Social Science audiobooks

Afrodita: Mitos sorprendentes y acontecimientos de Grecia que involucran a la diosa olímpica del amor

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Luis Trumper

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

¿Sabía que Afrodita, la diosa del amor y la belleza, solía asociarse también al mar?Afrodita nació de una extraña mezcla de sangre divina, genitales cortados y espuma de mar, y llegó a las costas de Chipre mucho antes que los demás dioses olímpicos. Una figura tan mezquina como famosa. No es solamente una deidad clave del panteón griego, sino... Read more

"Hat die Mutti heute frei?"

By: Felix Schenk

Narrated by: Torben Sterner

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Papas, werdet aktiv! Aber wie wird man eigentlich ein guter Papa? Wir alle wollen nur das Beste für unsere Kinder, Felix Schenk ist als Kind einer alleinerziehenden Mutter aufgewachsen, während sein Vater abwesend war. Weil ihm selbst die Blaupause für gute Vaterschaft fehlte, begann er eine Reise zu sich selbst, um der beste Papa und... Read more

You or Someone You Love

By: Hannah Matthews

Narrated by: Hannah Matthews

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023

An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each... Read more

Dreamland

By: Carly Goodman

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States... Read more

For Goodness Sex

By: Al Vernacchio

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A breath of much-needed fresh air around a very charged subject.”—Christiane Northrup, M.D., OB/GYN physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause“Vernacchio's no-blame, no-shame approach will inspire parents to drop their fears, judgments, and inhibitions in order to help their... Read more

Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex

By: Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon & Lawrence Koval

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.

For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an Apology

Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large... Read more

Hell to Pay

By: Michael Lind

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America’s decline—and a searing indictment of those who caused it

For nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promoting the lie that wages are objectively determined by impersonal labor markets. This falsehood has been repeated by... Read more

Taking Care

By: Sarah DiGregorio

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot….This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer. Taking Care deserves to be on the reading list for nursing and medical schools, and on the bedside... Read more

What Needs to be Said

By: Alex Reegan

Narrated by: Alex Reegan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Reegan's incredible story of healing and growth is your call to look within and live as your most authentic self.As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from emerging, Alex spent years struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction, trying to break free of the oppressive beliefs that... Read more

A History of Freemasonry

By: Joseph McCabe

Narrated by: Oberon Michaels

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Many have claimed for Freemasonry a heritage that has been traced to biblical times and involved many historical celebrities. In this acerbic essay, religious scholar Joseph McCabe reveals that this tradition actually commenced with the guilds in the Middle Ages, and that it inevitably attracted the hostility of the Catholic Church because of... Read more

Traffic

By: Ben Smith

Narrated by: Ian Putnam & Ben Smith

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Engrossing and suspenseful." —The New York Times

“Expertly pulls readers in.” —The Guardian
 
“Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment.” — Financial Times

The origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed, whose delirious... Read more

Merchants of the Right

By: Jennifer Carlson

Narrated by: Jennifer Cole

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Cole paints an eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire moments in... Read more

Journey without End

By: Andrew Nelson & Rob Curran

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails... Read more

Radical Inclusion

By: David Moinina Sengeh

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Using stories and examples, David Moinina Sengeh presents seven principles for radical inclusion that are AS ACTIONABLE AS THEY ARE POWERFUL." ―Brené Brown

From an inspiring young global leader—"A MASTER CLASS IN INNOVATION" (Kwame Alexander) for anyone who wants to make the world a better place.

The first title from Melinda French Gates’s Moment... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces... Read more

Man-Made

By: Tracey Spicer

Narrated by: Tracey Spicer

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.

