Social Science audiobooks

A More Just Future

By: Dolly Chugh

Narrated by: Dolly Chugh

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Getting To We Words Create Worlds Award

In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, “welcome, and urgent invitation” (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relationship we have with our country’s complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future.... Read more

Speaking my Soul

By: John Russell Rickford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its... Read more

Running While Black

By: Alison Mariella Désir

Narrated by: Alison Mariella Désir

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry

“Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act of running has never been so simple. It is a declaration of the right to move through the world. If running is claiming public space, why, then,... Read more

Raising Them Right

By: Kyle Spencer

Narrated by: Kyle Spencer

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right—and how they’ve partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American... Read more

Half American

By: Matthew F. Delmont

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction
• A New York Times Notable Book
• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor... Read more

Weapons of Mass Delusion

By: Robert Draper

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022

The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge

The... Read more

What the Children Told Us

By: Tim Spofford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.



Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. The psychological... Read more

La masonería Uruguaya

By: Fernando Amado

Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A diez años de su última entrega sobre la masonería en Uruguay, Fernando Amado amplía y actualiza los pasos de esta institución que se ramifica velozmente sobre varios terrenos. En los últimos años la masonería uruguaya no ha parado de crecer, en agrupaciones y número de adeptos, conformando un conglomerado de los más diversos ámbitos que... Read more

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

Zusammen - Wie wir mit Gemeinsinn globale Krisen bewältigen (Ungekürzt)

By: Ulrich Schnabel

Narrated by: Boris Jacoby

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Gemeinsinn - die Schlüsselkompetenz des 21. Jahrhunderts Klimawandel, Pandemien und Verschwörungsdenken stellen unsere Gesellschaft vor eine enorme Zerreißprobe. Um sie zu meistern, braucht es nicht mehr Technik oder Wettbewerb, sondern die Schlüsselkompetenz des 21. Jahrhunderts: Gemeinsinn. Diese vergessene Tugend ist in uns allen angelegt,... Read more

Det vore väl synd ...

By: Lisbeth B Åkerman

Narrated by: Frederick Halbout

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Helene och Peter har nyligen separerat. De bor nu med tjugo mil mellan sig, och med varsitt barn. Anna med Peter och Simon med Helene, det var sorgligt men bäst så. Äktenskapet med Peter innebar en ständig kamp med att hålla obehöriga kvinnor på avstånd, han var omåttligt populär. Nu fyller han år och Helene och Lisa har anordnat en... Read more

Analízate

By: Maryfer Centeno

Narrated by: Klau Tenorio & Maryfer Centeno

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Este es el libro de grafología y lenguaje corporal que te mereces y que deberíamos de leer antes de salir a la calle a relacionarnos. Son tus trazos, tus dibujos y la forma en que los haces lo que dice quién eres y cómo te sientes en este momento. La sección de lenguaje corporal es para saber y entender qué siente o piensa alguien que está junto... Read more

Orgullo prieto

By: Tenoch Huerta

Narrated by: Tenoch Huerta

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como “No es racismo, sino clasismo”, “Acá somos todos mestizos” o “Nunca hubo un sistema segregacionista como en Estados Unidos” negamos que hemos perpetuado la discriminación durante generaciones. Tenoch Huerta, actor de reconocido prestigio y portavoz del debate y la lucha antirracista... Read more

¿Y ahora pa'dónde?

By: Jacques Rogozinski

Narrated by: Jaime Collepardo

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Una mirada diferente en un mundo en constante cambio muchas veces acechado por los viejos paradigmas. En 2006 los economistas neoliberales aseguraban que la humanidad había inaugurado una era de crecimiento perpetuo. Después vino otro mantra neoliberal: China manipula sus cifras de crecimiento y pronto su economía se desmoronará. Hace poco, con... Read more

In Our Time: 25 Thinkers Who Shaped Modern Philosophy

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Melvyn Bragg and guests chart 500 years of Western philosophy through its most influential ideas and theorists

'Listen to this and you'll never regret it' The Independent

First aired in 1998, In Our Time has become one of Radio 4's most beloved and enduring shows, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million. Each week, Melvyn Bragg... Read more

Animal Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

By: Sharon Jacksties

Narrated by: Sharon Jacksties

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories and animals have long travelled the same routes. Through our heritage of charming, quirky and profound tales, you will find yourself re-acquainted with Britain's wondrous fauna.

Find out how hedgehog ended up with spines and what makes him scuttle so fast, discover how pigs saved a prince from leprosy and why the wealthy lord was so... Read more

Pine Box Parole

By: John L. Hill

Narrated by: Lorene Shyba

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Pine Box Parole begins with convicted murderer Terry Fitzsimmons hanging himself in Kingston Penitentiary. Subsequent chapters delve into the killer’s background and describe the senseless killings upon which he embarks after spending years in solitary confinement. Prison lawyer John L Hill, attempts to defend Fitzsimmons by putting the blame on... Read more

On Every Tide

By: Sean Connolly

Narrated by: Patrick Moy

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern worldWhen people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused many to flee Ireland for the United States. But the real history of the Irish diaspora is much longer, more complicated, and more global.In On... Read more

Stuff They Don't Want You to Know

By: Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick & Noel Brown

Narrated by: Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick & Noel Brown

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors.

Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding "stuff" the government doesn’t want you to know.

Conspiracies didn’t always seem so clear and present. It used to be that people with tin-foil hats who were... Read more

Unequals

By: Murray Webster, Jr. & Lisa Slattery Walker

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman, Courtney Patterson & Timothy H...

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This book presents the latest research on status generalization in a variety of settings, examining new interventions for its negative effects. Drawing from research on status processes in sociology, social psychology, education, organizations, mental health, and other fields, the book connects to several bodies of research that include stigma... Read more

The Red Sea Scrolls

By: Mark Lehner & Pierre Tallet

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls—the world's oldest surviving written documents—in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.



Here,... Read more

No Choice

By: Becca Andrews

Narrated by: Marisha Tapera & Becca Andrews

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose

The pieces started to fall In 2019 when a wave of anti-abortion laws went into effect. Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, while Missouri banned... Read more

Erótica y materna

By: Mariolina Ceriotti Migliarese

Narrated by: Estela Fernández

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

La reflexión sobre la condición femenina es urgente en nuestro tiempo.Nunca hasta hoy hemos estado más cerca de comprender la igualdad de valor entre los sexos. Y nunca nos hemos encontrado más alejados y confundidos, al convivir en una cultura que niega el valor de la diferencia. Precisamente en esto reside la paradoja de nuestro mundo. Nuestro... Read more

More Than Our Pain

By: Beth Hinderliter & Steve Peraza

Narrated by: Diana Blue & Leon Nixon

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Americans in a racial caste system, Black Lives Matter activists and the artists inspired by them have devised new forms of political and cultural resistance. More Than Our Pain explores how affect and... Read more