Social Science audiobooks

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

Snowflake

By: Lucy Nichol

Narrated by: Sadie Frost

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'Sensitively and seriously exploring mental health stereotypes' Stylist

This is NOT a book of rules or statistics.

It will NOT tell you what you can and can't say to someone with a mental health problem – or to anyone for that matter.

It WILL increase your understanding and empower you to stop stigma in its tracks.

Take a deep-dive into some of... Read more

The Road

By: Christopher Hadley

Narrated by: Guy Slocombe

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you... Read more

How to Master Small Talk

By: William Howard

Narrated by: Adrian Newcastle

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Improving your "small talk" skills is something many people never even consider. That can be a big mistake, especially if you want to get the most out of your interactions with others in your day-to-day life. The truth is that the great majority of all discussion consists of minor chitchat and cordialities. Think of it as the necessary framework... Read more

Into the Metaverse

By: Cathy Hackl

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Into the Metaverse by Cathy Hackl, read by Laurel Lefkow.

An illuminating insight into the Metaverse – what it is, how it works, and and why it will soon be playing a major role in business, technology and society.

In Into the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, a globally recognized futurist and one of the world’s first Chief Metaverse... Read more

Unwanted

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: DeNica Fairman

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has... Read more

Entfesselte Intelligenz - Dein Freund, Dein Feind, Deine Chance

By: Marnus Flatz

Narrated by: Marnus Flatz

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Was kommt mit den großen KI-Modellen der Zukunft GPT-4, Lamda & Co auf uns zu?Erfahren sie wie neuronale Netze und KIs wirklich ticken, damit sie in Zukunft über jede Art von Sensations-Journalismus lächeln können, weil Sie es besser wissen. Vor allem aber treibt uns eine noch wichtigere Frage um: Welchen Platz können wir in dieser Welt für... Read more

And Finally

By: Henry Marsh

Narrated by: Henry Marsh

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"As a mature observer of the human condition, Marsh has audible serenity that makes listeners curious about how his story ends." - AudioFile Magazine

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and... Read more

The Status Revolution

By: Chuck Thompson

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

How did rescue dogs become status symbols? Why are luxury brands losing their cachet? What’s made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous observations obsolete? The answers are part of a new revolution that’s radically reorganizing the way we view ourselves and others that “will be hard for pop-culture readers to put down” (Booklist).

Status was once... Read more

You're Saying It Wrong

By: Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras

Narrated by: Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse.

With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating... Read more

I Am The Storm

By: Janice Dean

Narrated by: Janice Dean

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Janice Dean shares the journeys and lessons she’s learned from everyday heroes taking on long odds. After her acclaimed memoir, Mostly Sunny, Janice Dean figured she was done trying to survive or bring down awful men. Then she found herself taking on Governor Andrew Cuomo on social media and then at rallies.... Read more

The Greek Myths that Shape the Way We Think

By: Richard Buxton

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

How do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eight iconic Greek myths hold in the modern world. Buxton traces these stories and archetypes from their ancient forms through their transformations... Read more

Rikers

By: Graham Rayman & Reuven Blau

Narrated by: Nathan Agin, Jonathan Beville, Nancy Bober, Gis...

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it
 
“This mesmerizing and gut-wrenching book shows the brutal realities that tens of thousands of people have been forced... Read more

Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to... Read more

Love and Justice

By: Jonathan Irons, Maya Moore Irons, Bryan Stevens...

Narrated by: Jonathan Irons & Maya Moore Irons

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only 16... Read more

The Pain We Carry

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma—such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence—you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and... Read more

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Jen Sookfong Lee

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read

This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity,... Read more

I Ukraina på drift

By: Paul Frigyes

Narrated by: Mitcho Batalov

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Ukraina är ett land som inte liknar något annat, med en oerhört turbulent och blodig historia. Det är en nation som på grund av sin storlek, sitt geografiska läge och sin strävan efter frigörelse från Ryssland har präglats av demokratisk aktivisms, populism och kapitalism. I Ukraina på drift är en reportagebok som skildrar en nation och dess... Read more

A Woman's Life Is a Human Life

By: Felicia Kornbluh

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this urgent audiobook from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally.

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life is the story of the movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights:... Read more

Edible Economics

By: Ha-Joon Chang

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics

For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.

Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic... Read more

Pegasus

By: Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud

Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow & Rachel Perry

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring an introduction written and narrated by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the story of the one of the most sophisticated and invasive surveillance weapons ever created, used by governments around the world

Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud's Pegasus: How a Spy in... Read more

Vikings

By: Days of History

Narrated by: Theo Dawson

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Join us on an epic journey through time as we explore Viking History!Our book will take you back to a long-forgotten era - one where brave warriors embarked on daring raids, merchants traded exotic goods, explorers mapped uncharted lands, and settlers established new homes. Get to know this remarkable culture like never before, discovering what... Read more

The Devil's Pool

By: George Sand

Narrated by: J. M. Smallheer

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With his wife dead and three young children to raise, ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow, Catherine Leonard, in a match that has been approved by his father-in-law; however, he finds her proud and vain and surrounded by other suitors. Germaine prefers the company of... Read more

Pióro anioła

By: Janusz Koryl

Narrated by: Tomasz Urbański

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Tragikomiczna opowieść o wszystkich odcieniach polskiej duszy.W Leszczynach, maleńkiej wiosce niedaleko polsko-ukraińskiej granicy, życie płynie cicho, powoli i spokojnie. Do czasu, gdy jednej z mieszkanek ukazuje się anioł i obwieszcza jej, że za dziewięć miesięcy urodzi nowego mesjasza. Wieść o bożym posłańcu rozchodzi się po wsi lotem... Read more