Social Science audiobooks

Spirits Of The Baltic

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the enchanting world of Baltic mythology with Spirits of the Baltic audiobook - Inspired by the ancient tales and seasonal festivals of the Baltic region, this audiobook brings to life the rich cultural heritage of a fascinating mythology. The idea for this audiobook was born from a deep fascination with the Baltic region's unique... Read more

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels.

The... Read more

The Lady Vanishes

By: Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles & Marc...

Narrated by: Sarah Sutherland

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again.
When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding... Read more

George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology

By: George Herbert Mead

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. 

One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime. Yet his influence on American sociology and social psychology since World War II has been exceedingly strong.

This volume... Read more

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence

By: Gabriel Tarde

Narrated by: narrator

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. 

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde’s most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation... Read more

The Third Perspective

By: Africa Brooke

Narrated by: Africa Brooke

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. Entrepreneur and thought leader Africa Brooke charts a path for understanding in this groundbreaking guide for finding common ground.

In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being... Read more

Drive

By: Jonathan Rigsby

Narrated by: Ryan Self

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

One father, 3 years, and thousands of rides

Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad’s darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare driver

Jonathan Rigsby spends his days as a crime intelligence analyst and his nights as an Uber driver. Reeling from his divorce and struggling to pay... Read more

The Tainos

By: Irving Rouse

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos—the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas—as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos—two... Read more

They Came for the Schools

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake... Read more

打骂教不出好孩子

By: 朱俊青

Narrated by: 天伊

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《打骂教不出好孩子》父母培养优秀孩子的必备教子书即使是普通孩子，只要教育得法，也会成为不平凡的人更新观念，搭建家族教育的桥梁，百年树人，为人父母不可急功近利。时代在变，观念也在更新，父母教育孩子的方法也必须跟着变通。棍棒教育已经是落后时代的产物，如今的父母应该懂得：以平等的态度对待孩子，反而更能培养孩子独立而理性的人格；以激励、赏识和引导的方法教育孩子，反而更能教育出成功的孩子。本书以全新的理念告诉广大父母如何才能不打不骂教出了不起的孩孚，其中包含与孩子沟通的技巧，如何让孩子愉快地接受你给他所立的规矩，如何走进孩子的内心世界，如何激发孩子向上的进取心，如何让孩子变得自强自立、热爱学习等方面的内容，从而帮助父母和孩子建立健康、愉快的关系，能够在关爱、尊敬、引导、教育和保护中培养... Read more

The Devil's Best Trick

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Lane Hakel

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

How we explain the evils of the world, and the darkest parts of ourselves, has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil’s Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to... Read more

儿童行为心理学

By: 安子

Narrated by: 大鹏

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《儿童行为心理学》从出生的那一刻起，孩子就开始建立自己的语言体系和心理体系，即便是他们不会说话，或者他们难以表达清楚自己，他们也会用肢体语言表达自己。所以，作为爸爸妈妈，要真正了解、理解并且照顾好自己的宝贝，就要学习儿童行为心理学。食事实上，在家庭教育中，很多家长并不了解自己的宝贝，一味地要求孩子必须这样做，必须那样做，孩子在无奈中妥协，逐渐丧失了创造力、主动性和积极性。食作为家长，需要的并不是控制孩子的行为，而是理解孩子的行为; 需 要的并不是要求孩子如何做，而是启发孩子如何做; 需要的并不是指点和指责，而是合作和互动。所以，家长非常有4... Read more

In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life

By: Soraya Roberts

Narrated by: Sharmila Devar

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her... Read more

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

By: Frank Abe & Floyd Cheung

Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker

The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they... Read more

妈妈急需的心理“婴语”书：科学养育0-2岁宝宝

By: 安子

Narrated by: 轻舞

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《妈妈急需的心理“婴语”书：科学养育0-2岁宝宝》肢体语言是人类心理需求的外在表现。在婴幼儿时期，宝宝通过哭喊、微笑、动作、姿势、表情等肢体语言表达自己的心理和生理需求。因此，宝宝的肢体语言在和爸爸妈妈的交流沟通中起着十分重要的作用。如果你懂儿童心理学，如果你了解婴儿的内心需求和心理发育规律，就很容易发现在宝宝的肢体语言中，包含着大量的信息。本书通过漫画+... Read more

Children of a Troubled Time

By: Margaret A. Hagerman

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Provides a child’s-eye perspective on how the culture wars are playing out in our nation’s schoolsKids are at the center of today’s “culture wars”—pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, which version of history they should learn in school, and what decisions they can make about their own... Read more

National Treasure: Nicolas Cage

By: Lindsay Gibb

Narrated by: Moniqua Plante

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of Nicolas Cage ― the man and the meme Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually frustrates easy categorization or understanding. In National Treasure, pop culture... Read more

Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the... Read more

Surviving Modern Yoga

By: Matthew Remski

Narrated by: Matthew Remski & Theo Wildcroft, PHD

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories, Surviving Modern Yoga uncovers the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois—and reckons with the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it.

Yoga culture sells well-meaning westerners the full package: physical health, good vibes, and spiritual... Read more

Coma and Near-Death Experience

By: Alan Pearce & Beverley Pearce

Narrated by: Danielle Painter

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

• Examines the experiences of those who have survived comas

• Demonstrates how a key element of the brain is switched off by coma-inducing sedatives, allowing the mind to break free from the body

• Shares proven alternatives to medically-induced coma that are safer for treating critically ill patients and kinder for the patients and their... Read more

Morning After the Revolution

By: Nellie Bowles

Narrated by: Nellie Bowles

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and... Read more

Embracing Queer Family

By: Nia Chiaramonte & Katie J. Chiaramonte

Narrated by: Patricia Shade

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Nia Chiaramonte came out as a trans woman to her wife Katie, she knew she would be met with a loving response. But she was less sure where this would leave their relationship, their marriage, and their family. Even murkier was what would happen when they began to bring their extended family, friends, and broader community alongside them on... Read more

The Occult Sylvia Plath

By: Julia Gordon-Bramer

Narrated by: Julia Gordon-Bramer

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

• Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath’s poems

• Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath’s unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University

• Examines the influences of Plath’s parents, her early interests in Hermeticism, and... Read more

Trabajo sucio

By: Eyal Press

Narrated by: Javier Lacroix

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Una denuncia innovadora y urgente desde la primera línea del "trabajo sucio", el trabajo que la sociedad considera esencial pero moralmente comprometido.

Pilotos de drones que llevan a cabo asesinatos selectivos. Inmigrantes indocumentados que trabajan en los mataderos industriales. Guardias que patrullan los pabellones de las prisiones más... Read more