Social Science audiobooks

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

By: Chris Packham

Narrated by: Chris Packham

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence.

An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at... Read more

Devoured

By: Sophie Egan

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche,... Read more

The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

By: Joel Salatin

Narrated by: Joel Salatin

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles.
What on earth is The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs? It's an inspiring call to action for people of faith . . . a heartfelt plea to heed the Bible's guidance . . . .

It's an important and... Read more

We Were Feminists Once

By: Andi Zeisler

Narrated by: Joell A. Jacob

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, feminism is no longer a dirty word, and women purporting to stand up for women's equality now include high-powered names like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Emma Watson. Hip underwear lines sell granny pants with "feminist" emblazoned on the back. In every bookstore, there are scores of seductive feminist how-to business guides telling women... Read more

Growing Up in Xin Jiang

By: Li Ju

Narrated by: Ming Lu

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing Up in Xin Jiang is a long epic from Xinjiang writer Ju Li that recounts stories from southern Xinjiang. It is a key literary project supported by the Aksu Regional Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The novel depicts the story of the "second generation of Xinjiang" born in the oases of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps... Read more

Tied Up in Knots

By: Andrea Tantaros

Narrated by: Andrea Tantaros

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and... Read more

City of Thorns

By: Ben Rawlence

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a... Read more

Animal

By: Sara Pascoe

Narrated by: Sara Pascoe

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The hilarious feminist account of the female body by the award-winning comedian **BUY SARA PASCOE'S LATEST BOOK SEX POWER MONEY NOW** 'HILARIOUS' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant' Frankie Boyle Sometimes Sara Pascoe confuses herself. She gets wildly and pointlessly jealous. She spends too much time hating her bum. And you know what she hates more... Read more

Callings

By: David Isay

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them. Callings is an inspiring tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of... Read more

Far and Away

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political,... Read more

How to Smoke Pot (Properly)

By: David Bienenstock

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Once literally demonized as "the Devil's lettuce," and linked to all manner of deviant behavior by the establishment's shameless anti-marijuana propaganda campaigns, cannabis sativa has lately been enjoying a long-overdue Renaissance. So now that the squares at long last seem ready to rethink pot's place in polite society, how, exactly, can... Read more

The Farm on the Roof

By: Anastasia Cole Plakias

Narrated by: Anastasia Cole Plakias

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In their effort to build the world's first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange learned a lot about building and sustaining a business while never losing sight of their mission—to serve their community by providing delicious organic food and changing the way people think about what they eat. But their story... Read more

Woman in History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

History can hardly be complete without talking about the role women played in forming the history of the world. They changed societies and beliefs, being the reason why empires toppled and rose to glory. There is hardly enough reason to believe that women were insignificant in a society because no matter how many wars men fought and the ways in... Read more

Public Choice Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Elections are the primary mechanism through which governments are decided. It is indeed, also one of the oldest practices of universal consent and what might be called as ‘multiple voices, one government’. Elections decide the destiny of a country, the government that the people choose; it is in its very essence, a characteristic activity that... Read more

Capture

By: David A. Kessler

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

""A breakthrough book. In a world of increasingly specialized knowledge, it takes a particular gift and some stubbornness to cut across the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy and psychology and to ask the fundamental question: Why it is that we can allow our best selves to be captured by and torpedoed by thoughts and actions that... Read more

We Believe You

By: Annie E. Clark & Andrea L. Pino

Narrated by: Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino, Katie Schorr, E...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us all


Across the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other... Read more

A Burglar's Guide to the City

By: Geoff Manaugh

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. 

At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any... Read more

Kill 'Em and Leave

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul
 
Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied... Read more

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

By: Laura Tillman

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one... Read more

Sociology

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most interesting topics of discussion, sociology, has been the subject of attention for a really long time. You are lucky to have landed here if you have been wondering about all the details of this topic. I assure you that you are not going to regret buying this book and your knowledge will be equally good as a professional once you... Read more

Understanding Karl Marx

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Megan Mateer

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Marx named as socialism father advocated equality for all, sought tribalists rights to operatives and that there were state-owned enterprises to private lives of which profits are distributed to society for the welfare of all. He developed the idea that the nation excluding capitalism that benefited the worker and discards when this is not... Read more

How migrants and refugees are being welcomed

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting tomorrow, the European Union plans to start sending back some of the 170,000 migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous journey by sea to Europe this year. Along another main migrant sea route from North Africa toward Italy, one small town has adopted a very friendly posture toward migrants and refugees. Special correspondent... Read more

Fire and Brimstone

By: Michael Punke

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant--basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio--tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. 

The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out... Read more

Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor... Read more