Social Science audiobooks

Tears We Cannot Stop

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

"Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." —Toni Morrison

"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if... Read more

The Next Pandemic

By: Dr. Ali S Khan & William Patrick

Narrated by: Ben Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but... Read more

The Aisles Have Eyes

By: Joseph Turow

Narrated by: Rob Grgach

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executives' drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In... Read more

The Unsettlers

By: Mark Sundeen

Narrated by: Mark Sundeen

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times

The radical search for the simple life in today’s America.

On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two... Read more

The Trump Survival Guide

By: Gene Stone

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

National BestsellerDon’t despair. Don’t retreat. Fight back.A call-to-action for Democrats, moderate Republicans, and other anti-Trump dissenters, detailing the history of social and political policies, how Obama treated them, how Trump has the power to undermine them, and what people can do to fight back.The stunning election of Donald J. Trump... Read more

A House Full of Females

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of... Read more

The New Odyssey

By: Patrick Kingsley

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.

On the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe―at least for the time being―in Egypt, where they had only... Read more

American Hookup

By: Lisa Wade

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought.

Offering invaluable... Read more

How To Analyze People

By: Madison Taylor

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The art of reading people is a useful art that you must know to be a good lover, discerning employer, and caring friend. It also is useful for protecting yourself from people with toxic personalities and poor intentions. But for a lot of people, reading others is a huge mystery. If you find other people hard to read, then this book is for... Read more

Kroppsmaskinerna

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Vad betyder det att vara människa i en interaktiv värld? Och hur skiljer sig denna idé från alla tidigare idéer om den mänskliga existensen? I boken "Kroppsmaskinerna" diskuterar socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist den eviga frågan: vad är människan egentligen? Författarna går också igenom vad en hjärna är, och hur den har... Read more

Nätokraterna

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitaliseringen för med sig? Den digitala revolutionen är i många avseenden ett faktum som fört med sig oanade konsekvenser för det samhälle vi en gång kände till. I boken... Read more

Synteism - att skapa gud i internetåldern

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Kan individualismen beskrivas som en religion? Och är vår verklighet fysisk eller virtuell? Synteism är ett internationellt fenomen och en växande rörelse som bygger på övertygelsen om att motsatsparet teism och ateism är en förlegad konstruktion och att människor tack vare den nya teknologin står inför en unik möjlighet att skapa en ny sorts... Read more

Det globala imperiet

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hur ser nätokraternas världsbild ut och hur skiljer den sig från övriga ideologier genom historien? Vad är världsstaten och är det den utopi som den sägs vara? Under det sena 1990-talet började socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist arbeta fram en radikalt ny teori: Nätokratihypotesen. Men vad innebär det egentligen att vara en... Read more

The Netocrats - Futurica Trilogy 1 (Unabridged)

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Bert Deivert

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, et cetera, were of course unknown during those periods that used to be called the stone age and the bronze age. They were invented during the 19th century to make sense of a development that seemed to... Read more

Letters to a Young Muslim

By: Omar Saif Ghobash

Narrated by: Omar Saif Ghobash

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"As the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Russia...Ghobash records from a uniquely broad perspective about being Muslim in a post-9/11 world. His Oxford-educated British accent lends further gravitas for American ears." — Library Journal

From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a Young Muslim, a bold and intimate exploration of... Read more

The House of the Dead

By: Daniel Beer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Cundill History Prize 

A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.

It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia.  Daniel Beer... Read more

Who Speaks for Islam?

By: John L. Esposito & Dalia Mogahed

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we on the verge of an all-out war between the West and 1.3 billion Muslims? When the media searches for an answer to that question, they usually overlook the actual views of the world’s Muslims.Who Speaks for Islam? is about this silenced majority. This book is the product of the Gallup World Poll’s massive multiyear research study. As part... Read more

Openings and Limitations

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement," Bly remains one of the most hotly debated American artists of the past half century. What is it about Bly and his ideas that inspires such impassioned responses from readers and associates? The... Read more

A Home in the Dark Grass

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A poet, translator and social theorist, Bly has published more than 30 collections of poetry, including The Light Around the Body (1967), which won a National Book Award, and most recently Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems (2013). His honors include fellowships from Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment... Read more

Men and The Wound

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. Men and the Wound: In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing... Read more

The Naive Male

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When a woman or a father attacks a naive male, he immediately opens himself up and takes the attack right into himself. "Oh, yes, that is true. I am really bad!" It does not occur to him that the attack may be something quite different. Maybe the woman or father is angry at something else and is displacing or projecting the anger onto the... Read more

Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

O braungebackene Siegessäule / Mit Nebelzucker in den Wintertagen / Französische Kanonen überragen / Meine Fragen "Im Jahr 1932, als ich im Ausland war, begann mir klar zu werden, daß ich in Bälde einen längeren, vielleicht einen dauernden Abschied von der Stadt, in der ich geboren bin, würde nehmen müssen. Ich rief die Bilder, die im Exil das... Read more

Radicalized

By: Peter R.

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism―one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations... Read more

The War on Cops

By: Heather Mac Donald

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest fifty cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael... Read more