Social Science audiobooks

Principia Ethica

By: G.E. Moore

Narrated by: Daniel Natal

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Principia Ethica, written in 1903, was a groundbreaking work of moral philosophy. Its author, G.E. Moore, questioned a fundamental pillar of ethics—specifically, what the definition of "good" is. As influential now as it was in its own time-period, Principia Ethica represented an advance in human thinking and is a worthy work for current and... Read more

Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

Narrated by: Michael Azerrad

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as a 2024 Audie Award Nominee - Original WorkAn audiobook reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical and cultural contexts in the '90s.It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the... Read more

Gender: Your Guide

By: Lee Airton, PhD

Narrated by: Lee Airton, PhD

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men nor women, instead living... Read more

Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace

By: Janice Gassam Asare

Narrated by: Donna Schiele

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Your DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace.

Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As... Read more

After Redlining

By: Rebecca K. Marchiel

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Focusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite... Read more

Mythologie van de Middellandse Zee

By: Marijke van Bergen

Narrated by: Roy van den Groot

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Deze boekenbundel bestaat uit twee titels.
1 - Griekse mythologie is als een oude schatkist vol verhalen die de menselijke ervaring en de wereld om ons heen verkennen. Het is een raamwerk waardoor mensen door de eeuwen heen hun plaats in het universum hebben begrepen. Deze verhalen waren niet alleen entertainment voor de oude Grieken, maar... Read more

"Not by Might, Nor by Power"

By: Moshe Menuhin

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 24 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated to Judaism.



As a witness to the evolution of Israel, Menuhin grew disaffected with what he saw as a... Read more

Wrong

By: Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy.



Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true—and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and... Read more

Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace

By: Janice Gassam Asare

Narrated by: Donna Schiele

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Your DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace.

Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Death Glitch

By: Tamara Kneese

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death



Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as... Read more

These Walls

By: Eva Fedderly

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing

In the tradition of Locking Up Our Own and The New Jim Crow, a rarely seen, thought-provoking journey into Rikers Island and the American justice system that... Read more

An Army Afire

By: Beth Bailey

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a... Read more

Veneration Rites of Curanderismo

By: Erika Buenaflor

Narrated by: Robin Douglas

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

• Shares traditional veneration rites and practices to connect with your ancestors, including limpia rites, trance journeys, energy work, and sacred gardening

• Explores ancestral altar-making practices, sacred tools for altars, and how to invite your ancestors to take an active role in intervening on your behalf

• Describes the deification... Read more

Cats

By: John A. Rush

Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

• Examines spiritual and occult beliefs connected to cats from Mayan, Aztec, and Native American mythology as well as from ancient India, Samaria, Babylon, Japan, and Egypt

• Looks at spiritual behaviors attributed to cats as well as modern biological research into cat behavior and their highly sophisticated sensory systems

• Reveals the... Read more

Humanizing Immigration

By: Bill Ong Hing

Narrated by: Rob Brinkmann

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Incisive and compelling, reflecting the painful wisdom and knowledge that Bill Ong Hing has accrued over the course of fifty years . . . ”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

First book to argue that immigrant and refugee rights are part of the fight for racial justice; offers a humanitarian approach to reform and... Read more

Abolition Democracy

By: Angela Y. Davis

Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis & Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most... Read more

Killers of the Dream

By: Lillian Smith

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of... Read more

The Harvey Girls

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway—and went on to shape the American Southwest

From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no... Read more

Identitätskrise (Ungekürzt)

By: Alice Hasters

Narrated by: Alice Hasters

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich in einer Identitätskrise. Alle Systeme, die Sicherheit, Zukunft und Gerechtigkeit versprachen, scheinen versagt zu haben, und nun herrschen Zweifel und Verunsicherung. Identitätskrisen haben einen schrecklichen Ruf. Sie sind anstrengend für alle Beteiligten. Doch sie sind unbedingt notwendig - denn nur so können... Read more

Indian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Myths, Gods, and Goddesses from India

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Jay Herbert

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creation of the universe to celestial wars to reincarnation, Indian mythology features enigmatic tales of time, creation, and spirituality.Indian mythology is not simply a thing of the past. Modern-day festivals, celebrations, worship, music, dance, poetry, and film and television might portray or include aspects of Indian mythology.... Read more

Blazing the Way

By: Elise Baker

Narrated by: Melli Achna

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey through the untold stories of remarkable women leaders who defied societal norms and ignited a movement for women's rights? These women and girls came from the most disadvantaged groups in society yet defied the most powerful captains of industry. It's time to reclaim their narratives and... Read more

San Fernando: última parada.

By: Marcela Turati

Narrated by: Kerygma Flores

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

San Fernando. Última parada podría ser una novela de terror. Lo más terrorífico es que no lo es. En este libro se cuenta la historia de una pequeña ciudad, con una terminal de autobuses en la que desaparecen los pasajeros. La mayoría son hombres jóvenes que viajan a Estados Unidos en busca de un mejor futuro. Van ligeros de equipaje y de dinero.... Read more

Ñamérica

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 30 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*Prix Roger Caillois 2023* *Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* La crónica definitiva de un territorio inacabable: Hispanoamérica. Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupaciones y esperanzas. La conocemos mal;... Read more