Social Science audiobooks

千奇百怪小百科：动物卷

By: 贾月珍

Narrated by: 萧然

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《千奇百怪小百科，动物卷》世界上最大的鸟却不会飞翔？脖子最长的长颈鹿却不会发声？猫要磨爪子、老鼠要磨牙？蜗牛为什么一定要背着房子走天涯……动物的世界真是千奇百怪。小朋友们想知道其中的奥妙吗？快快打开这本《千奇百怪小百科·动物卷》，它将带你进入一个“奇怪”的动物百科世界，去领略动物的神奇魔力！作者简介：贾月珍，中国儿童文学研究会会员，儿童心理学研究者，家庭教育高级指导师。作品长于挖掘人物心理活动与引导，行文感情细腻。擅长温暖童话及风趣幼儿小故事的创作，一百余篇小故事在中央人民广播电台作为睡前故事播出。已出版儿童心理成长小说《受气包系列》、少年心灵历练小说《千鸟审判》、儿童心里日记体小说《小孩兵法》、家庭教育小说《淘米妈妈战歌》、幼儿绘本《完美宝宝》系列及《开心国学》系列、儿童科... Read more

千奇百怪小百科：生活卷

By: 贾月珍

Narrated by: 萧然

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《千奇百怪小百科，生活卷》饮料不如水好?看电视会看出许多病?互联网连着整个世界?人长大了就一定要工作?为什么小孩子都要接种疫苗……我们生活的世界真是千奇百怪。小朋友们想知道其中的奥妙吗?快快打开这本书，它将带你进入一个“奇怪”的生活百科世界，去领略一下人类生活的神奇多彩!作者简介：贾月珍，中国儿童文学研究会会员，儿童心理学研究者，家庭教育高级指导师。作品长于挖掘人物心理活动与引导，行文感情细腻。擅长温暖童话及风趣幼儿小故事的创作，一百余篇小故事在中央人民广播电台作为睡前故事播出。已出版儿童心理成长小说《受气包系列》、少年心灵历练小说《千鸟审判》、儿童心里日记体小说《小孩兵法》、家庭教育小说《淘米妈妈战歌》、幼儿绘本《完美宝宝》系列及《开心国学》系列、儿童科普《千奇百怪小百科》... Read more

千奇百怪小百科：植物卷

By: 贾月珍

Narrated by: 萧然

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《千奇百怪小百科，植物卷》有一类种子过了一千年才发芽？有一种草没有根也能够生长？植物也会跳舞？叶也子会咬人？柳树会发警报？……植物的科学世界真是千奇百怪。小朋友们想知道其中的奥妙吗？快快打开这本书，它将带你进入一个“奇怪”的植物百科世界，去领略植物的神奇魔力！作者简介：贾月珍，中国儿童文学研究会会员，儿童心理学研究者，家庭教育高级指导师。作品长于挖掘人物心理活动与引导，行文感情细腻。擅长温暖童话及风趣幼儿小故事的创作，一百余篇小故事在中央人民广播电台作为睡前故事播出。已出版儿童心理成长小说《受气包系列》、少年心灵历练小说《千鸟审判》、儿童心里日记体小说《小孩兵法》、家庭教育小说《淘米妈妈战歌》、幼儿绘本《完美宝宝》系列及《开心国学》系列、儿童科普《千奇百怪小百科》等作品三十余... Read more

The Dead Don't Need Reminding

By: Julian Randall

Narrated by: Julian Randall

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture (Kirkus).

The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his... Read more

Fair Shake

By: Naomi Cahn, June Carbone & Nancy Levit

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades... Read more

The First-Time Manager: DEI

By: Alida Miranda-Wolff

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential resource for new managers who want to foster a safe, inclusive, and productive space for their teams.Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an individual employee over that of the whole team? When do we hold firm that what the team needs is more... Read more

Living with Our Dead

By: Delphine Horvilleur

Narrated by: Jenna Rose Stein

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France’s most prominent female rabbi and a leading intellectual.  The New York Times describes Delphine Horvilleur as “the rare intellectual to bring... Read more

Forever Barbie

By: M. G. Lord

Narrated by: Robin Weigart

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbie is a strong, independent doll. But is she a feminist icon? It’s complicated. Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie’s impact has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to oppress women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what was expected of them, for better or for worse. Whether tarred-and-glittered as... Read more

A Black Girl in the Middle

By: Shenequa Golding

Narrated by: Aure Nash

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist

“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I’m a big, bold woman.”

Shenequa Golding doesn’t aim to speak for all Black women. We’re too vast, too vibrant, and too... Read more

Treating Violence

By: Rob Gore

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues

Rob Gore first encountered violence when he was beaten and robbed as a 10-year old; it was treated as an inevitable fact of life, but after another... Read more

Free and Equal

By: Daniel Chandler

Narrated by: Daniel Chandler

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler... Read more

First Love

By: Lilly Dancyger

Narrated by: Lilly Dancyger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space

“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—Elle

Lilly Dancyger always thought... Read more

Tits Up

By: Sarah Thornton

Narrated by: Sarah Thornton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE FIVE STRANGE WORLDS THAT WORSHIP WOMEN’S CHESTS.After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to venture behind the... Read more

Vows

By: Cheryl Mendelson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the “timely” (The New Yorker), “fascinating, and morally serious,” (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vows—what they mean and why they still matter.

In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that “taking vows” is a synonym for getting married. So, it’s... Read more

Magic Pill

By: Johann Hari

Narrated by: Johann Hari

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.

In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week... Read more

Black Meme

By: Legacy Russell

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining archival and contemporary media Russell explores the impact of... Read more

Matrescence

By: Lucy Jones

Narrated by: Lucy Jones

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR


'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer
'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and... Read more

Plagues and Peoples

By: William H. McNeill

Narrated by: Douglas James

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.

“A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work.” —The New Yorker

From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the... Read more

The Old Mountain Spell Book

By: Alda Dagny

Narrated by: Irinka Reade

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

How much do you really know about the Appalachian culture, folklore, and history?Perhaps you have heard murmurs surrounding Appalachian folklore, and this has piqued your interest, and you've decided you want to learn more.Or maybe you are a passionate reader of magic, witchcraft, and folklore, and you're searching for a new phenomenon to learn... Read more

Finnish Mythology Collection

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into a world where the forests whisper with ancient secrets and the skies shimmer with Northern Lights. Drawing from her childhood memories of hearing these stories from elders, Niina brings to life the myths that have shaped the Finnish identity for generations.This collection includes the following books: Guided by the Goddess, Finnish... Read more

Passport Bros

By: Étienne Brasil Sr

Narrated by: Étienne Brasil Sr

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This book defines the Passport Brother's Movement, the concept of the Passport Brotherhood, the benefits of being a Passport Brother, the detractions of being considered a Passport Brother, and the social media debate that surrounds the Passport Brother Philosophy. In Addition, the book focuses on other aspects of the traveling populations to... Read more

Black Disability Politics

By: Sami Schalk

Narrated by: Imani Barbarin

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... Read more

Winter Time Folk Tales

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Winter Time Folk Tales" is an audiobook collection of traditional winter folk tales from around the world, compiled by folklorist Niina Niskanen. These captivating stories transport listeners to enchanting snowy landscapes, where magic and wonder abound. From frosty forests to cozy hearths, Niskanen's expertly selected tales capture the essence... Read more

The Chiropractor Hoax

By: John Morrison

Narrated by: John Morrison

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before you consider a chiropractor, arm yourself with the facts in John Morrison's eye-opening book, The Chiropractor Hoax.
Crafted to challenge the status quo, this enlightening read delves deep into the origins and practices of chiropractic medicine, a field that surprisingly boasts a 100% acceptance rate in many schools and extends its... Read more