Social Science audiobooks

Transforming Communication

By: Dr. Vee J. D-Davidson

Narrated by: Angharad Price

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Effectively communicate Christ across CulturesThe gospel message transcends cultures, but human communication does not. In Transforming Communication missionary and professor Vee J. D-Davidson provides principles for the intercultural communication of Christ.Using her twenty-five-plus years of experience teaching as a Westerner in Asia as a... Read more

The American Nation: A History, Vol. 2

By: Livingston Farrand & Albert Bushnell Hart

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 7 hours 16 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 2 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

Entitled

By: Chris Bryant

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed,... Read more

Eating While Black

By: Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and... Read more

The Price of Immortality

By: Peter Ward

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of defying deathAs longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step—to live as long as we choose—has spurred a scientific arms race in search of the elixir of life, funded by Big Tech and Silicon Valley.Once the stuff of Mesopotamian... Read more

Sisters of the Yam

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle,... Read more

An Inconvenient Minority

By: Kenny Xu

Narrated by: Nathan Guo

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals—written in the name of diversity—excluding them from the upper ranks... Read more

Manifesting Justice

By: Valena Beety

Narrated by: Raechel Wong

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct.



Seeking change, Beety began working... Read more

How to Be a Patriotic Christian

By: Richard J. Mouw

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to love our country?



Some Christians see loyalty to America as central to our faith and identity. Other Christians are skeptical that our nation warrants such devotion or attachment. But Richard Mouw encourages Christians to have a healthy sense of national peoplehood that promotes civic kinship and responsible citizenship. He... Read more

Slavery and Social Death

By: Orlando Patterson

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a... Read more

Why They Stay

By: Anne Michaud

Narrated by: Sara Morsey

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hillary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket.Veteran political journalist Anne... Read more

The Red Zone

By: Chloe Caldwell

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A searching, galvanizing memoir about blood and love: how learning more about her period, PMS, PMDD, and the effects of hormones on moods transformed her relationships—to a new partner, to family, to nonblood kin, and to her own body—from the beloved essayist and author of WomenChloe Caldwell’s period has often felt inconvenient, uncomfortable,... Read more

The Rape of the Nile, Revised and Updated

By: Brian Fagan

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb robbers; obelisk-stealing Romans; Coptic Christians determined to erase the... Read more

In Transit

By: Dianna E. Anderson

Narrated by: Dianna E. Anderson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve... Read more

Take Back What the Devil Stole

By: Onaje X. O. Woodbine

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her... Read more

Rum Rebels

By: Martyna Halas & René van Hoven

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Once known as a sailor's drink, rum has matured into a refined spirit. In some Caribbean countries, rum is offered as a libation to the gods. In others, it is aged and savored on the rocks. But in the most magical places, rum is distilled by women.



The art of cocktails, rum, and women. Rum has been the drink of rebels since the Old World. Now,... Read more

Political Masculinity

By: Susanne Kaiser

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Men with assault rifles, balaclavas, and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos. The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one another only online in the Manosphere. These were men with a common interest, followers... Read more

Greek Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Greek Myths, Gods, and Goddesses

By: Enthralling History

Narrated by: Jay Herbert

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Greek mythology influences us today. For instance, did you know that the famous athletic brand Nike comes from the Greek goddess of victory?Greek mythology has, without a doubt, some of the most well-known legends in the world. Like most people, the Olympians had their fair share of family drama. This audiobook pays strict attention to the... Read more

Egyptian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian Myths, Gods, and Goddesses

By: Enthralling History

Narrated by: Jay Herbert

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death? You will be amazed at how hard they prepared for the afterlife! This audiobook is loaded with stories of the lives of the ancient Egyptians, their gods, and some of the greatest myths in antiquity. The gods played an important role in people’s lives; you might be surprised to... Read more

Meeru Naato Ekibhavinchara Aite Santosham

By: Dr Gopinath

Narrated by: J.S.Aravind

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

సమాజంలో కేవలం బలప్రయోగంతోనే కులవ్యవస్థ స్థిరీకరించబడ్డదని బలంగా నమ్మి, భారతీయ గతితార్కిక భౌతిక వాదాన్ని కులం వెలుగులో పూర్వపక్షం చేయాల్సిన అవసరాన్ని గుర్తెరిగిన అతి కొద్దిమంది సామాజిక శాస్త్రవేత్తల్లో మొండ్రు ఫ్రాన్సిస్ గోపీనాథ్ ఒకరు. ఆయన మూడో పుస్తకం 'మీరు నాతో ఏకీభవించరా అయితే సంతోషం'ను ఛాయా రిసోర్స్ సెంటర్ ప్రచురించింది. ఏభై ఏళ్ళ నక్షల్బరి,... Read more

Innocent

By: B. Morrison

Narrated by: B. Morrison

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother. Disowned by her parents and facing destitution for herself and her two small sons, she... Read more

Becoming a Visible Man

By: Jamison Green

Narrated by: Jamison Green & Aaron H. Devor

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies.

Since the first edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy among business and governmental... Read more

Ubuntu Relational Love

By: Devi Dee Mucina

Narrated by: Dion Johnstone

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu man. In Ubuntu Relational Love, he uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism... Read more

Ciencia, anticiencia y sus alrededores

By: Fedro Carlos Guillén

Narrated by: Pedro De Tavira Egurrola

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

El conocimiento científico no es un tesoro reservado a personas con inteligencias superiores, sino algo a lo que cualquiera con sentido común puede acceder. Para demostrarlo, aquí se reunen algunas de las inquietudes de Fedro Carlos Guillén, científico y escritor, cuya intención es compartir su curiosidad con los lectores de una manera fresca y... Read more