Social Science audiobooks

The Desperate Hours

By: Marie Brenner

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis – based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting – that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City.

Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five... Read more

A Harvest Murder

By: Frances Evesham

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Cozy Mystery in The Bestselling Ham Hill Murder Mysteries from France Evesham!One unexplained disappearance is strange, but two are sinister. In Lower Hembrow, an idyllic village nestled beneath Ham Hill in Somerset, the villagers are preparing to enjoy the autumn traditions of the rural English countryside until Joe Trevillion, a... Read more

Uncle Sam's Plantation

By: Star Parker

Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare addict who was chewed up and spit out by the ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much needed light on the bungled bureaucratic attempts to end... Read more

Zionism and the Black Church

By: Dumisani Washington

Narrated by: Dumisani Washington

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zionism & the Black Church: Why Standing with Israel will be a Defining Issue for Christians of Color in the 21st Century is a discussion of Africa's ancient connection to Israel and the Jewish people, and the historic Black-Jewish synergy in America. It explains the foundation of spiritual Zionism among Black people, and why that foundation... Read more

The Re-Creation of the World as Expressed Through Myth

By: Michael Meade

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Meade advises us that we must break the spell of normalcy itself and we must accept the presence of uncertainty. However, the good news is that with every ending there is a new beginning. This deep dialogue explores the collective rite of passage we are experiencing and how using the wisdom of myths gives us a roadmap to the renewal of life itself. Read more

Ciudad de odios

By: Fernando del Collado

Narrated by: Héctor Mena

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El odio es un habitante más de la Ciudad de México, uno poderoso y omnipresente. Viaja en metro, se mete en la vida privada, quema y destroza. Se ensaña con lo diverso, con lo diferente. En esta obra se compendian decenas de crímenes de odio. Producto de una década de investigación, Fernando del Collado reconstruye, con ternura y valentía,... Read more

Opium’s Orphans

By: P.E. Caquet

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement's origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness.



Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational... Read more

The Social Distance Between Us

By: Darren McGarvey

Narrated by: Darren McGarvey

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Britain is in a long-distance relationship with reality...

From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how... Read more

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography

By: John D. Foubert

Narrated by: AJ Dukette

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography exposes the many ways that pornography is menacing people, relationships, society, and—especially—our children. Dr. John Foubert’s ability to write about complex concepts in practical terms will help you understand issues like how pornography affects the brain, how pornography is a recipe for... Read more

Pecularism

By: MVR Sastry

Narrated by: Sravantee Chandra

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

హిందూదేశంలో హిందువులు రెండో తరగతి పౌరులా ? భారత రాజ్యాంగం హిందువులకు వ్యతిరేకమా? మైనారిటీలకున్న రాజ్యాంగ హక్కులకు మెజారిటీ హిందువులు నోచుకోరా? ఎందుకీ వివక్ష ? ఎక్కడుంది లోపం? ఏమిటి దీనికి మూలం? మన వంకర సంకర విచిత్ర వ్యవస్థపై ఎం.వి.ఆర్. శాస్త్రి విశ్లేషణ : పెక్యులరిజం దేశ హితాన్ని కోరే ప్రతి భారత పౌరుడూ చదవాల్సిన సరికొత్త పుస్తకం. Read more

The Divorce Colony

By: April White

Narrated by: April White & Lisa Flanagan

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls,... Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: La reina de la Resistencia

By: Brenda Jones & Krishan Trotman

Narrated by: Jennifer Capriccio

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Una celebración de AOC, la mujer más joven en servir en el Congreso y su nueva superestrella.
 
No hace mucho, nadie podía imaginarse que una latina de veintiocho años se postulase para el Congreso en representación de Queens y el Bronx: era necesario enfrentarse a la maquinaria política de la ciudad, casi exclusivamente blanca y exclusivamente... Read more

Visibility Interrupted

By: Carly Thomsen

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in... Read more

How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.

“Kendi’s latest . . . combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism... Read more

The Upshift

By: Ervin Laszlo

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

We live at a historic turning point. The global crisis from which we are emerging is an unique opportunity: it holds vital lessons for our lives and for our future. It makes clear that we are all in the same boat—we are one people with one destiny. But it also makes clear that our boat is unstable and in urgent need of repair, indeed, of... Read more

Know Own Change

By: Josh Clemons, Hazen Stevens & John M. Perkins

Narrated by: AJ Dukette & Jamal West

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Before you can do what’s right, you have to see what’s right.When it comes to racial reconciliation, we often ask, “Where do we go from here?” But has it ever occurred to you that the real question is “Why are we still here?” In other words, until we’ve seen the problem of racism correctly—its history, its current effects, and its root... Read more

Физиология наслаждений. Часть1

By: Паоло Мантегацца

Narrated by: Иван Забелин

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Аудиостудия "Ардис" предлагает вашему вниманию первую часть книги итальянского антрополога, психолога, литератора и политика Паоло Мантегацца "Физиология наслаждений", посвящённую чувственным наслаждениям, источником которых являются ощущения органов зрения, слуха, осязания, обоняния и вкуса.Паоло Мантегацца пользуется в Италии репутацией... Read more

We Carry Their Bones

By: Erin Kimmerle

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic... Read more

Under the Skin

By: Linda Villarosa

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily

From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing... Read more

Fire Island

By: Jack Parlett

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century

Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a... Read more

What Is a Woman?

By: Matt Walsh

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Publishers Weekly Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Seattle Times Bestseller Amazon Bestseller Is this even a question? What is a woman? For months, Matt Walsh devoted nearly every waking hour to answering this simple question. Honestly, it’s a question he never thought he’d have to ask. ... Read more

Who Is Wellness For?

By: Fariha Roisin

Narrated by: Fariha Roisin

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a... Read more

On Decline

By: Andrew Potter

Narrated by: Tom Lute

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year... Read more

Die dunkle Leidenschaft

By: Reinhard Haller

Narrated by: Sebastian Fischer

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Leidenschaft, die nichts als Leiden schafft Hass ist das kälteste und bösartigste aller Gefühle, und dennoch ist er Teil unserer psychischen Grundausstattung. Hass kann vielfältige erschreckende Ausprägungen annehmen – im einzelnen Menschen ebenso wie in Gruppen. Ja, er kann sogar zu einem gesellschaftlichen Phänomen werden, wie sich... Read more