Social Science audiobooks

Oliver Burkeman: Epidemics of Modern Life

By: Oliver Burkeman

Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman & Various

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Burkeman's guides to leading a better life in an age of confusion

Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman is well-known for his long-running Guardian column, 'How to Change Your Life', and has written three bestselling books on happiness, productivity and time management. In this radio collection, he looks at four central ills of modernity -... Read more

Las mujeres trabajando: desigualdades y pendientes por resolver.

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dra. Carolina Grajales Valdespino, feminista, doctora en Economía, académica y consultora especialista en Género. Ella nos platica de cuáles son los temas pendientes en nuestra sociedad para poder alcanzar un verdadero feminismo que conduzca a la equidad entre hombres y mujeres. Read more

Morality in the 21st Century

By: Jonathan Sacks

Narrated by: Jonathan Sacks, Melinda Gates, Jordan Peterson,...

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to the world's leading thinkers about morality today

In this fascinating series Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks explores what morality means, speaking with globally renowned thinkers, as well as voices from the next generation.

From Steven Pinker and Robert Putnam to Melinda Gates and Jordan Peterson, the guests discuss the... Read more

En la agenda feminista hay un gran pendiente: decidir sobre nuestro cuerpo. El derecho al aborto libre, seguro y gratuito

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Dra. Lurel Cedeño, Doctora en Psicología Social, experta del tema de aborto que ha sido activista desde que comenzó la idea de una ley que lo regulara hasta la implementación de los servicios de este derecho de las mujeres. Read more

"A romper con los cautiverios…cuando te vuelves emprendedora y empresaria, pero el producto es tu cuerpo… ser puta por decisión"

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

AnnaBlu, escort de profesión nos cuenta lo que el sexo servicio por elección significa para muchas mujeres que lo ven como una opción de ejercer su libertad y un vehículo de crecimiento personal. Sí, muchas de las cosas que escuches no son lo que se espera de una feminista pero sin duda es una mujer que eligió cómo vivir. Read more

Micromachismos, la violencia que no "sentimos"

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dra. Cynthia Galicia Mendoza, doctora en Derecho, feminista, académica, consultora en materia de género y derechos humanos de las mujeres, nos muestra como las mujeres viven de manera cotidiana un ataque constante que parece estar normalizado pero a final de cuentas impide que se logre la equidad que buscamos las feministas. Read more

Casa, convento, burdel, prisión y manicomio son los sitios de cautiverios de las mujeres, pero... ¿Se puede hablar de cautiverios hoy en día?

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Norma Herrera y Mariana Rivera, madresposas y amas de casa por convicción, muchas veces, con uno que otro secreto de su pasado, nos muestran porque el matrimonio y la maternidad también es una manera de ejercer la libertad de una mujer. Muchas veces se piensa que una mujer libre no es ni madre ni esposa. Nada más alejado de la realidad. Read more

Si existe el Feminismo Radical, pero no es como tú crees

By: Angélica García Andrade

Narrated by: Angélica García Andrade

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Psic. Citlali Flores García es feminista, madre, sobreviviente de violencia y orientadora de otras mujeres y de adolescentes y ella nos muestra lo que es el verdadero feminismo radical que no tiene que ver con pintas y quemas sino con ideas que revolucionen la sociedad en la que vivimos. Read more

She’s In CTRL

By: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

An inspirational exploration of why women are under-represented in tech, why it matters, and what we can do about it.