Winner, 2023 Australian Business Book Awards, Social Responsibility
Longlisted for the 2023 Walkley Book Award

'Mum, I want a... Read more

Armas para la rabia - Abridged

By: Marie-Pier Lafontaine

Narrated by: Cecilia Bona

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imagino este ensayo como un combate. Quisiera escribir un ensayo-enojo, un ensayo-rabia. Que fuera recibido como una avalancha de golpes. Entre una frase y otra, habrá que visualizar energía desplegándose. Habrá que ver los músculos de mis muslos contrayéndose, mi centro de gravedad descendiendo y mis puños en posición de guardia. Habrá que... Read more

Zwischen Erde und Himmel - Klima - eine Menschheitsgeschichte (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Peter Frankopan

Narrated by: Alexander Gamnitzer

Length: 34 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsere Vergangenheit, unsere Zukunft: Wie Natur und Klima die Geschichte der Menschheit schreiben Was wir erst heute wahrhaft begreifen: Weit mehr als Kriege und Technologien, Religionen und Ideologien beeinflussten und lenkten seit Anbeginn der Zeit die Natur und das Klima die Geschicke der Menschen. Der Globalhistoriker Peter Frankopan spannt... Read more

Spirit Voices

By: David Shi

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to authentic North Asian Shamanism, past and present



The word shamanism is frequently bandied about but rarely used accurately. Shamanologist Nicholas Breeze Wood coined the following definition: "A shaman is someone chose by the spirits [typically at/before birth] and who can go into a controlled and repeatable deliberate trance state,... Read more

Digital Pilgrims

By: Adrián Sicilia

Narrated by: Jennifer Moule

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The present has the texture of the future. Hyper-digitalization has made all questions outdated, especially: what are we going to do? For decades, we have been inhabiting and moving within the Digital Environment. Today, the unavoidable question is: what and who are we going to be?Digital Pilgrims proposes novel and urgent debates for a society... Read more

Wir verlieren unsere Kinder! - Gewalt, Missbrauch, Rassismus - Der verstörende Alltag im Klassen-Chat (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Silke Müller

Narrated by: Sandra Voss

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicht die Dauer der Mediennutzung ist das Problem, sondern die Inhalte, die Kinder konsumieren. Schon Grundschüler sind Bildern von Gewalt, Pornographie und Rassismus ausgesetzt. Eine Schulleiterin schlägt Alarm! "Wissen Sie, was Ihr Kind auf seinem Smartphone sieht?" Diese Frage stellt Silke Müller ahnungslosen Eltern auf Infoveranstaltungen... Read more

Füreinander sorgen - Warum unsere Gesellschaft ein neues Miteinander braucht (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Susanne Mierau

Narrated by: Christiane Marx

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Alle Menschen benötigen Fürsorge. Ohne Fürsorge können Kinder nicht groß werden, können Kranke nicht gesund werden, können ältere Menschen nicht alt werden. Fürsorge hält die Gesellschaft am Laufen. Doch warum wird Fürsorge als gesellschaftlicher Wert oft vernachlässigt? Die Bestseller-Autorin Susanne Mierau schreibt in ihrem neuen Hörbuch... Read more

What Women Want - Sieben Geschichten über Begehren, Macht und Liebe (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein faszinierender Einblick in die weibliche Seele und die Arbeit einer Psychotherapeutin - fantastisch erzählt. Terri steht kurz vor der Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten, doch sie flüchtet sich immer wieder in One-Night-Stands mit Frauen. Warum? Tia erlebte schon als Kind, als ihr Vater ihre Mutter betrog, dass weiße Frauen scheinbar liebenswerter... Read more

الحلقة الثالثة - الأميرة و الفقيرة

By: خالد عمر & هاشم هوساوي

Narrated by: هاشم هوساوي

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

كان يا ماكان: لا شيء أفضل من كوميديا في آخر الليل لكي تستعد لنوم عميق في هذه السلسلة ستستمع إلى كوميديين يقصون عليك قصص ما قبل النوم، نعم صحيح قصص ما قبل النوم، تلك القصص التي كنت تستمع إليها في صغرك، ولكن بطريقتهم الخاصة، يسألون أسئلة كنت أنت قد سألت نفسك بها مئات المرات، فاستمع إلي رأيهم. Read more