Social Science audiobooks

Black Ball

By: Theresa Runstedtler

Narrated by: Xenia Willacey

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA

Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem... Read more

Eyes on the Horizon

By: Balarama Holness

Narrated by: Balarama Holness

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A former football champion’s engrossing personal story of spirituality and rebellion, and an inspiring call to action against systemic racism.The son of a Jamaican father and a Quebecois mother, Balarama Holness spent his earliest, most formative years on an ashram in West Virginia, learning the principles of equity and austerity, which would... Read more

As We Exist

By: Kaoutar Harchi

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi’s probing account illustrates the... Read more

Merits of the Plague

By: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time

A Penguin Classic

Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to... Read more

Womb

By: Leah Hazard

Narrated by: Leah Hazard

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book.... Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it’s also an adventure and a celebration.” —Rob Delaney, actor and author of A Heart That WorksA groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus—from birth to death, in sickness and in health, throughout history and into... Read more

Black Chameleon

By: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Narrated by: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth.

Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt... Read more

Hoop Muses

By: Seimone Augustus & Kate Fagan

Narrated by: Kate Fagan

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“In vibrant color and style, Hoops Muses tells the vital stories that celebrate the history and tradition of our game.” —Sue Bird, WNBA legend

Hoops Muses is an homage to the game, bringing style and flair to all the details, moments, and people who have shaped the collective world of (women’s) hoops.

Hoops Muses will take us through time –... Read more

The Book of Lambspring

By: Nicolas Barnaud

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Book of Lambspring is one of the few real-life cases of a centuries-old book on alchemy. Nicolas Barnaud was a French Protestant writer, physician and alchemist, from Crest, in Dauphiné, from which he took the name Delphinas. He was a member of the Monarchomaques. He is associated with a number of mysteries. His 1597 collection... Read more

The Channels of Student Activism

By: Amy J. Binder & Jeffrey L. Kidder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. 

The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Though most college... Read more

Forgotten Women

By: Zing Tsjeng

Narrated by: Jacqui Bardelang

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100

'Here's to no more forgotten women.' - Evening Standard

Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover,... Read more

A Journey Through the Evidence of Islam and the Holy Quran's Divine Origin

By: The Sincere Seeker Collection

Narrated by: The Sincere Seeker Collection

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the many proofs and evidence of Islam and the Holy Quran that attest to their Divine origin and absolute truth. Discover these irrefutable proofs for yourself. In this short book, you'll discover the miraculous quality and eloquence of the Holy Quran, the scientific miracles the book contains, the prophecies and predictions it makes,... Read more

Breathmaker: The History and Legacy of the Seminole’s Creator God

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: David Van Der Molen

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Seminole tribe is one of the best known Native American tribes, and one of the most feared among 19th century Americans and Spaniards. In fact, the origin of the term Seminole comes from a Spanish description of them as “wild”, which belies the fact that the Seminole had friendly relations with the British and Spanish during the colonial... Read more

¿Feminista, yo?

By: Ana Vásquez Colmenares

Narrated by: Kerygma Flores

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"En todos mis futuros, el feminismo será parte importante de mi misión y mi manera de ver el mundo. Así que lo digo con toda claridad: soy feminista, y con ello logré reconciliarme conmigo misma, sentirme cómoda en mi propia piel, más conectada con mi ser femenino y más hermanada con otras mujeres, más libre, independiente y feliz". Como es bien... Read more

Wise Words for Women

By: Donna Lancaster

Narrated by: Donna Lancaster

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A pocket book of comfort, advice and love for any woman, anywhere.

Coach and therapist, Donna Lancaster, brings her 32 years of experience helping people find their authentic selves, heal pain and overcome setbacks to this collection of honest words, counsel, and self-love.

Dip in every morning to bring joy to your day or... Read more

Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

Narrated by: Mary Harrington

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women's liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the age of AI, biotech and... Read more

Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

Narrated by: Laura Monedero

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra que cambió el mundo y puso las bases del feminismo moderno. Traducción de Marta Lois González A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y... Read more

Hags

By: Victoria Smith

Narrated by: Victoria Smith

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

'Rich, complex and witty' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR

'Devastating and clever' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL

'Could not be more necessary' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER

What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?

In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and... Read more

Über Israel reden - Eine deutsche Debatte (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Meron Mendel

Narrated by: Timo Weisschnur

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Über kaum ein anderes Land wird in Deutschland so viel geredet und gestritten: Zu Israel hat jeder eine Meinung. Warum ist das so? Wieso hat der Nahostkonflikt eine solche Bedeutung? Und warum ist die Debatte so emotional - und oft so vergiftet? Als Meron Mendel vor zwanzig Jahren nach Deutschland kam, stellte er überrascht fest, welche... Read more

Wir alle haben ein Recht auf Zukunft - Eine Ermutigung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Roda Verheyen & Alexandra Endres

Narrated by: Heike Warmuth

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Klimawandel zerstört Lebensräume und Existenzgrundlagen vieler Menschen. Doch oft zeigen sich Regierungen unwillig, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen, und Firmen halten profitgetrieben an ihren überkommenen Geschäftsmodellen fest, die die Klimakrise weiter verschärfen. Was, so fragt man sich, lässt sich dagegen tun? Die medienbekannte... Read more

Wer Inklusion will, findet einen Weg. Wer sie nicht will, findet Ausreden. (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen

Narrated by: Julian Mehne & Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Raúl Krauthausen ist der bekannteste Aktivist für Inklusion und Barrierefreiheit - und die lauteste Stimme in Deutschland, wenn es um die Durchsetzung der Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderung geht. "Betrachten Sie Behinderung einfach als eine Eigenschaft wie die Haarfarbe" ist eine seiner zentralen Botschaften, und er kämpft auf allen Plattformen... Read more

Relentless Pursuit

By: Kevin Flynn

Narrated by: Eric Fox

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the brutal 1993 murder of a mother and daughter in Washington, D.C., told by federal homicide prosecutor Kevin Flynn.

RELENTLESS PURSUIT follows the personal mission of a Washington, D.C., federal homicide prosecutor who dedicated himself to bringing justice and closure to the family of a brutally murdered mother and daughter, a... Read more

Kaste - Die Ursprünge unseres Unbehagens (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by: Maya Alban-Zapata

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rassismus, Sexismus, Klassismus sind Sprachen der Unterdrückung. Die Grammatik, die ihnen unsichtbar zugrunde liegt, ist das System der Kaste. In ihrer augenöffnenden Analyse legt die Historikerin und Journalistin Isabel Wilkerson den Blick frei auf eben dieses Regelwerk, nach dem wir entscheiden, wem in einer Gesellschaft Ressourcen und Respekt... Read more

Femdom

By: Eva Harmon

Narrated by: Jupiter Grant

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever experienced the rush that comes with dominating your sexual partner?
Have you ever experienced the power trip you get with submitting your sexual partner to your will?
Have you ever experienced the adrenaline you get with seeing your sexual partner helpless while begging you for mercy?
Have you ever experienced the satisfaction that... Read more

Unruly Therapeutic

By: Foluke Taylor

Narrated by: Foluke Taylor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Centering the experiences of Black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.“Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection―of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air―and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice.”Part... Read more