Social Science Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Human: From Crisis to Our Greatest Opportunity

"Discover the surprising connection between our gut microbiome and the health of the planet--and learn how you hold humanity's future in your hands--with a visionary physician as your guide. Chronic disease, environmental destruction, and emotional stress are pervasive symptoms of modern society. But what if we started to look at these facets of life not just as symptoms of an unraveling world but as opportunities for rebirth and regeneration? Through a scientific exploration of the microbiome-the ecosystem within us-and its profound connection to the health of the planet, world-renowned, multidisciplinary physician Dr. Zach Bush challenges the destructive narratives that dominate our current understanding of the world. In Human, Dr. Zach reveals: - The truth that there aren't thousands of diseases out there-there is only ONE disease: stress at the cellular level, within our bodies and in our environment - An action-oriented exploration of how we can heal at the cellular level to reclaim our connection to nature and unlock humanity's potential for regeneration - Lifestyle shifts that will help you become a catalyst for global regeneration - Practical solutions for reversing these crises, emphasizing that the same stress that threatens extinction also holds the key to transformation and rebirth Now is the time to embrace your role as an agent of change, not just for yourself but for all humanity. With this call to action, you can finally unlock a future of abundance and planetary renewal for generations to come."

Zach Bush (Author), Zach Bush (Narrator)

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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

"The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses-dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; how they dodged the life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike-that dogged their footsteps; and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive."

Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Judy A. Bernstein (Author), Murphy Applin, Suzanne Toren (Narrator)

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The Secrets of our DNA: How genetics informs our identity, health, history, policing, politics and m

"Go back even a quarter of a century and few people would have heard of DNA, except perhaps in a forensic case. Now genetics plays a part of our everyday culture and our interest in genetics is booming, particularly in the form of direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health, family history and ancestry testing. So how did we get to the point where our understanding, and misunderstanding of genetics became so commonplace? Professor Turi King, the UK's preeminent scientist in DNA and genetics takes us on a journey through the key cases, legal and otherwise, which explain modern genetics and how it now informs policing, personal histories, migration, politics and health. From eugenics, to mistaken dinosaur DNA, the OJ Simpson trial to Angelina Jolie's BRACA1 gene, we are led through the science to discover how genetics has impacted and shaped our society, and how our growing knowledge of the building blocks of life can inform our understanding of our past and how it will affect our future."

Turi King (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Essential: Being Latino and Indispensable in America

"A deeply reported and personal exploration of identity, resilience, and belonging from one of the most influential Spanish-language journalists in the world, Essential offers a nuanced, urgent portrait of what it means to be Latino in today’s America and the contradictions of being vital to a country that still struggles to recognize you fully. In a country still grappling with its sense of identity and the question of who belongs, Essential explores: What does it mean to be Latino in America today? Blending years of on-the-ground reporting with personal reflection, Enrique Acevedo offers a layered, urgent portrait of a community both shaping and being shaped by the nation’s future. Latinos comprise nearly one in five Americans, including more than eleven million in California alone. Yet their place in the national conversation is too often reduced, politicized, or misunderstood, especially when filtered through the narrow lens of immigration. With President Trump back in office and immigration again a defining fault line in American politics, this book arrives at a pivotal moment. From frontline workers during the pandemic to families navigating the opaque machinery of deportation, Essential explores labor, identity, resilience, and the quiet contradictions Latinos carry every day. It challenges the false choice between assimilation and exclusion. It calls on the country to expand its definition of belonging to reflect its people's full complexity and history. Part memoir, part chronicle, Essential is a powerful testament to the stories we tell about who we are and who we still have the chance to become."

Enrique Acevedo (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

Ibram X. Kendi (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity

"From intellectual historian Carl Trueman, an argument that a rejection of Christian anthropology drives the social ills of our time. As church attendance falls, suicide rates climb, and birth rates plummet, Christian pundits have suggested disenchantment and the loss of tradition are to blame for our spiritual malaise. But what if the problem is both much simpler and much more serious? In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman argues that modern man's crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of a simple fact-that he was made in the image of God. Unmoored from the basic moral fact that secures human dignity, we violently disrespect our own minds and bodies through abortion, pornography, casual sex, gender transitions, and more-and in this disrespect we blaspheme against God himself, with devastating practical and spiritual consequences. With gentle pastoral wisdom, deep insight into church history, and an impressive command of philosophical genealogies, The Desecration of Man speaks to those troubled by the spiritual sickness of our time and points toward consecration to a God who is alive and loving as a solution. The Early Church triumphed over Rome because it offered life in place of death. It is time for modern Christians to offer the same kind of vision."

Carl Trueman (Author), Carl Trueman (Narrator)

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The Ancient Ways: A Year of Folklore, Traditions and Rituals to Reconnect with Nature

"Tales of gods and goddesses told around a crackling fire. The light of the rising sun streaming through an ancient site on a solstice morning. Hot cider poured over the roots of apple trees to wake them for the spring. Told through the pagan wheel of the year, The Ancient Ways explores how nature changes throughout the seasons, looking at solstices, equinoxes, legends, and festivals and how these stories and traditions can help you deepen your connection with nature. Discover megalithic sacred sites where crowds still gather to see the sun rise and fall through doorways of the past. Meet Eostre, goddess of the spring and dawn or the Cailleach, queen of winter and the Green Man, a personification of the wild. Celebrate festivals like Beltane, a summer celebration of fire and fertility or Samhain, the festival of the dead and precursor to modern Halloween. Hedgewitch Seren Hawley-Plows weaves these myths and stories together beautifully with tools and inspiration of how to bring the power of ancient tradition into a modern world and help you find magic in the wilds of nature. With stunning illustrations, seasonal recipes and more, whether you live in a sleepy village or a bustling city, The Ancient Ways takes you on a journey of untamed landscapes, old communities and connection - the perfect gift for yourself or others."

