Social Science audiobooks

Weaponized Lies

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Dan Piraro

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies

We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons in critical thinking... Read more

The Cannabis Manifesto

By: Steve DeAngelo

Narrated by: Richard Banks

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come
The Cannabis Manifesto is both a call to action and a radical vision of humans' relationship with this healing but controversial plant. Steve DeAngelo, the founder of Harborside Health... Read more

Talentos ocultos

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

La fenomenal historia de mujeres matemáticas afroamericanas de la NASA en la vanguardia del movimiento feminista y de derechos civiles, cuyos cálculos impulsaron uno de los mayores logros espaciales de Estados Unidos. Pronto será una gran película protagonizada por Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, y Kevin Costner.... Read more

The Uses of Enchantment

By: Bruno Bettelheim

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.



Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little... Read more

Nobody’s Son

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: Denica Fairman

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’s already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he’ll only... Read more

Now We Are 40

By: Tiffanie Darke

Narrated by: Tiffanie Darke

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers – but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool? Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland... Read more

The Art of Cruelty

By: Maggie Nelson

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn... Read more

Why I Am Not A Feminist

By: Jessa Crispin

Narrated by: Jessa Crispin

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism… and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the... Read more

Do All Lives Matter?

By: Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins

Narrated by: Calvin Robinson

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong.

The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents — but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence and mistreatment, and some of us defensively... Read more

Drop the Ball

By: Tiffany Dufu

Narrated by: Tiffany Dufu

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“We won’t reach equality in the workplace without equality in the home. Drop the Ball shows how our relationships and our lives are richer when we lean in together.” — Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

This program is read by the author.

Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's... Read more

Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children

By: Roberta Michnick Golink, PhD; Kathy Hirsh-Pase...

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller!

Bronze medal winner of the Living Now Book Awards for Parenting!

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck... Read more

The Unnatural World

By: David Biello

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward... Read more

Tides

By: Jonathan White

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a... Read more

Sex Scandal

By: Ashley McGuire

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism—the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book, Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural, biological distinctions between men and women... Read more

The Matristic Culture of Pre-historic Europe

By: Mary Mackey, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time in human history when a matristic culture dominated the social structure. When ask to describe the difference between matriarchal and matristic cultures, Mackey responded, “Patriarchy is men in charge, matriarchy would be women in charge . . . Matristic is a more collaborative, partnership, a communal way of governing. It’s a... Read more

Rethink

By: Steven Poole

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored... Read more

Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren

By: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Narrated by: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wir, die Völker der Vereinten Nationen – fest entschlossen, künftige Geschlechter vor der Geißel des Krieges zu bewahren, die zweimal zu unseren Lebzeiten unsagbares Leid über die Menschheit gebracht hat –, haben beschlossen: Alle Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede gegen die territoriale Unversehrtheit oder die... Read more

Hit Makers

By: Derek Thompson

Narrated by: Derek Thompson

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Enthralling - full of 'aha' moments about why some ideas soar and others never get off the ground. This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off." —Adam Grant

Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real... Read more

Woman Walking Ahead

By: Eileen Pollack

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was... Read more

All the Lives I Want

By: Alana Massey

Narrated by: Alana Massey

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her." -- Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah

"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

Rest in Power

By: Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & JD Jackson

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Trayvon Martin’s parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement.
 
“A reminder—not only of Trayvon’s life and death but of the vulnerability of black lives in a country that still needs to be reminded they matter.”—USA Today
 
Now a... Read more

I Don't Belong to You

By: Keke Palmer

Narrated by: Keke Palmer

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always inspiring guide that encourages young women to live a life full of ownership, confidence, and freedom from singer and popular Scream Queens and Grease Live! actress Keke Palmer, delightfully illustrated in four color with Keke’s favorite inspirational quotes, journal entries, and memes.

As a... Read more

How to Live to 100

By: Ian Durham

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the picturesque valleys of Wales to the stunning Italian island of Sardinia Welsh-Italian cook Michela Chiappa visits 100 year olds, longevity experts and her own long-lived family in order to unravel the secrets of their success. It's a warm and enchanting journey that mixes food, lifestyle and science in order to come up with a surprising... Read more