Social Science audiobooks

How To Seduce Women Born On May 28 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This book reveals, legalizes a recipe of seduction applicable to ALL of approximately 10 million women born on May 28 of common years (or May 27 of leap years) and provides details about their sexual factor: behavior, preferences, desires, fantasies, dislikes; frequency of sexual activity, potency, preferred positions, attitude towards monogamy... Read more

Straight Jacket

By: Matthew Todd

Narrated by: Matthew Todd

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audio edition of Straight Jacket, written and read by Matthew Todd.

WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017

Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the... Read more

The F Word

By: Lily Pebbles

Narrated by: Lily Pebbles

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal celebration of female friendships - the good, the bad and the complicated - by lifestyle content creator, Lily Pebbles.

If there's one piece of invaluable advice for women and girls of all ages, it is that there is nothing more important than creating and maintaining strong, positive and happy friendships with other women.

In a culture... Read more

Otto Osterhase hat keinen Bock!

By: Marcello Silvestri & Miguel A. Kostas

Narrated by: Markus Kästle

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Osterfest steht vor der Tür, doch es gibt ein Problem. Der Osterhasen-Nachfolger Otto Osterwald hat überhaupt keine Lust die Aufgabe des Osterhasen zu übernehmen. Er wäre viel lieber Hasen-Sportler, Doppel-Ohr Geheimagent oder Superheld. Sein Uropa, Opa und sein Vater haben als Osterhasen mit Auszeichnung dafür natürlich wenig Verständnis.... Read more

Walking the Americas

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Levison Wood's famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: a 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia.



Beginning in the Yucatán, Wood's journey... Read more

Mad Blood Stirring

By: Daemon Fairless

Narrated by: Daemon Fairless

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With a rare clarity and fearless honesty, Daemon Fairless tackles the horrors and compulsions of male violence from the perspective of someone who struggles with violent impulses himself, creating a non-fiction masterpiece with the narrative power of novels such as Fight Club and A History of Violence.

A man, no matter how civilized, is still an... Read more

Tomorrow Will Be Different

By: Sarah McBride

Narrated by: Sarah McBride

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history

“The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book.”—Vice President Kamala Harris

“If you’re living your... Read more

Nine Irish Lives

By: Mark Bailey

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins & Alan Smyth

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish Americans. Rosie O'Donnell, for instance, the adoptive mother of five, tells the story of Margaret Haughery, known as "Mother of the Orphans"; filmmaker... Read more

The Middle of Everywhere

By: Mary Pipher

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with the newest members of the American family—refugees.



In cities all over the country, refugees arrive daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families fleeing Afghanistan and Vietnam: they... Read more

We Matter

By: Etan Thomas

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring interviews by former NBA player Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more--and interwoven with essays and critiques by Thomas--We Matter shares the personal tales and opinions of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook, Steve Kerr, Oscar Robertson, Mark Cuban, Michael Bennett,... Read more

Tell Me How It Ends

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young... Read more

Bachelor Nation

By: Amy Kaufman

Narrated by: Amy Kaufman

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Bestseller*

The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure.

For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show’s popularity and relevance have... Read more

The Away Game

By: Sebastian Abbot

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of young boys across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program chooses just a handful of boys each year to train to become... Read more

Dancing Bears

By: Witold Szabłowski

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.In... Read more

Doing Harm

By: Maya Dusenbery

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this shocking, hard-hitting exposé in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment threatens women’s lives and well-being.Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and... Read more

The Walking Dead Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Adam Verner & Allyson Ryan

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

By understanding the psychological forces that drive The Walking Dead’s action, fans can better grasp Robert Kirkman's compelling fictional universe. Which characters suffer PTSD, which show the most hope for recovery, and which instead show posttraumatic growth? Has Rick Grimes lost his mind? What's it like for a kid like Carl growing up during... Read more

Separate and Unequal

By: Steven M Gillon

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality

In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders --... Read more

Tio tankar om arbete

By: Bodil Jönsson

Narrated by: Elin Mohede

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hur ska man lägga ett livspussel om bitarna är omaka?Mer och mer har arbetet blivit en större del av våra liv. Det har till och med gått så långt att vi har börjat identifiera oss som det vi arbetar med. Detta kan vara ett problem, menar Bodil Jönsson, eftersom det grundmurar en trend om hur arbete ska vara. Men alla är inte funtade på det vis... Read more

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them... Read more

How To Seduce Women Born On December 7 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book reveals, legalizes a recipe of seduction applicable to ALL of approximately 10 million women born on December 7 of common years and provides details about their sexual factor: behavior, preferences, desires, fantasies, dislikes; frequency of sexual activity, potency, preferred positions, attitude towards monogamy and polygamy, sexual... Read more

Understanding Sexual Abuse

By: Tim Hein & Derek Perkins

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is said that the true test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. As many as one in four girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse during childhood, and it s estimated that as many as half of the incidents are never reported. This means that countless millions in our societies, both children and adults, carry this... Read more

Death and Anger on Everest

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

The Virility Paradox

By: Charles J. Ryan

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Testosterone propels our drive for exploration and risk, for competition and creation, and even our survival. The effects of testosterone permeate the traditions, philosophy, and literature of every known culture—without it, the world would be a drastically different place.

It also has a role in humanity's darker side, contributing to violence,... Read more

Gates of the Arctic

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more