Social Science audiobooks

Superfreaks

By: Arielle Greenberg

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism

Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood world of kink. Lifelong practitioner and student of... 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

Dark Psychology

By: Valerie Glossner

Narrated by: Teena Katz & Mike Reaves

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 1: Emotions are powerful things. They are capable of completely overriding our logic centers, causing us to make very poor choices as we do not think of the consequences. Emotion is also capable of making us act on them out of pure instinct, and we are barely, if at all, able to even comprehend what we are about to do.Within the sections of... 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

Jezus umarł w Polsce

By: Mikołaj Grynberg

Narrated by: Ewa Abart, Bartosz Głogowski & Tomasz Ignaczak

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Odludne rejony Polski. Cisza i spokój. W 2021 roku to jednak się zmieniło. Zaczęły się pojawiać buty, ubrania, potem ludzie. Bohaterowie audiobooka „Jezus umarł w Polsce” nie wiedzieli, co ich czeka. Pomaganie uchodźcom stało się ich codziennością, ale pozbawiło poczucia bezpieczeństwa. Tyle kosztuje odpowiedzialność, której nie potrafią wziąć... 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

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

Dark Psychology

By: Valerie Glossner

Narrated by: Mike Reaves

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Jealousy, that green eyed monster, which can easily ambush those with poor self-image and poor self-esteem. Jealousy can strike any relationship, romantic or otherwise. It can cause serious damage, both physical and emotional. But why does it exist? What kinds are there? How do I handle them? All are good questions. This book has good answers to... Read more

Policing the Womb

By: Michele Goodwin

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the... Read more

Big Med

By: David Dranove & Lawton Robert Burns

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. There is little debate that health care in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we’re overlooking the most ubiquitous cause of our... Read more

Consuming Religion

By: Kathryn Lofton

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles,... Read more

On Class

By: Deborah Dundas

Narrated by: Deborah Dundas

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Growing up poor, Deborah Dundas knew what it meant to want,... Read more

Tonight on Television

By: Donny Lee Duke

Narrated by: Donny Lee Duke, Douglas Mcelheny, S. Nitish & M...

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s considered the worst crime and who’s the most hated person in America? Most would say child sexual abuse and the pedophile. The principle’s everywhere. How do we normally deal with it? To put it poetically: to go over Thor’s face in the United States and overlook God, the truth of the matter, repeat the vampire. Tonight on Television, a... Read more

Effective Communication Skills for Beginners

By: Lulu Cunningham

Narrated by: Elmer Bowman

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how unlocking the hidden keys of effective communication may result in tremendous transformations in many aspects of your life. Many of us develop terrible communication habits as we go through life, but might these patterns prevent us from experiencing all of the health, happiness, love, and freedom you deserve? In this guide, you'll... Read more

Encuéntrame afuera

By: Cristian Lagunas

Narrated by: Pablo Filio

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Encuéntrame Afuera de Cristian Lagunas es el libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2020. El libro incluye seis cuentos: Parques lineales, No regreses a Tucson, Historia de la madera, Febriles, Deshielo e Intemperie. Parques lineales cuenta la historia de un mexicano en Canadá. No regreses a Tucson la vida de una pareja de... Read more

El jurista y el antropólogo

By: José Ramón Cossío & Claudio Lomnitz

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

EL DERECHO Y LA ANTROPOLOGÍA TIENEN ALGO EN COMÚN: AMBAS DISCIPLINAS SE DAN LA ESPALDA CON FRECUENCIA La conversación es el arte de afilar el conocimiento propio usando el conocimiento de alguien más. Siguiendo este espíritu, el jurista José Ramón Cossío y el antropólogo Claudio Lomnitz han construido, mediante el diálogo, un espacio de asombro... Read more

Making an American Family

By: Janet Rodriguez

Narrated by: Janet Rodriguez

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations is the progressive story of one family, told through five generations, beginning with their journey into the United States during the Mexican Revolution, and culminating with their posterity, attending school online during the COVID19 pandemic. A family memoir, told through a chorus of... Read more

School Insecurity

By: Wayne Black

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Who makes the decisions about your child's safety and security when you send them off to school each day? What does a truly safe school look like? It's time to talk about what the parenting books don't teach you: the unmentionable events that occur in US schools every year and how to try to prevent them with invaluable information.



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A Master Class on Being Human

By: Anthony Pinn & Brad Braxton

Narrated by: Darian Dauchan

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A conversation between 2 eminent Black thinkers on how to work together to make the world a better place despite deep religious differences

Brad Braxton and Anthony Pinn represent two traditions—Christianity and Secular Humanism respectively—that have for centuries existed in bitter opposition. For too long, people with different worldviews have... Read more

Uncut Funk

By: Bell Hooks & Stuart Hall

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including... Read more

All God's Children

By: Terence Lester

Narrated by: Terence Lester

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of important Black history and cultural context. As we fill in the gaps of our collective knowledge, communities can grow in understanding, empathy,... Read more

Sociología de la masacre

By: Manuel Guerrero

Narrated by: Ignacio Gagliano

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Un estudio minucioso sobre el lado más inquietante de la condición humana: aniquilar a sus pares. ¿Podemos evitarlo?  Manuel Guerrero Antequera, sociólogo e hijo de una de las víctimas de uno de los crímenes más brutales de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet, elabora un elocuente ensayo sobre la violencia en sus diversas manifestaciones. A partir... Read more

Impulse

By: Jon E. Grant & Samuel R. Chamberlain

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask—how do we get reliable answers? In this go-to guide Drs Grant and Chamberlain use their clinical expertise to answer the questions you wish you could ask about sex. Questions like: Is my sex drive or sex behavior normal?... Read more

The Mystery of Doggerland

By: Graham Phillips

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

• Looks at the latest archaeological and scientific evidence preserved beneath the North Sea and on the tiny island of Fair Isle

• Examines Doggerland’s sophisticated technology, including how its people were able to melt solid rock to create vitrified structures far stronger than concrete

• Shows how the survivors of the destruction of Doggerland... Read more