Social Science audiobooks

Microtrends Squared

By: Mark Penn

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.

Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society’s broad forces, but by quiet changes within narrow slices of the population. Ten years ago, he showed how the... Read more

Los visigordos

By: José Antonio Ramírez Lozano

Narrated by: David Rodríguez

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Aquellos Reyes Godos de la Hispania pos-romana y pre-musulmana, cuya lista memorizada constituyó una pesadilla escolar para varias generaciones de españoles – sometidos al principio didáctico ''Retener y reproducir'', aún en boga para algunos -, se convierten en referencia de la dinastía de personajes imaginarios creada por José A. Ramírez... Read more

God's Middle Finger

By: Richard Grant

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the Sierra Madre, which is home to bandits, drug... Read more

Patriot Number One

By: Lauren Hilgers

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY
New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews
Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle

Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New... Read more

The Heavens Might Crack

By: Jason Sokol

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing figure -- scorned by many white Americans,... Read more

Bel: El amor más allá del la muerte

By: Care Santos

Narrated by: Miriam Monlleó

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Una chica, Bel —Belinda, 16 años— regresa a su casa después de un tiempo de ausencia. Observa lo que allí ocurre. Todo está cambiado. Su cuarto, recogido. Su madre, no va a trabajar y ha adelgazado mucho. Su padre ya no se prepara sus desayunos pantagruélicos de antes cuando vuelve de trabajar (es policía y tiene el turno de noche), su perro la... Read more

¿Por qué la nieve es blanca?

By: Javier Fernández Panadero

Narrated by: Aneta Fernández

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro tiene como objetivo la divulgación científica de forma comprensible para cualquier persona, independientemente de su formación previa. Está especialmente pensado para niños y jóvenes de edades comprendidas entre los 10 y 16 años y recoge un amplio espectro de temas de interés, como son la Tierra, el cuerpo humano, la biología, la... Read more

Seven Fallen Feathers

By: Tanya Talaga

Narrated by: Michaela Washburn

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple... Read more

Secret Fantasy

By: Jacob Ray

Narrated by: Jacob Ray

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Created By An Erotic Hyptnotist And Made Specifically For Women. Secret Fantasy is a journey of sensation and exploration. You will be guided into an imaginary secret place to explore your deepest desires and fantasies in a completely new way. You are going to use the power of your imagination to awaken your sensuality. You will also learn... Read more

How To Seduce Men Born On August 2 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For ANY WOMAN, the given material provides a recipe, and therefore an opportunity to get any man born on August 2 of common years (or August 1 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 this... Read more

Body Language

By: Jayden Haywards

Narrated by: Jason Burkhead

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Recognize all the signs to understand people’s body language and the messages it conveys.
You’ve probably heard it before: Most of what you’re saying doesn’t comes out of your mouth. We constantly send mixed signals by the way we walk, move, sit, or look. In this audiobook, you’ll get a quick overview of subtle signs such as:
How the way you... Read more

You Married a What?

By: Valerie Gorick

Narrated by: Valerie Gorick

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Immigration is a current hot topic, and when it’s in your family it’s hotter than an inferno. We don't get to choose who our kids fall in love with. And no one can prepare us for who they end up marrying. You Married a What?! is the amazingly, absurdly, deliciously funny journey of a mom having to accept her daughter's choice of husband,... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part One

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part One" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In 1986, in northwest Austin, Texas, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally... Read more

Still Life

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Ashley Wood

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "Still Life" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Thirty-five years ago, Dallas--and the country--was gripped by the tragic story of John McClamrock, a high school football player... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part Two

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part Two" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Picking up where Part One of "The Innocent Man" left off, Pamela Colloff dives into what Michael Morton went through... Read more

The Myth of Race

By: Robert Wald Sussman

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Wald Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science. Read more

A Fierce Discontent

By: Michael McGerr

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of... Read more

Nationally Recognized Features from Texas Monthly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following nationally recognized features are now available in a bundle as an audio download:

* "Still Life" by Skip Hollandsworth
* "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives" by Mimi Swartz
* "The Innocent Man, Part One" by Pamela Colloff
* "The Innocent Man, Part Two" by Pamela Colloff
* "The Witness" by Pamela... Read more

The Witness

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Witness" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

For more than a decade, it was Michelle Lyons's job to observe the final moments of death row inmates--but watching 278 executions... Read more

Fisherman's Blues

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Anna Badkhen

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.

For... Read more

The Boy Crisis

By: Warren Farrell & John Gray

Narrated by: Warren Farrell & John Gray

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the boy crisis?It’s a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our s ons will have less education than their dads. It’s a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It’s a crisis of sexuality. Sex is a minefield for our sons. They’re... Read more

Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition)

By: Inga Muscio

Narrated by: Inga Muscio

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist... Read more

How To Seduce Men Born On January 18 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For ANY WOMAN, the given material provides a recipe, and therefore an opportunity to get any man born on January 18 of common 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 this information. If you are a... Read more

Christian Sievers und Klaus Kleber im Dienst der Wahrheit - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Christian Sievers & Klaus Kleber

Narrated by: Christian Sievers, Klaus Kleber & Anja Bröker

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Claus Klebers (Jg. 1955) Buch "Rettet die Wahrheit!" ist ein kraftvolles Plädoyer für die Unabhängigkeit der Medien und gegen die Kampagnen der Hetzer. Er tritt den Lügenpresse-Vorwürfen mit einem schonungslos offenen Blick in das Innere der Redaktionsarbeit, ihre Freuden, Anfechtungen und Schwierigkeiten entgegen. Sein ZDF-Kollege Christian... Read more