Social Science audiobooks

The Light of Asia

By: Christopher Harding

Narrated by: Christopher Harding

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part in outrageous tales of monsters and giants, of silk and spices trans-shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the 20th century much of Asia may have come under... Read more

Das Uhrwerk des Lebens

By: Ulrich Bahnsen

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nie war der Traum vom ewigen Leben so aktuell wie heute. Jung, aktiv, gesund und attraktiv wollen wir sein, und das auch im hohen Alter. Nun haben Wissenschaftler das große Rätsel unserer Vergänglichkeit entschlüsselt. Und sie haben erste Techniken entwickelt, die den Alterungsprozess kontrollieren. Der Wissenschaftsjournalist Ulrich Bahnsen... Read more

Discutir es sano (si sabes cómo)

By: Juan Muñoz (@psicologeria)

Narrated by: Juan Muñoz (@psicologeria)

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Discute más y mejor para disfrutar de relaciones sanas y responsables. Responder a aquella amiga «sin filtros» que opina sobre todo y sobre todos; soportar las exigencias desmedidas del jefe, elegir qué serie vemos con nuestra pareja una noche cualquiera... La vida está llena de conflictos cotidianos y a menudo nos esforzamos mucho por... Read more

Ciudadanía Americana 2024-2025

By: Learnik Press

Narrated by: Alejandra Labraga

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

La edición en audiolibro de "Ciudadanía Americana 2024-2025" es un recurso completo y conveniente para aprobar el Examen de Ciudadanía de Estados Unidos. No solo presenta las 100 preguntas oficiales de la prueba cívica del USCIS, sino que también cubre los aspectos teóricos esenciales para una comprensión más profunda de la materia. Acompañado... Read more

Raising the Nation

By: Paul Lindley

Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Ali Vowles, Lissa Berry, Quentin...

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world. Theirs is a generation disempowered from steering their lives while society’s systems are failing to provide the support they need. Yet, a country only prospers when its children – from all walks of life – thrive, meaning that the United Kingdom now faces some... Read more

Black Women Taught Us

By: Jenn M. Jackson

Narrated by: Jenn M. Jackson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.

“Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar. In this book, they pay tribute to generations of Black women organizers and... Read more

Cool Food

By: Robert Downey Jr. & Thomas Kostigen

Narrated by: Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen, various nar...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints—one bite at a time.What we eat matters—to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and... Read more

Psychedelic Experience

By: Aidan Lyon

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience.



A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind-revealing experiences and that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics. In particular, the book argues that psychedelic experiences can also be had as the result of meditation. Aidan Lyon... Read more

Disillusioned

By: Benjamin Herold

Narrated by: Benjamin Herold & Bethany Smith

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools

Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North... Read more

Education for Extinction

By: David Wallace Adams

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of... Read more

Ukraine

By: Yaroslav Hrytsak

Narrated by: Greg Kolpakchi

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the... Read more

Deep Care

By: Angela Hume

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment that can be easily bought and assembled at home. This "self-help" movement grew into a robust national... Read more

The Cancer Factory

By: Jim Morris

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and doctor’s offices.”
—Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River

“The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with... Read more

Reclaiming UGLY!

By: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Flip the script on how you think about UGLY--what it means, what it is, and how to reclaim it to Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself in an uglified world.

Blending joyful self-help magic with incisive social analysis and personal narrative, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis empowers readers to heal, connect, and revolt against uglification.

Uglification is... Read more

1947-1957, India

By: Chandrachur Ghose

Narrated by: Dev J Haldar

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial in the nation's history. Opening a window to this period, this book weaves a story out of the complex ideas and events that have largely remained beneath the surface of public discourse. The transfer of power, the framing of the Constitution and the formation... Read more

American Poly

By: Christopher M. Gleason

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Recent studies have found that as many as one in five Americans have experimented with some form of sexual non-monogamy, and approximately one in fifteen knows someone who was or is polyamorous. The mainstream media has increasingly covered polyamorous lifestyles and the committed relationships of throuples, and dating apps have added polyamory... Read more

The Holocaust

By: Dan Stone

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that “shatters many myths about the Nazis’ genocide” (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation.“A stunning, original, concise analysis. … Masterful.” —Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s FuriesThe Holocaust is much discussed, much... Read more

Toxic

By: Sarah Ditum

Narrated by: Sarah Ditum

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down

Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the... Read more

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

By: Keith Boykin

Narrated by: Keith Boykin

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present.
 
The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of... Read more

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

By: Dr. Jen Gunter

Narrated by: Jen Gunter

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Most women can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. And yet few are given the tools to understand the science of their own cycle, how it changes over their lifetime, and how it connects to their overall health.



Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or... Read more

21 METAPHYSICAL SECRETS

By: Urban Dawson

Narrated by: Evan Brown

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover The 21 Metaphysical Secrets: Use The Law of Attraction And Manifestation. Are you an unorthodox thinker who prefers to forge his way rather than mindlessly following others?Do you want to constantly better yourself?Are you looking for solutions to life's most important questions? If you can relate to those questions, you should buy this... Read more

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more

America's Racial Karma

By: Larry Ward Ph.D.

Narrated by: Sean Polite & Larry Ward Ph.D.

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, PhD, on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma.

As an 11-year-old child, Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward was shot at by the police for playing baseball in the wrong spot. As an adult, he experienced the trauma of having his... Read more

Putin and the Return of History

By: Martin Sixsmith

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, read by Jonathan Keeble.

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... Read more