Social Science audiobooks

A Realistic Blacktopia

By: Derrick Darby

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is dogged by racism and racial disparities in income, wealth, health, education, and criminal justice. Philosophers disagree on what kind of politics is needed to address this problem. Do we pursue race-specific remedies to undo racism or do we assume the permanence of racism and opt for non-race-specific remedies in pursuit of... Read more

Fat Off, Fat On

By: Clarkisha Kent

Narrated by: Clarkisha Kent

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you’re a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity.
There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, first-generation American facing a myriad of mental... Read more

Walk Through Fire

By: Yasmine S. Ali, MD

Narrated by: Yasmine S. Ali

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 22, 1978, a devastating freight train derailment drastically altered Waverly, Tennessee, and its place in history. This was one of the worst train explosions of the twentieth century, killing sixteen people, injuring hundreds more, and causing millions of dollars in damage.



What could have been dismissed as a single community's... Read more

Yearning

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do... Read more

Spoken Word

By: Joshua Bennett

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion

“Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists... Read more

Selfless

By: Brian Lowery

Narrated by: Aaron Goodson

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential ""self""—our selves are social creations of those with whom we interact —exploring what that means for who we can be and who we allow others to be. There’s nothing we spend more time with, but understand... Read more

Home Is the Road

By: Diane Glancy

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home—its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us... Read more

Weathering

By: Dr. Arline T Geronimus

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.
  America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced... Read more

White Trash

By: Nancy Isenberg

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016
Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads
San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books
A Washington Post Notable... Read more

Seventy Times Seven

By: Alex Mar

Narrated by: Alex Mar

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitive account of one of America’s youngest death row inmates—and the people whose lives she forever changed—is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable.” —Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

“An absorbing work of social history and a story about the mystery and miracle of... Read more

From Generosity to Justice

By: Darren Walker, Andre Blake & Heather Alicia Sims

Narrated by: Darren Walker

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Carnegie wrote the "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889, during the height of the Gilded Age, when 4,000 American families controlled almost as much wealth as the rest of the country combined. His essay laid the foundation for modern philanthropy.
Today, we find ourselves in a new Gilded Age— defined by levels of inequality that surpass... Read more

The Power of Latino Leadership, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

By: Juana Bordas

Narrated by: Juana Bordas

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the power of inclusion, community, and taking action! An updated, expanded edition.

By 2045 Latinos will make up 1 in 4 Americans. They are projected to be 78% of the new entries into the labor force in the next ten years. By sheer numbers alone, Latinos will shape the 21st Century. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant... Read more

Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

Narrated by: Clint Smith

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.... Read more

Havamal

By: Olive Bray

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features a special tribal ambient version of the full text in addition to the raw narration.These are the words of Odin the High One. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Icelandic Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic,... Read more

Emotional Labor

By: Rose Hackman

Narrated by: Rose Hackman

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For readers of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day.

We’re tired.

A stranger insists you “smile more,” even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grating commute. A... Read more

Plague Years

By: Ross A. Slotten, MD

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his... Read more

Instinto Sexual

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

El instinto sexual es una emoción, un impulso, una fuerza que nos mueve al encuentro íntimo con otras personas. Nos motiva a relacionarnos, a compartir intimidad, a man- tener relaciones afectivas y sexuales, a disfrutar y pasarla bien, a sentir placer. Read more

Ciała obce

By: Paula Szewczyk

Narrated by: Agnieszka Żulewska

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Dla nauki transpłciowość nie jest już zagadką, a dla psychiatrii nie jest „chorobą”. Ale w społeczeństwie osoby, które uświadomiły sobie, że urodziły się w ciele niepasującym do tego, kim są, wciąż pozostają obce. Audiobook „Ciała obce” Pauli Szewczyk pozwala je zrozumieć i zbliżyć się do nich tak bardzo, że zaczynamy słyszeć ich wyznania i... Read more

Monstruos de la Criptozoología

By: John Venkman

Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Siempre has tenido curiosidad por los animales o criaturas desconocidas?¿Te atraen los misterios de la naturaleza? ¿Sabías que existe toda una pseudociencia dedicada a comprobar su existencia? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“Y en mis sueños…cabalgo en un unicornio blanco, te busco en valles, lagos, prados, miro a las estrellas y allá estás, sonriendo,... Read more

Living in the Future

By: Victoria W. Wolcott

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
 
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This... Read more

La cuarta revolución industrial

By: Klaus Schwab

Narrated by: Luis Pinazo & Marina Viñals

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué es la cuarta revolución industrial? ¿Cómo definirá nuestro futuro? Un libro sobre el cambio de paradigma que vive nuestra sociedad actual por el fundador del Foro Davos. Son muchos los desafíos a los que se enfrenta el mundo hoy en día, pero posiblemente uno de los más importantes sea comprender la nueva revolución tecnológica que está... Read more

Grandes maricas de la historia

By: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Narrated by: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Nunca es tarde, amigos, para sacar del armario a un Gran Marica de la Historia Machos, heterosexuales, viriles... ¿Solo ese tipo de hombres han hecho historia? ¿Alguien puede creérselo? Más allá de la historiografía tradicional, nos encontramos con grandes poetas, intelectuales o cientí ficos homosexuales cuyos deseos han sido borrados. Es... Read more

Serious Adverse Events

By: Celia Farber

Narrated by: Caroline White

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.” Celia Farber, then an... Read more

Dragged Up Proppa

By: Pip Fallow

Narrated by: Pip Fallow

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dragged Up Proppa, read by the author, is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.

'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands

Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family... Read more