Social Science audiobooks

A Woman of Adventure

By: Annette B. Dunlap

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well as any man. The Quaker community of Whittier, California, where she lived as a teen, reinforced the egalitarian spirit of her upbringing. But history had other ideas for... Read more

Gender Swapped Greek Myths

By: Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett

Narrated by: Emma Swan, Karrie Fransman & Kenton Thomas

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.'Guardian Imagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death, where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun, and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens... For thousands of years, Greek myths have been told and retold. In these stories, brutality and... Read more

Don't Look Away

By: Danielle Laidley

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's an inspiring, disarming, and deeply moving book, and it deserves to be widely read.' Craig SilveyNow a Stan Original Documentary.
Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising.This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach Danielle Laidley.Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain.This is how Danielle felt for most of her life.For the best... Read more

Just Dope

By: Allison Margolin

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement.

Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether you’re popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra jolt of caffeine, unwinding with a perfectly rolled... Read more

What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us

By: Mike Mariani

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us—a reincarnation.”—Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

“A masterpiece—a book that truly captures what it means to be changed by tragedy, and a... Read more

Learning Our Names

By: La Thao, David de Leon, Sabrina S. Chan & Linso...

Narrated by: Linson Daniel & Sabrina S. Chan

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What's your name?



Asian Americans know the pain of being called names that deny our humanity. We may toggle back and forth between different names as a survival strategy. But it's a challenge to discern what names reflect our true identities as Asian Americans and as Christians. In an era when Asians face ongoing discrimination and... Read more

African Myths: Captivating Stories, Folk Tales, Gods, and Goddesses of African Mythology

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Michael Reaves

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you like stories about gods and spirits, giants and monsters, damsels in distress, and clever heroes?All of these can be found in African myth and folklore, which have a vast and varied tapestry of stories from hundreds of cultures, each with its own traditions and values. Sometimes the heroes of these stories are divine beings who come down... Read more

Liberty's Chain

By: David N. Gellman

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 20 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The... Read more

The Occult Control System

By: Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrated by: Daniel Pinchbeck

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we being observed and visited by alien beings from another world or perhaps another space-time dimension? Thousands upon thousands of accounts of UFOs and alien abductions suggest that something is happening that we do not yet understand. Recently, even mainstream media organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post have... Read more

The American Nation: A History, Vol. 6

By: Evarts Boutell Greene PhD & Albert Bushnell Hart

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 6 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to... Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” is a political treatise against slavery, war, and an argument that individuals not cede excessive power to government.A masterpiece of American individualism, the essay is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of political and philosophical writings ever produced by an... Read more

We Are the Middle of Forever

By: Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent... Read more

Reorganized Religion

By: Bob Smietana

Narrated by: AW Miller

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the ways the Christian church has changed in recent years—from the decline of the mainline denominations to the mega-churchification of American culture—and a hopeful reimagining of what the church might look like going forward. The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and... Read more

Afterlife

By: Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrated by: Jordan Byrne

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the deepest questions we can ask is: What happens after we die? For the past centuries, with the rise of scientific materialism, the prevailing answer to this has been: nothing.Our conscious self-awareness is simply an accident of evolution, arising from the increasing complexity of the physical brain. There can be no awareness outside of... Read more

Smart Pop Explains Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies

By: The Editors of Smart Pop

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're feeling lost on the way to Mordor, let Smart Pop be your guide—literally, with this handy crash course into the cinematic world of Hobbits and Orcs and Elves (oh my!)



It's easy for new fans to get overwhelmed by the sprawling mythology and complexity of the six films that make up Peter Jackson's epic trilogies. Unlike encyclopedias and... Read more

Valley of the Birdtail

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson

Narrated by: Greg Rogers

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeWinner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book PrizeWinner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous WriterWinner – 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local HistoryFinalist – 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeFinalist – Writers’... Read more

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

By: Chip Colwell

Narrated by: Chip Colwell

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered... Read more

Black Slaves, Indian Masters

By: Barbara Krauthamer

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and... Read more

Wohnopoly

By: Caren Lay

Narrated by: Simon Diez

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Stoppt den Spekulations- und Mietenwahnsinn! Die Wohnungsfrage ist die soziale Frage unserer Zeit. Doch statt sie anzugehen, werden Fehl­entwicklungen systematisch politisch gefördert. Wohnungen sind zu reinen Spekulations­objekten verkommen. Hohe Nachfrage und sogenannte Zwangssanierungen lassen die Mieten explodieren und zwar nicht nur in den... Read more

As seis lições (resumo) - Abridged

By: Ludwig Von Mises

Narrated by: Everton Ferreira

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este minilivro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. As Seis Lições reúne as palestras ministradas, em 1959, por Ludwig von Mises na Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA). O autor discute com clareza o capitalismo, o socialismo, o intervencionismo, a inflação, o investimento estrangeiro e as relações entre política e ideias. Em linguagem... Read more

The Trojan War: An Enthralling Overview of a Legendary Conflict of Ancient Greece and Its Role in History and Greek Mythology

By: Enthralling History

Narrated by: Jay Herbert

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Epic story or historical fact? Historians disagree whether the Trojan War was either – or both! Around 1,200 BCE, war raged between the Ancient Greeks and their rivals in Troy. It’s the oldest story in the world, and its account was captured by the Greek poet, Homer. In this amazing and intriguing audiobook, you’ll learn just why this story is... Read more

Faking It

By: Michael Grothaus

Narrated by: Michael Grothaus

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Seeing is believing, but what happens when you can't believe your own eyes? It's time to go down the rabbit hole...

Imagine watching yourself on screen. Seeing your own face, but knowing it's not you. Imagine if someone you didn't know, or worse, someone you did know, could put your face anywhere, make it say or do anything. With deepfake... Read more

Depredadores sagrados

By: Bernardo Barranco

Narrated by: Memo Prado

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

«En todas las culturas existen bestiarios en sus mitologías. En la cultura contemporánea el depredador sagrado es la bestia con sotana. Es el maligno que se arropa y disfraza con los símbolos de santidad. Un ser infausto que seduce y violenta sexualmente a sus víctimas con el rostro y ropaje de un ángel. La psiquiatría moderna y las ciencias de... Read more

Food Allergy Advocacy

By: Danya Glabau

Narrated by: Melissa Redmond

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy



The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food Allergy Advocacy,... Read more