: Historias fascinantes, cuentos populares, dioses y diosas de la mitología africana

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Luis Trumper

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

¿Le gustan las historias sobre dioses y espíritus, gigantes y monstruos, damiselas en apuros y héroes inteligentes?Puede disfrutar todo esto dentro del folclore africano, en un vasto y variado entramado de historias de cientos de culturas, cada una con sus propias tradiciones y valores. A veces sus héroes son seres divinos que bajan del cielo... Read more

Flawless

By: Elise Hu

Narrated by: Elise Hu

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Porchlight's Business Books of the Year | One of Vox's Best Books of 2023 | An NPR Book of the Day | Required Reading from New York Post | One of Nylon's 13 May Books to Add to Your Reading List | One of PureWow's 14 Books to Read for AAPI Heritage Month | One of W Magazine's 14 Books to Dive Into This Summer | One of Betches' Best Summer... Read more

Dwelling Place

By: Erskine Clarke

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804–1863), whose family owned more than... Read more

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask

By: Mary Siisip Geniusz

Narrated by: Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice,... Read more

The Migrant Chef

By: Laura Tillman

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.

Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta... Read more

CROWNED

By: Kahran Bethencourt & Regis Bethencourt

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Mychal-Bella Bowman

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Dion Graham and Mychal-Bella Bowman's grand and lively performances will have young listeners eager to hear every story in this vibrant collection of African and African-American-inspired tales."—AudioFile

From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography, comes CROWNED, a... Read more

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

By: Matt Baume

Narrated by: Matt Baume

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from... Read more

Break the Wheel

By: Keith Ellison

Narrated by: Keith Ellison & Willis Williams

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric Holder

With this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asks the key question: How do we break the wheel of police violence and finally make it stop?

The murder of George Floyd sparked global outrage. At the center of the conflict and the controversy, Keith Ellison... Read more

Crook County

By: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Narrated by: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense.



Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in... Read more

A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)

By: Arthur Ashe

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activist’s lifelong... Read more

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

By: Scott J. Shapiro

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.

It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know... Read more

Curso de Análise e Interpretação da Narrativa Literária Abordando o Tema Como Entender Grande Sertão: Veredas de João Guimarães Rosa

By: José Fernandes da Silva

Narrated by: José Fernandes da Silva

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

 O objetivo deste curso é buscar um entendimento de Grande Sertão Veredas, partindo de alguns fatores, ainda controversos, relativos a tal entendimento. Esses fatores são: o sentido metonímico do título Grande Sertão: Veredas; a técnica discursiva aí utilizada; o significado da palavra nonada e da expressão pão ou pães é questão de opiniães; as... Read more

Fearless Women

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn't leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John to "remember the ladies" when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed—and women have been fighting for their rights ever... Read more

Suburbs

By: Carl Abbott

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia,"... Read more

How To Analyze People with Body Language

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Become a Master of Human Psychology and Subliminal Manipulation with this Definitive Guide to Analyzing People!If you want to master the art of reading people through their body language…And if you want to protect yourself against manipulation and dark psychology…Then look no further than “How To Analyze People with Body Language” by Leonard... Read more

Body Language

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Unleash the power of nonverbal communication decoding human body language and outsmarting manipulation!Are you struggling to communicate effectively with others?Do you find it hard to understand people's intentions or emotions?Are you afraid of being manipulated or controlled by others?If you said YES, then the search is over!Communication is... Read more

How To Analyze People

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the secrets to reading people like a book, with the ultimate guide to analyzing human behavior!Are you tired of feeling like people are taking advantage of you?Do you struggle with identifying manipulative behavior?If you answered yes to any of these questions, “How To Analyze People” is the solution you've been searching for!This book... Read more