Social Science audiobooks

A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi & Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region.Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various... Read more

Trauma and Ecstasy

By: Alex Abraham

Narrated by: Alex Abraham

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They’re not punchlines. They’re not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain.
Trauma and Ecstasy takes a long, hard look at pain, from the sudden unexplained pelvic floor discomfort that... Read more

Kindred Creation

By: Aida Mariam Davis

Narrated by: Aida Mariam Davis

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness.

Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life.

This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and... Read more

The Scary Book of Valentine's Day Lore

By: Tim Rayborn

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Roses are red, violets are blue, in this book of fear, Valentine's haunts anew. Dare to discover the true lore of Valentine's Day, where love and terror intertwine in the most unexpected ways. With classic myths about tragic love, dark romances that end in murder, and true crimes committed in passion, this spine chilling book of tales will... Read more

Weapons of the Weak

By: James C. Scott

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent the most significant and effective means of class struggle in the long run. Read more

Ocean

By: John Haywood

Narrated by: Ben Eagle

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New... Read more

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not... Read more

A Century of Tomorrows

By: Glenn Adamson

Narrated by: Glenn Adamson

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Century of Tomorrows written and read by Glenn Adamson

An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.

For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of... Read more

Le llamaban padre

By: Carles Porta

Narrated by: Pau Ferrer, Luis Pinazo, Angi Sansón & Fede Pla...

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

La perturbadora crónica de uno de los sucesos más estremecedores de los últimos tiempos, plasmado por Carles Porta. Le llamaban padre porque creían que aquel era el precio a pagar por tener una familia. En un pequeño pueblo de Lleida, vivían David Donet y los adolescentes que tenía en acogida. Allí se descubrieron decenas de imágenes y vídeos... Read more

Das Comeback deiner Lust - So entfachst du das Feuer in dir - Spice up Your Life in 3 Minuten täglich (ungekürzt)

By: Dania Schiftan

Narrated by: Nora Schulte

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Lust auf mehr Lust! Alle scheinen spektakulären Sex zu haben - nur du selbst nicht? Du hast das Gefühl, dass dir die Lust ­inmitten des stressigen Alltags, der langjährigen ­Partnerschaft oder hormoneller Umstellungen verloren gegangen ist? Der Sex ist im Laufe der Zeit immer weniger geworden oder vielleicht sogar ganz verschwunden? In diesem... Read more

The Icon and the Idealist

By: Stephanie Gorton

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely... Read more

The Naked Civil Servant

By: Quentin Crisp

Narrated by: Christian Coulson

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s

In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he... Read more

The Way of the Satisfied Woman

By: Alanna Kaivalya

Narrated by: Alanna Kaivalya

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

EXPLORE THE FULLEST POTENTIAL OF YOUR POWER AS A WOMAN

Although women today have greater opportunity to make our own choices, build independent lives, and craft powerful careers, we all too often forge our path by following the trajectory laid out by men. By emulating what men identify as desirable goals and strategies, we deny our truest, most... Read more

Queering the Runes

By: Siri Vincent Plouff

Narrated by: Krystal Hammond

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Queering the Runes is a love letter to the runes, the gods, and the people who follow the Nordic path. The author presents an alternative approach to the runes, one that creates a gentle container for those who want to follow this heathen path. Based on the author's personal gnosis, as well as deep academic research on runes and Nordic culture,... Read more

Living Disability

By: Emily Macrae

Narrated by: Seema Doad

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. A musician and snow removal expert, a queer curator, a public pool aficionado, and a journalist turned city councillor — these are just some of the disabled writers exploring disability justice, analyzing... Read more

Game On

By: David Bockino

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Game On David Bockino, a former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN turned professor of communications and sport management, provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry.



From the groundbreaking radio broadcast of the Jack Dempsey—Georges Carpentier boxing match in 1921 and the launch of Sports Illustrated... Read more

Planes Flying over a Monster

By: Daniel Saldaña París

Narrated by: Andre Bellido

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Mexico's most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves



In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of... Read more

The Certainty Trap

By: Ilana Redstone

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen & Qarie Marshall

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When we’re in the Certainty Trap, we tend to view people who disagree with us as hateful, ignorant, or just plain stupid. When it comes to heated social and political issues in particular, many of us know this feeling well—a consuming state of righteous indignation and moral outrage. And this response makes sense because our very certainty tells... Read more

Crazy as Hell

By: Hoke S. Glover III & V. Efua Prince

Narrated by: Reginald Dwayne Betts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.



A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists... Read more

The Price They Paid

By: Jeff Forret

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of... Read more

Black, Gay & Underage

By: Wil Roach

Narrated by: Wil Roach

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wil Roach writes about living within a Caribbean culture in the heart of London, as a child of the ’60s through to the ’80s. Born on the island of Trinidad and brought to the UK as a baby, Wil grew up as a * black boy in the frosty capital of Britain, learning by degrees about cultural and sexual diversity. Wil Roach on writing memoir Writing... Read more

Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition

By: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory. Since the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters... Read more

Disfunción eréctil

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Un estudio publicado recientemente advierte que el 71% de los hombres alcohólicos menores de 56 años padece disfunción eréctil o falta de deseo sexual. Al contrario de la creencia generalizada de que el alcohol mejora las relaciones sexuales, Boston Medical Group, alianza mundial de clínicas médicas especializadas en el tratamiento de... Read more

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings

By: Charles Hapgood

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map,... Read more