Social Science audiobooks

Brown and Gay in LA

By: Anthony Christian Ocampo

Narrated by: Grayson Villanueva

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship... 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

My People

By: Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Narrated by: Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work... Read more

Playing a New Game

By: Tammy Lewis Wilborn, PhD

Narrated by: Tammy Lewis Wilborn, PhD

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on first-hand clinical insight and scientific research, Dr. Wilborn offers much-needed advice on how women of color can be high-performing and successful professionally, without sacrificing their physical, mental, and emotional wellness.  Black and brown women have been making profound strides in leadership and professional achievement,... Read more

Runaway

By: Erin Keane

Narrated by: Erin Keane

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell.In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom,... Read more

Visual Thinking

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds... Read more

Subversive Habits

By: Shannen Dee Williams

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and Catholic commitments... Read more

Viral Justice

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time"A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism SchoolLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more

Aesop's Animals

By: Jo Wimpenny

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so, is there any... 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

Journey to Parenthood

By: Eric Rosswood

Narrated by: Adi Cabral

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indispensable Toolset for Same-Sex Parenthood

First published in 2016 and winner of four literary awards. Now updated and packed with valuable information and more powerful stories of same-sex parents achieving and navigating parenthood.

Yes, you do have options. Same-sex couples (gay dads, lesbian moms, or other queer couples) are faced... Read more

Myśli nieupaństwowione

By: Magda Awoszko

Narrated by: Ewa Konstanciak

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nie trzeba być filozofem, żeby formułować cenne spostrzeżenia o rzeczywistości. Nie wystarczy tytuł przed nazwiskiem, żeby pozbyć się wystającej z butów słomy. O tym i wielu innych sprawach pisze autorka "Myśli nieupaństwowionych".Jaka jest największa z ludzkich przywar? Zdaniem autorki – obłuda. Brzydzi się nią bardziej niż czymkolwiek na... 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

The United States of Cryptids

By: J. W. Ocker

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond!Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker not... Read more

Internet for the People

By: Ben Tarnoff

Narrated by: Ben Tarnoff

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?



In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do... 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

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

A Participatory Economy

By: Robin Hahnel

Narrated by: Chris Bergman

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy, but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like.A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to... Read more

Dinner on Mars

By: Lenore Newman & Evan D.G. Fraser

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars—and nine billion Earthlings too



Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of... 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

Donde no hago pie

By: Belén López Peiró

Narrated by: Noelia Antúnez

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Crónica del duro proceso que sigue a la denuncia de un abuso familiar y que implica enfrentar los prejuicios de la sociedad y los obstáculos de la justicia.
«Contemporáneo en su estilo breve y fragmentario -donde se cruzan diario, imágenes, géneros y lenguajes diversos-, esta novela lírica y vertiginosa revoluciona la no ficción en sus... Read more

Sobrevivir a un mundo gordofóbico

By: Jesica Lavia

Narrated by: Jesica Lavia

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Con más de quince años de experiencia como nutricionista, Jesica Lavia cuestiona la gordofobia y reclama dejar de estigmatizar y patologizar a las personas por el tamaño de sus cuerpos y "entender todas las aristas que afectan no solo lo que comemos, sino el acceso a lo que comemos y cómo nos relacionamos con nuestra alimentación. Entender... Read more

Finding Out Will Change Your Life Forever: Dealing with the Knowledge You are Face Blind

By: Ronald Haines

Narrated by: Ronald Haines

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We all grow up with the assumption that everybody perceives the world in the same way that we do and, as an adult, live what we feel to be normal lives and interact socially just like anyone else. Imagine what would happen to you if you found out that you are really very different, that you have been compensating all of your life and that what... Read more

La censura horizontal

By: Javier Horacio Contreras Orozco

Narrated by: Héctor Velasco

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

«Javier Contreras ha escrito un libro excepcional y necesario en estos tiempos de tecnologización de la vida pública.» Ignacio Solares Hoy en día las redes sociales son mucho más que simples herramientas de entretenimiento, información y socialización: una parte de nuestras vidas transcurre dentro de ellas. Han ampliado nuestra capacidad de... Read more