Social Science audiobooks

The Lie Detectives

By: Sasha Issenberg

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?

A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win... Read more

I Finally Bought Some Jordans

By: Michael Arceneaux

Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

""Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they're feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you're feeling. And that's where Michael Arceneaux sits, and that's what he does in this new book. It's like he's crawling around inside your head opening file cabinets and telling you what the... Read more

How to Be Old

By: Lyn Slater

Narrated by: Lyn Slater

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.

When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon,... Read more

Of Dice and Men

By: David M. Ewalt

Narrated by: Rob Brinkmann & Pavi Proczko

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lord of the Rings meets Moneyball in this fascinating and authoritative history of Dungeons & Dragons that “tracks D&D’s turbulent rise, fall, and survival, from its heyday in the 1980s…to the twenty-first century” (The Wall Street Journal), by award-winning journalist David M. Ewalt.

Even if you’ve never played Dungeons &... Read more

Shakespeare's Sisters

By: Ramie Targoff

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.”

In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare’s... Read more

Una mujer segura no acepta menos de lo que se merece.

By: Yeismar González

Narrated by: Yeismar González

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Atención mujeres seguras y empoderadas! Hoy les traigo un audiolibro que cambiará por completo su forma de ver la vida y de enfrentar cualquier desafío que se les presente."Una mujer segura no acepta menos de lo que se merece. La mujer empoderada sabe que su felicidad y bienestar son su responsabilidad" es una obra que reafirma la importancia... Read more

Children of Coercive Control

By: Evan Stark

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation, and subordination of children. The book... Read more

Egyptian Made

By: Leslie T. Chang

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls

“Vividly rendered . . . Chang brings us into living rooms and onto assembly lines with female characters as captivating as they are complex. . . . [She] blazingly captures all... Read more

The Rosicrucian Mysteries

By: Max Heindel

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Heindel is recognized as one of the greatest western mystics of the 20th century and he is the founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship and author of a number of essential Rosicrucian works. 
First published in 1916, Heindel's "The Rosicrucian Mysteries" is regarded as a classic work providing a guide for students to understand basic Rosicrucian... Read more

El Peor Desastre Marítimo De La Historia

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"En 'El Peor Desastre Marítimo de la Historia', el lector se sumerge en un relato apasionante que desentraña los misterios y tragedias detrás de uno de los eventos más impactantes jamás registrados en los anales marítimos. Desde los detalles escalofriantes del naufragio hasta los actos heroicos de supervivencia, esta obra nos transporta a través... Read more

Impatiente

By: Mounia El Kotni & Maëlle Sigonneau

Narrated by: Mounia El Kotni & Maëlle Sigonneau

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Maëlle a 30 ans quand elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable. En partant de son expérience, et en allant à la rencontre d'autres patient·e·s, d'oncologues, de chirurgiens, de psychologues mais aussi d'associations, de travailleur·se·s socia·le·ux, d'entrepreneur·e·s, de laboratoires pharmaceutiques... Read more

Crows and Ravens

By: Rick de Yampert

Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring history, folklore, mythology, and science, this book gives you a unique look at two of the most popular magical creatures of all time. The crow and his cousin, the raven, are featured players in many cultures throughout the world, including Norse, Celtic, Jewish, and Indigenous traditions. This guide teaches you how to welcome these... Read more

Hexen - Eine Weltgeschichte in 13 Prozessen vom Mittelalter bis heute (Ungekürzt)

By: Marion Gibson

Narrated by: Ute Piasetzki

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wie man eine Hexe erkennt? - Man muss einfach herausfinden, ob sie einen mächtigen Mann verärgert hat!" Daily Mail In 13 Prozessen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart begegnet Marion Gibson Menschen vom Rande der Gesellschaft, meist Frauen, die als böse und gefährlich abgestempelt, als Hexen angeklagt, verurteilt und nicht selten getötet werden. Die... Read more

Hunt for the Shadow Wolf

By: Derek Gow

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his fascination with this creature grew. With increasing curiosity, Derek started to piece together... Read more

Usos amorosos de la postguerra española

By: Carmen Martín Gaite

Narrated by: Mercè Montalá

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato agridulce y entretenidísimo escrito con mano maestra. Una obra mayor del ensayismo en castellano. Tras una investigación exhaustiva que comprende consultorios senti­mentales, revistas del corazón y discursos políticos, Carmen Martín Gaite reconstruye aquí la historia doméstica de los primeros años de postguerra, una etapa sombría donde... Read more

Beyond Hope

By: Bariz Shah

Narrated by: Ubai Dahoud

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him
'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your Rehab'Beautifully written. Takes us right inside a young person's life and is ultimately uplifting in the way they take control of that life.' Kathryn Ryan, RNZ Nine to... Read more

On Borrowed Time

By: Gregor Craigie

Narrated by: Gregor Craigie

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist, Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and Victoria Butler Book Prize

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book

The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.

Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that... Read more

A Good Bad Boy

By: Margaret Wappler

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, George Newbern & Margaret ...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.

Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019. There have been other deaths of nineties stars, but this one hit different. Gen X was reminded... Read more

Beautiful People

By: Melissa Blake

Narrated by: Melissa Blake

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened... Read more

Red Tarot

By: Christopher Marmolejo

Narrated by: Christopher Marmolejo

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot interrogates the images, themes, and power structures that have been read into and onto the cards—and guides readers to radical and empowering reclamation.

Today, we have a wealth of tarot resources with many goals—but few address the historically marginalized.

Red Tarot speaks to anyone who is othered... Read more

The Model Black

By: Barbara Banda

Narrated by: Patricia Grant

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience.



This... Read more

Metaracism

By: Tricia Rose

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tricia Rose

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives

In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and... Read more

The lncluders

By: Colette A.M. Phillips

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a simple fact that the people who make policy and oversee government, sports, business, and the arts and entertainment are most commonly white men. Another fact: We cannot achieve meaningful progress if we exclude the very people who have the power to make systemic change.



This handbook is free of any attempts to shame, blame, or guilt... Read more

The Two-Parent Privilege

By: Melissa S. Kearney

Narrated by: Cait Raymond

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated this... Read more