Social Science audiobooks

What Causes Lighter and Darker Skin

By: Andrew Kirby

Narrated by: Retno Utami

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a captivating journey into the origins of human skin color with this thought-provoking audiobook. Through in-depth genetic studies and poignant narratives, it challenges conventional notions, revealing the intricate interplay of genetics, environment, and societal influences. From the diverse ethnic groups worldwide to the persecution... Read more

Africa

By: DK

Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world history.
Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacities, Africa explores the history and cultures of the world's second-largest continent in vivid detail. It brings to life the stories that shaped Africa... Read more

Trilogy

By: Peggy Adler

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, Peggy Adler, author of Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers, was retained by self-proclaimed CIA agent, arms dealer and money launderer, Richard Brenneke, to co-author his autobiography. She soon discovered evidence in his files contradicting claims regarding his presence at October Surprise conspiracy meetings and... Read more

Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You

By: Becky Holmes

Narrated by: Becky Holmes

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter profiles: romance scammers beware, you have met your match!



Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is the story of one middle-aged woman in a... Read more

Los impotentes

By: Nicolás Giacobone

Narrated by: Santiago Padilla

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Autor ganador del Oscar por su guion de Birdman, en Los impotentes Nicolás Giacobone responde la pregunta sobre hasta dónde es posible separar al artista de su obra, en una novela escrita con brutalidad y belleza Después de tres décadas de compartir el mismo techo, Pan abandona el hogar materno y decide revelarle al mundo la verdad. Hijo... Read more

Sex Cells

By: Phyllis E. Greenberger, M.S.W. & Kalia Doner

Narrated by: Robin Siegerman

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This book gives listeners access to the wide world of sex-specific medical issues as they play out in the research labs and doctor’s offices—and how women pay the price, with a close look at the impact that has on minority populations. It has been challenging to get individual researchers and practitioners to accept this, as well as research and... Read more

Before It's Gone

By: Jonathan Vigliotti

Narrated by: Jonathan Vigliotti

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now.

Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated... Read more

Becoming Story

By: Greg Sarris

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.



For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones—presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you... Read more

Missing Persons

By: Clair Wills

Narrated by: Clair Wills

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an investigation into the state’s network of Mother and Baby Homes after the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of up to eight hundred children prompted international outrage. The homes, which operated from the 1920s to the 1990s, were responsible for nearly nine thousand child deaths and... Read more

Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures

By: Helen Paynter

Narrated by: Helen Paynter

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant... Read more

What Do You Need?

By: Lauren Wesley Wilson

Narrated by: Lauren Wesley Wilson

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
SUCCESS MAGAZINE BESTSELLER!

Lauren Wesley Wilson, businesswoman and founder and CEO of ColorComm Corporation uncovers the skills that women of color need to know to reach leadership positions.

What do you need? This question, as simple as it is powerful, is not often asked of women of color. But the answer... Read more

Addiction Becomes Normal

By: Jaeyoon Park

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.
 
Over the last forty years, a variety of developments in American science, politics, and culture have reimagined addiction in their own ways, but they share... Read more

Communication in Relationship

By: Julia Jacobs

Narrated by: Sam Logsdon

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you stuck in a negative communication cycle?Are you worried about your relationship status?Are you tired of the same arguments?Do you want love back ASAP?I understand how complicated that can feel.Be honest, you’re here because you’re frustrated with not getting the results you want in your relationship. I want you to know it's going to be... Read more

Little Girl Lost

By: Casey Watson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amelie lives with her mother, Kelly, who suffers from bipolar disorder. After Kelly attempts to burn down their family house, it becomes clear that her daughter is in grave danger. Amelie is quickly taken into... Read more

The Maurice Burton Way

By: Maurice Burton & Paul Jones

Narrated by: Gary McDonald

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Maurice Burton Way by Maurice Burton and Paul Jones, read by Gary McDonald.

'A welcome look at the life of a fascinating rider and man'
Cycling Plus

'Maurice has lived a hell of a life. The world needs to hear about it'
Ned Boulting

'This book is an inspiration to those who want to achieve in both sport and life'
Phil Liggett... Read more

The Coming Insurrection

By: The Invisible Committee

Narrated by: Jason McCoy

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Coming Insurrection" is a provocative manifesto penned by the enigmatic collective known as The Invisible Committee, which surfaced in France in 2007. This radical leftist treatise diagnoses contemporary society as deeply afflicted by the malaises of capitalism, alienation, and pervasive surveillance, arguing that the fabric of modern life... Read more

2020

By: Eric Klinenberg

Narrated by: Sven Ofner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

2020 als globaler Wendepunkt - was das Virus mit der Welt gemacht hat

Mit dem Ausbruch von Covid-19 markiert das Jahr 2020 das Ende einer Epoche. Lockdown, Social-Distancing und Isolation: Nichts war in unserem alltäglichen Leben mehr so, wie wir es kannten.

Coronavirus: Ein Epochenjahr im Fokus

Der US-amerikanische Soziologe Eric Klinenberg stellt... Read more

Wrestling Shorts: The Royal Rumble 2000

By: Alex Smith-Powell

Narrated by: Jon Bolitho-Jones

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the world of professional wrestling as we journey back to the year 2000 and relive one of the most pivotal events in sports entertainment history: the WWF Royal Rumble. In this unofficial look back, we explore the unforgettable moments, iconic matches, and backstage stories that defined an era and helped to shape the future of the... Read more

Preserved

By: Dean G. Lampros

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct... Read more

The Breakthrough Years

By: Ellen Galinsky

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Ellen Galinsky

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an introduction and conclusion read by the author.

Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence.

“Just wait until they’re a teenager!”

Many parents of newborns have heard this warning about the stressful phase... Read more

Muslim Cool

By: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the twenty-first century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance... Read more

Abolition

By: Angela Y. Davis

Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings... Read more

H Is for Hope

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Elizabeth Kolbert

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.

In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from “A,” for Svante Arrhenius, who created... Read more

On Gold Hill

By: Jaclyn Moyer

Narrated by: Momo Hoshi

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming

In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer—the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother—leased 10 acres of land in Gold Hill, California, and embarked on a career in organic... Read more