Social Science audiobooks

Community as Rebellion

By: Lorgia García Peña

Narrated by: Lorgia García Peña

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic... Read more

Oliver Burkeman: Living with the News

By: Oliver Burkeman

Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Burkeman explains why we need to pay less, not more, attention to the newsAward-winning journalist and author Oliver Burkeman has written three bestselling books on happiness, productivity and time management. Now, in this thought-provoking radio series, he looks at the way we consume and obsess over the news, and why it's so bad for... Read more

Chiamami così

By: Vera Gheno

Narrated by: Vera Gheno

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In questo agile saggio Vera Gheno fa il punto sul dibattito che si è sviluppato in Italia intorno al linguaggio, con l'intento di aiutare il lettore a prendere una posizione, e accompagnarlo a riflettere proprio su quanto sia importante non dare mai nulla per scontato.Negli ultimi tempi, si parla in toni anche molto accesi di linguaggio... Read more

Acusáis a la mujer sin razón

By: Daniela Ancira, Mercedes Becker, Raquel Aguirre...

Narrated by: Daniela Ancira, Mercedes Becker, Raquel Aguirre...

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

AUDIO LIBRO NARRADO POR EL AUTOR Porque nos humillan, nos juzgan, nos lastiman… por eso gritamos, exigimos, caemos, lloramos, nos levantamos… nuestros cuerpos están encarcelados con nuestro pasado y dolor, pero no nuestros reclamos de justicia y el anhelo de ser libres y tratadas con dignidad. Al entrar en prisión, muchas veces por un delito que... Read more

The Sacred Canopy

By: Peter L. Berger

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"The most important contribution to the sociology of religion since Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (Commonweal).



Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of... Read more

ملخص كتاب قلق السعي إلى المكانة

By: آلان دو بوتون

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

عبر صفحات هذا الكتاب، تناول الفيلسوف البريطاني Alain De Botton إحدى أهم الأزمات التي تعرقل البشر في العصر الحديث، وهي معضلة القلق الدائم للسعي إلى المكانة. وصل Botton إلى أنه ربما يكون افتقادنا للحب والتقدير، أو الغطرسة، أو الطموح والتطلع، أو الكفاءة، أو الاعتماد على عوامل خارج إرادتنا مبعثًا للقلق داخل نفوسنا في البحث عن المكانة. Read more

Oliver Burkeman’s Inconvenient Truth

By: Oliver Burkeman

Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Burkeman examines the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existenceBestselling author Oliver Burkeman is well known for his books and radio programmes exploring how we can lead meaningful and productive lives in an age of overwhelm. This time, he brings his keen sense of the ridiculous to bear on our obsession with... Read more

ملخص كتاب وظائف لا قيمة لها

By: ديفيد غرايبر

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

في عام ألفين وستة عشر نشرت جريدة إسبانية خبرًا عن موظف يعمل بإحدى شركات معالجة المياه تغيَّب عن العمل لمدة ست سنوات كاملة، وحينما جرى استدعائه للحصول على مكافأة نهاية الخدمة، لم يحضر، وهكذا اكتشف أمره. يقول مدير هذا الموظف إنّه لم يلاحظ غيابه على الرغم من أنّه يجلس بالمكتب المقابل له، وإنَّ شركة المياه ظنَّت أنَّه خاضع لإشراف السلطات المحلية... Read more

Spanish So White

By: Adam Schwartz

Narrated by: Adam Schwartz

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to... Read more

Unsafe

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: DeNica Fairman

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way … Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is vulnerable, naive and unable to cope on her own. Cathy sets about helping Damian overcome his... Read more

Historia De La Esclavitud

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Si bien sus orígenes son poco conocidos, documentos y pruebas sobre la esclavitud se pueden encontrar en casi todas las culturas y continentes. Los indicios encontrados en los textos antiguos—como el Código de Hammurabi, de la región de la Mesopotamia, fechado en el segundo milenio antes de Cristo— ya contienen referencias a la esclavitud como... Read more

Si vous saviez...

By: Marie Grosset

Narrated by: Véronique Gomez

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Grosset est Agent Territorial Spécialisé en École Maternelle (ATSEM).De sa plume sincère et touchante, elle raconte à travers le prisme de témoignages saisissants, la souffrance de ses collègues. Elle explique sans complaisance le pouvoir de leurs différentes hiérarchies qui souvent, les abîme, les maltraite, et les conduit parfois au... Read more

In Their Names

By: Lenore Anderson

Narrated by: Misty Monroe

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the... Read more

Catching the Ascension Wave

By: Bob Frissell

Narrated by: Micah Hanks

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

• Explores how the infusion of higher dimensional energy is impacting planet Earth and each of us

• Details the forces working to advance our conscious evolution as well as those seeking to block it

• Shares exercises, tools, and techniques to transmute the energies blocking access to your Higher Self and help you participate in the Great... Read more

Stuff Mom Never Told You

By: Anney Reese & Samantha McVey

Narrated by: Anney Reese, Eunice Wong & Samantha McVey

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment of Stuff Mom Never Told You. Listen out for the excited crowd of the Riggs vs King Battle of the Sexes tennis match and a cast of character's experiences through major feminist movements. Sit back and delight in the incredible audiobook experience... Read more

Invitation to Sociology

By: Peter L. Berger

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This lucid and lively book, punctuated with witty, incisive examples, is addressed both to the layman who wants to know what sociology is all about and to students and sociologists who are concerned about the larger implications and dimensions of their discipline. Professor Berger places sociology in the humanist tradition and recognizes it as a... Read more

Book of Queens

By: Pardis Mahdavi

Narrated by: Pardis Mahdavi, Shila Ommi, Suzanne Toren, Sita...

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history, highlighting the power and beauty of women... Read more

A New Science of the Afterlife

By: Daniel Drasin

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

• Explores 15 promising avenues of post-materialist scientific investigation currently underway

• Provides a succinct account of the experience of transition to the “next life” and what one might expect when one arrives there

• Explains how materialism has prevented us from realizing a deeper understanding of the nature of space, time, life,... Read more

The Offensive Church

By: Bryan C. Loritts

Narrated by: Bryan C. Loritts

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.



Bryan Loritts calls Christians to proactively and... Read more

Lifting the Chains

By: William H. Chafe

Narrated by: Arnell Powell & George Guidall

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our most distinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle for freedom has been carried out primarily by BlackAmericans, with only... Read more

How to Have Antiracist Conversations

By: Roxy Manning PhD

Narrated by: Carolyn Michelle Smith, Roxy Manning PhD, Stacy...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy.

Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other... Read more

Screen Damage

By: Michel Desmurget

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

All forms of recreational digital consumption—whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles, or TVs—have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of two, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach thirteen, it's more than seven hours a day. Added up over the first eighteen years of... Read more

Caças às bruxas, cercamentos e o fim das relações de propriedade comunal - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste ensaio, Silvia Federici estrutura sua análise a partir do processo de cercamento e privatização de terras comunais e, examinando o ambiente e as motivações que produziram as primeiras acusações de bruxarias na Europa, relaciona essa forma de violência à ordem econômica. Evidencia, enfim, que marcas desse processo foram deixadas também nos... Read more

Globalização, acumulação de capital e violência contra as mulheres - Abridged

By: Silvia Federici

Narrated by: Andressa Bodê

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em sua obra, Silvia Federici estrutura sua análise a partir do processo de cercamento e privatização de terras comunais e, examinando o ambiente e as motivações que produziram as primeiras acusações de bruxarias na Europa, relaciona essa forma de violência à ordem econômica. Evidencia, enfim, que marcas desse processo foram deixadas também nos... Read more