Social Science audiobooks

Wir sind doch alle längst gleichberechtigt

By: Alexandra Zykunov

Narrated by: Alexandra Zykunov

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bullshitsätze wie »Viele Frauen wollen doch gar keine Karriere machen.« oder »Vermisst du dein Kind nicht, wenn du alleine wegfährst?« bekommen wir wohlwollend von unseren Freundinnen zu hören oder werden uns von engsten Familienmitgliedern heimtückisch ins Ohr geflüstert, bis wir ihnen glauben und das Patriarchat sich freudestrahlend die Hände... Read more

Heal Your Way Forward

By: Myisha T Hill

Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Heal Your Way Forward is a seminal work in antiracism, guiding white and white-identifying folks to utilize activism for intergenerational healing.

In 2018, myisha t hill created the @ckyourprivilege handle on Instagram to undo the harm created between white women and women of the Global Majority. After years of living in the micro- and... Read more

The Long Summer

By: Brian Fagan

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about fifteen thousand years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently we had no... Read more

Like Water

By: Daryl J. Maeda

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film



Daryl Joji Maeda's multifaceted account of Bruce Lee's legacy uniquely traces how movements and migrations across the Pacific Ocean structured the cultures Bruce Lee inherited, the milieu he occupied, the martial art he developed, the films he made, and the world he left behind. A... Read more

Return to Uluru

By: Mark McKenna

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"THIS WEEK'S HOTTEST NEW RELEASES: Murder befouls the outback...   [A] gripping work of true crime." —USA TODAY

Return to Uluru explores a cold case that strikes at the heart of white supremacy—the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious... Read more

Please Sit Over There

By: Francine Parham

Narrated by: Francine Parham

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works--who has it, where it hides, and how it's used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.

Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them... Read more

The False Cause

By: Adam H. Domby

Narrated by: Jack de Golia

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, original, and highly readable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memoryThe Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam... Read more

Escucha Activa

By: Lilly De Sisto

Narrated by: Vicente Castellano

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Por fin disponible el manual para saberlo todo, pero realmente todo, sobre la escucha real de los demás!Por fin ha encontrado el libro que buscaba: página tras página, podrá emprender un camino que le guiará, paso a paso, hacia el conocimiento de cómo comunicarse eficazmente con otras personas.En las 110 páginas del libro, podrá conocer y... Read more

This Is One Way to Dance

By: Sejal Shah

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful meditation on identity and belonging, Sejal Shah explores the tension of being both invisible and hyper-visible in a country that struggles with race. The daughter of immigrants from Indian and Kenya, Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up in—and returning to—western New York, an area of stark racial and socioeconomic... Read more

Work Matters

By: Maureen Perry-Jenkins

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton explores how new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcareLow-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these... Read more

Cities and the Wealth of Nations

By: Jane Jacobs

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally produced alternatives,... Read more

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

By: Shirley Moody-Turner & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Karen Murray, Dominic Hoffman & Shirley Moody-T...

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name

A Penguin Classic

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection... Read more

Trans+

By: Kathryn Gonzales, MBA & Karen Rayne, PhD

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Trans+ : Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne, PhD, and Katherine Gonzales, MBA, is an all-inclusive, uncensored guide for teens who are transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or gender-fluid. TRANS+ answers all your questions, easy and hard, about gender and covers mental health, physical health and reproduction,... Read more

The Fishermen and the Dragon

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Public Library Best of 2022

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for environmental... Read more

The First Americans

By: J.M. Adovasio & Jake Page

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?



At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it... Read more

The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups

By: Robin DiAngelo & Amy Burtaine

Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed handbook exclusively for white racial affinity group facilitators. There are many challenges in facilitating these groups, including the need to have a deep theoretical understanding of... Read more

The Nature of Drugs Vol. 1

By: Alexander Shulgin

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact, Volume 1, presents lectures from Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin’s popular course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. Transcribed from the original lectures recorded at San Francisco State University in 1987, The Nature of... Read more

Active Listening - Abridged

By: Lilly De Sisto

Narrated by: Darcey Kobs

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finally available is a guide to know everything, really everything, about really listening to others! You've finally found the listen you've been looking for: minute after minute, you'll be able to embark on a path that will guide you, step by step, to the knowledge of how to effectively communicate with other people!In this pause-resisting... Read more

Porch Talk

By: John R. Erickson & Douglas K. Boyd

Narrated by: John R. Erickson & Douglas K. Boyd

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When John Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, saved up and purchased a tract of Panhandle property near Perryton, it set off a chain of discovery. Who lived in Texas over a thousand years ago? In Porch Talk, John Erickson and his archaeologist friend Doug Boyd investigate this question while explaining the art and science of... Read more

Orderly Britain

By: Tim Newburn & Andrew Ward

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved today?

Orderly Britain takes a topical look at modern society, examining how it is governed... Read more

Frozen in Time

By: Rhys Charles

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited it long ago.

This is a book for those that want to learn to scan the beach for fossils, who love the simple pleasure of getting outside or those who want to develop their relationship with the world around them. From the... Read more

Sisters / Women of Wisdom: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique inspirational audiobook, we remember we take a deep dive and remember the almost superhuman contributions of black leaders of our greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each in their own way educating liberating and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a... Read more

Small Island

By: Philip Parker

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The greatest questions of our future can be answered by twelve crucial moments in Britain's history.

It wasn't long-ago that Britons could have been as at home in Varanasi as they could have been in Wolverhampton - why? - because the shape and location of Britain's land-mass has not always been the same, and with large... Read more

Forgiveness

By: Marina Cantacuzino

Narrated by: Marina Cantacuzino

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

I forgive you.
 
Three simple words behind which sits an intriguing and complex concept. These words can be used to absolve a meaningless squabble, or said to someone who has caused you great harm. They can liberate you from guilt, or consciously place blame on your shoulders.

Forgiveness can often be perceived as saccharine and overtly religious,... Read more