Social Science audiobooks

Monstruos de la Criptozoología

By: John Venkman

Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Siempre has tenido curiosidad por los animales o criaturas desconocidas?¿Te atraen los misterios de la naturaleza? ¿Sabías que existe toda una pseudociencia dedicada a comprobar su existencia? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“Y en mis sueños…cabalgo en un unicornio blanco, te busco en valles, lagos, prados, miro a las estrellas y allá estás, sonriendo,... Read more

Serious Adverse Events

By: Celia Farber

Narrated by: Caroline White

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.” Celia Farber, then an... Read more

Grandes maricas de la historia

By: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Narrated by: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Nunca es tarde, amigos, para sacar del armario a un Gran Marica de la Historia Machos, heterosexuales, viriles... ¿Solo ese tipo de hombres han hecho historia? ¿Alguien puede creérselo? Más allá de la historiografía tradicional, nos encontramos con grandes poetas, intelectuales o cientí ficos homosexuales cuyos deseos han sido borrados. Es... Read more

La cuarta revolución industrial

By: Klaus Schwab

Narrated by: Luis Pinazo & Marina Viñals

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué es la cuarta revolución industrial? ¿Cómo definirá nuestro futuro? Un libro sobre el cambio de paradigma que vive nuestra sociedad actual por el fundador del Foro Davos. Son muchos los desafíos a los que se enfrenta el mundo hoy en día, pero posiblemente uno de los más importantes sea comprender la nueva revolución tecnológica que está... Read more

El acto de nombrar

By: Elena Bazán

Narrated by: Elena Bazán & Laura García Arroyo

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

EL LENGUAJE IDENTIFICA, DEFINE Y EXPLICA, PERO TAMBIÉN ACOMPAÑA Y CONECTA. En el lenguaje actual de las mujeres nombrar es poder, por eso esta obra propone palabras y situaciones cercanas a las mujeres, pero jamás exclusivas porque, como el lenguaje, este es un libro plural, cualquier persona interesada en el debate de por qué y cómo se... Read more

Dragged Up Proppa

By: Pip Fallow

Narrated by: Pip Fallow

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dragged Up Proppa, read by the author, is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.

'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands

Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family... Read more

Living in the Future

By: Victoria W. Wolcott

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
 
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This... Read more

From Fat, Black, and Unlovable to Beautiful. Powerful. Love

By: Barbara C. Pamplin & Chief Oluwa Obafemi Ifayem...

Narrated by: Barbara C. Pamplin & Chief Oluwa Obafemi Ifayem...

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Near-Death to New LifeBarbara (Pamplin) Ohuninifa’s debut memoir, From Fat, Black, and Unlovable to Beautiful Powerful Love, shares her extraordinary journey of survival and healing. In 2017, Barbara faced an aortic dissection—a cardiac event with a 99% fatality rate—along with three open-heart surgeries and three resuscitations. This... Read more

Ostatnia minuta

By: Tomasz Ulanowski

Narrated by: Bartosz Głogowski

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Świat coraz gwałtowniej się zmienia, ale wciąż zaprasza nas do odkrywanie jego piękna i podejmowania działań na rzecz jego ochrony. Tomasz Ulanowski – laureat Grand Presse 2022 za esej „Ziemia” – „zabiera nas w podróż przez odległe lądy, morskie głębiny, gabinety naukowców i meandry własnych przemyśleń. To wyprawa niezapomniana i pouczająca.... Read more

The ASWB LMSW Licensed Master Social Worker Study Guide Comprehensive Edition

By: SMG & Jessica McKay

Narrated by: Lauren Garvin

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Get prepared and primed for success no matter how soon your ASWB LMSW assessment is – even if it's tomorrowThe ASWB LMSW Exam involves more than just knowing the facts. It’s also about being prepared, feeling confident, and being able to overcome your nerves.There’s a lot at stake with this exam, and with every second ticking away as exam day... Read more

Heritage and Hoop Skirts

By: Paul Hardin Kapp

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the "Old South," but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. Beginning with the first Natchez Spring Pilgrimage of Antebellum Homes in 1932, such women as Katherine Grafton Miller and Edith Wyatt... Read more

Walk the Walk

By: Neil Gross

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation” and a former cop, the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.

What should we do about the police? After the murder of George Floyd, there’s no institution more... Read more

Essays in medical sociology, Volume 1 of 2

By: Elizabeth Blackwell

Narrated by: Ethan Williams

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Essays in Medical Sociology" is a collection of writings by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the United States. The book covers a wide range of topics related to medical sociology, including the social determinants of health, medical education, women in medicine, gender and health, healthcare systems, medical ethics, public... Read more

Changing How We Choose

By: A. David Redish

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Changing How We Choose, David Redish makes a bold claim: science has "cracked" the problem of morality. Redish argues that moral questions have a scientific basis, and that morality is best viewed as a technology—a set of social and institutional forces that create communities and drive cooperation. This means that some moral structures are... Read more

Ghosts of the Orphanage

By: Christine Kenneally

Narrated by: Jodie Harris

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls

For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside orphanages. The survivors have been trying to tell their astonishing stories for... Read more

The Benefits of Friends

By: Jana Mathews

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2011, Jana Mathews's career took a surprising turn. What began as an effort for a newly minted college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter... Read more

Breaking Bread

By: Bell Hooks & Cornel West

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to... Read more

Culture

By: Martin Puchner

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has... Read more

Flowers of Fire

By: Hawon Jung

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.



Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women... Read more

Awkword Moments

By: Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras

Narrated by: Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings.

Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're a little vague about what exactly happened (or... Read more

Composing Capital

By: Marianna Ritchey

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism. In Composing Capital, Marianna Ritchey... Read more

The New Roaring Twenties

By: Paul Zane Pilzer

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The world and its economic foundations are shifting beneath our feet.We are at the threshold of the new roaring twenties—a resurgent era of technology-driven advancement with greater financial equality and economic expansion. Not unlike the famed decade of the previous century, our next ten years will be filled with striking cultural shifts, new... Read more

Outlaw Culture

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture... Read more

The Life Worth Living

By: Joel Michael Reynolds

Narrated by: Jason Vu

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of... Read more