Social Science audiobooks

Dreamers

By: Eileen Truax

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate, first-of-its-kind account of young undocumented immigrants fighting to live legally within the United States is a “must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate” (Booklist)
 
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up... Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

The Seven Daughters of Eve

By: Bryan Sykes

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in... Read more

The Truth Matters

By: Bruce Bartlett

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and... Read more

Homeward Bound

By: Elaine Tyler May

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the... Read more

The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin’s theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition... Read more

The Bitch Chronicles

By: Karen K. Stanta

Narrated by: Nicky Lynch

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Being nice doesn’t pay. So why do you keep doing it? Why do you let people walk all over you? Why do you give your power to other people? As a woman, you are a goddess. No one else can control you. Yet you have been conditioned by society to give other people power. Well, stop being nice. Learn to be a bitch instead!
It is actually OK to be a... Read more

How to Die Young

By: Angelina Fanous

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As so many other twenty somethings of her time, and the twenty somethings that came before her, Angelina Fanous would wake up each morning with the same panicked question running through her mind. What is happening? From the outside her life was the embodiment of an ultimate urban fantasy. Successful career at one of the most exciting... Read more

Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

By: Cornel West

Narrated by: Cornel West & JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive essays on... Read more

Alien World Order

By: Len Kasten

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Long ago, the Galactic Federation sent the Atlans, a fierce group of humans from the Pleiades, to Earth to confront the newest colony of the combative ever-spreading alien race known as the Reptilians. The ensuing battle sank the continent of Lemuria and drove the Reptilians underground beneath the Indian subcontinent as well as to Antarctica.... Read more

Cows Save the Planet

By: Judith D. Schwartz

Narrated by: Judith D. Schwartz

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive,... Read more

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them

By: Dr. Susan Forward & Joan Torres

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Is this the way love is supposed to feel?

● Does the man you love assume the right to control how you live and behave?

● Have you given up important activities or people to keep him happy?

● Does he belittle your opinions, your feelings, or your accomplishments?

● Does he withdraw love, money, approval, or sex to punish you?

● Does he blame... Read more

Prison-produced podcast ‘Ear Hustle’ lets you listen to real stories of incarcerated life

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Prisoners inside one of California’s prisons are getting the opportunity to be heard—behind bars and beyond. “Ear Hustle” is a podcast that offers listeners a rare look at inmate experiences, from race relations to sharing a tiny cell. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more

The Bayou Strangler

By: Fred Rosen

Narrated by: Keith Foster

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of New Orleans suburbs. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, leaving Louisiana's gay community rattled. When no leads were found and the murders continued, detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came... Read more

Working in America

By: Studs Terkel

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

The complete audio documentary as broadcast by NPR, plus exclusive bonus interviews and commentary.

In the early 1970’s, author and radio host Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result was the bestselling book Working. The great interviewer of his day, Terkel... Read more

Guests of the Sheik

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West. Read more

Antifa

By: Mark Bray

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Donald Trump’s initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the “antifa” opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And where did it come from?As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism—also known as... Read more

Student Reporting Lab: News or Not

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era marked by cries of "fake news," teaching media literacy skills to young consumers is more important than ever. How do schools teach students consuming and sharing news responsibly? PBS Newshour's Student Reporting Labs talks to students about how they experience news and what they think about journalism today. Read more

The Other Side of Beauty

By: Leah Darrow

Narrated by: Leah Darrow

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like.” —Jennifer Fulwiler, host of The Jennifer Fulwiler Show and author of Something Other than GodDo you feel like you’re never good enough? Like you should be living a more Instagram-worthy life? Are you exhausted by the... Read more

Dawn of the New Everything

By: Jaron Lanier

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Oliver Wyman] narrates in a reflective tone that fits well with Lanier's mix of recollections, philosophy, and explanations of technology...Lanier takes the listener through VR breakthroughs like Nintendo's Power Glove and delves into the psychology involved in the VR experience." — AudioFile Magazine

In this captivating audiobook, Jaron Lanier... Read more

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

By: Denise A. Spellberg

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. This marked only the beginning of his... Read more

Soul by Soul

By: Walter Johnson

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson... Read more

Exploring the Sacred Feminine

By: Lisa Schrader

Narrated by: Rae Palermo

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakti, the feminine lifeforce energy that marries with our well-honed masculine skills, can fuel our creative endeavors. Our inner resources are like a tree, needing to be grounded like roots, giving and receiving love from the heart like the trunk of the tree. Connecting with spirit can be akin to the branches reaching upwards. Read more

Domestic Violence 101

By: HowExpert & Amanda Reilly

Narrated by: Evie Irwin

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to survive domestic violence or want to learn more information about this topic, then get "Domestic Violence 101".• This e-book on domestic violence includes the following topics:• Discussion on what is domestic violence• Information on what are the types of domestic violence and who can be a victim• Facts about domestic... Read more