Social Science audiobooks

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

By: INCITE! Women Of Color Against Violence

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world,... Read more

Eros and the Mysteries of Love

By: Julius Evola

Narrated by: Cat Weiss

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

A comprehensive work on the metaphysical aspects of sexuality. Julius Evola sheds new light on the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love. This in-depth study explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, and shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deep potentialities of human... Read more

Lesbian Love Addiction

By: Lauren D. Costine, PhD

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don't know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even... Read more

The Way of the Wild Soul Woman

By: Mary Reynolds Thompson

Narrated by: Mary Reynolds Thompson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

• Introduces five Earth Woman Archetypes along with in-depth initiations to help you to unleash your fullest, most authentic, and creative self

• Includes rituals, exercises, meditations, and journal prompts to help you integrate each initiatory stage and embody the ways of a Wild Soul Woman

• Explores how to overcome the core wounding of each... Read more

The Care Dilemma

By: David Goodhart

Narrated by: David Goodhart

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Family life has changed rapidly over the past 60 years.

David Goodhart asks whether this transformation has been an unalloyed good. Increased opportunities for women, greater freedom and autonomy, and a more equal domestic sphere have brought considerable benefits. However, argues Goodhart, there have been losses as well as gains: liberal trends... Read more

Moctezuma y Atahualpa

By: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma & Luis Millones Santa G...

Narrated by: Nick Zamora & Gerardo Álvarez

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Vida, pasión y muerte de dos gobernantes Fue durante el siglo xvi cuando se materializaron los funestos augurios del fin de dos grandes civilizaciones; el ocaso de dos míticos gobernantes: Moctezuma Xocoyotzin y Atahualpa y, con ellos, el de los únicos Estados imperiales del Nuevo Mundo precolombino, mexica e inca: la Triple Alianza y... Read more

Religion Is Not Done with You

By: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst & Megan Goodwin

Narrated by: Julie McKay

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing

Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to "Religion 101," Religion Is Not Done... Read more

Decolonising My Body

By: Afua Hirsch

Narrated by: Afua Hirsch

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard-earned money on our haircare, skincare and makeup; where do they come from, and how can we learn to undo them?

Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, award-winning journalist Afua Hirsch embarked on a journey to... Read more

The Internet of Us

By: Michael P. Lynch

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.
We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia shelf... Read more

Opinions

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Roxane Gay

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling... Read more

Quit Like a Woman

By: Holly Whitaker

Narrated by: Holly Whitaker

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30... Read more

The Disordered Cosmos

By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.

A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A Finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of... Read more

Together

By: Vivek H. Murthy

Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more

What's Next

By: Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack

Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment to service has made the series and relationships behind it endure.

Step back inside the... Read more

Off with Her Head

By: Eleanor Herman

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.
Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt, honest, and refreshing?... Read more

Culture Warlords

By: Talia Lavin

Narrated by: Talia Lavin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative... Read more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Rebecca Skloot

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF... Read more

Guns, Germs, and Steel

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.
 
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary... Read more

Generations

By: Jean M. Twenge

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean... Read more

Fat Talk

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

Narrated by: Virginia Sole-Smith

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In this illuminating narrative on the daily onslaught of body shame that kids face from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers a compelling, reported look at how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

By the time they reach... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

Selling the Dream

By: Jane Marie

Narrated by: Jane Marie

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they, and countless other... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

White Women

By: Regina Jackson & Saira Rao

Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao & Deanna Anthony

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen

It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to... Read more