Social Science audiobooks

The Buyer

By: Liam Thomas

Narrated by: Liam Thomas

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The real Line of Duty.

'The first rule of covert surveillance is never disturb the environment. To be an undercover officer, you must watch and wait. Before that, though, is the question of identity. Embarking on a covert operation you first must decide who you are. Who will you be today?'

Liam Thomas was an officer in... Read more

Social Capital

By: Aoife Barry

Narrated by: Aoife Barry

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores. Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest cities, became... Read more

Conozcamos Suiza

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Suiza es un país sin salida al mar ubicado en Europa central y que cuenta con una población de 8 670 000 habitantes (2018).​ Suiza es un Estado federal con 26 estados, llamados cantones y cuenta con cuatro idiomas oficiales: alemán, francés, italiano y romanche. Berna es llamada ciudad federal (no capital) y es la sede de las autoridades... Read more

Cuando perdí mis ojos marrones

By: Marta Bustos Góngora

Narrated by: Marta Bustos Góngora

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Una impactante novela basada en hechos reales. Una impactante novela basada en hechos reales. Cuando Marta se encuentra al otro lado del mundo, estalla la pandemia de COVID-19 y piensa que tal vez pasarán años antes de que pueda volver a reunirse con su familia en España. Todo deja de tener importancia el día que, haciendo jabón artesanal, se... Read more

Economics for Humans, Second Edition

By: Julie A. Nelson

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned and perceptive work, Julie A.... Read more

Baby Brain

By: Dr Sarah McKay

Narrated by: Fiona Macleod

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

If you think baby brain is bad for you, think again - because neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay (author of The Women's Brain Book) has looked at studies and talked to experts from all over the world and the proof is in: giving birth is one of the best things to ever happen to a woman's brain.

Moreover, the positive effects of baby brain last well... Read more

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

By: Maria Golia

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves.



To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia—and also one that has drawn thieves and tomb-raiders to... Read more

The Pornography Wars

By: Kelsy Burke

Narrated by: Kelsy Burke

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Pornography Wars written and read by Kelsy Burke.

For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets – historical, religious, and cultural.

In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in... Read more

Getting Me Cheap

By: Amanda Freeman & Lisa Dodson

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids.



Getting Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers—primarily women—who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health... Read more

The Everyday Feminist

By: Latanya Mapp Frett

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin & Latanya Mapp Frett

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An invigorating exploration of impactful feminist movements and strategies for replicating their success

In The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever, accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make... Read more

Searching for Savanna

By: Mona Gable

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government... Read more

Momfluenced

By: Sara Petersen

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

How momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothers

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating billions of dollars. The message is simple: we’re all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of... Read more

No Human Contact

By: Pete Earley

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1983, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain, both serving life sentences at the U.S. Prison in Marion, Illinois, separately murdered two correction officers on the same day. The Bureau of Prisons condemned both men to the severest punishment that could legally be imposed, one created specifically for them. It was unofficially called "no... Read more

Warrior Princesses Strike Back

By: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White

Narrated by: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery, Warrior Princesses Strike Back focuses how Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary truth and healing.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in... Read more

These are the Plunderers

By: Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Pulitzer Prize­­­–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher Leonard, bestselling author of Kochland)—revealing how it... Read more

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things

By: Katy Kelleher

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.

April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, Christian Science Monitor, All Arts, and the Next Big Idea Club
One of... Read more

Lessons from the Covid War

By: Covid Crisis Group

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
 
Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed... Read more

Birth

By: Rebecca Grant

Narrated by: Marisa Blake, Emana Rachelle, Dara Rosenberg & ...

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“An important book...Grant is a good storyteller, subtle and compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history of reproductive health that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth... Read more

Fire on the Levee

By: Jared Fishman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

 “A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire

The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans.

In 2009, Jared Fishman was a... Read more

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe

By: Marshall Sahlins

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even... Read more

The Poverty Paradox

By: Mark Robert Rank

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The... Read more

Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

Narrated by: Christina Sharpe

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about... Read more

It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth

By: Remi Adekoya

Narrated by: Remi Adekoya

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both liberals and conservatives' David Goodhart

'This terrifically illuminating book . . . offers a new... Read more

La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Valentina Latyna

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores. Susan Sontag escribió La enfermedad y sus metáforas en 1978, mientras se trataba de un cáncer. En el libro quiso demostrar cómo los mitos... Read more