Social Science audiobooks

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

By: Dr. Jen Gunter

Narrated by: Jen Gunter

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Most women can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. And yet few are given the tools to understand the science of their own cycle, how it changes over their lifetime, and how it connects to their overall health.



Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or... Read more

1947-1957, India

By: Chandrachur Ghose

Narrated by: Dev J Haldar

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial in the nation's history. Opening a window to this period, this book weaves a story out of the complex ideas and events that have largely remained beneath the surface of public discourse. The transfer of power, the framing of the Constitution and the formation... Read more

21 METAPHYSICAL SECRETS

By: Urban Dawson

Narrated by: Evan Brown

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover The 21 Metaphysical Secrets: Use The Law of Attraction And Manifestation. Are you an unorthodox thinker who prefers to forge his way rather than mindlessly following others?Do you want to constantly better yourself?Are you looking for solutions to life's most important questions? If you can relate to those questions, you should buy this... Read more

America's Racial Karma

By: Larry Ward Ph.D.

Narrated by: Sean Polite & Larry Ward Ph.D.

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, PhD, on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma.

As an 11-year-old child, Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward was shot at by the police for playing baseball in the wrong spot. As an adult, he experienced the trauma of having his... Read more

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more

Putin and the Return of History

By: Martin Sixsmith

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, read by Jonathan Keeble.

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... Read more

The Untold Stories of a Chinese and Puerto Rican Woman

By: Kimberly Ming

Narrated by: Kimberly Ming

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Regional Emmy nominated Kimberly Ming in one of the most intimate settings, her speaking to you. Ming takes you on a journey using short stories and spoken word poetry to explore concepts of race, culture, and belonging as someone who is Chinese and Puerto Rican. She uses writing as a tool to create a home for herself and others within... Read more

Frauen entschlüsseln

By: Leonardo Voit

Narrated by: Marco Thiemann

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Hast Du Dich jemals gefragt, warum einige Männer scheinbar mühelos in Beziehungen erfolgreich sind, während andere trotz ihrer Bemühungen kämpfen?Das Geheimnis liegt nicht in oberflächlichen Techniken, sondern in einem tiefen Verständnis der Dynamik zwischen Männern und Frauen…In einer Welt, in der Ratgeber und schnelle Lösungen zuhauf vorhanden... Read more

As Gods Among Men

By: Guido Alfani

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act "as gods among men"; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth central to discussions of inequality. In this book, Guido Alfani offers a history of the rich and super-rich in the West, examining who they were, how they... Read more

How to Survive in Ancient Greece

By: Robert Garland

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler's guide is a fascinating way to find out . . .



Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you... Read more

The Mind and Society

By: Vilfredo Pareto

Narrated by: Daniel Natal

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic of Sociology, "The Mind and Society" is 1916 book by the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923). In this book Pareto presents the first sociological cycle theory, centered on the concept of an elite social class. Read more

Our Moon

By: Rebecca Boyle

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World

A New York Times Book... Read more

Black Women, Ivory Tower

By: Jasmine L. Harris

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women are heading to college in record numbers, and more and more Black women are teaching in higher education. But these statistics don’t guarantee our safety there. Willpower and grit may improve achievement for Black people in school, but they don’t secure our belonging. In fact, the very structure of higher education ensures that we’re... Read more

The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories]

By: Adraint Khadafhi Bereal

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping exploration of the joys, hardships, and truths of Black students through intimate, honest dialogues and stunning photography, author of Heavy

“A radical, reverential, and restorative document of community.”—Rebecca Bengal, author of Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

When photographer Adraint Bereal graduated... Read more

Under the Hornbeams

By: Emma Tarlo

Narrated by: Emma Tarlo

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm not homeless: this is my home!' Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain. On one of the lower branches sits a robin, joining our conversation. It seems to be saying: Why should anyone want to leave this place? Nick and Pascal live and sleep... Read more

The Project-State and Its Rivals

By: Charles S. Maier

Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses—ethnic... Read more

America's Silent Crimes

By: Darius Robinson

Narrated by: Benjamin Martinez

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the Shadows of the American Justice System
"America's Silent Crimes: What Justice Doesn't Speak Of" delves deep into the unspoken transgressions woven into America's legal fabric. This gripping exploration uncovers systemic failures and silent miscarriages of justice, exposing untold stories hidden behind the facade of legal fairness.
The... Read more

Filterworld

By: Kyle Chayka

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.

"[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what... Read more

Escape from Camp 14

By: Blaine Harden

Narrated by: Blaine Harden

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000... Read more

Black Boys Like Me

By: Matthew R. Morris

Narrated by: Matthew R. Morris

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD*

“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their titles. Matthew R. Morris earns this classic title with a classic book about our insides.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy


Startlingly... Read more

Ougat

By: Shana Fife

Narrated by: Shana Fife

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book.’ – Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline ‘Ougat is masterfully written – raw, unpretentious, unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body, psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency.’ – Frazer Barry, award-winning theatre... Read more

World Changers 2024

By: Scarlettabbott

Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Change your world.Every day, we have a chance to change the world of work. As employee experience professionals, that’s our zenith – and our superpower. World Changers comes from months of tracking what’s emerged, grown and shifted, using the intersections of culture, people and insights to predict what could trip us up – and pick us up.Five... Read more

Born This Way

By: Joanna Wuest

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over... Read more

De Grandes Mentiras a Grandes Retos de Nuestra Sociedad Occidental

By: Sergio Gallego-García

Narrated by: Sergio Gallego-García

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

La serie de libros que vislumbra y va hacia un Nuevo Mundo en el que el Renacer de Occidente es PosibleLo que hacemos depende de nuestras creencias. Muchas veces no somos conscientes de ellas pero nos impactan en nuestra vida y en la forma de interaccionar con los demás. Hoy nos encontramos en una crisis en prácticamente todos los ámbitos y que... Read more