Social Science audiobooks

Imaginative Communities

By: Robert Govers

Narrated by: Erich Favel

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched. This is the way people around the world think about cities, regions and countries and the communities that live there; through cliches and... Read more

Auge y caída de los dinosaurios

By: Steve Brusatte

Narrated by: Cristian Villamil

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Los dinosaurios, como jamás te los habían contado. Tiranosaurios primitivos del tamaño de un ser humano, monstruos carnívoros de dimensiones descomunales, misteriosos reptiles emplumados... Los dinosaurios, las criaturas más formidables de la Tierra, se desvanecieron hace ya sesenta y seis millones de años, pero siguen siendo uno de los... Read more

Tiempo de hormigas

By: Antonio Pérez Henares

Narrated by: Enrique Cañizares

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro de alto voltaje político sobre la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España. Antonio Pérez Henares es célebre por la claridad de sus ideas, así como por expresarlas con franqueza y sin andarse con rodeos. En este libro pone encima de la mesa las grandes cuestiones –y grandes tabúes– que preocupan a millones de... Read more

Divided

By: Annabel Sowemimo

Narrated by: Annabel Sowemimo & Nneka Okoye

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"A VITAL CALL TO ACTION" Leah Hazard

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history.

Here, in an essential and searingly truthful account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial... Read more

Buried Treasures

By: Jack Zipes

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the... Read more

A Legacy of Discrimination

By: Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.



In A Legacy of Discrimination, leading constitutional scholars Lee C. Bollinger and... Read more

Non-Toxic Masculinity

By: Zachary Wagner

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dismissals such as "boys will be boys" and "not all men" are ingrained in our world. And the purity culture of our youth sold the same excuses with a spiritual spin. Can we break the toxic cycle and recover a healthy identity for men?



In Non-Toxic Masculinity, Zachary Wagner tells men, "If you are in Christ, this is your problem—and you should be... Read more

Real Friends Talk About Race

By: Hannah Summerhill & Yseult P. Mukantabana

Narrated by: Hannah Summerhill & Yseult P. Mukantabana

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Real Friends Talk About Race is an essential guide for those who want to have stronger interracial relationships—whether it’s with friends, colleagues, or loved ones.

Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to speak openly and honestly. Podcast... Read more

The Shoe Boy

By: Duncan McCue

Narrated by: Duncan McCue

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. He learned a way of life on the land that few are familiar with. Reflecting on those five months and his search for his own personal identity, that boy – Duncan McCue... Read more

Occult Russia

By: Christopher McIntosh

Narrated by: Michael Moynihan

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

• Reveals the survival of ancient Slavic deities, pagan practices, and folk medicine tradition in modern Russia, including the indigenous pre-Christian customs of the Mari people and the shamanic traditions of Siberia

• Examines the precursors to modern spiritual movements in the “Silver Age” (1880-1920) and discusses the impact of the Russian... Read more

The Big Reveal

By: Sasha Velour

Narrated by: Sasha Velour

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.” –Sasha VelourThis book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history... Read more

Mass Shootings in America

By: Jaclyn Schildkraut

Narrated by: April Doty

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is an informed and informative resource for understanding the reasons for and consequences of mass shootings in America. It includes essays from experts in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, and psychology about key issues surrounding the phenomenon of mass shootings and a collection of opinion pieces that provide insights into... Read more

Source Magic

By: Carl Abrahamsson

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

• Offers a “magical-anthropological” tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge

• Looks at how human beings are naturally attracted to magic and how this attraction can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies

• Examines magic as it relates to psychedelics, Witchcraft,... Read more

Kerrang! Living Loud

By: Kerrang!

Narrated by: Dave John, Nicky Diss, Harriet Carimichael & Co...

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate 40 years of Kerrang! with this year-by-year review of the greatest artists and moments in metal and alternative music.

Kerrang! has an unparalleled reputation as one of the world's best-loved rock-focused publications. It continues to be at the forefront of alternative music, flying the flag for metal, hardcore, punk and beyond,... Read more

You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent

By: Justin Brooks

Narrated by: Justin Brooks

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting listeners at... Read more

Go Back and Get It

By: Dionne Ford

Narrated by: Dionne Ford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal 

Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born... Read more

Soul Medicine

By: Edward Tick

Narrated by: Ryan Paige

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

• Explores hidden soul-healing practices including dream incubation and interpretation as well as sacred pilgrimage

• Examines how dreams, visions, and other non-normative events reveal the conditions needed to restore the soul and facilitate healing

• Includes successful healing techniques, practices, and case studies to reveal how healings are... Read more

The Plot to Save South Africa

By: Justice Malala

Narrated by: Nick Boraine & Justice Malala

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.

Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison... Read more

Hidden Brilliance

By: Lynn Kern Koegel & Claire LaZebnik

Narrated by: Emma Love

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autism are often overlooked and misjudged, with tried-and-true interventions that can be used to help them reach their full potential.Our limited and often biased view of what’s considered “normal” often prevents us from recognizing... Read more

Assyria

By: Eckart Frahm

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires 
 
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global... Read more

If I Betray These Words

By: Wendy Dean & Simon Talbot

Narrated by: Wendy Dean

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine

“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.”... Read more

Initiation into Dream Mysteries

By: Sarah Janes

Narrated by: Aura Paige

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

• Presents effective exercises and techniques, inspired by ancient texts, to deepen your personal awareness of the dream state and experiment with dreams for healing and divinatory purposes

• Each initiatory chapter includes a psychodramatic narrative designed to generate the perfect dream for each stage in the initiation

• Explains how dreaming... Read more

Mysteries of the Far North

By: Jacques Privat

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

• Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd

• Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North as well as surviving sculptural art to show how the Vikings and the Inuit formed a harmonious community

•... Read more

Die Zukunft ist nicht binär (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Lydia Meyer

Narrated by: Lydia Meyer

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter? Von wegen! Menschen sind mehr als entweder oder. Dennoch sind unsere Sprache, unsere Medien, unser Alltag von der Annahme geprägt, es gebe nur zwei Geschlechter, die einander binär gegenüberstehen. Werbung, Spielzeug, Kleidung und Geschichten, Er- und Beziehungsmodelle, sogar Algorithmen und die Wissenschaften -... Read more