Social Science audiobooks

Sorry, aber ... - Eine Verzichtserklärung an das ständige Entschuldigen (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Tara-Louise Wittwer

Narrated by: Tara-Louise Wittwer

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine scharfsinnige und humorvolle Analyse unserer Entschuldigungskultur von Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer alias @wastarasagt Wir entschuldigen uns ständig: "Sorry, dass ich störe ", "sorry, ich muss mal durch", aber ist das wirklich notwendig? "sorry, aber ..." Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer (Drama Queen) nervt es, dass ihr... Read more

Segredos do Império Maia

By: Felipe Boschetti

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra percorre uma incrível história de mistérios, batalhas e conquistas, trazendo uma visão fascinante a respeito dessa enigmática civilização que deixou um legado único na região da América central e cujas tradições permanecem vivas em diversos países.Mil anos antes da chegada dos espanhóis à América Central, um império como nunca antes... Read more

O Livro dos Mortos

By: Camelot Editora

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta edição traz uma antologia de hinos compilados de diversos livros funerários egípcios, o Livro do Mortos de sacerdotes, oficiais, cantores, dançarinas e outros que viveram e morreram há milênios, em uma sociedade extremamente religiosa. Além dos hinos originais, este livro contém uma introdução ao Livro dos Mortos escrita pelo prestigiado... Read more

Die Panter-MILF am See

By: Schrizbe

Narrated by: Schrizbe

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Tag am See. Sommer. Sonne. Eis,… und eine Visitenkarte mit der handgeschriebenen Nummer einer bildhübschen MILF darauf, welche dich um einen kleinen Gefallen bittet. Eine Samenspende der besonderen Art. Bist du mit dabei? Dann los,… hör rein. Enjoy. Read more

El Contrato Social

By: Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"El Contrato Social", escrito por Rousseau en 1762, es un tratado político fundamental que defiende la idea de un contrato social basado en la voluntad general de la población. Rousseau argumenta que la soberanía debe residir en el pueblo y que los individuos deben someterse a la voluntad colectiva para preservar la libertad y la igualdad. La... Read more

Sprache ist, was du draus machst! (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker

Narrated by: Marian Funk

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Linguistik-Professor Simon Meier-Vieracker vermittelt uns die faszinierende Vielfalt der deutschen Sprache Wir sprechen, also sind wir In verschiedenen Gegenden Deutschlands wird unterschiedlich gesprochen. Die lokalen Dialekte haben nicht nur Kultstatus, sondern geben uns auch Auskunft über die Herkunft von Sprechenden. Während das Ende eines... Read more

Hungry Hill

By: Carole O'Malley Gaunt

Narrated by: Carole O'Malley Gaunt

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

On a sweltering June night in 1959, Betty O'Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children—seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. In this poignant memoir, she recalls in vivid detail the chaotic course of her... Read more

Up from Slavery - an Autobiography

By: Booker Washington

Narrated by: Kenny Davis

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Up From Slavery" is an autobiographical account by Booker T. Washington, detailing his personal experiences of rising from the conditions of slavery in the United States to becoming a leading African American educator, orator, and advisor to presidents. Published in 1901, the book outlines Washington's philosophy on education, hard work, and... Read more

Reluctant Race Men

By: Joan L. Bryant

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects,... Read more

Asian American Is Not a Color

By: OiYan A. Poon

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans

Before being struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2023, affirmative action remained one of the few remaining policy tools to address... Read more

The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision.” —Wall Street Journal • “The best prescription for our redemption.” —The New York Times • “A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era.” —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist... Read more

DIY

By: Dr. Eric Sprankle

Narrated by: Eric Sprankle

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever social and scientific history of masturbation, which unapologetically critiques a system that has sought to control the very human desire for self-pleasure.



Despite decades of medical and psychological research confirming that masturbation is healthy, the act remains shrouded in taboo and pseudoscience. In DIY, Dr. Eric Sprankle... Read more

Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope

By: Barbara Will

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic... Read more

The Way That Leads Among the Lost

By: Angela Garcia

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.

The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and... Read more

Spin Doctors

By: Nora Loreto

Narrated by: Nora Loreto

Length: 23 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the... Read more

Soul by Soul

By: Adriana Carranca

Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious wars

US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the... Read more

After the Flames

By: Jonathan R. Rose

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines." —KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire Murders



For Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning.



On the morning of March 10th, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year-old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third degree burns on... Read more

We Refuse to Be Silent

By: Angela P. Dodson

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The women have something to say. Are you listening?In this powerful and needed collection, editor Angela P. Dodson brings together the voices of more than thirty-five accomplished women writers on the topic of violence and injustice against Black men. These writers are journalists, authors, scholars, ministers, psychologists, counselors, and... Read more

On Collective Memory

By: Maurice Halbwachs

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive... Read more

To Change The World

By: James Davison Hunter

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the twenty-first century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the... Read more

An Essay on the Principle of Population

By: Thomas Maltus

Narrated by: Ethan Williams

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas Malthus discusses the potential for population growth to outpace food production, leading to societal issues. Malthus, an English scholar, contributed significantly to demography and political economy. The essay, initially published in 1798, underscores the tension between geometric population... Read more

Daughters of Copper Woman

By: Anne Cameron

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking... Read more

The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth

By: Thersa Matsuura

Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.

Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of... Read more

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community

By: W. E. B. DuBois

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The eighteen... Read more