Social Science audiobooks

Against the Web

By: Michael Brooks

Narrated by: Sam Seder

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web."



As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the "conservative... Read more

All Our Trials

By: Emily L. Thuma

Narrated by: Erica Kane

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual... Read more

The Power of One

By: Frances Haugen

Narrated by: Frances Haugen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives.
 
In 2021, when news outlets feasted on “the Facebook Files,” Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens... Read more

These Seats Are Reserved

By: Abhinav Chandrachud

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Reservation or affirmative action is a hugely controversial policy in India. While constitutionally mandated and with historians, political scientists and social activists convinced of its need, many resist it and consider it as compromising 'merit' and against the principle of equality of opportunity.In These Seats Are Reserved, Abhinav traces... Read more

Against Decolonization

By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.



Olúfemi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to... Read more

Dr. Nurse

By: Dominique A. Tobbell

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

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

An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.

Nurses represent the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any... Read more

Thinking with Your Hands

By: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking. In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She... Read more

Thinning Blood

By: Leah Myers

Narrated by: Kimberly Woods

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions



Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her... Read more

The Black Reparations Project

By: William Darity, Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen & Lucas ...

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.



A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning... Read more

End Times

By: Peter Turchin

Narrated by: Robin McAlpine

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary... Read more

Norse Mythology: The History of the Norse Pantheon and the Most Famous Myths

By: Charles River Editors & Andrew Scott

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the 13th century laws were memorized by officials... Read more

Map Addict

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or... Read more

Women with ADHD

By: Lisa Kennedy

Narrated by: Julie Faber, Anxiety in Relationships Studio, M...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you find yourself constantly struggling with a racing mind, unable to focus on one task at a time? Are you plagued by anxiety and find yourself obsessing over certain activities, even if they lead to exhaustion?If so, you may be one of the many women living with ADHD.Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is a condition that... Read more

The Bridleway

By: Tiffany Francis-Baker

Narrated by: Olivia Mace

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Bridleway by Tiffany Francis-Baker, read by Olivia Mace.

WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023.

Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation’s ecosystems.

Many of us enjoy... Read more

Do dependente ao traficante de drogas ilícitas - Abridged

By: Marcos Machado

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poucos temas provocam tantas reações, diversificadas e contraditórias, quanto a questão das drogas ilícitas. Uma multiplicidade de pontos de vista alimenta o debate, colocando em campos opostos posições conservadoras e progressistas, cientistas e negacionistas, realistas e sonhadores, punitivistas e garantistas, céticos e pragmáticos, religiosos... Read more

Mise en forme

By: Nicol Mikella

Narrated by: Catherine Brunet

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Après une rupture, la narratrice de Mise en forme voit ses repères lui échapper. Cloîtrée dans sa nouvelle chambre blanche, elle s’adonne à une pratique intensive du fitness, sculptant son corps pour reprendre le contrôle de sa vie. Mais les promesses des influenceuses ne l’aident pas à se sentir mieux. L’été suivant, en vacances à New York,... Read more

Ice

By: Amy Brady

Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.

Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes... Read more

The Elissas

By: Samantha Leach

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky & Samantha Leach

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens.
Eight years later, they were dead.

Bustle editor Samantha Leach and her childhood best friend, Elissa, met as infants in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island, where they attended nursery, elementary school, and temple together. As seventh graders, they would steal drinks from... Read more

Natality

By: Jennifer Banks

Narrated by: Jen Jayden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating exploration of natality, a much-needed counterpoint to mortality, drawing on the insights of brilliant writers and thinkers.



Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human... Read more

Historias de consultorio

By: Dr. César Velasco

Narrated by: Dr. César Velasco

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

El Dr. César Velasco Téllez es un exitoso Psiquiatra, Terapeuta Sexual y de Pareja mexicano, con más de 30 años de experiencia en la atención de pacientes con trastornos de salud mental, disfunciones sexual y problemas de pareja. “Historias de consultorio” es su primer libro y en él cuenta 15 historias acerca de individuos o parejas que... Read more

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks

By: Bruce E. Johansen & Adebowale Akande

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Adenrele Ojo, Janina Edwards, Kev...

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the... Read more

And Don't F&%k It Up

By: Maria Elena Fernandez

Narrated by: Alec Mapa

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans.

Told over the first ten years, And Don't F&%k It Up tells a cultural history through the stories of the people... Read more

How to Write About Africa

By: Binyavanga Wainaina

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality

“A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian

“Africa is the only continent you can... Read more

Almost Brown

By: Charlotte Gill

Narrated by: Seema Doad

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.

“Almost Brown is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.”—Susan Orlean,... Read more