Social Science audiobooks

Todos los cuerpos

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Sara Gómez

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Olivia Laing nos ofrece en este nuevo ensayo un análisis del cuerpo y sus insatisfacciones a través de los grandes movimientos por la libertad del siglo XX. El cuerpo es una fuente de placer y de dolor, a su vez vulnerable y rebosante de poder. En este ambicioso ensayo, Olivia Laing emprende un apasionante viaje a través de las luchas históricas... Read more

Una historia compartida

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: Marta Fernández

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro más personal de Julia Navarro Una sugerente invitación a compartir las historias escritas y vividas por mujeres: con ellos, sin ellos, por ellos, frente a ellos. Hasta el siglo XX la Historia la escribieron los hombres. Eso explica por qué las mujeres apenas aparecemos como sujetos de las historias de la Historia. Sin embargo, la lista... Read more

Time to Think

By: Hannah Barnes

Narrated by: Hannah Barnes

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

'This is what journalism is for' - Observer

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.

The Tavistock's Gender Identity Development... Read more

Unprocessed

By: Kimberley Wilson

Narrated by: Kimberley Wilson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored.

Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It... Read more

Malditos

By: J. W. Ocker

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

En estas páginas encontrarás desde el opulento Diamante Hope o la terrorífica Muñeca Annabelle hasta el español Sillón del Diablo. Son objetos malditos, y todo lo que necesitan para desatar una ola de desgracia es tu participación… Leerás relatos que tienen lugar a lo largo de muchas décadas y en todos los continentes. Los objetos están al... Read more

End Poverty. Make Trillions.

By: Darryl Finkton Jr.

Narrated by: Darryl Finkton Jr.

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wonder why poverty exists and how we could get rid of it? Here's your answer.
Darryl Finkton, Jr. is a hedge fund manager turned community organizer. Raised in poverty, Darryl went on to graduate from Harvard College and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In “End Poverty. Make Trillions.” Darryl shares how he... Read more

Serena Cruz o la verdadera justicia

By: Natalia Ginzburg & Atalaire (Translator)

Narrated by: Anabel Moreno

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Escribo este breve libro para que recuerden la historia de Serena Cruz todos cuantos la leyeron en los diarios, así como para difundirla entre quienes la desconocen. Además, lo escribo para que se recuerden otros hechos, relativos a las adopciones y a los niños, que en su momento causaron un gran impacto y cayeron enseguida en el olvido.... Read more

African American History

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being.



This book considers how, for centuries, African... Read more

Murder on the Inside

By: Catherine Fogarty

Narrated by: Catherine Fogarty

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days,... Read more

Stealing My Religion

By: Liz Bucar

Narrated by: Esther White

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

We think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes—these clearly give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess Durga in a Reebok ad, AA's twelve-step invocation of God, or the earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class?



Liz Bucar unpacks the ethical... Read more

A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space

By: Eliza VanCort

Narrated by: Eliza VanCort

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For too long, women have been told to confine themselves-physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space.

Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides... Read more

Ei armoa Suomen selkänahasta: Ihmisluovutukset Neuvostoliittoon 1944–1981

By: Jussi Pekkarinen & Juha Pohjonen

Narrated by: Raiko Häyrinen

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Uraauurtava tietoteos ihmisistä, joista tuli politiikan pelinappuloita.Suomesta luovutettiin ihmisiä Neuvostoliittoon vuodesta 1944 aina vuoteen 1981 asti. Luovutetuissa oli niin saksalaisia kuin venäläisiäkin sotavankeja, inkeriläisiä kuin vankikarkureitakin. Teos keskittyy luovutuksiin toisen maailmansodan jälkimainingeissa sekä kylmän sodan... Read more

OCME

By: Bruce Goldfarb

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized.



Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb pulls back the curtain on a... Read more

Stranger Things Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault & Julienne Irons

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware! Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to explore these and other questions to shine a light on true human nature through the Netflix series and cultural phenomenon Stranger Things. When do feelings of grief, guilt, depression, fear, and... Read more

Uncovered

By: Steve Krakauer

Narrated by: Steve Krakauer

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden's laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically isolated, introspection-free, egomaniacal journalists. In Uncovered, America’s sharpest media critic, former CNN insider Steve Krakauer, reveals... Read more

Empathy

By: David Johnston

Narrated by: David Johnston

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.

As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as... Read more

Trust the Plan

By: Will Sommer

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

""A story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it.” —Molly Jong-FastThe definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the... Read more

The Answers Are There

By: Libby Hoffman

Narrated by: Libby Hoffman, Clare Lockhart, Francess Alghali...

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Architecture for PeaceOur world desperately needs new ways to support community transformation. In The Answers Are There, Libby Hoffman shows us what is possible when outside aid animates, rather than obstructs, local leadership and recognizes and honors community wisdom, priorities, and resources.This book shares stories of individual and... Read more

Are We Free Yet?

By: Tina Strawn

Narrated by: Tina Strawn

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Liberation is ultimately a celebration of our deepest humanity, and our fight for it must include a deeper examination of how we relate to oppressive systems while centering our joy, peace, and pleasure." — Tina Strawn
Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America is simultaneously a personal reflection and a collective examination... Read more

An Affirming Flame

By: Roger Cohen

Narrated by: Roger Cohen & Mark Deakins

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama,... Read more

Africatown

By: Nick Tabor

Narrated by: Chris Butler

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast,... Read more

Homegrown

By: Bell Hooks & Amalia Mesa-Bains

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, Hooks and Mesa-Bains invite listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships... Read more

The Great Oklahoma Swindle

By: Russell Cobb

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another “flyover state.” A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States.Over the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homeland, a vibrant Socialist Party, armed rebellions... Read more

Unbounded

By: Maria Thattil

Narrated by: Maria Thattil

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you change in your life if you could silence the voice that tells you: you're not enough, keep quiet, you can't do it, or there is no space for you?

As we grow and move through the world, it shrinks us and puts us in boxes - tells us who we should be, what we're capable of, and who to love.

As a queer child of immigrants, Maria Thattil... Read more