Social Science audiobooks

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences... Read more

The Essential Questions

By: Elizabeth Keating, PhD

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover new sides of family members you've known your entire life with this indispensable guide.



Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappearing amid rapid change, there is a risk that your family's personal stories, too, will be lost forever. In The Essential Questions, anthropologist Elizabeth Keating helps you to uncover... Read more

Hot, Hot Chicken

By: Rachel Louise Martin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

These days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for... Read more

K for Kara 23 - I Was Born Here!

By: Line Kyed Knudsen

Narrated by: Jennifer Wagstaffe

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a true tale about a great friendship between two very different people. But are they really that different in the end?When Nadia starts in Kara's class, she's a little shy but Kara happily shows her around. That makes Nadia feel right at home. When Kara meets Nadia in the local park, Nadia is surrounded by her entire family. They all... Read more

The Invention of Tomorrow

By: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw & Adam Bulley

Narrated by: Philip Battley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future
Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures... Read more

No Filter

By: Paulina Porizkova

Narrated by: Paulina Porizkova & Maria Shriver

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy. It is nuanced, complex, insightful, helpful, and constantly surprising.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of These Precious Days

Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective,... Read more

Black Trans Feminism

By: Marquis Bey

Narrated by: Marquis Bey

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a... Read more

What's Your Zip Code Story?

By: CJ Gross

Narrated by: Brandon Colbert

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion call for change is sweeping inequality from every... Read more

The Trauma of Caste

By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Narrated by: Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.

“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator... Read more

Switching Fields

By: George Dohrmann

Narrated by: Brian Telestai

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men’s soccer players for so long—and shows why a golden era just might be coming.

“George Dohrmann is one of our most perceptive chroniclers of youth sports in the United States, and here he brings his keen eye to the history and present of U.S.... Read more

Hereafter

By: Vona Groarke

Narrated by: Siobhan Waring

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America.



In July 1882, Ellen O'Hara stepped off a ship from the West of Ireland to begin a new life in New York. What she encountered was a world of casual racial prejudice that characterized her as ignorant, dirty, and feckless, the butt of many... Read more

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader - Abridged

By: Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren

Narrated by: Tina Woods

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina... Read more

Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers - Abridged

By: Emma Christopher Lirette

Narrated by: Linda Rigamer Lirette

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced... Read more

La humanización de un mono

By: Heike Behrend

Narrated by: Claudia Berdeja

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona, bufona, bruja, espía, mal espíritu o caníbal. Estos fueron algunos nombres que la población local utilizó para referirse a Heike Behrend durante sus investigaciones de campo en África Oriental. Con el tiempo, comprendió el significado de estos calificativos: eran formas que tenían los pueblos estudiados para referirse a lo extraño, a lo... Read more

Die große Daniel Schreiber Box - Allein + Zuhause (ungekürzt)

By: Daniel Schreiber

Narrated by: Daniel Schreiber

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Allein" Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal das selbstbestimmte Leben in Einsamkeit umschlagen kann. Aber kann man überhaupt glücklich sein allein? Und warum wird in einer Gesellschaft von Individualisten das Alleinleben als schambehaftetes Scheitern wahrgenommen? Im Rückgriff auf... Read more

101 Reasons Why I'm Pissed

By: Pissy McMadd

Narrated by: Pissy McMadd

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a Humor Break from Political Correctness, Social Issues, Bad Habits, Anger Management, and Conspiracy Theories. A Crazy Unrehearsed and Hilarious 90+ Minute Discussion with Pissy McMadd and Her Friends! Read more

An Original Audiobook Adaptation of Nourishment

By: Fred Provenza

Narrated by: Fred Provenza

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Nourishment a wise observer of the land and the animals becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."—Temple Grandin

**Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change, adapted from the book Nourishment, read by author Fred Provenza**

Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to... Read more

(In)visibles

By: Bárbara Anderson

Narrated by: Bárbara Anderson, Bern Hoffman & Liliana Barba

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Libro ganador de los premios Latino Book Awards 2023 con medalla de plata en las categorías "Mejor libro inspirador de no ficción" y "Mejor sitio web para promocionar el libro", y mención honorífica en "Mejor uso de fotos en el libro". Si en México más del 16% de la población, cerca de 21 millones o 1 de cada 6 mexicanos cuentan con algún tipo de... Read more

Ganz Unten - Mit einer Dokumentation der Folgen (ungekürzt)

By: Günter Wallraff

Narrated by: Ozan Ünal, Katharina Ceylan-Buckup & Anke Engelke

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Standardwerk des Investigativ-Journalismus ist erstmals vollständig als Hörbuch erhältlich: Mit einer deutschsprachigen Auflage von über fünf Millionen Exemplaren und Übersetzungen in fast 40 Ländern ist "Ganz unten" einer der sensationellsten Bucherfolge des Landes und entwickelte eine durchschlagende politische Wirkung. Die Erfahrungen,... Read more

El ABC del género

By: Mariana Gabarrot

Narrated by: Yunnuen Hidalgo

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre sexo y género? ¿Son biológicas o culturales? ¿Qué queremos decir cuando hablamos de feminismo? ¿Existe el patriarcado? ¿Cómo detectamos el machismo? ¿Por qué tanto debate sobre el lenguaje incluyente? ¿Qué significan y para que utilizamos las siglas lgbtttiq+? ¿Qué es el acoso y la violencia de género? ¿Cómo... Read more

Trust Kids!

By: carla bergman

Narrated by: Zach Bergman

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives.The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh,... Read more

Efekt niszczący

By: Anna Mierzyńska

Narrated by: Bartosz Głogowski

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Jak działa rosyjska propaganda i „soft war” towarzysząca napaści na Ukrainę? Jak stworzyć teorię spiskową i zmienić w zaraźliwy wirus? Jak za pomocą dezinformacji szczuć społeczeństwo przeciwko osobom LGBT? Audiobook Anny Mierzyńskiej daje narzędzia, by przeciwstawić się niszczącemu efektowi dezinformacji. To precyzyjna, wciągająca i poruszająca... Read more

Lurking Under the Surface

By: Brandon R. Grafius

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror can be a valuable conversation partner for the spiritual questions that animate so many of us.



Whether through a movie, television show, novel, or even myth, horror as a genre has always spoken to our deepest human fears and anxieties: fear of death, of the unknown, of knowing too much. Whether you're looking at classic narratives like... Read more

Marked for Life

By: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Narrated by: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, Isaac Wright Jr.

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of... Read more