Social Science audiobooks

Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

By: Lisa Schneidau

Narrated by: Lisa Schneidau

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered in woodland. Many of the trees have been cleared, but our connection with the wildwood remains. It is a place of danger, adventure and transformation, where anything could happen. Here is a collection of traditional folk tales of oak, ash and thorn, of hunting forests and rebellion,... Read more

Textures of Terror

By: Victoria Sanford

Narrated by: Angela Juarez

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.



Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge... Read more

Hillbilly Highway

By: Max Fraser

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American... Read more

The Burning of the World

By: Scott W. Berg

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city—told with the "the clarity—and tension—of a... Read more

Pleasure of Thinking

By: Wang Xiaobo

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.



Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and... Read more

Breaking Free

By: Marcie Bianco

Narrated by: Marisha Tapera & Marcie Bianco

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold argument that “equality” is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women’s systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism—with a plan to transform the movement

For more than a century, women have fought for equality. Yet, time and again, their battles have fallen short.  Even so-called constitutionally-protected equal... Read more

Before the Streetlights Come On

By: Heather McTeer Toney

Narrated by: Karan Kendrick

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver, and a defining dynamic for the foreseeable future. Yet, in Black communities, climate change is seen as less urgent when compared to other pressing issues, including police brutality, gun violence,... Read more

Wild Dances

By: William Lee Adams

Narrated by: William Lee Adams

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days taking care of his quadriplegic brother, while worrying about his undiagnosed bipolar Vietnamese mother, and steering clear of his openly racist and homophobic father. Too shy and anxious to even speak until he was six years old, it seemed unlikely William would ever leave small-town Georgia.



In time,... Read more

What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

Narrated by: Caitlin Moran

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestsellerWith her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society’s weirdly unasked question: What About Men?Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: “But what about men?” And at... Read more

Smothered and Covered

By: Ty Matejowsky

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Waffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant's consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways. Whether approached as a comedic punchline on the Internet, television, and other popular media or elevated as a... Read more

The Identity Trap

By: Yascha Mounk

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Inc., Prospect Magazine, and The Conversation

“The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted . . . Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it.” —The Washington Post

"An... Read more

Riding Jane Crow

By: Miriam Thaggert

Narrated by: Madeline McCray

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines... Read more

The Last Island

By: Adam Goodheart

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called "Satan's last stronghold," a small patch of land known as North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. News of the tragedy fascinated people around the world. Most were unaware such a place still existed in... Read more

Goth

By: Lol Tolhurst

Narrated by: Lol Tolhurst & Budgie

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The co-founder of The Cure and author of Cured delivers a fascinating deep dive into the dark romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture.
 
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir, and a journey through Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy... Read more

Radical Tarot

By: Charlie Claire Burgess

Narrated by: Charlie Claire Burgess

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation, using the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning and unlocking the personal truths beneath. The Fool's Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, the gender... Read more

Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City

By: Stacy Manning & Katy Faust

Narrated by: Stacy Manning

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Practical, age-appropriate strategies every parent can employ to train kids capable of resisting leftist indoctrination and fight the raging culture war. In Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their... Read more

The Bodies Keep Coming

By: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Narrated by: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to... Read more

Between Starshine and Clay

By: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Narrated by: Sarah Ladipo Manyika & Bernadine Evaristo

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a series of incisive and intimate encounters Sarah Ladipo Manyika introduces some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker. She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis... Read more

The Spice Must Flow

By: Ryan Britt

Narrated by: Ryan Britt

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Geek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time.
 
Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of... Read more

Bite Back

By: Hannah Ferguson

Narrated by: Hannah Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book of opinions and ideas with bite. It's news that talks back.
The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the future of the #MeToo movement. Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive... Read more

Storyland

By: Amy Jeffs

Narrated by: Amy Jeffs & Lucy Paterson

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Immersed in mist and old magic, Storyland is an exquisite new mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. Historian and printmaker Amy Jeffs reimagines ancient legends in wondrous detail in this this gift-worthy collection for all lovers of myth, folklore, and mysticism.
Storyland begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the... Read more

Angry Cripples. Stimmen behinderter Menschen gegen Ableismus [Ungekürzt]

By: Alina Buschmann & Luisa L'Audace

Narrated by: Alina Buschmann

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Angry Cripples" werden behinderte Menschen abfällig genannt, denen vorgeworfen wird, aufgrund ihrer Behinderung verbittert zu sein. Dieses Hörbuch fordert den Begriff zurück und besetzt ihn neu. Es kommen ausschließlich behinderte Menschen zu Wort - und viele von ihnen sind wütend darüber, wie die Gesellschaft mit ihnen umgeht. Zu Recht. Hier... Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Israël (Shelly Bodenheimer)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Wat valt op, als je als buitenlander naar Nederland verhuist? Nederland presenteert zich graag als gastvrij en tolerant land, maar hoe wordt daar daar door nieuwkomers over gedacht? Dit is hun verhaal.In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en... Read more

El loro en el limonero

By: Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Joe Lewis

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Segunda parte de la trilogía sobre el encanto de la vida alternativa que vive Chris Stewart en la Alpujarra granadina. Con el formidable éxito de ventas de Entre limones -el divertidísimo relato autobiográfico de un joven inglés que, con tal de no vestir traje y acudir a una oficina, se gasta todos sus ahorros en la compra de un ruinoso cortijo... Read more