Social Science audiobooks

How to Be Married

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Jo Piazza

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more

Post Grad

By: Caroline Kitchener

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.

Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four of her peers in order to delve more deeply into what... Read more

Human Targets

By: Victor M. Rios

Narrated by: A.T. Chandler

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course... Read more

The Givers

By: David Callahan

Narrated by: Ryan Gesell

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad.

While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David... Read more

Madness Rules the Hour

By: Paul Starobin

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War.

"The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860

In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the... Read more

A $500 House in Detroit

By: Drew Philp

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class... Read more

It's Up to the Women

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timeless account from Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady shares her advice for hardworking women as they make their mark on an ever-changing America.

"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column.... Read more

Viewing Human History as a Spiritual Epic

By: Robert Atkinson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Atkinson offers a deeply thoughtful view of conscious evolution drawn from the continuous wisdom of the world’s religions. He inspires hope as he traces love’s unifying power throughout history, and encourages us not to be distracted by seeming setbacks. This big picture view of human progress points to peaceful unity as our ultimate... Read more

Eyewitness: 1950-1999

By: Joanna Bourke

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 23 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the latter half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.

The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through to dawn of a new millennium at the end of 1999.

Inbetween are the eras of the... Read more

The Mediterranean Love Plan

By: Stephen Arterburn & Misty Arterburn

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mediterranean Love Plan unveils the “7 Secrets of Passion” from some of the most romantic countries in the world:  Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Israel.  Most couples marry in a flurry of passion, but soon find themselves wondering “How do we keep love interesting, fun and romantic?  How do we keep the spark growing for decades?”Steve and... Read more

Unwanted Advances

By: Laura Kipnis

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender... Read more

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

By: Joan Morgan

Narrated by: Joy Bryant & Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black... Read more

Svenska svindlare och fuskare

By: Fredrik Kullberg

Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more

The Sex Effect

By: Ross Benes

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping exploration of the relationship between sex and our society, with a foreword by bestselling author A. J. Jacobs

Why do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the U.S. military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original purpose of vibrators? Find out the answers... Read more

Behaving Badly

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more

Wie wir arbeiten, und was wir fordern

By: Philipp Riederle

Narrated by: Philipp Riederle

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschlands jüngster Unternehmensberater Philipp Riederle erklärt in diesem Debattenbuch, wie die digitale Generation wirklich tickt: Viele Unternehmen befürchten, keinen qualifizierten Nachwuchs mehr zu bekommen, denn die nun auf den Arbeitsmarkt drängende Generation - die sogenannte Handy-Generation - gilt bei Managern und Personalern als... Read more

What Algorithms Want

By: Ed Finn

Narrated by: Scott Merriman

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely... Read more

Old School

By: Bill O'Reilly & Bruce Feirstein

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Holter Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.

Old School is in session....

You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.

It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not... Read more

The Creative Spark

By: Agustín Fuentes

Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
 
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín... Read more

A Colony in a Nation

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely... Read more

Superfandom

By: Zoe Fraade-Blanar & Aaron M. Glazer

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given all organizations?from traditional businesses to tech startups?direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it's easy to forget that this access flows both ways. This is the... Read more

Sex and the Constitution

By: Geoffrey R. Stone

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and... Read more

Why is job opportunity still lagging for people with disabilities?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The unemployment rate for people with a disability is more than double than for those without. Even though the law bars such discrimination, it can be difficult for these Americans to get hired. But that’s not the full story: Some employers are seeing how the special abilities of workers on the autism spectrum can boost their bottom lines.... Read more

Black Lies Matter

By: Taleeb Starkes

Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chicago a.k.a "Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore's 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year—on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit's police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, criminal subculture.



Unfortunately, these cities aren't anomalies. Year... Read more