Social Science audiobooks

Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

By: Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD & David E. Lundberg-Ken...

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world.



Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of... Read more

Life Sentence

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prisonSandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname... Read more

Losing Music

By: John Cotter

Narrated by: John Cotter

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.”John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or... Read more

A Guide to Midwestern Conversation

By: Taylor Kay Phillips

Narrated by: Taylor Kay Phillips

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn (and love) the language of the landlocked in this bitingly funny guide to the common phrases and sentiments of the American Heartland, from the author of the McSweeney’s series “A Guide to Midwestern Conversation.”

If you end an evening by slapping your thighs and saying, “Welp, I’ll go ahead and get outta your hair,” then you don’t need... Read more

one long listening

By: Chenxing Han

Narrated by: Chenxing Han

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and Crying in H-Mart--a profound and searching memoir of life, loss, grief, and renewal from one of American Buddhism’s most vital new voices.
How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? one long listening offers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timeless... Read more

Being the Change

By: Dara G. Friedman-Wheeler, PhD & Jamie Sue Boden...

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Being the Change is written for activists who work in organizations with social missions, and those who are involved in social change outside of their jobs. This book is a practical guide that helps listeners maintain and enhance their ability to be effective agents of change.



You can't take care of the world without taking care of yourself.... Read more

Active Confidence, Empathy & Focus For Kids

By: Morgan Bravo

Narrated by: Sonny Swinhart

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Empower your child with the essential life skills they need to succeed with this comprehensive bundle of three books: Active Confidence for Kids, Active Empathy for Kids, and Active Focus for Kids.Active Confidence for Kids provides practical guidance to help your child overcome socialization setbacks and develop the confidence they need to... Read more

Social Worker Career Planning Audio Book Bundle

By: Brian Mahoney

Narrated by: Brian Mahoney & Katie Johnson

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

End Money Worries!Social Worker Career Planning Audio Book Bundle 3 in 1 Career Development Plan Box SetDiscover...* What a Social Worker does * How to Become a Social Worker * What is the salary of a Social Worker * What is the Social Worker Work Environment like * What is the future Job outlook for a Social Worker * How long does it take to... Read more

Apollo and Artemis: The Origins and History of the Twin Deities in Ancient Greek Mythology

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Cathy Barnes

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Apollo’s history is a confusing one,” said the renowned poet and mythologist Robert Graves. This notion is also illustrated in the above quote from the 6th century BCE Homeric Hymn to Apollo, which gives the reader a brief glimpse into the confusion surrounding Apollo’s multi-faceted nature. The quote comes from the end of an episode in which... Read more

True Crime Allemagne 2

By: Adrian Langenscheid & Benjamin Rickert

Narrated by: Anne Davaud

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

« Rien n'est plus cruel que l'humain lui-même. Un regard captivant et sans concessions sur les abîmes de l'âme » - No Mercy (Keine Gnade)- The True Crime Podcast. En 2019, le premier livre d'Adrian Langenscheid, True Crime Deutschland (True crime Allemagne), s'est hissé à partir de rien à la première place du podium dans les catégories... Read more

Imaginative Communities

By: Robert Govers

Narrated by: Erich Favel

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched. This is the way people around the world think about cities, regions and countries and the communities that live there; through cliches and... Read more

Утопия правил: о технологиях, глупости и тайном обаянии бюрократии

By: Дэвид Гребер

Narrated by: Олег Булгак

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Жизнь без бюрократии прекрасна… Или нет? Откуда в нас стремление к всевозможным правилам и ограничениям? Как наша жизнь превратилась в бесконечное заполнение форм? Антрополог Дэвид Гребер — один из самых выдающихся и провокационных современных мыслителей, — отвечает на эти и многие другие вопросы. Вас ждет разоблачение скрытого смысла историй о... Read more

Tiempo de hormigas

By: Antonio Pérez Henares

Narrated by: Enrique Cañizares

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro de alto voltaje político sobre la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España. Antonio Pérez Henares es célebre por la claridad de sus ideas, así como por expresarlas con franqueza y sin andarse con rodeos. En este libro pone encima de la mesa las grandes cuestiones –y grandes tabúes– que preocupan a millones de... Read more

Auge y caída de los dinosaurios

By: Steve Brusatte

Narrated by: Cristian Villamil

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Los dinosaurios, como jamás te los habían contado. Tiranosaurios primitivos del tamaño de un ser humano, monstruos carnívoros de dimensiones descomunales, misteriosos reptiles emplumados... Los dinosaurios, las criaturas más formidables de la Tierra, se desvanecieron hace ya sesenta y seis millones de años, pero siguen siendo uno de los... Read more

Divided

By: Annabel Sowemimo

Narrated by: Annabel Sowemimo & Nneka Okoye

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"A VITAL CALL TO ACTION" Leah Hazard

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history.

Here, in an essential and searingly truthful account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial... Read more

If I Betray These Words

By: Wendy Dean & Simon Talbot

Narrated by: Wendy Dean

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine

“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.”... Read more

Assyria

By: Eckart Frahm

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires 
 
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global... Read more

Hidden Brilliance

By: Lynn Kern Koegel & Claire LaZebnik

Narrated by: Emma Love

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autism are often overlooked and misjudged, with tried-and-true interventions that can be used to help them reach their full potential.Our limited and often biased view of what’s considered “normal” often prevents us from recognizing... Read more

Buried Treasures

By: Jack Zipes

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the... Read more

The Plot to Save South Africa

By: Justice Malala

Narrated by: Nick Boraine & Justice Malala

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.

Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison... Read more

Go Back and Get It

By: Dionne Ford

Narrated by: Dionne Ford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal 

Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born... Read more

Occult Russia

By: Christopher McIntosh

Narrated by: Michael Moynihan

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

• Reveals the survival of ancient Slavic deities, pagan practices, and folk medicine tradition in modern Russia, including the indigenous pre-Christian customs of the Mari people and the shamanic traditions of Siberia

• Examines the precursors to modern spiritual movements in the “Silver Age” (1880-1920) and discusses the impact of the Russian... Read more

The Shoe Boy

By: Duncan McCue

Narrated by: Duncan McCue

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. He learned a way of life on the land that few are familiar with. Reflecting on those five months and his search for his own personal identity, that boy – Duncan McCue... Read more

Source Magic

By: Carl Abrahamsson

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

• Offers a “magical-anthropological” tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge

• Looks at how human beings are naturally attracted to magic and how this attraction can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies

• Examines magic as it relates to psychedelics, Witchcraft,... Read more