Social Science audiobooks

Storyteller

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrated by: Tara Gatewood

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"A rich, many-faceted book." -- The New York Times

A classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New... Read more

Disobedient Women

By: Sarah Stankorb

Narrated by: Suehyla Young

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this national bestseller, journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply researching and reporting on powerful church figures—allowed women to begin dismantling the false authority of evangelical communities that had long demanded their submission.​ A generation of... Read more

Ancient Egyptian Conspiracy Theories: The History of the Most Popular Conspiracy Theories about Egypt in Antiquity

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Given how far back the Egyptian civilization goes, it’s no surprise that Egypt is still full of mystery, and the unknown continues to generate conspiracy theories that attempt to fill in the gaps. For example, generations have viewed Egypt’s pyramids and the Great Sphinx as symbols of a lost past, which in turn leads to Egypt’s portrayal as a... Read more

Disequilibria

By: Robert Lunday

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by... Read more

Säällisiä ajatuksia – Myötätuntoinen katse ja muut ilmastotekoni

By: Taina Laane

Narrated by: Anna Böhm

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Voiko myötätunto auttaa pelastamaan ilmaston?Ilmastonmuutosta ei pääse pakoon: se on ruokakaupassa, biojäteastiassa, illan uutisissa, ennalta-arvaamattomassa säässä. Ilmastoteot ovat jokaisen vastuulla. Mutta miten pelastaa maailma, kun itsensä muuttaminen on vaikeaa ja riittämättömyyden tunne loputon?Myötätunto itseä ja muita kohtaan on voima,... Read more

The Love Jones Cohort

By: Kris Marsh

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray... Read more

The Injustice of Place

By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. N...

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling... Read more

The Perfection Trap

By: Thomas Curran

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling to find their footing in a world of impossible standards.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive and The Power of Regret

In the tradition of Brené Brown’s bestseller The Gifts of Imperfection, this illuminating book by an acclaimed professor at the London... Read more

The Bone Woman

By: Clea Koff

Narrated by: Clea Koff

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the... Read more

Class War

By: Mark Steven

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new history of the global class war

A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the... Read more

The Oqual Cycle: The 84-Year Rhythm of Human Civilization

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, almost every nation-on-earth is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime.Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmoil across the globe is also periodic due... Read more

Je band met Nederland TEASER - Verhuisd naar Koeweit (Judith Spiegel)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Elk jaar emigreren ongeveer 40.000 Nederlanders naar het buitenland. Wat is hun verhaal? En in hoeverre voelen ze zich nog verbonden met Nederland?In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en niet-Nederlanders over hun ervaringen als migrant; over... Read more

How the Clinic Made Gender

By: Sandra Eder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. 

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is... Read more

Ciudad Feliz

By: Charles Montgomery

Narrated by: Martin Untrojb

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Un viaje por todo el mundo y una exploración reveladora de cómo las ciudades pueden hacer -y hacen- que seamos más felices.'Ciudad feliz', de Charles Montgomery, está revolucionando la forma de concebir la vida urbana.Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito... Read more

An Open Secret

By: Nicholas L. Syrett

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to... Read more

The Killing Place

By: Kate Ellis

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.
'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES

November. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson is looking forward to a quieter month in the CID. But when a man is shot dead... Read more

Talking Heads

By: Shane O'Mara

Narrated by: Shane O'Mara

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Language and talking is part of what makes us human. It forms the basis of all our lives.

Every day we speak to ourselves and to each other, about ourselves and about others. Whether ruminating on a past event alone or gossiping with a group of friends, we move through life in a state of near-constant chatter - even... Read more

La morada infinita

By: Arnoldo Kraus

Narrated by: Bobby Sánchez

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Prólogo de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Autonomía y libertad son bienes y derechos incuestionables: entonces, ¿por qué nos resistimos a ejercerlas ante Su Majestad la Muerte? A diferencia de la vida, la ciencia carece de límites. Los inconmensurables avances de la tecnología médica han prolongado, no siempre para bien, la vida. Cuando privan la... Read more

Movimento LGBTI+

By: Renan Quinalha

Narrated by: Renan Quinalha

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sem a pretensão de escrever um manual exaustivo, o autor nos oferece um panorama da constituição moderna do movimento LGBTI+ como movimento político que reivindica direitos, equidade e respeito, a partir de um recorte geográfico ocidental." Erika Hilton "Cada uma das partes que compõem este livro faz com que avancemos numa compreensão de... Read more

Häpeä!

By: Satu Lidman

Narrated by: Tanja Talvensalo

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vatsaa kivistää ja posket punoittavat. Häpeän tunne on sekä tuskallisen yksityinen että kaikille tuttu.Häpeän kokemus ja pelko on ohjannut ihmisten käyttäytymistä halki vuosisatojen. Aikoinaan Egyptissä yritettiin sopeutua kauneusihanteisiin poistamalla ihokarvoja, ja keskiajan Euroopassa häpeän pelättiin tarttuvan ihmisestä toiseen. Vaikka... Read more

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... Read more

Policing the Womb

By: Michele Goodwin

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the... Read more

Climate Resilience

By: Kylie Flanagan

Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change

For readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save

In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond: beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech... Read more

Jezus umarł w Polsce

By: Mikołaj Grynberg

Narrated by: Ewa Abart, Bartosz Głogowski & Tomasz Ignaczak

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Odludne rejony Polski. Cisza i spokój. W 2021 roku to jednak się zmieniło. Zaczęły się pojawiać buty, ubrania, potem ludzie. Bohaterowie audiobooka „Jezus umarł w Polsce” nie wiedzieli, co ich czeka. Pomaganie uchodźcom stało się ich codziennością, ale pozbawiło poczucia bezpieczeństwa. Tyle kosztuje odpowiedzialność, której nie potrafią wziąć... Read more