Social Science audiobooks

The Mythic Dimension

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This work presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life.This second volume of Campbell’s essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his... Read more

Natural Causes

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is... Read more

Sharp

By: Michelle Dean

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with... Read more

The Heart of Tantric Sex

By: Diana Richardson

Narrated by: Hannah Martin

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After many years of exploration, Diana Richardson found that the ancient practice of Tantra, with its unique, intelligent approach to sex, had the effect of enhancing intimacy and deepening love. Here she has adapted Tantra for modern Western lovers in a practical, sympathetic way.



Tantric sex can transform your experience into a more sensual,... Read more

Things That Helped

By: Jessica Friedmann

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object—from pho to red lips to the musician Anohni—to tell a story that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture,... Read more

The Displaced

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order.... Read more

Empire of Illusion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are... Read more

Erik Vogler: Muerte en el balneario

By: Beatriz Osés García

Narrated by: José González Omaña

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tras los crímenes de Bremen, Erik Vogler necesitaba un descanso. Una cura de reposo, tal y como le aconsejaron los médicos. No en vano, las pesadillas con el 'rey blanco' le asediaban casi todas las noches. Por ese motivo, acepta la invitación de su abuela Berta para pasar una semana en un lujoso balneario. Por supuesto no imaginaba que un... Read more

Los mitos que nos dieron traumas

By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Narrated by: Jaime Alberto Carrilllo & Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan Miguel Zunzunegui disecciona múltiples aspectos sociales y políticos de eso que solemos llamar "México"; analiza las condiciones que han evitado su progreso y que lo han configurado como una nación repleta de traumas históricos. Vamos a mandar a México a unas cuantas sesiones de psicoterapia. Lo acostaremos en el diván y lo enfrentaremos... Read more

A Survivor's Journey

By: Natasha Simone Alexenko

Narrated by: Natasha Simone Alexenko

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring true story of love, hope, and victory—and of one woman who was determined to make a difference in the wake of a crime.On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist, who roamed free for ten years, was brought to justice.... Read more

Our 50-State Border Crisis

By: Howard G. Buffett

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central... Read more

The Sacred Science

By: Nick Polizzi

Narrated by: Nick Polizzi

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, Nick Polizzi did something unimaginable. He assembled a group of eight desperately ill patients from around the world and brought them into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to put the mysterious medicines of native shamans to the test. The healing journey that unfolded would change their lives-and his own-forever.In The Sacred... Read more

The Gutsy Girl Handbook

By: Kate White

Narrated by: Kate White

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author, professional speaker, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Kate White shares the nine core principles gutsy women need to go bigger, bolder, and achieve the full level of success they desire.

Twenty-two years ago Kate White wrote the bestselling career bible Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do, and... Read more

Look Alive Out There

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook.

From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays... Read more

Grateful

By: Diana Butler Bass

Narrated by: Diana Butler Bass

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater connection with God, our world, and our own souls.More... Read more

Denmark Vesey's Garden

By: Ethan J. Kytle & Blain Roberts

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped... Read more

Asking for a Friend

By: Jessica Weisberg

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice -- from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners

Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life, we ask for guidance... Read more

Factfulness

By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Ronnlund

Narrated by: Richard Harries

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global... Read more

Libro de la edad oscura

By: Federico Villalobos

Narrated by: Fele Pastor

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

El mundo de las leyendas artúricas - que distintas versiones y adaptaciones, sobre todo cinematográficas, han estirado hasta la Alta Edad Media -, tuvo su lugar en la historia tras el abandono de las Islas Británicas por el Imperio Romano, allá por el siglo V ó VI D.C; y habría sido puesto por escrito inicialmente en los tiempos del Arzobispo... Read more

Sin billete de vuelta

By: Alfredo Gómez Cerdá

Narrated by: Gonzalo Barroso

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Seis jóvenes de distintas zonas de España soñaron con un futuro mejor y emprendieron un viaje en tren para el que no llevaban billete de vuelta. Sin billete de vuelta es una novela que aborda con gran realismo el fenómeno de la emigración que tuvo lugar en España en los años cincuenta y sesenta. Grabado en español ibérico (España). Read more

El hijo del Leopardo

By: Federico Villalobos

Narrated by: Chema Bazán

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La cultura zulú del siglo XIX, con sus guerreros y sanadores, sus herramientas de la Edad del Hierro y sus escasos contactos con el mundo del hombre blanco que avanza por la tierras de África del Sur, nutre esta historia de formación personal que Federico Villalobos entrega en ''El hijo de El Leopardo'', una novela cuyo lenguaje y tempo... Read more

El ángel caído

By: Fernando Lalana

Narrated by: Joan Mora

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

En las novelas de enigma, la revelación de lo oculto significa el éxito del protagonista aunque, en muchas ocasiones, el desvelamiento del misterio conlleva más una victoria personal que un triunfo público porque el investigador no encarna al héroe de leyenda que todo lo vence, sino más bien al antihéroe que, casi a su pesar o descreído, se ve... Read more

El ritual de la banda: Andanzas de una joven sin pelos en la lengua

By: Fidencio González Montes

Narrated by: Lili Barba

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Premio Gran Angular México 2010. En los años noventa del siglo XX surgió la que estaba llamada a ser la máxima estrella de rock nacional... Pero no lo fue. Priscila, ejemplo de mujer desparpajada (y, sí, un poco malhablada), siempre aspiró a ser la nueva Janis Joplin, o de perdida la heredera de Alejandra Guzmán. De espíritu combativo y libre,... Read more

¡A la mierda la bicicleta!

By: Gonzalo Moure

Narrated by: David Rodríguez

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Al escritor Gonzalo Moure le interesa contar las peripecias de personajes de jóvenes singulares, impares, cuyas vidas constituyen arquetipos de la diferencia. Le interesa narrar sus historias desde los puntos de vista frente al mundo que encarnan, distintivos, generadores de particulares miradas hacia la experiencia de vivir. En ''A la mierda la... Read more