Social Science audiobooks

Una casa propia

By: Deborah Levy

Narrated by: Conchi Ramírez de Haro

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que... Read more

Senderos del erotismo

By: David Barrios

Narrated by: Juan Carlos González

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

David Barrios Martínez nos revela en este nuevo libro múltiples respuestas a estas inquietantes preguntas acerca de uno de los oficios-sorprendentemente- (guiones largos) menos conocidos en pleno siglo XXI. Comparte con sus lectores su experiencia, dentro y fuera de la práctica clínica, entremezclando vivencias personales, profesionales y... Read more

Yoruba Mythology: Captivating Myths and Legends of the Yoruba and Other West African Peoples

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Michael Reaves

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you like stories about kings and queens, spirits and monsters, or tricksters and villains?If so, this book is for you. Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and cunning, virtue and vice, and fortunes found and lost. Some of these stories draw upon actual historical... Read more

República luminosa

By: Andrés Barba

Narrated by: Andrés Barba

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

«Para mí Barba se ha vuelto un escritor imprescindible» Rafael Chirbes. ¿Qué tiene que suceder para que nos veamos obligados a redefinir nuestra idea de la infancia? La aparición de treinta y dos niños violentos de procedencia desconocida trastoca por completo la vida de San Cristóbal, una pequeña ciudad tropical encajonada entre la selva y el... Read more

Children of the State

By: Jeff Hobbs

Narrated by: George Newbern, Landon Woodson, Aven Shore & An...

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and resilience” (Booklist, starred review).

For many kids, a... Read more

The Black Boom

By: Jason L. Riley

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic inequality continues to be one of the most hotly debated topics in America, but there has been relatively little discussion of the fact that black-white gaps in joblessness, income, poverty, and other measures were shrinking prior to the pandemic. Why was it happening, and why did this phenomenon go unacknowledged by so much of the... Read more

Reconsidering Reparations

By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project—either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present; or, they focus on the past, emphasizing restitution for historical wrongs. Olúfémi O. Táíwò... Read more

Somewhere We Are Human \ Donde somos humanos (Spanish edition)

By: Reyna Grande & Sonia Guiñansaca

Narrated by: Avi Roque, Christian Barillas, Diana Pou & Alej...

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos.Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta colección de ensayos, poesía y arte tiene como objetivo... Read more

Overtime

By: Lisa F. Berkman & Beth C. Truesdale

Narrated by: Robin McAlpine

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Many policymakers think it's logical—almost inevitable—that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor force. But it's an assumption that doesn't match the reality faced by a large and growing proportion of Americans. Precarious working conditions,... Read more

Roe

By: Mary Ziegler

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

The leading US expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year historyWhat explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the US Supreme Court decision, which decriminalized abortion in 1973 and was overturned in 2022, had a hold on us that was not simply... Read more

Divaneos

By: David Dorenbaum

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La introspección nos ayuda a clarificar lo que parece oscuro. Nos ilumina y contribuye a nuestra sensación de estar vivos. Acciones más que cotidianas, como montar en bici, ir al cine, leer o visitar un museo adquieren en este libro un sentido y una dimensión especial, simplemente reflexionando sobre ellas, mostrando sus múltiples matices.... Read more

A Womanist Theology of Worship

By: Lisa Allen

Narrated by: Keyonni James

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "love letter to the Black Church," Dr. Lisa Allen examines the history of worship in the Black Church in America (and its legacy of equating liturgy with justice), the enduring effects of white supremacy on its liturgical heritages, and finally proffers a new liturgical paradigm, using a womanist hermeneutic, for students, liturgists,... Read more

Struggle and Mutual Aid

By: Nicolas Delalande

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the... Read more

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman

By: Spring Washam

Narrated by: Spring Washam

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman, who was called the Moses of her people, is rising again, and we can call forth her spirit to embody incredible strength and unwavering courage. Combining direct transmissions of Harriet's message with insightful explorations of her life and legacy, this extraordinary book gives us support and inspiration to deepen... Read more

Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers

By: Theodore R. Burnes, PhD & Jamila M. Dawson, LMFT

Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou & Yu-Li Alice Shen

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy.

Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing... Read more

Yes, Mistress

By: Alicia Zadig

Narrated by: Alicia Zadig

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the forbidden desire for Female Domination—and the real men who seek it out.



Leading Dominatrix and BDSM expert Alicia Zadig takes you on a provocative, eye-opening journey into the erotic world of Female Domination and male submission. Zadig explains the psychology behind male submission and answers the question: Why do men crave... Read more

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn

By: Stoya

Narrated by: Stoya

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of systemic biases toward sex workers and how sexuality is reflected in society. She often points... Read more

Chasing the Scream

By: Johann Hari

Narrated by: Johann Hari

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Chasing the Scream written and read by Johann Hari.

Revised and Updated

The New York Times Bestseller

What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari’s journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question—and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than... Read more

The Aftermath

By: Philip Bump

Narrated by: Matthew Berry

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics.

Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom... Read more

The Southern Way of Life

By: Charles Reagan Wilson

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 24 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three... Read more

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

By: A.B. Chitty & Priscilla Murolo

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 23 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book... Read more

Don Prusòt e il ballo a palchetto

By: Giuseppe Grinza

Narrated by: Daniele Ridolfi

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Campagna piemontese, anni Cinquanta. Il paesino di Pravorino è in preda al panico. La signorina Benita, responsabile della neo formata Pro Loco, ha deciso di rivoluzionare la festa del paese. Ok che lei porta i pantaloni alla zuava ed è quindi chiaramente una progressista ribelle ma che lo facesse solo nella sua vita privata, no? Che senso ha... Read more

Bigamista

By: Mary Turner Thomson

Narrated by: Olga Żmuda

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ile poświęciłabyś dla ukochanego mężczyzny? Jak daleko może posunąć się mąż, który chce cię oszukać? Co zrobiłabyś, gdyby okazało się, że twoje małżeństwo to jedna wielka farsa? Szkotka Mary Turner Thomson w 2000 r. na portalu randkowym poznała Afroamerykanina Willa Jordana, który oświadczył się jej po trzech tygodniach znajomości. Sześć lat... Read more

Vivir en bienestar a pesar de todo

By: Ramsés Barragán Estrada

Narrated by: Ezequiel Álvarez

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Para 2030, la depresión será la enfermedad mental más incapacitante en todo el mundo. El trastorno psicológico más frecuente en nuestro país es la ansiedad. El 36% de los mexicanos padecerá un desorden psiquiátrico, antes de los 65 años de edad. ¿Cómo no ser parte de estas estadísticas? Es cierto, la incertidumbre y la desesperanza impera en la... Read more