Social Science audiobooks

No Ashes in the Fire

By: Darnell L Moore

Narrated by: Darnell L Moore

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.

When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It... Read more

The Death of Josseline

By: Margaret Regan

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
 
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in... Read more

The Island that Disappeared

By: Tom Feiling

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower—but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower?



Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that... Read more

Chosen Country

By: James Pogue

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chosen Country, listeners are given an extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National... Read more

Little Shoes

By: Pamela Everett

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast.... Read more

My Brother Moochie

By: Issac J. Bailey

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to... Read more

Professor Shonku Ke Karname

By: Satyajit Ray

Narrated by: Atul Kapoor

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

प्रोफ़ेसर शंकू कौन हैं? ये सवाल पूछने पर बस इतना पता चलता है कि कोई वैज्ञानिक थे, जिन्होंने किसी प्रयोग के दौरान अपनी जान गँवा दी थी. पर कुछ लोग ये भी कहते हैं कि वो ज़िंदा हैं! और किसी ख़ास प्रयोग में लगे हुए हैं! इसी बहस के बीच लोगों की प्रोफ़ेसर शंकू की डायरी मिल जाती है, जिसमें कई दिलचस्प बातें लिखी हुईं हैं! ये बातें हमें रोमांचित करती हैं... Read more

Gandi Baat

By: Kshitij Roy

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

एक लड़का था— कुछ लोफर, लफुआ, दीवाना-सा! जिसका दिल था नए रैपर में वही पुराना— शहीदाना। शहर पटना पूरा अपना लगे उसे! लड़की थी अलबेली-सी, सोचने का कारखाना, हिम्मत की एनीटाइम लोडेड गन जैसी, पुरानी जीन्स और एकदम नया गाना! दिल्ली शहर में मौसम था अन्ना आन्दोलन का, चुनाव के घुमड़ रहे थे बादल। डेजी आई पढऩे एलएसआर में। बन गई ड्रमर। गोल्डन आया डेजी के पीछे... Read more

Masiosare, nuestro extraño enemigo

By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Narrated by: Jaime Alberto Carrilllo & Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Después del éxito rotundo de Los mitos que nos dieron traumas, llega la esperada segunda parte. México necesita una transformación. Sólo tú puedes hacerla. Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nuevamente nos quita la venda de los ojos para hacernos responsables del país y de sus circunstancias. Masiosare se esconde en el pasado, en la profundidad de... Read more

Non Resident Bihari

By: Shashikant Mishra

Narrated by: Saiyam

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

क्या होता है जब बिहार में किसी भी थोड़े सम्पन्न परिवार में बच्चे का जन्म होता है? उसके जन्मते ही उसके बिहार छूटने का दिन क्यों तय हो जाता है? जब सभी जानते हैं कि मूंछ की रेख उभरने से पहले उसको अनजान लोगों के बीच चले जाना है— तब भी क्यों उसको गोलू-मोलू-दुलारा बना के पाला जाता है? वही 'दुलारा बच्चा' जब आख़िरकार ट्रेन में बिठाकर बिहार से बाहर भेज... Read more

Madame Claude

By: William Stadiem

Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame Claude, by renowned social historian William Stadiem, is a magnificent audiobook about the brilliant, complicated, and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.

In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles... Read more

Seeing like a State

By: James C. Scott

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural “modernization” in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do... Read more

Conspiracy Theories

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crazy conspiracies you may have never heard before You’ve probably heard of the Illuminati, of the Denver Airport, or Area 51, but there are a lot more conspiracy theories out there. Some simply remained theories, and others turned out to be real. After all, not everybody makes things up from scratch, do they? Most theories are based on a... Read more

Moan

By: Emma Koenig

Narrated by: Emma Koenig, Rachel Bloom, Chloe Cannon, Melani...

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that.

Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a... Read more

The Vory

By: Mark Galeotti

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.


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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

By: A. D. Jameson

Narrated by: A. D. Jameson & Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.

Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration

By: John Zmirak & Al Perrotta

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Building “the Wall” would cost less than half of what we spend to educate illegal immigrants every year Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $116 billion a year 62 percent of naturalized immigrants are for the Democrats; only 25 percent are for the Republicans Competition from immigrants costs American workers $450 billion a year The... Read more

Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Peter Quest

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian Era. In this speech, he defends the practice of capital punishment. He states, “I defend this penalty, when confined to atrocious cases, on the very ground on which it is commonly attacked—on that of humanity to the criminal; as beyond comparison the least... Read more

Memphis midwives work to address racial disparities

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

More women in America die from pregnancy-related complications than in any other developed country in the world, and black women are most affected. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports on one clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, where midwives are working to facilitate better outcomes by bringing holistic care to women of color. Read more

Scarred by war, Yemen’s children carry burdens beyond their years

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Yemen, some of the most vulnerable victims are the 2 million children on the brink of starvation, or those who lost limbs during the fighting. In Aden, many children have been fit with prosthetic limbs, but with rudimentary materials and old technology, they are sometimes barely functional. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in... Read more

Survival is a struggle in the rubble of Yemen’s war

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

With its infrastructure broken, the constant threat of starvation and a failed state, Yemen is on the brink of collapse. Less than half of its health facilities are functional amid a health crisis that has seen epidemics of preventable and largely eradicated diseases like cholera. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in partnership with... Read more

Inner City Pressure

By: Dan Hancox

Narrated by: Ash Hunter

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is... Read more

Cops and Robbers

By: Ant Anstead

Narrated by: Ant Anstead

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking. The British Police Force’s... Read more

Egyptian Mythology

By: Bernard Hayes

Narrated by: Zachary Dylan Brown

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn more about the ancient beliefs of Egypt, with its rituals, fallacies, and conclusions. This audiobook is dedicated to exploring the gods and goddesses the Egyptians feared and worshiped. This guide includes subtopics such as:   The entire story of the creation of the world and human race the Egyptians embraced.   Backgrounds and legendary... Read more