Social Science audiobooks

The Most Dangerous Man in America

By: Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.

On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few... Read more

Busting Out of Mexico

By: Jan Reid

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Jan Reid's "Busting Out of Mexico" 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 Mexico, if violence and property damage are avoided, there is no law against breaking out of jail. When con artist Sterling... Read more

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" 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.

Cowboy Bob was a master bank robber, robbing countless banks for thousands of dollars and confounding cops along... Read more

Why We Can't Wait

By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963

On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign.... Read more

A Taste for the Beautiful

By: Michael J. Ryan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have "a taste for the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and... Read more

Girls Like Us

By: Rachel Lloyd

Narrated by: Rachel Lloyd

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life."



In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of... Read more

Cops and Robbers

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Cops and Robbers" 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.

Law enforcement in Hidalgo County would joke that without the drug trade, half the business in the county would fail. Others would... Read more

Where Do We Go from Here

By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for... Read more

Public Service - de roligaste inslagen

By: Erik Blix

Narrated by: Göran Gabrielsson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

De oefterhärmliga Mattias Konnebäck, Erik Blix och imitatörerna Göran Gabrielsson och Rachel Molin har i radion under en följd av år häcklat den politiska eliten och utvalda välkända svenskar. Vi får oss till livs ett antal häpnadsväckande förklaringar, möjliga bortförklaringar och mycket kvicka kommentarer till dagligt liv i Sverige. Här hittar... Read more

Kama Sutra

By: Ashley Williams & More Sex More Fun Book Club

Narrated by: Robyn Green

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to spice up your vanilla sex life with some ancient lovemaking?The ancient generations knew what they were doing. They focused more on creating a sense of meaning and arousal around sex than just the daily "in and out, in and out." One of the most ancient sexual practices is the Kama sutra, and that is what this book is all about.In... Read more

Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions

By: J. R. Helton

Narrated by: A.T. Chandler

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support... Read more

Achtung Baby

By: Sara Zaske

Narrated by: Sara Zaske

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Sarah Zaske] reads her fascinating book on contemporary German parenting with friendly confidence and a delightful curiosity about her discoveries while raising two young children in Berlin...Zaske's gift for narrative and her keen observations about German and American parenting make this a refreshing, eye-opening audio for those raising... Read more

Clean Meat

By: Paul Shapiro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Shapiro gives you a “captivating” (John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market) front-row seat for the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals.

Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species’ desire for meat. But with a growing global... Read more

A Child's Introduction to African American History

By: Jabari Asim

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive, entertaining look at heroes, heroines, and critical moments from African American history -- from the slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement -- by award-winning author Jabari Asim.

Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom to reveal a fact-filled history of African American history through politics,... Read more

Stella et le bondage, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Stella

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Stella et le bondage, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Fanny et les fluides, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Fanny

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanny et les fluides, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Martin et l'amour libre, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Martin

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin et l'amour libre, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Dania et la pénétration, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Dania

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Dania et la pénétration, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Miel et le théâtre érotique, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Miel

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Miel et le théâtre érotique, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Paul et le polyamour, une vie érotique

By: Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Paul

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Paul et le polyamour, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux... Read more

Océane et le porno, une vie érotique

By: Océane, Pauline Verduzier & Victoire Tuaillon

Narrated by: Océane

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Océane et le porno, une vie érotique. Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux pratiques... Read more

Public Opinion

By: Walter Lippmann

Narrated by: John Klickman

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An instrumental work on today's outlook on the dominance of media in democracy, Public Opinion, is a key work by author Walter Lippmann. Does the manufacturing of consent amount to a democracy in the way democracy is practiced? Does the mass media have a control over the public opinion? These are questions that are more important today with the... Read more

The Social Construction of Reality

By: Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdiscipline that, since... Read more

Detained and Deported

By: Margaret Regan

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
 
On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported... Read more