Social Science audiobooks

The End of Advertising

By: Andrew Essex

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.

The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction, after having taken for granted a... Read more

Black Detroit

By: Herb Boyd

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric.Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as... Read more

Loving

By: Sheryll Cashin

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history—and continues to alter the landscape of American politics

When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark... Read more

How to Be a Muslim

By: Haroon Moghul

Narrated by: Kamran R. Khan

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing portrait of Muslim life in the West, this “profound and intimate” memoir captures one man’s struggle to forge an American Muslim identity (Washington Post)

Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before... Read more

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

By: Daniel L. Everett

Narrated by: Daniel Everett

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for... Read more

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

By: Brandon Harris

Narrated by: Brandon Massey

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the serious, life-threatening process"" of gentrification.Making... Read more

The New Urban Crisis

By: Richard Florida

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class,... Read more

Replay

By: Tristan Donovan

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the... Read more

The Silent Witness

By: Casey Watson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.’ It’s the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on... Read more

The Gender Games

By: Juno Dawson

Narrated by: Juno Dawson

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

*SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL TV SERIES*
*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017*
*AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET*

'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl 'funny, thoughtful and honest ... I read most of it on the train and had to stifle laughs... Read more

Enemies of the People

By: Sam Jordison

Narrated by: Rich Keeble

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Something has gone wrong. We're living in an age of celebratory racism, extreme inequality, uncertainty and fear. We're governed by people who claim to be populist but who seem to hate everyone. There are idiots at the wheel and we're heading for a cliff in a big red bus and no one knows how to save us. Enemies of The People... Read more

Upstream

By: Langdon Cook

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.

For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV. For others, it’s the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more

Inferior

By: Angela Saini

Narrated by: Hannah Melbourn

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew

For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women... Read more

A Selfish Plan to Change the World

By: Justin Dillon

Narrated by: Justin Dillon

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are exactly what the world needsWhat if your search for meaning could solve the world’s problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history? Justin Dillon argues it can, and A Selfish Plan to Change the World shows how. 

In this paradigm-shifting new book, Dillon--the founder of Slavery Footprint and Made... Read more

The Scarlett Letters

By: Jenny Nordbak

Narrated by: Jenny Nordbak

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions have fantasized about, revealing how she transformed herself from a USC grad lacking in confidence into an elite professional dominatrix who finds her own voice, power and compassion for others.

On an unorthodox quest to understand her hidden fantasies, Jenny led a double life for... Read more

They Thought They Were Free

By: Milton Mayer

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the... Read more

Play

By: Stuart Brown, MD & Christopher Vaughan

Narrated by: Michael Hinton

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives.

We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By... Read more

The Vanishing American Adult

By: Ben Sasse

Narrated by: Ben Sasse

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America's parents, teachers, and governing officials." — AudioFile Magazine

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the author.

In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented... Read more

Death Need Not Be Fatal

By: Malachy McCourt & Brian McDonald

Narrated by: Malachy McCourt

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn.

During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star, a best-selling... Read more

Facing Violence

By: Rory Miller

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Rory Miller's Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching complete. These elements are: legal and ethical implications, violence dynamics, avoidance, counter-ambush, breaking the freeze, the fight itself, and the aftermath. Training that... Read more

The Mother of All Questions

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.



In her characteristic style, Solnit mixes... Read more

Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most... Read more

Firehouse

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute." So writes David Halberstam, one of... Read more