Social Science audiobooks

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

All the Gold Stars

By: Rainesford Stauffer

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.

Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to... Read more

Private Government

By: Elizabeth Anderson

Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it



One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate... 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

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

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

Lone Stars Rising

By: Editors of Texas Monthly

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State—and the nation—over the past half century.With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America’s most innovative, culture-altering politicians,... 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

Sleeping with the Ancestors

By: Joseph McGill Jr. & Herb Frazier

Narrated by: Joseph McGill Jr. & Herb Frazier

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.

Since founding the  Slave Dwelling Project project in 2010, historic preservationist Joseph McGill Jr. has... Read more

Burn It Down

By: Maureen Ryan

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions... 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

Bad Things

By: Neil Feit

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Bad Things addresses various philosophical questions about the nature and moral relevance of harm. The most basic question is this: under what conditions does an event harm a given individual? Neil Feit focuses primarily on the metaphysics of harm, and he both defends and extends the counterfactual comparative account of harm. On this account,... Read more

El papel del trabajo en la transformación del mono en hombre

By: Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Engels, en su obra conjunta con Karl Marx, "El origen de la familia, la propiedad privada y el Estado", plantea una perspectiva materialista e histórica sobre la transformación del ser humano desde una forma de vida similar a la de los monos hasta la sociedad humana contemporánea.Según Engels, el trabajo desempeña un papel fundamental... Read more

Der Trojanische Krieg: Ein fesselnder Überblick über einen legendären Konflikt des antiken Griechenlands und seine Rolle in der Geschichte und der griechischen Mythologie

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Moritz Seipke

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Epische Erzählung oder historische Tatsache? Historiker streiten, ob der Trojanische Krieg beides oder nichts von beidem war! Um 1200 v.u.Z. wütete ein Krieg zwischen den alten Griechen und ihren Rivalen in Troja. Es ist die älteste Geschichte der Welt und der griechische Dichter Homer hat sie aufgeschrieben. In diesem faszinierenden Buch... Read more

Cómo Analizar a Las Personas

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Descubre los secretos para leer a las personas como si fueran un libro, con la guía definitiva para analizar el comportamiento humano!¿Estás cansado de sentir que la gente se aprovecha de ti?¿Te cuesta identificar los comportamientos manipuladores?Si has respondido afirmativamente a alguna de estas preguntas, ¡"Cómo analizar a las personas" es... Read more

Lenguaje Corporal

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Descodifica el lenguaje corporal humano y supera la manipulación!¿Te cuesta comunicarte eficazmente con los demás?¿Te cuesta entender las intenciones o emociones de los demás?¿Te da miedo que te manipulen o controlen?Si has respondido SÍ, ¡la búsqueda ha terminado!La comunicación es algo más que palabras, y comprender el lenguaje corporal es... Read more

Cómo Analizar a Las Personas Con El Lenguaje Corporal

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Conviértete en un maestro de la psicología humana y la manipulación subliminal con esta guía definitiva para analizar a las personas!Si quieres dominar el arte de leer a las personas a través de su lenguaje corporal...Y si quieres protegerte contra la manipulación y la psicología oscura...Entonces no busques más que “Cómo analizar a las... Read more

We Can Be Heroes

By: Paul Burston

Narrated by: Paul Burston

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"This memoir is brutally honest… Wonderful!" – Russell T. DaviesActivist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride.Paul Burston wasn’t always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the mid-1980s, when ‘gay’ still felt like a dirty word, especially in the small Welsh town where he grew up. He... Read more

إتيكيت الضيافة والاستقبال

By: باسمة سعد الدين

Narrated by: ألاء أحمد

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

هذا الكتاب يعلمنا تطبيق فن الإتيكيت (فن التعامل) في الضيافة والاستقبال و التواصل الجيد مع الآخرين بكل جوانب الحياة الاجتماعية والمهنية، وكيفية إتقان مهارات الاستماع والإنصات والتعامل مع الشخصيات الصعبة، إضافة إلى كيفية استخدام لغة الجسد بشكل راق ولبق، وتكوين فريق عمل واختيار القائد، والتعرف على مفاهيم الإتيكيت، وإدراك العلاقة بينه وبين... Read more

House of Our Queer

By: Bex Mui

Narrated by: Bex Mui

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Queerness is a blessing. Reclaim your spiritual practice.In House Of Our Queer, activist and organizer, Bex Mui M. Ed., takes readers on a winding path through her spiritual journey. Raised Catholic— with Buddhist influences from her father and his family— Bex shares the complexities that arise from being queer in religious spaces and shares her... Read more

Psicología Oscura

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Es hora de que te armes con estas poderosas tácticas de psicología oscura!¿Luchas con sentirte emocionalmente manipulado o controlado por otros?¿Quieres obtener el poder de analizar a las personas y defenderte de las técnicas de la psicología oscura?Si alguna vez te has sentido impotente frente a los manipuladores, o si simplemente estás... Read more

Manipulación Y Gaslighting

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Di adiós a ser una víctima y hola a tener el control!¿Te encuentras sintiéndote perdido en tus relaciones, incapaz de entender por qué siempre eres el que está siendo manipulado y aprovechado?¿Quieres aprender a defenderte de las tácticas de la psicología oscura de los narcisistas y otros manipuladores?Si es así, ¡“Manipulación y gaslighting”... Read more

Psicología Oscura, Manipulación Y Gaslighting

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Leonard Farrell

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Estás cansado de ser manipulado por otros?¿Te cuesta entender por qué la gente se comporta como lo hace?¿Estás buscando fortalecer tus poderes de comunicación e influencia?Si respondiste SÍ a cualquiera de estas preguntas, ¡entonces "Psicología oscura, manipulación y gaslighting" es para ti!Ya sea que desees defenderte del abuso narcisista o... Read more

Belonging

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?



These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which Hooks... Read more