Social Science audiobooks

Not a Crime to Be Poor

By: Peter Edelman

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.As former... Read more

To the Bridge

By: Nancy Rommelmann

Narrated by: Nancy Rommelmann

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of... Read more

Periods Gone Public

By: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in taboo and superstition, periods have gone mainstream. Seemingly overnight, a new, high-profile movement has emerged—one dedicated to bold... Read more

The Selfie Generation

By: Alicia Eler

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Digital native Alicia Eler’s The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into... Read more

The Lessons of Ubuntu

By: Mark Mathabane

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational memoir, Kaffir Boy. A book highly-praised by Oprah and President Clinton for inspiring hope, Kaffir Boy described the effects of South Africa’s system of legalized racism and oppression on black lives in vivid prose. The book won the prestigious Christopher Award, was a finalist... Read more

The Patch

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second... Read more

The Ice Bucket Challenge

By: Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it.Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body, a man whose love for others was unshakable. He was a man who refused to fight alone and, in so doing, mobilized a global army to combat one of... Read more

The Patterning Instinct

By: Jeremy Lent

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trailblazers of... Read more

Sapiens. De animales a dioses (Latino)

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. Escucha ahora su versión audiolibro. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante... Read more

Somebody I Used to Know

By: Wendy Mitchell

Narrated by: Wendy Mitchell

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brave and illuminating journey inside the mind, heart, and life of a person with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.”—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice

Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running and climbing mountains. Then, slowly, a mist settled deep... Read more

The Secret Token

By: Andrew Lawler

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

*National Bestseller*

A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke

In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I,... Read more

Stand Up to Stigma

By: Pernessa C. Seele

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

No More Hate! All Are Welcome!


“Stigma” is a simple two-syllable word, yet it carries the weight of negative and often unfair beliefs that we hold about those who are different from us. Stigmas lock people into stereotyped boxes and deny us all the right to be our authentic and whole selves. Dr. Pernessa Seele, a longtime public health activist... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more

The Deepest Well

By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle.

Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness. Even though these events may have occured long ago,... Read more

Clean Meat

By: Paul Shapiro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Shapiro gives you a “captivating” (John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market) front-row seat for the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals.

Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species’ desire for meat. But with a growing global... Read more

Go Back to Where You Came From

By: Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?

Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning -- and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. From the Introduction

From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks,... Read more

A Moonless, Starless Sky

By: Alexis Okeowo

Narrated by: Kamali Minter

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD

"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.

In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together... Read more

Kings of the Yukon

By: Adam Weymouth

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth.

The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam Weymouth canoes along the river's length, from Canada's Yukon Territory, through... Read more

Astounding

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018""Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post“Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall... Read more

Squeezed

By: Alissa Quart

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
 — Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedFamilies today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh... Read more

1968

By: Richard Vinen

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered... Read more

Not That Bad

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Roxane Gay, Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Amy J...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller “This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar and relatable each story is—yet there’s power and solidarity in it, too.”  — ShondalandEdited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays from... Read more

Antifa

By: Mark Bray

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Donald Trump’s initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the “antifa” opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And where did it come from?As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism—also known as... Read more

Shame Nation

By: Sue Scheff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away.A rogue tweet can bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage.Shame Nation is the first book to both explore the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming and offer practical guidance and... Read more