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Social & Cultural Studies Audiobooks

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    War

    by Bob Woodward ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 54 min

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Wild Faith

    How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

    by Talia Lavin ...
    Narrated by Talia Lavin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy.All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and protests against gay rights. The Christian Right, a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Revenge of the Tipping Point

    Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light — this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting story.Why is Miami… Miami? What does the heartbreaking ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    What the Dog Saw

    And Other Adventures

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 46 min

    The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Devil's Best Trick

    How the Face of Evil Disappeared

    by Randall Sullivan ...
    Narrated by Lane Hakel ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    How we explain the evils of the world, and the darkest parts of ourselves, has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil’s Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to understand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    See No Stranger

    A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

    by Valarie Kaur ...
    Narrated by Valarie Kaur ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Love Project

    Unabridged

    13 hours 15 min

    #1 LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE • An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love.“In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray LoveHow do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    by David Grann ...
    Narrated by David Grann, Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Follow the Science

    How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

    by Sharyl Attkisson ...
    Narrated by Sharyl Attkisson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 25 min

    Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now, with her signature investigative rigor and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Black Klansman

    Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

    by Ron Stallworth ...
    Narrated by Ron Stallworth ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    **The #1 New York Times Bestseller!This extraordinary true story, read by the author, is the basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.**When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Casino

    Love and Honor in Las Vegas

    by Nicholas Pileggi ...
    Narrated by Ken Weitzman, Fred Neumann, Ron Leibman ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 51 min

    Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob.From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes this brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder and revenge Mafia-style, the true story of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the multi-billion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas.No one ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Model Thinker

    What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

    by Scott E. Page ...
    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 45 min

    Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    I Do (I Think)

    Conversations About Modern Marriage

    by Allison Raskin ...
    Narrated by Allison Raskin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    **"Allison Raskin’s bookunpacks the questions and uncertainties around marriage that so many of us have... a must-read for anyone and everyone that may be curious about the intricacies of modern marriage.” –Nick Viall, TV Personality, Host of The Viall Files, and Bestselling AuthorFrom Just Between Us cohost and bestselling author Allison Raskin comes a witty, incisive** take on modern marriage ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $21.99 USD

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    The Message

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    Narrated by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.”—Associated Press“Coates exhorts readers, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    Narrated by Musa al-Gharbi ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 34 min

    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 55 min

    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    We Refuse

    A Forceful History of Black Resistance

    by Kellie Carter Jackson ...
    Narrated by Kellie Carter Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.The dismissal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Lumumba Plot

    The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

    by Stuart A. Reid ...
    Narrated by Michael Boatman ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 15 min

    **The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent CongoA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times**“This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...
    Narrated by Amy Landon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 21 min

    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Mark Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 13 min

    "An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York TimesA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Humankind

    A Hopeful History

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    Narrated by Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 37 min

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.**If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    Trickster Makes This World

    Mischief, Myth, and Art

    by Lewis Hyde ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 31 min

    In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories-Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others-and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    A Dying Colonialism

    by Frantz Fanon, Chelsea Depuey ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian RevolutionPsychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Black Skin, White Masks

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of listeners. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD