Social Science audiobooks

Sister in Law

By: Harriet Wistrich

Narrated by: Catherine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as ‘common prostitutes’, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences... Read more

The Organic Masculine

By: Matt Sturm

Narrated by: Matt Sturm

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Organic Masculine, presents a journey to redefine masculinity in wholeness. This book delves into the essence of what it means to be a man today, examining the complexities of this question within a developmental framework. Central to this text is the concept of the "Organic Masculine," defined as any form of masculinity that affirms life in... Read more

Dark and Divine Feminine Energy, Shadow Work 3 Books in 1

By: Melissa Smith

Narrated by: Robyn Green, Ellie Moon

Length: 15 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock the secrets of your feminine power with the groundbreaking Feminine Energy Mastery bundle! This incredible 3-in-1 collection includes: Divine Feminine Energy Dark Feminine Energy Tarot Shadow Work Divine Feminine Energy empowers you to Cultivate a profound connection with your body, sexuality, and cyclical nature 🌙 Discover ancient wisdom... Read more

Hungry Hill

By: Carole O'Malley Gaunt

Narrated by: Carole O'Malley Gaunt

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

On a sweltering June night in 1959, Betty O'Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children—seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. In this poignant memoir, she recalls in vivid detail the chaotic course of her... Read more

Sprache ist, was du draus machst! (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker

Narrated by: Marian Funk

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Linguistik-Professor Simon Meier-Vieracker vermittelt uns die faszinierende Vielfalt der deutschen Sprache Wir sprechen, also sind wir In verschiedenen Gegenden Deutschlands wird unterschiedlich gesprochen. Die lokalen Dialekte haben nicht nur Kultstatus, sondern geben uns auch Auskunft über die Herkunft von Sprechenden. Während das Ende eines... Read more

Sorry, aber ... - Eine Verzichtserklärung an das ständige Entschuldigen (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Tara-Louise Wittwer

Narrated by: Tara-Louise Wittwer

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine scharfsinnige und humorvolle Analyse unserer Entschuldigungskultur von Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer alias @wastarasagt Wir entschuldigen uns ständig: "Sorry, dass ich störe ", "sorry, ich muss mal durch", aber ist das wirklich notwendig? "sorry, aber ..." Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer (Drama Queen) nervt es, dass ihr... Read more

Sorry not sorry - Über weibliche Scham (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Anika Landsteiner

Narrated by: Anika Landsteiner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Was hat Scham mit Weiblichkeit zu tun? Scham zu empfinden ist vollkommen normal, ganz unabhängig vom Geschlecht. Doch Frauen schämen und entschuldigen sich besonders oft: für den eigenen Körper, weil sie als zu erfolgreich gelten, Single sind oder kinderlos bleiben. Anika Landsteiner hat ebendieses Phänomen auch bei sich festgestellt und geht... Read more

Die Panter-MILF am See

By: Schrizbe

Narrated by: Schrizbe

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Tag am See. Sommer. Sonne. Eis,… und eine Visitenkarte mit der handgeschriebenen Nummer einer bildhübschen MILF darauf, welche dich um einen kleinen Gefallen bittet. Eine Samenspende der besonderen Art. Bist du mit dabei? Dann los,… hör rein. Enjoy. Read more

Segredos do Império Maia

By: Felipe Boschetti

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra percorre uma incrível história de mistérios, batalhas e conquistas, trazendo uma visão fascinante a respeito dessa enigmática civilização que deixou um legado único na região da América central e cujas tradições permanecem vivas em diversos países.Mil anos antes da chegada dos espanhóis à América Central, um império como nunca antes... Read more

Up from Slavery - an Autobiography

By: Booker Washington

Narrated by: Kenny Davis

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Up From Slavery" is an autobiographical account by Booker T. Washington, detailing his personal experiences of rising from the conditions of slavery in the United States to becoming a leading African American educator, orator, and advisor to presidents. Published in 1901, the book outlines Washington's philosophy on education, hard work, and... Read more

O Livro dos Mortos

By: Camelot Editora

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta edição traz uma antologia de hinos compilados de diversos livros funerários egípcios, o Livro do Mortos de sacerdotes, oficiais, cantores, dançarinas e outros que viveram e morreram há milênios, em uma sociedade extremamente religiosa. Além dos hinos originais, este livro contém uma introdução ao Livro dos Mortos escrita pelo prestigiado... Read more

El Contrato Social

By: Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"El Contrato Social", escrito por Rousseau en 1762, es un tratado político fundamental que defiende la idea de un contrato social basado en la voluntad general de la población. Rousseau argumenta que la soberanía debe residir en el pueblo y que los individuos deben someterse a la voluntad colectiva para preservar la libertad y la igualdad. La... Read more

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby

Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.

For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They... Read more

On Collective Memory

By: Maurice Halbwachs

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive... Read more

The City

By: Robert E. Park & Ernest W. Burgess

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their... Read more

Polished

By: Melissa Osborne

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students.
 
While college initiates a major transition in all students’ lives, low-income and first-generation students attending elite schools are often entering entirely new worlds.... Read more

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community

By: W. E. B. DuBois

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The eighteen... Read more

The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth

By: Thersa Matsuura

Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.

Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of... Read more

The Way We Are

By: Hugh Mackay

Narrated by: Hugh Mackay

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future

Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion, cultural tastes and preferences, or gender-are nearly as significant as the humanity... Read more

The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision.” —Wall Street Journal • “The best prescription for our redemption.” —The New York Times • “A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era.” —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist... Read more

We Refuse to Be Silent

By: Angela P. Dodson

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The women have something to say. Are you listening?In this powerful and needed collection, editor Angela P. Dodson brings together the voices of more than thirty-five accomplished women writers on the topic of violence and injustice against Black men. These writers are journalists, authors, scholars, ministers, psychologists, counselors, and... Read more

Reluctant Race Men

By: Joan L. Bryant

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects,... Read more

Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope

By: Barbara Will

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic... Read more

Soul by Soul

By: Adriana Carranca

Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious wars

US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the... Read more