Social Science audiobooks

Ordinary Criminals: Go Ahead and Shoot Me and Other True Stories

By: Doug Heckbert

Narrated by: Andy Curtis, Sarah Wheeldon & Lorene Shyba

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Oridinary Criminals is a collection of stories by probation officer Doug Heckbert about real people who have been convicted of real crimes and who have been on probation, on parole, or in prison. The story, "Go Ahead and Shoot Me," for example, is about  a woman who shot her husband upon his insistence and who, like many other subjects in the... Read more

Apocalipsis cognitivo

By: Gérald Bronner

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Apocalipsis cognitivo, bestseller en Francia con más de 40.000 ejemplares vendidos, trata sobre cómo la sobreexposición de nuestro cerebro a las pantallas podría conducirnos a un punto de inflexión en la historia de la civilización. Bestseller en Francia con más de 40.000 ejemplares vendidos. Apocalipsis cognitivo, del sociólogo y especialista... Read more

Positive Affirmations for Black Men

By: Elijah Jackson

Narrated by: Joshua Jonathan Williams

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you a Black man ready to transform your life? Unleash confidence, self-worth, discipline and successful relationships.Positive Affirmations for Black Men includes over 250 powerful affirmations, especially for Black men. Get motivated and inspired, develop your confidence and self-worth, build community and relationships, become mentally... Read more

Why Can't Somebody Just Die Around Here?

By: Gerhard Maroscher

Narrated by: Gerhard Maroscher

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“A memoir that offers a rare, underrepresented perspective of World War II.” -Kirkus

_A true story of a Romanian family’s miraculous survival of World War II, becoming refugees, fleeing their homeland, starving after the war, and coming to the United States to live the American Dream._

Life was full of promise for the young Maroscher family.... Read more

"Bist du behindert, oder was?" in Einfacher Sprache - Kinder inklusiv stärken und ableismussensibel begleiten (ungekürzt)

By: Rebecca Maskos & Mareice Kaiser

Narrated by: Rebecca Maskos, Mareice Kaiser & Kübra Sekin

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht - und doch sind wir in der Umsetzung noch weit davon entfernt. Behindert wird als Schimpfwort genutzt, Ableismus ist strukturell und prägt uns alle. In diesem Buch gehen die Autorinnen Rebecca Maskos und Mareice Kaiser der Frage nach, wie Inklusion von klein auf gelingen kann - wie wir Kinder inklusiv stärken und... Read more

Positive Affirmations for Black Male Excellence

By: Elijah Jackson

Narrated by: Joshua Jonathan Williams

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ready to embark on a transformative journey as a Black man?Dive into Positive Affirmations for Black Male Excellence, a collection of over 230 potent affirmations tailored specifically to uplift and empower Black men.With these affirmations, you'll supercharge your motivation, boost your self-confidence, forge meaningful connections, and enhance... Read more

"Bist du behindert, oder was?" - Kinder inklusiv stärken und ableismussensibel begleiten (ungekürzt)

By: Rebecca Maskos & Mareice Kaiser

Narrated by: Rebecca Maskos, Mareice Kaiser, Kübra Sekin & M...

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht - und doch sind wir in der Umsetzung noch weit davon entfernt. Behindert wird als Schimpfwort genutzt, Ableismus ist strukturell und prägt uns alle. In diesem Buch gehen die Autorinnen Rebecca Maskos und Mareice Kaiser der Frage nach, wie Inklusion von klein auf gelingen kann - wie wir Kinder inklusiv stärken und... Read more

Positive Affirmations for Black Kids

By: Zahra Jackson

Narrated by: Raymond Feliz

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Empower Their DreamsAn inspiring collection of affirmations specifically crafted to nurture the self-esteem and ambition of young Black children. Young listeners will discover positive affirmations and motivational messages that celebrate their unique identities, dreams, and potential.This is a reminder that Black kids can achieve anything they... Read more

Restoring Eden

By: Elizabeth D. Hilborn

Narrated by: Marnye Young

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees.



The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent.



As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Despite... Read more

In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives... Read more

Asylum Between Nations

By: Janet Polasky

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered



Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their... Read more

Does Coffee Cause Cancer?

By: Dr. Christopher Labos

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating, refreshingly clarifying book about food, food myths, and how sloppy science perpetuates misconceptions about food, a medical doctor on his way to a conference gets drawn into conversations that answer the following questions: Does vitamin C prevent the common cold? And if it works, why does it only work in Canadian soldiers,... Read more

Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism. Read more

The Valkyries' Loom

By: Michèle Hayeur Smith

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies



This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these... Read more

Motherland

By: Paula Ramón

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw... Read more

California, a Slave State

By: Jean Pfaelzer

Narrated by: Ewan Chung

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold... Read more

Luz y luna, las lunitas

By: Elena Poniatowska

Narrated by: Elena Poniatowska, Ignacio Casas & Dalia de la ...

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

En Luz y luna, las lunitas, nos obsequia un recorrido por los protagonistas más variopintos y entrañables de nuestra cultura. Desde las curiosas expresiones sonoras de los vendedores ambulantes de México, la imaginación desbordante de sus habitantes venidos de fuera  como Josefina Bojórquez, la mujer que inspiró a Jesusa Palancares, protagonista... Read more

God's Monsters

By: Esther Hamori

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swims through the wine-dark sea. A stunning array of peculiar creatures, mind-altering spirits, and supernatural hitmen fill the biblical heavens.



Traditional interpretations of the creatures of the Bible have sanded down their sharp, unsavory edges,... Read more

Why We Love Middle-earth

By: Alan Sisto & Shawn E. Marchese

Narrated by: Alan Sisto

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers to common questions about Middle-earth and the fandom, this book about Tolkien celebrates Why We Love Middle-earth.



The Lord of the Rings omnibus for all. Who wrote The Lord of the Rings? What details are in the movies, books, maps, and other... Read more

The Trials of Madame Restell

By: Nicholas L. Syrett

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that... Read more

Avatars of Brahma

By: Arpan Sharma & Pareekshit Dahal

Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

While the Puranas mention that Lord Brahma becomes an avatar whenever Lord Vishnu comes to Earth to establish dharma, it is in the Dasam Granth (one of the holy books of the Sikhs) that the avatars are actually listed. The common point in Hinduism and Sikhism regarding the avatars of Brahma is that they are seen as great thinkers and teachers. ... Read more

Ugly

By: Anita Bhagwandas

Narrated by: Anita Bhagwandas

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

We've all had those moments. The ones where you look in the mirror and nothing feels ok. For Anita Bhagwandas, this started when she was a child and it created an enduring internal torment about her looks.



We're all told that this is just part of growing up, but it stays with us, evolving as we age. The internet tells us we should love ourselves,... Read more

The Book of Runic Astrology

By: Richard Lister

Narrated by: Richard Lister

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to harness the ancient wisdom of astrology and the runes, cast your birth chart and uncover your destiny with this essential guide to runic astrology.Rich Lister explores the powerful combination of the runes and traditional astrology to show you how to tune into your past, present and future. Through a unique combination of mythos and... Read more

¿El gato se comerá mis ojos?

By: Caitlin Doughty

Narrated by: Pilar Corral

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Cada día, la directora de funerarias Caitlin Doughty recibe docenas de preguntas sobre la muerte. Las mejores son las de los niños. ¿Qué le pasaría al cuerpo de un astronauta si lo empujaran desde un transbordador espacial? ¿Se hace caca al morir? ¿Puede la abuela celebrar un funeral vikingo? En "¿Se comerá mi gato mis ojos?", Doughty combina... Read more