Social Science audiobooks

A Book of Balance

By: Lucas Buchholz

Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

We all need help centering ourselves to serve ourselves and our world. In this small, beautiful book, the Kogi—a remote and ancient tribe in the mountains of Colombia--offer their learnings. They pose nine thought-provoking questions to help us live harmoniously with the earth and in turn find happiness and purpose in every moment.“Just as we... Read more

LCSW Clinical Study Guide

By: Michael Langstone.

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ready to pursue your prestigious LCSW credential and establish yourself as a recognized Licensed Clinical Social Worker?
Looking for an all-encompassing guide that will anchor your preparation for the LCSW Exam?
Your search is over. Dive right in!
This guide serves as an indispensable asset for reviewing your knowledge, understanding practical... Read more

Brown Faces, White Spaces

By: Latasha Morrison

Narrated by: Latasha Morrison, Dr. Anita Phillips & David Le...

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Be the Bridge calls people of faith to be a part of lasting change and help heal the racial disparity in our country—together.

“A journey that encourages us to love our neighbors in real time as we understand the history that has shaped us.”—Terence Lester, PhD, founder of Love Beyond Walls

We might think... Read more

Take Back Your Brain

By: Kara Loewentheil

Narrated by: Kara Loewentheil

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts.

I never look good in tight skirts. I can’t ask for a raise or my boss will think I’m greedy. I’m getting too old to find a partner. I’m a bad mom. I’m always behind. I’ll... Read more

When God Became White

By: Grace Ji-Sun Kim

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen?



Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers.... Read more

La isla oculta

By: Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Narrated by: Ernesto Rumbaut & Javier Lacroix

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La isla oculta no es otro libro más sobre Cuba, un país que forma parte de nuestro imaginario colectivo desde su Revolución, sino una colección de crónicas que nos lleva a sus lugares menos conocidos con una mirada conmovedora, triste y a la vez pícara. Un puzle del último lustro de Cuba que muestra otra isla, acaso subterránea.
Jiménez Enoa... Read more

Token Supremacy

By: Zachary Small

Narrated by: Gabby Beans

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times investigative reporter wades into the murky, pixelated waters of the multibillion-dollar NFT market—the virtual casino that sprang up overnight in 2020 and came crashing down, with all its celebrity hucksters, just two years later. A vibrant and witty exploration of the increasingly blurry line between art and money, artist and... Read more

Forging Queer Leaders

By: Bree Fram & Elizabeth Cavallaro

Narrated by: Bree Fram, George Weightman, Liz Cavallaro & Sa...

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It's an enormous obstacle - but also prepares them for leadership in a fast-moving, volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive working world.
The book explores the unique and inspiring developmental experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders,... Read more

The Resilience Myth

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology.

We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura... Read more

Swimming Against the Current

By: Riley Gaines

Narrated by: Riley Gaines

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports shares her unbelievable story and inspires readers to embrace common sense and truth in discussions about women's rights. Riley Gaines has been called many things: Collegiate athlete. All-American. Champion. But in 2022, everything changed. The narrative shifted. Now, critics... Read more

Making Room

By: Carl Siciliano

Narrated by: Carl Siciliano

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder compelled him to create the nation's largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ teens.
 
“A gut-wrenchingly poignant real-life saga . . . an unputdownable account of what it looks like when compassion is harnessed to funding and... Read more

La burguesía catalana

By: Manel Pérez

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Un retrato de los poderes económicos y sociales de Cataluña y del proceso que llevó a la desaparición de su influencia política. La burguesía catalana acumula un siglo de decadencia. Lejos queda la época en la que comandaba la política y la economía española, lideraba la banca y el mundo empresarial. Una realidad encubierta durante décadas, en... Read more

On Sex and Gender

By: Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening account on what we get wrong about sex and gender and a “formidable challenge to our politics, on both the right and the left…informed by science, law, and personal experience” (Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School professor)—and how we can be a thoughtful, sex-smart society.

On Sex and Gender focuses on three sequential and... Read more

Undue Burden

By: Shefali Luthra

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young & Shefali Luthra

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A TIME BEST BOOK OF 2024 • An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom • “Indispensable… Whatever your gender, race, religious background or political preferences, Luthra’s Undue Burden should... Read more

Bisexuality: The Basics

By: Lewis Oakley

Narrated by: Lewis Oakley

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

My partner doesn't believe I'm bisexual, what should I do?
How should I approach sex with someone of a different gender for the first time?
Can I reconcile being bisexual with wanting a biological child?
Identifying as bisexual can be a pretty confusing experience - navigating experimentation versus orientation, at times presenting as a... Read more

Zeus y familia

By: Fermín Bocos

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato erudito y humorístico de la mitología griega y romana. En Zeus y familia, Fermín Bocos dibuja un fresco impresionista en el que con humor y una gran erudición nos presenta un catálogo de los mitos y rituales más notorios del mundo clásico. Una obra amena de divulgación cultural que rezuma amor por la historia, la filosofía y el arte, y... Read more

Affirmations for Queer People

By: Jess Vosseteig

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate your resilience and bravery in the face of discrimination and empower yourself and your community with these 100+ affirmations for queer people that celebrate being LGBTQIA+.

Queer people are essential members of society—trailblazing for positive change and building up a stronger and more vibrant community every day. It’s time to affirm... Read more

Defendiendo España

By: Henry Kamen

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Verdades y leyendas de nuestra historia Nadie pone en duda que durante tres siglos España dominó el mundo conocido y fue objeto de numerosos embates de todo tipo por parte de potencias rivales, pero ¿cómo se defendió de los ataques de sus enemigos? «Para estas batallas que nos amenazan», explicó don Quijote a Sancho Panza, «menester será estar... Read more

Hollywood contra España

By: Esteban Vicente Boisseau

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cien años perpetuando la Leyenda Negra. El cine bélico surgió en 1898 con motivo de la guerra que Estados Unidos provocó contra España. La prensa, los cineastas y los políticos justificaron esa agresión recurriendo a los clichés de la Leyenda Negra, que ha sido utilizada por Hollywood y el cine británico para perpetuar la vindicación de los... Read more

Plastic Capitalism

By: Sean H. Vanatta

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.



America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after... Read more

How to Become Famous

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business,... Read more

Arquitectura de andar por casa

By: Luis Lope de Toledo

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La arquitectura te importa aunque no te importe Frank Gehry.  Vivimos rodeados por ella, pero apenas la notamos. De todas las artes, la arquitectura es quizá aquella de la que nos sentimos más alejados: la vemos en mansiones y monumentos y nos olvidamos de que nuestra vida ocurre literalmente dentro de ella. Este es un libro contra ese olvido.... Read more

The Black Practice of Disbelief

By: Anthony Pinn

Narrated by: Darian Dauchan

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse it

In the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And there’s something to this assumption in that the vast majority of African Americans are Christian. However, in recent years a growing number of African... Read more

The Accidental Equalizer

By: Jessi Streib

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

A startling discovery—that job market success after college is largely random—forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.

As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college degree is viewed by many as America’s great equalizer. And it’s true: wealthier, more... Read more