Social Science audiobooks

Myths of Light

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Campbell explores, with his characteristic clarity and humor, the principle that underlies all the great religions of India and East Asia, from Jainism... Read more

Our Towns

By: James Fallows & Deborah Fallows

Narrated by: James Fallows & Deborah Fallows

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America... Read more

Asian Journals

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 26 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical... Read more

After the Fact

By: Nathan Bomey

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This trenchant analysis examines the many ways our society's increasingly tenuous commitment to facts laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise to power.

Award-winning journalist Nathan Bomey argues that Trump did not usher the post-truth era into being. He was its inevitable outcome. Bomey points to recent trends that have created the perfect... Read more

Saving Truth

By: Abdu Murray

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How can Christians defend truth and clarity to a world that rejects both?Increasingly, Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries certainty as a sin. Those who are confused about sexuality and identity are viewed as heroes. Those who are confused about morality are progressive pioneers. Those who are confused about spirituality... Read more

The next generation of African-American doctors finds success and support at this university PBS NewsHour

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Xavier University, a small, historically black college in New Orleans, manages to graduate more African Americans who go on to become medical doctors than any other undergraduate institution in the country -- a fact that's even more striking given a drop in black males applying to medical schools. In our series Rethinking College, Hari... Read more

The Heritage

By: Howard Bryant

Narrated by: Ronnie Butler

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism

Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal

It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst... Read more

Our Search for Belonging

By: Howard J. Ross & JonRobert Tartaglione

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We are living in a time of mounting political segregation that threatens to tear us apart as a unified society. The result is that we are becoming increasingly tribal, and the narratives of life that we get exposed to on a daily basis have become echo chambers in which we hear our beliefs reinforced and others' beliefs demonized.

At the core of... Read more

The Girl

By: Michelle Morgan

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today.

When Marilyn... Read more

Queer City

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way–through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria (“wolf dens” or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his... Read more

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

By: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of... Read more

Wonder Woman Psychology

By: Travis Langley & Mara Wood

Narrated by: Todd McLaren & Stephanie Bentley

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For seventy five years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superhero—who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marston—through twenty chapters, including some very special interviews and the previously unpublished memoir of Elizabeth... Read more

How To Seduce Men Born On October 13 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For ANY WOMAN, the given material provides a recipe, and therefore an opportunity to get any man born on October 13 of common years (or October 12 of leap years) into bed within a short period of time, and without the need to invest a lot of energy. If you happen to be married to this man, you can instantly improve your sex life by implementing... Read more

Run the Storm

By: George Michelsen Foy

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it... Read more

All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed

By: Rus Bradburd

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall’s struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired... Read more

The Penis Book

By: Aaron Spitz, MD

Narrated by: Aaron Spitz, MD

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever wanted to know about the penis but were afraid to ask? Dr. Aaron Spitz has that answer—and many more.Let Dr. Spitz—clinical professor at UC Irvine’s Department of Urology and a regularly featured guest on The Doctors—become your best friend as he fearlessly guides you through the hairiest and the scariest... Read more

Los novios de mamá

By: Antonio Ramos Revillas

Narrated by: Lili Barba

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Tres han sido los novios que ha tenido la mamá de Natalia desde el divorcio. Tres novios que Natalia ha tenido que sufrir, soportar, pero también apreciar y querer; solo que el cuarto parece el peor de todos, y una tarde, mientras camina por la ciudad, lo confirma. A partir de esa certeza la novela es una cadena de sorpresas, declaraciones,... Read more

Post-Truth

By: Lee McIntyre

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe... Read more

Not That Bad

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Roxane Gay, Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Amy J...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited and with an introduction written and read by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, “10 of the Most... Read more

Modern Esoteric

By: Brad Olsen

Narrated by: Brad Olsen

Length: 33 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern Esoteric examines the flaws in modern history and looks at how conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge, and fringe subjects can be used to help change the dead-end course humanity seems to be following. The Lifeology section explores the long and storied "alternative narrative" of life on this planet. In the Control section, author Brad... Read more

The Military Science of Star Wars

By: George Beahm

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Military Science of Star Wars is an audiobook that will appeal to Star Wars fans everywhere

The first ever in-depth analysis of the tactics and equipment used by the heroes and villains of the Star Wars universe has arrived! Spanning all of the films, this comprehensive audiobook goes into detail about the various guerrilla tactics of the... Read more

Keep Marching

By: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Narrated by: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A GROUNDBREAKING, DEFINITIVE WORK ON HOW TO BUILD WOMEN'S POWER

"A perfect primer for women everywhere who want to take action-whether their heading to their first town hall meeting or running for office." -- Cecile Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Make Trouble and President of Planned Parenthood

"The book we all need to remind us... Read more

Tres deseos

By: Andreu Martin Farrero

Narrated by: Julio Hernández

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué harías tú si te encontraras al Genio de la botella y te concediera tres deseos? Por culpa de la crisis económica, los padres de Enric, un joven de dieciséis años, abandonan Barcelona y se trasladan a una masía de un pequeño pueblo catalán. Como el chico tiene una miopía magna y es alérgico a las lentillas, usa unas horribles gafas y eso le... Read more

Into the Raging Sea

By: Rachel Slade

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.”
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookOn October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole,... Read more