Our eyes are now open to the dangerous fact that our technology is built by a series of big decisions made by a small number of people, mainly men. It means our technology is derived from the gender,... Read more

Hindu Samrajya Din

By: Mohanji Bhagwat

Narrated by: Mandar Kulkarni

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांच्या राज्याभिषेकाचा दिवस राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघातर्फे हिंदू साम्राज्य दिवस म्हणून साजरा केला जातो. 24 जून 2010 रोजी प. पूज्य सरसंघचालक डॉ. मोहनजी भागवत यांनी या दिवसाचे महत्त्व आणि शिवाजी महाराजांचे अतुल्य कार्य यांचा परिचय या भाषणात सर्वांना करून दिला आहे. शिवाजी महाराजांची दूरदृष्टी, दुर्दम्य पराक्रम, मुत्सद्दी राजकारण,... Read more

Hochzeits Ratgeber - Der entspannte Weg zur Hochzeit: Schritt für Schritt ohne Stress zur unvergesslichen Traumhochzeit - inkl. Checkliste und den besten Tipps

By: Mirella Lameyer

Narrated by: Josefina Born

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Ihre bessere Hälfte hat Ihnen einen Heiratsantrag gemacht und Sie haben ihn angenommen. Oder Sie wurden mit der großen Ehre betraut, als Trauzeuge dem Brautpaar zur Seite zu stehen. Doch wie geht es jetzt weiter? Was muss nun in welcher Reihenfolge erledigt werden und was darf man nicht vergessen? Nachdem die große... Read more

The Chaos Machine

By: Max Fisher

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)  tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world, and is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein). We... Read more

To Make Our World Anew

By: Robin D.G. Kelley & Earl Lewis

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be between ten and twenty million people,... Read more

Surveillance State

By: Josh Chin & Liza Lin

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?

Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data.

It is a story born in Silicon Valley and... Read more

Know Justice Know Peace

By: Deborah Threadgill Egerton

Narrated by: Deborah Threadgill Egerton, PhD

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Activate your authentic self through the Enneagram and learn how to create healing through your archetype, elevate your consciousness and help to eliminate systemic racism.Know Justice, Know Peace focuses on humanity's activation and evolution from apathy to engagement in becoming anti-racist advocates for marginalized people. Dr Egerton will... Read more

Status and Culture

By: W. David Marx

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times

“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties

“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and... Read more

Africa Is Not a Country

By: Dipo Faloyin

Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.



Starting with an... Read more

Nuclear Fusion

By: Sharon Ann Holgate

Narrated by: Lorna Bennett

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the 1950s, scientists have attempted to harness nuclear fusion—the process that creates the Sun's energy—to generate near-limitless amounts of electricity. But the fact that we still have no fusion power plants is testament to the complexities of the challenge. Now, the deepening climate crisis means that researchers around the world are... Read more

The Middle Out

By: Michael Tomasky

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Political journalist Michael Tomasky tracks an exciting change among  progressive economists who are overturning decades of conservative dogma and offering an alternative version of capitalism that can serve broadly shared prosperity to all.

"Engaging, briskly paced ... On balance, history appears to be on Tomasky’s side." —The New York Times... Read more

Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda

By: Marvel, Ruth E. Carter, Hannah Giorgis, Yona Ha...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Join creators, writers, and comics legends as they discuss the impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther in this wonderful collection of essays
 
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther has become more than just a movie—it has shaped conversations about art, culture, science fiction, representation, justice, fashion, comics, creativity, and so much more.... Read more

The Godmother

By: Barbie Latza Nadeau

Narrated by: Barbie Latza Nadeau

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Godmother [is a] crisply written, dutifully researched book exploring the role of women in the…underbelly of Italian life.”
—New York Times Book Review


The chilling story of one woman’s rise to prominence in the Italian Mafia, and the as-yet untold stories of the women who followed in her footsteps.

For as long as it has gripped our... Read more

Survival of the Richest

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: They want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the “Event”: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of... Read more

The Third Reconstruction

By: Peniel E. Joseph

Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues,... Read more

10 Minutes to Better Mental Health

By: Lee David & Debbie Brewin

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What can you really do in ten minutes? You can make a cup of tea or coffee, walk about 0.6 miles, and now, with this book, you can improve your mental health.No matter how busy or stressful your day, with ten-minute steps and quick exercises you can better understand your experiences and learn how to survive setbacks. The book covers everything... Read more