Social Science audiobooks

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask

By: Mary Siisip Geniusz

Narrated by: Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice,... Read more

Dwelling Place

By: Erskine Clarke

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804–1863), whose family owned more than... Read more

Curso de Análise e Interpretação da Narrativa Literária Abordando o Tema Como Entender Grande Sertão: Veredas de João Guimarães Rosa

By: José Fernandes da Silva

Narrated by: José Fernandes da Silva

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

 O objetivo deste curso é buscar um entendimento de Grande Sertão Veredas, partindo de alguns fatores, ainda controversos, relativos a tal entendimento. Esses fatores são: o sentido metonímico do título Grande Sertão: Veredas; a técnica discursiva aí utilizada; o significado da palavra nonada e da expressão pão ou pães é questão de opiniães; as... Read more

Flawless

By: Elise Hu

Narrated by: Elise Hu

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Porchlight's Business Books of the Year | One of Vox's Best Books of 2023 | An NPR Book of the Day | Required Reading from New York Post | One of Nylon's 13 May Books to Add to Your Reading List | One of PureWow's 14 Books to Read for AAPI Heritage Month | One of W Magazine's 14 Books to Dive Into This Summer | One of Betches' Best Summer... Read more

Break the Wheel

By: Keith Ellison

Narrated by: Keith Ellison & Willis Williams

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric Holder

With this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asks the key question: How do we break the wheel of police violence and finally make it stop?

The murder of George Floyd sparked global outrage. At the center of the conflict and the controversy, Keith Ellison... Read more

Suburbs

By: Carl Abbott

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia,"... Read more

The Migrant Chef

By: Laura Tillman

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.

Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta... Read more

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

By: Scott J. Shapiro

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.

It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know... Read more

Body Language

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Unleash the power of nonverbal communication decoding human body language and outsmarting manipulation!Are you struggling to communicate effectively with others?Do you find it hard to understand people's intentions or emotions?Are you afraid of being manipulated or controlled by others?If you said YES, then the search is over!Communication is... Read more

How To Analyze People with Body Language

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Become a Master of Human Psychology and Subliminal Manipulation with this Definitive Guide to Analyzing People!If you want to master the art of reading people through their body language…And if you want to protect yourself against manipulation and dark psychology…Then look no further than “How To Analyze People with Body Language” by Leonard... Read more

Dark Psychology

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you struggle with feeling emotionally manipulated or controlled by others?Are you tired of falling victim to narcissistic personalities in your life?Do you want to gain the power to analyze people and defend yourself from dark psychology techniques?If you've ever felt powerless against manipulators, or if you're simply interested in the study... Read more

Dark Psychology & Gaslighting Manipulation

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you tired of being manipulated by others?Do you struggle to understand why people behave the way they do?Are you looking to strengthen your powers of communication and influence?If you said YES to any of these questions, then “Dark Psychology & Gaslighting Manipulation” is for you!Whether you want to defend yourself against narcissistic... Read more

Dating for Men

By: Nate Strauss

Narrated by: Steve Kadivnik

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Are you sick of getting stunned or freezing up when you have to make conversation with a beautiful woman? Do you find yourself running out of topics or going blank when conversing with women? Do women lose interest in the middle of the conversation?If you want to stop these terrible behaviors from occurring again, then keep reading! Learning how... Read more

Gaslighting Manipulation

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Say goodbye to being a victim and hello to being in control!Do you find yourself feeling lost in your relationships, unable to understand why you're always the one being manipulated and taken advantage of?Do you want to learn how to defend yourself against the dark psychology tactics of narcissists and other manipulators?If so, then “Gaslighting... Read more

How To Analyze People

By: Leonard Farrell

Narrated by: Ryan Pendzick

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the secrets to reading people like a book, with the ultimate guide to analyzing human behavior!Are you tired of feeling like people are taking advantage of you?Do you struggle with identifying manipulative behavior?If you answered yes to any of these questions, “How To Analyze People” is the solution you've been searching for!This book... Read more

On Your Terms

By: Dr. Natalia P Zhikhareva

Narrated by: Gwyn Clark

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Can I tell you something? It’s possible to live dysphoria free. To be seen. To no longer feel afraid. To look in the mirror and feel alive, free, confident…and not 20 years from now!This book will help to empower you to own who you are, even if you feel afraid. To reclaim yourself. To own your identity unapologetically. To heal and to grow.This... Read more

The Golden Years

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Shubhankar

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruskin Bond is eighty-nine years old: long past sixty, the age at which one becomes a senior citizen; also the age around which it is said one should think of retiring from active life. As the years go by, his contentment with living the life he has chosen--keeping to himself, with his family and his books, in Landour--has only grown stronger.... Read more

Mitología Griega Datos Y Curiosidades

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

La mitología griega, es el conjunto de mitos y leyendas pertenecientes a la cultura de la Antigua Grecia, que tratan de sus dioses y héroes, la naturaleza del mundo, los orígenes y el significado de sus propios cultos y prácticas rituales. Formaban parte de la religión de la Antigua Grecia, que tenía como objeto de culto básicamente a los dioses... Read more

The World’s Most Notorious Secret Societies: The Histories and Mysteries of the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the Rosicrucians

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, parodies featuring ominous, mysterious cults have been a favorite gag in pop culture. These fraternal brothers are often depicted in some type of underground lair, dressed in extravagant ceremonial robes with their faces hidden in their hoods, seated around a long table brimming with Gothic chalices, skulls, and glittering dark... Read more

The Mystics with the Queen’s Ear: The Mysterious Lives of Rasputin and John Dee

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

With the golden glow of the candlelight kissing his cheeks, he hovered over a spirit mirror, a flat, exquisitely lustrous “shew-stone” fashioned out of raven-black obsidian. Gazing intently upon his reflection in the dark volcanic glass, he chanted in hushed tones as he ran his fingers across the engravings on the oat-colored wax wheel next to... Read more

Mamy do pogadania

By: Anna Pamuła

Narrated by: Kamilla Baar

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

• Jak kobiety z różnych krajów przygotowują się do porodu?• Co jedzą przyszłe mamy w Japonii, Meksyku i w Sudanie?• Dlaczego ojciec śpi w jednym łóżku z mamą i noworodkiem na porodówce na Islandii?• Gdzie na świecie podział obowiązków domowych między kobietami a mężczyznami jest sprawiedliwy?• Dlaczego matki z krajów zachodnich czują się... Read more

Soziales Klima - Abridged

By: Michael Opielka

Narrated by: Michael Opielka

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Sozialstaat hat in den Jahrzehnten der Ökologie die Ökologie erfolgreich vermieden. Die Grenzen des Wachstums waren für die Verteidiger des Sozialen sozial uninteressant, Arbeitsplätze waren wichtiger als Nistplätze. Die Klimakrise hat dieses Desinteresse unterminiert. Zunehmend tauchen die Sozialwissenschaften im Feld der... Read more

Hope and Healing

By: John Silvanus Wilson, Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hope and Healing, former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. Wilson draws on pivotal moments in the timelines of HBCUs and the work of past visionaries to... Read more

Horror Noire

By: Robin R. Means Coleman

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day.

In this second edition, Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable... Read more