Seren Hawley-Plows (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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No Place Like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis

"From award-winning journalist Jessica Barrett, an honest and urgent look at our housing crisis and lessons from around the world that will make better homes for all Canadians. After living in Vancouver for her entire adult life, Jessica Barrett packed up her apartment, quit her dream job as a magazine editor, and headed for Calgary in search of an affordable place to call home. In the years since Barrett was priced out of Vancouver, the issue of housing affordability has become a national crisis, fanning the flames of social inequality and setting us up for financial ruin. But our obsession with rising housing prices obscures a more complex and pressing issue: we have lost our reverence for and our understanding of home. In No Place Like Home, Barrett dives behind the headlines and statistics of Canada's housing crisis to examine how it has eaten away at our psyches by undermining our human needs for belonging, connection, and stability. Through a mix of powerful memoir and rigorous journalism, she delivers an eye-opening portrait of our housing system while scouring the world for examples of how we might do things differently, pulling inspiration from the slum communities of Harare, Zimbabwe, the stately streets of Vienna, Austria, and the Cold-war era apartment blocks of West Berlin. In the process, Barrett forms a framework for solutions and the basis for achievable change. Her biggest discovery? We cannot solve our housing crisis until we first address our crisis of home."

Jessica Barrett (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules

"Brought to you by Penguin. A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan. Society isn’t working for women - or any of us. But what if the rules were different? Imagine a world in which women have all the power. A world in which they work together to shape their rules, their societies and their futures. In reality, all-women communities have always existed, and continue to thrive all over the world. In this vital and ground-breaking book, Megha Mohan goes in search of their roots, discovering a vibrant global history, brought together here for the first time. She also takes us into today's women-led spaces, where women live on their own terms, showing us how we can rethink society for new ways of living, working and collaborating, often with less of a profit-driven mindset and a deeper connection to ancestry and nature. Through extensive research and exclusive first-hand reporting, and inspired by her great-grandmother’s own matrilineal community in South India, Mohan introduces us to fascinating and diverse groups of women. From the controversial feminist online trolls of South Korea, to millionaire leadership meetups on a private island in the Baltic sea, an ancient secret women’s language used in China, elder women co-housing in Paris and North London, the Rain Queens of South Africa, and villages for divorced or widowed women in Egypt and survivors of domestic abuse in Kenya, this is a truly global look at women's community. Essential reading for anyone interested in our collective histories, cultures, economics and governance, Herlands shows the power and possibility of new ways of living - and leading - for us all. 'A powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future' Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister of Samoa 'With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan weaves a tapestry of resilience, leadership and radical hope' Sulaima Ishaq, head of Sudan’s Combating Violence Against Women and Children Commission 'Immersive and absorbing' Bhavana Menon, award-winning actress, who inspired India's Women in Cinema Collective © Megha Mohan 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

Megha Mohan (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

Simon Morrison (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis

"For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of evangelical conspiracism. Conspiracy theories are at the root of the most pressing political problems of our time, yet their influence cuts just as personal. Suspicion has fractured families, communities, churches, and our very social fabric, as one person’s fact is another’s fake news. In Reality in Ruins, Dr. Jared Stacy braves the untold history of conspiracism in American evangelicalism and the anxiety at the heart of this radioactive movement that affects us all. In a new age of what he calls “Disreality,” many are left reeling in the ruins of what was once a common world, now splintered by warring ideologies, religious and political extremism, and cults of certainty. Dr. Stacy reports from the inside as someone raised and even ordained in one of the nation’s most conservative denominations. Now, as a historian and theologian who’s left evangelicalism, Dr. Stacy traces the currents of pain, panic, and power that have thrust the evangelical church into a theological crisis with consequence for everyone. For concerned citizens, Christians who are sounding the alarm on Christian Nationalism, and anyone grieving the relationships paranoia has ruptured, Reality in Ruins profiles the problem, validates your pain, prepares you for good resistance, and empowers you to become the truth-tellers a common world deserves."

Jared Stacy, Phd (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Student Parent: The Cost of Poverty, the Fight for Families, and the Power of College

"A vital call to disrupt systemic forces that impoverish families and to reimagine accessible higher education, empowering parents to thrive in college and at home From the former teen mom and award-winning founder of Generation Hope, a nonprofit committed to expanding education access for young parents and all caregivers For countless American families, the promise of the 'American Dream' rings hollow. They are caught in a cycle of limited opportunity, battling the sociopolitical forces that sustain generational poverty. These are parents and caregivers who yearn for a better life for their children, a reality Nicole Lynn Lewis intimately understands from her own journey as a teen mother. Student Parent is Lewis's unflinching yet profoundly hopeful investigation into the systemic obstacles that impede marginalized parents' access to education, career advancement, and true economic mobility. Crucially, this book moves beyond identifying problems to present transformative, actionable solutions that break through access barriers in higher education. Weaving insights from child and family health experts with vivid personal stories, Lewis outlines pathways for change to support families striving on the fringes. She champions practices like: - subsidizing on-campus childcare - accommodating students facing childcare, transportation, and other challenges - establishing campus food pantries and destigmatizing their use Student Parent isn't just a book about policy; it's a powerful testament to resilience and an advocate's guide for dismantling inequality. Lewis has an inspiring vision of an America where education is a right and generational wealth for all is a reality. This book shows us that investing in our student parents is a critical step on the path toward that bright future."

Nicole Lynn Lewis (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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