Social Science audiobooks

Ancient Futures

By: Helena Norberg-Hodge

Narrated by: Roxi Davis, Helena Norberg-Hodge & Tsewang Namgyal

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Let yourself be swept away to Ladakh, a region nestled high in the Himalayan plateau. It is a place like no other. The brightest sky makes snow-covered mountain peaks sparkle for miles. Below, scree tumbles down the mountain sides, infinite shades of ocher, into winding glacier-fed streams. The streams support a surrounding tapestry of vibrant... Read more

Happiness is Handmade

By: Ethan Ee Hom Tan

Narrated by: Leonie Koh

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the Tan family, who have created a homemade Peranakan food legacy in Singapore! Join the fourth generation member of the family, Ethan, as he travels back in time tracing the evolution of his family business — home-grown brand HarriAnns Nonya Table — from a humble push-cart to the chain of Peranakan cafes it is today. Just like Peranakan... Read more

The Power of Mentorship

By: Will Jawando

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a man born of a Nigerian father and a white mother, Jawando is our guide for the essential gift of mentorship and how staggeringly transformative it can be for an entire community. It’s a reminder of how even a brief encounter of positive mentoring can make all the difference for all our children, most especially those at risk. Read more

ابرقدرت ریاکار

By: میشائیل لودرس & سید ابراهیم تقوی

Narrated by: سید ابراهیم تقوی

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

ایالات متحده‌ی آمریکا ضامن دمکراسی و حقوق بشر به شمار می‌رود. ولی دفاع از این «ارزش‌ها» تنها یک روی سکه است. بر روی دیگر آن یک سیاست بی‌رحمانه‌ی مبتنی بر قدرت وجود دارد. با این حال افسانه‌ی آمریکایی هژمون از خود گذشته کارگر می‌افتد. از جمله به این دلیل که رسانه‌های ما اغلب معیارهایی دوگانه به کار می‌برند.میشائیل لودرس نشان می‌دهد که چه ساده... Read more

Growing Up Human

By: Brenna Hassett

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Growing Up Human by Brenna Hassett, read by Laurel Lefkow.

Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – childhood.

Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular... Read more

Why Did You Stay?: The instant Sunday Times bestseller

By: Rebecca Humphries

Narrated by: Rebecca Humphries

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'Fierce. Game-changing. Urgently necessary. Brilliant, brilliant and did I say brilliant?' EMMA THOMPSON
'Pacy, vivid, compelling and very, VERY funny ... it will help so many' MARIAN KEYES
'A fucking classic. Required reading for all women and men and I believe it's going to be the book of 2022' BRYONY GORDON
'Fuck, this is good.... Read more

Bat, Ball and Field

By: Jon Hotten

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. ‘Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best’ Cricketer Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highlighting transcendent moments as well as tragedies, Jon... Read more

Where the Seals Sing

By: Susan Richardson

Narrated by: Di Langford

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population. Every year these charismatic animals, with their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than our fingertips, haul out on our shores to breed and raise their pups. ... Read more

Female Fear Factory

By: Pumla Dineo Gqola

Narrated by: Pumla Dineo Gqola

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on examples from around the world—from Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe—Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects like driving bans, higher education rape, sexual harassment and... Read more

It's a Continent

By: Astrid Madimba & Chinny Ukata

Narrated by: Astrid Madimba & Chinny Ukata

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the continent alone?

IT'S A CONTINENT aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries. Each of the 54 African countries has a unique history and culture, and... Read more

Conspiracy

By: Tom Phillips & Jonn Elledge

Narrated by: Jonn Elledge & Tom Phillips

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused - to teach us how not to fall for them.

From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and... Read more

Respondona

By: bell hooks

Narrated by: María Espinosa

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Tras la buena acogida de Todo sobre el amor de bell hooks, una de las voces del feminismo más relevantes de la actualidad, publicamos Respondona, un recorrido intelectual por su larga trayectoria como feminista negra y activista. Respondona trata sobre el significado de la conciencia feminista en la vida diaria, la recuperación personal, la... Read more

The Disney Revolt

By: Jake S. Friedman

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.



Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and... Read more

A People’s Guide to the End of Life

By: A. Joseph Layon

Narrated by: A. Joseph Layon

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about death: how we approach it, how families, and those breathing their last, might deal with it. While the author has been surrounded by death for decades—in the operating rooms, the intensive care unit, the burn unit, in the US, Latin America, and Africa—putting these words to “paper” was the result of the impending death of a... Read more

How to Be a Difficult Bitch

By: Halley Bondy, Mary C. Fernandez, Sharon Lynn Pr...

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Deanna Anthony, Soneela Nankani ...

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past, being a “difficult bitch” was bad. Girls weren’t supposed to call people out for their BS, stand up for themselves, or do their own thing. This book embraces the insult with irreverent humor, encouraging listeners to be themselves no matter what, including an exploration of the ways this phrase can be interpreted differently among... Read more

Khabaar

By: Madhushree Ghosh

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These... Read more

Yashasvi, Aanandi, Samadhani Jivanasathi 7 Manodharana

By: Swami Mukundanand

Narrated by: Nishant Vaidya

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

माइंडसेट म्हणजेच मनोधारणा होय. चुकीची मनोधारणा आपल्याला समाधान, आनंद आणि ज्ञानप्राप्ती यांपेक्षा वेगळ्याच मार्गावर घेऊन जाते. योग्य मनोधारणा आपल्याला यशप्राप्ती, समाधान आणि असाधारण जीवन या मार्गावर घेऊन जाते. या पुस्तकातून मन व बुद्धी प्रशिक्षित करण्याची आणि आपल्यातील अफाट सामर्थ्य खुलं करण्याची सात तंत्रं म्हणजेच सात मनोधारणांची रहस्यं स्वामी... Read more

Blogging

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: Robert Sebastian Cooper

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Blogging is the modern cheapest method of mass communication available to everyone everywhere in the world... no matter which language you speak. There are many platforms that allow people to blog for a very low price or even free, or you can establish your own platform in the form of a website, and once you start, you can write about almost... Read more

Migrapreneurs

By: Ephraim Osaghae

Narrated by: Radostin Radev

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Immigrants are people who have moved to new countries in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. This valuable resource is primarily for them; especially those having doubts about their potentials and entrepreneurial skills, and applying the advantages in their new locations.Give a man (or a woman) a fish and you feed him... Read more

Tearing Us Apart

By: Ryan T. Anderson & Alexandra DeSanctis

Narrated by: Cecily White

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion.Hope in the Ruins of RoeWith the Supreme Court poised to return... Read more

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt

By: Donald P. Ryan

Narrated by: Jonathan Beville

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Egyptians.

Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.

During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet... Read more

"I can't breathe" - George Floyds Leben in einer rassistischen Welt (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Toluse Olorunnipa & Robert Samuels

Narrated by: Maya Alban-Zapata

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Am 25. Mai 2020 ging ein Video um die Welt, das den Mord an George Floyd zufällig festhielt: Ein Polizist kniet neun Minuten und 29 Sekunden auf Floyds Hals und lässt auch nicht davon ab, als Floyd mehrmals ruft: "I can't breathe" - "Ich kann nicht atmen!" Der Mord an George Floyd hat die Welt erschüttert und globale Black-Lives-Matter-Proteste... Read more

Creando un Sendero Rojo Chicana/o hacia la descolonización y Aztlán

By: Ysidro Ramon Macias

Narrated by: Jaime Fernandez & Elena Fernandez

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro revela el Amor Universal y Cósmico del Sendero Rojo. El Sendero Rojo es la filosofía/cosmovisión/religión de las tribus/pueblos indígenas nativos de América del Norte y del Sur. Esta cosmovisión promueve la integración con la Madre Tierra y el cosmos para lograr la armonía dentro de la Existencia en eterna evolución.
Utilizando al... Read more

Las mujeres que luchan se encuentran

By: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Narrated by: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Una invitación a participar activamente en una conversación que está más vigente que nunca: el feminismo. En este libro, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, una de las voces más destacadas de este movimiento en Latinoamérica, recorre, a partir de un testimonio profundamente honesto y agudo, un camino que aborda el cuerpo, el poder, la violencia, el sexo, la... Read more