Social Science audiobooks

How Trust Works

By: Dr. Peter H. Kim, PhD

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this age of diminishing trust in public figures, this audiobook offers highly useful guidance about how to trust and withhold trust more thoughtfully." - AudioFile

From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities.

When our trust is broken, and when... Read more

How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?

By: Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia

Narrated by: Anu Anand, Sam Dastor, Sahera Chohan, Raj Ghata...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively 'Hindu' India, while targeting anyone who dares to question or dissent.In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia... Read more

Be Better Than Your BS

By: Risha Grant

Narrated by: Risha Grant

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

DEI consultant and corporate speaker, Risha Grant, shares her practice of learning how to welcome and embrace people's full humanity, without BS, full stop. What's BS? It's bullshit for sure, but more specifically it's the powerful and often invisible belief systems we've been steeped in since birth-the judgment and bias we carry with us that... Read more

Survivor Injustice

By: Kylie Cheung

Narrated by: Dana Wing Lau

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state.
For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.

Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times,... Read more

In Defense of Love

By: Ron Rosenbaum

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age.

Who wrote the book of love?

In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and the terrifying power of thermonuclear explosions—takes on... Read more

Morfina

By: Galo Abrain

Narrated by: José Luis Espina

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Un devastador ataque, oscuramentedivertido y sincero, a una generaciónanestesiada. Un tortazo al decoroy las buenas intenciones de una juventudque se parece más a sus padres de lo queles gustaría, salvo que oculta sus miseriascon mayor vergüenza. Empleando el desparpajo narrativodel Nuevo Periodismo y la negraacidez de Michel Houellebecq,Galo... Read more

In jeder Träne spiegelt sich die Sonne

By: Ferraldi

Narrated by: Ferraldi

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Gebäudesprengung, die das Leben aller Beteiligten verändert. Als der schwerverletzte Stephan unter den Trümmern eines Einkaufscenters gefunden wird, ist schnell klar, dass er hier sein Leben lassen sollte. Seine seltene Blutgruppe ABO und die erschreckenden Verletzungen, die auf einen langen Leidensweg hindeuten, stellen die Ärzte vor große... Read more

The Feeling of Forgetting

By: John Corrigan

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.
 
The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of... Read more

Grim Reaper

By: KIV Books

Narrated by: Tom Chandler

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are two certain things in this life; taxes and death.” - Benjamin Franklin
While this may sound like any other famous quote, it is very true and practical. However, as certain as taxes may be, we will not focus on that in this book. Instead, we'll explore this dark and distasteful topic that everyone prefers to avoid: Death represented as... Read more

Grandeur et dénuement

By: France Hurtubise

Narrated by: France Hurtubise

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

À la fois tissé d’indignation et d’espoir, ce témoignage poignant livré en temps réel est celui d’une communicatrice projetée au cœur de conflits qui s’interroge sur les défis de l’information. L’autrice nous transporte avec elle dans les camps de réfugiés du génocide rwandais, au cœur de Sarajevo en guerre, sur des scènes de dévastations auprès... Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Duitsland (Lutz Müller-Kirsch)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: TBA

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

The Cajuns and Creoles: The History and Legacy of the Unique Ethnic Groups in the American South and Caribbean

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south in search of a new home and ultimately settled in the Pelican State, where they made new lives for themselves... Read more

The Bleeding Tree

By: Hollie Starling

Narrated by: Adele Marie

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots and it had been bleeding for a long while.

As summer falls into autumn, Hollie Starling is hit by the heart-stopping news that her father has died by suicide.... Read more

It Gave Me You

By: Emily Gould

Narrated by: Jennifer George

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Falling in love usually happens when you least expect it. But love isn't the only thing that happens without warning."

Lexi saw him for the first time in the fourth-floor pediatric cancer clinic. He was tall, handsome, and had a full head of dark hair-nothing like the little kids she was used to meeting during her routine hospital visits. No,... Read more

The Most Influential Mesoamerican Gods: The History and Legacy of Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Tlaloc

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Hare

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilgamesh, Hercules, Aeneas, and Lancelot are instantly recognized as mythological heroes in the West, evoking visions of Persian monsters, ghastly labors, and the founding and glorification of cities, but the names of Mesoamerican gods remain as mysterious as their spelling. Even those who have come across their names when learning about the... Read more

Naked Feminism

By: Victoria Bateman

Narrated by: Victoria Bateman

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women's bodies remain at the mercy of state, society, and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully covered woman, or a chaste one? Are being sexy and being smart really mutually exclusive? Can a woman be both body and brain? Victoria Bateman has... Read more

American Autopsy

By: Michael M. Baden, MD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives... Read more

Spirit Talker

By: Shawn Leonard

Narrated by: Shawn Leonard

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this teaching memoir, Shawn Leonard shares his personal story of developing his abilities as a spirit talker, revealing incredible stories from his childhood to the present. Along the way, he shares experiences he has had with elders from his aboriginal tribe, the Mi'kmaq, and his journey learning more about his heritage. Shawn incorporates... Read more

The Porn Trap

By: Wendy Maltz, LCSW, DST & Larry Maltz, LCSW

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this highly acclaimed recovery guide, renowned sex and relationship therapists Wendy and Larry Maltz shed new light on the compelling nature and destructive power of today's instantly available pornography. Weaving together poignant real-life stories with innovative exercises, checklists, and expert advice, this groundbreaking resource... Read more

The Women I Think About at Night

By: Mia Kankimäki

Narrated by: Lisa Negron

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue" (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.



What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia... Read more

Bodies Under Siege

By: Sian Norris

Narrated by: Naomi Madelin

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who... Read more

Cave of Bones

By: Lee Berger & John Hawks

Narrated by: Lee Berger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger... Read more

The Unconquered

By: Scott Wallace

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a... Read more

Ever Wonder Why?

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his... Read more