Social Science audiobooks

Storyteller

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrated by: Tara Gatewood

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"A rich, many-faceted book." -- The New York Times

A classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New... Read more

Ancient Egyptian Conspiracy Theories: The History of the Most Popular Conspiracy Theories about Egypt in Antiquity

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Given how far back the Egyptian civilization goes, it’s no surprise that Egypt is still full of mystery, and the unknown continues to generate conspiracy theories that attempt to fill in the gaps. For example, generations have viewed Egypt’s pyramids and the Great Sphinx as symbols of a lost past, which in turn leads to Egypt’s portrayal as a... Read more

American Autopsy

By: Michael M. Baden, MD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives... Read more

The Love Jones Cohort

By: Kris Marsh

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray... Read more

The Injustice of Place

By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. N...

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling... Read more

Cave of Bones

By: Lee Berger & John Hawks

Narrated by: Lee Berger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger... Read more

Bodies Under Siege

By: Sian Norris

Narrated by: Naomi Madelin

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who... Read more

Säällisiä ajatuksia – Myötätuntoinen katse ja muut ilmastotekoni

By: Taina Laane

Narrated by: Anna Böhm

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Voiko myötätunto auttaa pelastamaan ilmaston?Ilmastonmuutosta ei pääse pakoon: se on ruokakaupassa, biojäteastiassa, illan uutisissa, ennalta-arvaamattomassa säässä. Ilmastoteot ovat jokaisen vastuulla. Mutta miten pelastaa maailma, kun itsensä muuttaminen on vaikeaa ja riittämättömyyden tunne loputon?Myötätunto itseä ja muita kohtaan on voima,... Read more

Naked Feminism

By: Victoria Bateman

Narrated by: Victoria Bateman

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women's bodies remain at the mercy of state, society, and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully covered woman, or a chaste one? Are being sexy and being smart really mutually exclusive? Can a woman be both body and brain? Victoria Bateman has... Read more

The Oqual Cycle: The 84-Year Rhythm of Human Civilization

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, almost every nation-on-earth is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime.Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmoil across the globe is also periodic due... Read more

Je band met Nederland TEASER - Verhuisd naar Koeweit (Judith Spiegel)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Elk jaar emigreren ongeveer 40.000 Nederlanders naar het buitenland. Wat is hun verhaal? En in hoeverre voelen ze zich nog verbonden met Nederland?In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en niet-Nederlanders over hun ervaringen als migrant; over... Read more

How the Clinic Made Gender

By: Sandra Eder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. 

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is... Read more

Ciudad Feliz

By: Charles Montgomery

Narrated by: Martin Untrojb

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Un viaje por todo el mundo y una exploración reveladora de cómo las ciudades pueden hacer -y hacen- que seamos más felices.'Ciudad feliz', de Charles Montgomery, está revolucionando la forma de concebir la vida urbana.Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito... Read more

An Open Secret

By: Nicholas L. Syrett

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to... Read more

The Killing Place

By: Kate Ellis

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.
'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES

November. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson is looking forward to a quieter month in the CID. But when a man is shot dead... Read more

La morada infinita

By: Arnoldo Kraus

Narrated by: Bobby Sánchez

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Prólogo de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Autonomía y libertad son bienes y derechos incuestionables: entonces, ¿por qué nos resistimos a ejercerlas ante Su Majestad la Muerte? A diferencia de la vida, la ciencia carece de límites. Los inconmensurables avances de la tecnología médica han prolongado, no siempre para bien, la vida. Cuando privan la... Read more

Talking Heads

By: Shane O'Mara

Narrated by: Shane O'Mara

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Language and talking is part of what makes us human. It forms the basis of all our lives.

Every day we speak to ourselves and to each other, about ourselves and about others. Whether ruminating on a past event alone or gossiping with a group of friends, we move through life in a state of near-constant chatter - even... Read more

Movimento LGBTI+

By: Renan Quinalha

Narrated by: Renan Quinalha

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sem a pretensão de escrever um manual exaustivo, o autor nos oferece um panorama da constituição moderna do movimento LGBTI+ como movimento político que reivindica direitos, equidade e respeito, a partir de um recorte geográfico ocidental." Erika Hilton "Cada uma das partes que compõem este livro faz com que avancemos numa compreensão de... Read more

Häpeä!

By: Satu Lidman

Narrated by: Tanja Talvensalo

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vatsaa kivistää ja posket punoittavat. Häpeän tunne on sekä tuskallisen yksityinen että kaikille tuttu.Häpeän kokemus ja pelko on ohjannut ihmisten käyttäytymistä halki vuosisatojen. Aikoinaan Egyptissä yritettiin sopeutua kauneusihanteisiin poistamalla ihokarvoja, ja keskiajan Euroopassa häpeän pelättiin tarttuvan ihmisestä toiseen. Vaikka... Read more

21st-Century Virtues

By: Lucinda Holdforth

Narrated by: Lucinda Holdforth

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater diversity and inclusion, while our... Read more

The Way of Tenderness

By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

Narrated by: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink problems of identity and privilege. Manuel brings her own experiences as a lesbian black woman into conversation with... Read more

The Death of You

By: Miguel Chen

Narrated by: Miguel Chen

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A yoga teacher, punk rock bassist, and Buddhist teaches from experience on how approaching death and grief with a little more compassion and a little less fear will make for a better life—and a better death, too. DEATH. Even the word itself probably makes you a little uncomfortable. Just look at it, sitting there, demanding to be acknowledged.... Read more

SuperAging

By: David Cravit & Larry Wolf

Narrated by: Jarrod Davis

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Get older without getting old!  Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you’ve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life. SuperAging is... Read more

Climate Resilience

By: Kylie Flanagan

Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change

For readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save

In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond: beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech... Read more