Social Science audiobooks

Feminism is Queer

By: Mimi Marinucci

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Feminism is Queer, Mimi Marinucci provides a valuable introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory, and develops the innovative concept of queer feminism, which treats queer theory as being continuous with feminist theory. While there were significant conceptual tensions between second-wave feminism and... Read more

Scratching River

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing.

This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author’s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding... Read more

Soluciones en sexualidad infantil y adolescente

By: Maria Elena Balsa Sabbagh & Fernando Álvarez Vá...

Narrated by: Ana María Muñoz

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

?¡Shhhh! Para hablar de sexualidad hay que bajar la voz….y más si se trata de sexualidad infantil y adolescente…Fernando Álvarez y María Elena Balsa rompen esta consigna y nos regalan en este libro respuestas con información veraz a estas dudas y a muchas otras más. También se dan a la tarea de explicar paso a paso, con casos reales,... Read more

The Connected Community

By: Cormac Russell & John McKnight

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!

We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for... Read more

From the Core

By: John Wineland

Narrated by: John Wineland

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Men today face a crisis of identity. While we can see how the old paradigm of patriarchal dominance needs to go, is the solution really to deconstruct the very idea of masculinity out of existence? No—that's not the answer. With From the Core, Wineland sets out a clear roadmap for men who want to live, love, and lead from the most profound... Read more

A Long Reconstruction

By: Paul William Harris

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the... Read more

Peace Pipe Dreams

By: Darrell Dennis

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he's allowed to call himself an "Indian." Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose of humour and irreverence, he untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations: Why do people think Natives get free trucks, and why didn't... Read more

The Masculinity Manifesto

By: Ryan Michler

Narrated by: Ryan Michler

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Men are not the enemy, and masculinity, contrary to what much of popular culture would have you believe, is the solution to what plagues individuals, families, and society as a whole.

Men have a moral obligation to lead themselves and others well. Unfortunately, much of society has bought into and perpetuated the misguided idea that men have... Read more

Courageous Discomfort

By: Shanterra McBride & Rosalind Wiseman

Narrated by: Shanterra McBride & Rosalind Wiseman

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An empowering handbook on how to have candid conversations around race and become a better advocate, written by a Black woman and a white woman who ask and answer 20 common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism.

Many people struggle to have honest conversations about race, even those who consider themselves allies or identify as... Read more

A Trillion Trees

By: Fred Pearce

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

With vivid, observant reporting, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce transports listeners to the remote cloud forests of Ecuador, the remains of a forest civilization in Nigeria, a mystifying mountain peak in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and the boreal forests of western Canada and the United States, where devastating wildfires are... Read more

Teaching White Supremacy

By: Donald Yacovone

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.
 
“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,... Read more

By Hands Now Known

By: Margaret A. Burnham

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.



If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?



In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative... Read more

Is Reality Optional?

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes. Read more

Southern Beauty

By: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood,... Read more

Gina Gerson

By: Valentina Dzherson

Narrated by: Alex Coal

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a small town in Siberia in Russia in 1991, Valentina Dzherson learned early in life to overcome any challenges she faced. A determined young woman who knew that she was destined for success, she was accepted into one of Russia's most prestigious faculties for preparing future diplomats, but instead, she decided to study foreign... Read more

Captive Genders

By: Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith

Narrated by: Adi Cabral

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing... Read more

You Gotta Be You

By: Brandon Kyle Goodman

Narrated by: Brandon Kyle Goodman

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

YOU ARE ENOUGH EXACTLY AS YOU ARE.
  ​            From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we... Read more

A Haunted History of Invisible Women

By: Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former slaves, even the occasional axe-murderess—America's female ghosts differ widely in background, class, and circumstance. Yet one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after their deaths. Here are the full stories behind some of the... Read more

The American Nation: A History, Vol. 1

By: Edward Potts Cheyney & Albert Bushnell Hart

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEuropean Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard... Read more

The Connected Community

By: John McKnight & Cormac Russell

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!

We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for... Read more

Who's Raising the Kids?

By: Susan Linn

Narrated by: Susan Linn

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children comes a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood—and what we can do about it.Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children’s lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the... Read more

DMT Entity Encounters

By: David Luke & Rory Spowers

Narrated by: Raul Vallenilla & Elizabeth Pimentel

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

• Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke

• Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific... Read more

Ghost Channels

By: Amy Lawrence

Narrated by: Kate Zane

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, over six dozen documentary-style series dealing with paranormal subject matter premiered on television in the United States. Combining the stylistic traits of horror with earnest accounts of what are claimed to... Read more

Sacred Pampering Principles

By: Debrena Jackson Gandy

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally self-published to enormous acclaim and demand, Sacred Pampering Principles is a beautifully written guide with hundreds of easy and innovative ways for on-the-go women to pamper their bodies and nurture their spirits.With her holistic approach to filling your life with comfort, balance, and peace, Debrena Jackson Gandy debunks... Read more