Social Science audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

The Future of Humankind

By: John Hands

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work,... 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 Deep State

By: Ian Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Mack Gordon

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the outward appearance of legitimate government and accountable officials there lurk hidden agendas, shadowy personalities and special interest groups seeking to seize control of the nation for their own ends. These 'states within a state', unfettered by legal norms and unworried by public opinion, are known as 'deep states'.
In this... Read more

How To Talk To Anyone

By: Mind Change Academy

Narrated by: Jack Henry Kison

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know How to Talk to Anyone? Do you want to know How to Talk to Anyone?It doesn’t have to be someone important who is speaking to us to make us feel important…or not. Even the person sitting next to us on the bus has the ability to make us feel significant, or, like we don’t matter at all. Regardless of how we may try to wiggle around it,... Read more

American Indian Symbolism

By: Manly Palmer Hal

Narrated by: Dennis Logan

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The North American India is commonly a symbolist, a spiritualist, and a savant. Like most: native people groups, his spirit was en affinity with the grandiose organizations appearing about him. Besides the fact that his Manidos controlled creation from their lifted up seats over the mists, however they additionally plunged into the universe of... Read more

Fix Marriage

By: Behnay Books

Narrated by: Gary Dickson

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Is your marriage turning out to be less than you had hoped it to be? Have you ever looked back on your time as newlyweds and wished to relive those feelings?Don't Panic! We're here to assist you in any way! You can restore the newlywed feeling to your marriage! Simply read this straightforward, easy-to-follow Fix Marriage book that every married... Read more

My Road from Damascus

By: Jamal Saeed

Narrated by: Pasha Ebrahimi

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his... Read more

This Won't Hurt

By: Marieke Bigg

Narrated by: Daphne Kouma

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it.

The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply true. From the way pain is felt, to how heart attacks are diagnosed, to the very role society plays in the health of the body, the medical... Read more

Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

By: Naomi Shragai

Narrated by: Naomi Shragai

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.

'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an... Read more

Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

By: David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, Nic...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

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Pasión por la ignorancia

By: Renata Salecl

Narrated by: Cecilia Bona

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El concepto de ignorancia necesita ser reevaluado, porque estamos atravesando un cambio revolucionario en la naturaleza del conocimiento. El desarrollo de la genética, la neurociencia y el big data ha cambiado la manera en que entendemos lo que puede conocerse sobre una persona. Los nuevos tipos de información traen aparejadas nuevas angustias,... Read more

No Pasaran

By: Shane Burley

Narrated by: Zach Bergman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Essays written by a who's who of antifascist researchers, including Tal Lavin (Culture Warlords); Kim Kelly (Fight Like Hell), Geo Maher (A World Without Police), Hilary A. Moore (No Fascist USA!), and Daryle Lamont Jenkins (One People's Project).

¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy... Read more

Liberated To the Bone

By: Susan Raffo

Narrated by: Kitty Sipple

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing—healing as individuals, communities, and societies.

The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by... Read more

Journey without End

By: Andrew Nelson & Rob Curran

Length: TBA

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 an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how... Read more

Everyday War

By: Greta Lynn Uehling

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war.What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus... Read more

Dinero sucio

By: Tom Burgis

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las élites económicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los políticos y los... Read more

Seeing Like A Feminist

By: Nivedita Menon

Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the challenge that caste politics poses to feminism, from the... Read more

Detransition

By: Max Robinson

Narrated by: Claire Ryan

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to begin with. Trying to prevent myself from committing suicide by becoming less recognizably female was an attempt at resistance that, politically, functioned in many ways as a form of capitulation.Many feminists are... Read more

We the Scientists

By: Amy Dockser Marcus

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolutionizing the way medical research is conducted.

For more than half a century, medical advances have been driven by investigators launching experiments inside labs. Science is often conducted in isolation and geared toward the long view. This is... Read more