Social Science audiobooks

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

True Crime Philadelphia

By: Kathryn Canavan

Narrated by: Melissa Redmond

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Serial killer H. H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. America's first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country's first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot... 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

Mistakes and Miracles

By: Nancy Palmer Jones & Karin Lin

Narrated by: Julie Cleburn, Karin Lin & Nancy Palmer Jones

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What calls Unitarian Universalists to create multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community? What do congregations need when they embark on this journey? What common threads run through their stories? Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin—a white minister and a lay person of color—share how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and... Read more

The 21

By: Martin Mosebach

Narrated by: Creative Orthodox

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.

In the West, daily reports of new... Read more

The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths

By: William Hansen

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic anthology now available on audio With narration by Kristin Atherton, who presents the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh—these are just some of the... Read more

Wofür wir arbeiten - Auf dem Punkt (Ungekürzt)

By: Barbara Prainsack

Narrated by: Luise Georgi

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie wollen und werden wir zukünftig arbeiten? Die tradierten Modelle funktionieren nicht mehr: Während die einen von ihrer Erwerbsarbeit kaum leben können, leiden viele Bereiche unter Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel. Arbeit ist zudem eine Frage der Solidarität: Der Applaus für "systemrelevante Berufe" war von kurzer Dauer, die Care-Arbeit - vor... Read more

Alles und nichts sagen - Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne (ungekürzt)

By: Eva Menasse

Narrated by: Eva Menasse

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Zieht sich eine liberale Gesellschaft gerade den Boden weg, auf dem sie fest stehen sollte? Ein Essay darüber, was die digitale Massenkommunikation zwischenmenschlich anrichtet. Nichts hat das Zusammenleben so umfassend verändert wie die Digitalisierung - wir denken, fühlen und streiten anders, seit wir dauervernetzt und überinformiert sind.... Read more

Dealing With Doubts in Islam

By: The Sincere Seeker Collection

Narrated by: Austin Vanfleet

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the Truth: Addressing Doubts and Common Misconceptions About Islam to Strengthen Your FaithAre you struggling with doubts about Islam or hesitant to convert because of lingering questions? It's completely natural to have doubts and to question your beliefs about God and Islam. Islam encourages those with doubts to seek knowledge and... Read more

الغلامة

By: عالية ممدوح

Narrated by: صوفيا حجازين

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

«اللهم ضع هؤلاء وأولئك أمامي، بالمفرد والجمع: بالمشايخ وذوي الأبدان الضعيفة والسخيفة والخفيفة؛ موظفي الدولة، العمداء والمدراء، رجال الدعة والأطايب والنياشين وذوي القربى وأبناء آوى والخال، والذي يحذو حذوهم، أولئك الواقفين في الباب: الشرطة، الأطباء، الرياضيين، الممثلين، رجال الأعمال، وأصحاب الحرف المؤقتة والأمزجة الباردة والفاترة واليائسة، خصوصًا... Read more

The Power of Story

By: Harold R Johnson

Narrated by: Craig Lauzon

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling.Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the... Read more

At Work in the Ruins

By: Dougald Hine

Narrated by: Dougald Hine

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. . . Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement Dougald Hine, author and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about... Read more

Creencias Supersticiosas

By: Inocencio Velez

Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Te has preguntado por qué algunas personas temen ciertas fechas, como el viernes 13? ¿Por qué decimos 'Salud' cuando la gente estornuda? ¿A qué se deben esos miedos a los espejos rotos? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“La superstición trae mala suerte.” - Umberto Eco
Muchas de nuestras supersticiones más duraderas -como evitar pasar por debajo de una... Read more

Viracocha: The History and Legacy of the Inca’s Creator God

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the Inca’s oral traditions suggested that the history of the region began with their empire, the various gods and the religious ceremonies of the peoples that inhabited the Inca’s lands before their arrival were assimilated into the Inca Empire and were incorporated into Inca religion. However, under Inca rule, all those gods were to... Read more

It's Always Been Ours

By: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Narrated by: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This “necessary book” (Roxanne Gay, New York Times bestselling author, Bad Feminist and Hunger) shares an essential look at the ways in which Black women are left out of conversations about “diet culture,” health, and wellness. In It’s Always Been Ours, eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink the... Read more

Holding Fire

By: Bryce Andrews

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock... Read more

A Minor Revolution

By: Adam Benforado

Narrated by: Adam Benforado

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives—from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

“Compelling . . . an extremely sympathetic and worthy attempt to protect kids . . . [Benforado]... Read more

Rethinking Life

By: Shane Claiborne

Narrated by: Shane Claiborne

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.Many of... Read more

Fool Proof

By: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, and Susan Cain’s Quiet, Fool Proof tracks the implications of the sucker construct from personal choices to cultural conflict, ultimately charting... Read more

Jennie's Boy

By: Wayne Johnston

Narrated by: Wayne Johnston

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **


The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who raised him

A book to be relished by lovers of such works as The Glass Castle, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and Angela's... Read more

Lives of the Wives

By: Carmela Ciuraru

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about.""—Francine Prose, author of The VixenA witty,... Read more

Never Far from Home

By: Bruce Jackson

Narrated by: Bruce Jackson

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra... Read more

Your Consent Is Not Required

By: Rob Wipond

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated "for their own good" than at any time in history.



In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view... Read more