Top Politics & Social Sciences Audiobooks

An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Nearly every book with "wabi" or "wabi sabi" in the title is based on the concepts first elucidated in this book....

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny, but their behavior often drives away those closest to them....

They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years....

Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

Captured: The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover is a thrilling journey into the hidden worlds of the tech elite, and a whistleblower’s look into the sci-fi future they’re building for all of us.

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century and the distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology....

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam....

Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past 50 years, Gender Trouble argues that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of gender....

A spiritually transformative collection of Neville Goddard's works, Infinite Potential is an accessible and profound anthology from one of the greatest spiritual minds of the 20th century....

In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....