Social Science audiobooks

The New Fight for Life

By: Benjamin Watson

Narrated by: Benjamin Watson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

*****Audiobook format of The New Fight for Life - ECPA's 2024 Faith and Culture Award Nominee*****

The battle over the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade may be over, but now a bigger fight lies ahead.

For over half a century, pro-life advocates have fought to protect the sanctity of human life. Now that the decision the pro-life community has... Read more

Rivermouth

By: Alejandra Oliva

Narrated by: Angela Juarez

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each... Read more

Onigamiising

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: Charlotte Flyte

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In... Read more

Beyond the Shores

By: Tamara J. Walker

Narrated by: Marisha Tapera & Tamara J. Walker

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores, a powerful history of living abroad while Black.
 
“By exploring the life of Black expats, creatives, and activists, Beyond the Shores enhances the... Read more

Mad World

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Narrated by: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept.Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder it? How is mental well-being, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time?These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she... Read more

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

By: Mark Binelli

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists,... Read more

American Carnage

By: Thomas Gabor & Fred Guttenberg

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Fred Guttenberg, who lost his beloved daughter Jaime in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, and international gun policy consultant Thomas Gabor team up in American Carnage to dismantle some of the most common myths about guns and gun violence.



A national disgrace. Over 40,000 die each year as a result of gun violence in America. Gun law reforms... Read more

We Hold Our Breath

By: Micah Fields

Narrated by: Micah Fields

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas.

When Hurricane Harvey made... Read more

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need

By: Ellen Karsh & Arlen Sue Fox

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing

Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for government, nonprofit, and individual... Read more

Abortion Rights

By: Kate Greasley & Christopher Kaczor

Narrated by: Esther Wane & Chris Abell

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other’s... Read more

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul

By: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. But what does it look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sustaining justice work can be particularly challenging for the sensitive, and it requires a deep level of self-awareness.



In Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul, writer Dorcas... Read more

Onder de beesten

By: Jeroen Siebelink & Roel Binnendijk

Narrated by: Roel Dirven

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Undercover in de harde realiteit van de bio-industrie We hebben wel een vermoeden waar ons kroketje, onze cappuccino en ons eitje vandaan komen, maar daar laten we het liever bij. Zo niet Roel Binnendijk. Drie jaar lang werkte hij undercover in stallen, veetransporten en een groot slachthuis. Met een verborgen camera verzamelde hij talloze... Read more

Dangerous Games

By: Joseph P. Laycock

Narrated by: Roman Howell

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a... Read more

Cage Kings

By: Michael Thomsen

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A “propulsive and wildly engrossing” (Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store) account of how the UFC turned mixed martial arts into a multibillion-dollar business and global pop culture phenomenon.

Decried as “human cockfighting” by Senator John McCain and dismissed by the New York Times as a “pay-per-view prism” onto the decline of Western... Read more

¡Ándale, Prieta!

By: Yasmín Ramírez

Narrated by: Kim Ramirez

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what “prieta” means—“dark” or “the dark one”—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. … How do I tell them that now, even after the cruelty of children, “Prieta” means love? That each time “Prieta” fell from my grandmother’s lips, I learned to love my dark skin. My Ita called me Prieta. When she... Read more

Reading the Rocks

By: Marcia Bjornerud

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright... Read more

BLEED

By: Tracey Lindeman

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is... Read more

25 Million Sparks

By: Andrew Leon Hanna

Narrated by: Helene Maksoud

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

25 Million Sparks takes readers inside the Za’atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs: Yasmina, a wedding shop and salon owner creating moments of celebration in Za’atari; Malak, a young artist infusing color and beauty in her adoptive community; and Asma, a social entrepreneur with a storytelling... Read more

At Your Command

By: Neville Goddard

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Commands, to be effective, must be short and to the point: the greatest command ever recorded is found in the few simple words, “And God said, ‘Let there be light.’”

Experience a complete understanding of mystical teacher Neville Goddard’s method for using the true nature of your imaginative powers of creativity as he succinctly lays out his... Read more

Homo imperfectus

By: María Martinón-Torres

Narrated by: María Martinón-Torres

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

3.ª edición ¿Por qué enfermamos? ¿Por qué envejecemos? ¿Por qué una especie que presume de estar adaptada convive a diario con el sufrimiento? ¿Por qué la selección natural no ha eliminado la enfermedad? ¿Es la evolución una chapuza? En este libro, María Martinón-Torres invita al lector a adentrarse en los rincones más oscuros de nuestra... Read more

How to Be a Patriot

By: Sunder Katwala

Narrated by: Sunder Katwala

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with markers of... Read more

Los padrotes de Tlaxcala

By: Juan Alberto Vázquez

Narrated by: Carlos Zertuche

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Los padrotes de Tlaxcala pone de manifiesto el lado perverso de la sociedad de consumo Tenancingo, un pequeño poblado de Tlaxcala, es conocido por ser uno de los epicentros de la trata de personas no sólo de México, sino de todo el mundo. Desde ahí familias enteras de padrotes han extendido su millonario negocio por el territorio nacional y... Read more

This is Europe

By: Ben Judah

Narrated by: Dan Connolly

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023

'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine,... Read more

El coste de vivir

By: Deborah Levy

Narrated by: Conchi Ramírez de Haro

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. ¿Qué quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista? ¿Y cuál es el precio de esta libertad? Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir forman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy, un... Read more