Social Science audiobooks

Greek fishing village welcomes migrants while others turn them away

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amidst the wave of anti-migrant sentiment coursing through Europe, one village has shown a rare level of hospitality to those making the journey across the Mediterranean. In Skala Sykaminia, located on the Greek island of Lesbos, Nobel-nominated villagers rescue and shelter migrants — whereas neighboring towns see the refugees as a threat.... Read more

How To Quit Porn

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're currently experiencing porn addiction and you really wanted to deviate from this evil activity then, check out this "How To Quit Porn" guide.In this step-by-step guide you will be able to get the following benefits:- Understand why people are getting addicted to porn.- Find inspirational real life experiences in overcoming such... Read more

O Wow

By: Jenny Block

Narrated by: Shana Savage

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An ultimate orgasm is your personal best orgasm. It doesn't leave anything at the table. It doesn't want anything more. It lasts as long as it lasts. It takes as long as it takes. It's as messy and loud or quiet and tidy as you like. It has no room for shame or apology. An ultimate orgasm comes from questioning, exploring, experimenting, with no... Read more

Full Bore

By: William McInnes

Narrated by: William McInnes

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

William McInnes, one of Australia's best-loved entertainers and authors, takes a look at the Aussie obsession with sports and pop culture. A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us... Read more

Die Stille Irlands spüren - Abridged

By: Anonymus

Narrated by: Christian Quadflieg

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

* Der Zauber irischer Mythen und Märchen * Gelesen von Christian Quadflieg Willkommen in einer Anderswelt voller Feen, Elfen und übernatürlicher Kräfte. Mit den keltischen Mythen und Sagen, Märchen und Zaubersprüchen entführt uns Christian Quadflieg in einen irischen Zaubergarten. Mit Charme und Esprit interpretiert er die Texte und lässt uns... Read more

The Selfishness of Others

By: Kristin Dombek

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

They’re among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to live in a radiance beyond what we are capable of. But narcissists are empty. No one knows exactly what everyone else is full of—some kind of a soul, or personhood—but whatever it is, experts agree that... Read more

New England Bound

By: Wendy Warren

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully... Read more

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

By: Elizabeth Hinton

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth... Read more

Ruined

By: Ruth Everhart

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“It happened on a Sunday night, even though I’d been a good girl and gone to church that morning.”One brisk November evening during her senior year at a small midwestern Christian college, two armed intruders broke into the house Ruth Everhart shared with her roommates, held all five girls hostage, and took turns raping them at gunpoint. Reeling... Read more

The White Umbrella

By: Mary Frances Bowley

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Karen White

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex trafficking. We hear about it on the nightly news and in special interest stories from around the world, but it occurs daily in communities all around us. Every year, thousands of young women are forced into sexual exploitation. Most are under the age of eighteen. The damage this causes to their emotions and souls is immeasurable.

But they... Read more

Against Empathy

By: Paul Bloom

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family.Most people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to... Read more

The Big Empty

By: Norman Mailer & John Buffalo Mailer

Narrated by: John Buffalo Mailer & Stephen Mailer

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Questions are posed,” writes Norman Mailer, “in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions.” In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American... Read more

Ghetto

By: Mitchell Duneier

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the... Read more

The Slave's Cause

By: Manisha Sinha

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 30 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and... Read more

It's Ok Not to Share

By: Heather Shumaker

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it's easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground (What if my kid likes to rough house-isn't this ok as long as no one gets hurt? And what if my kid just doesn't feel like sharing?). In this inspiring and enlightening book, Heather Shumaker... Read more

In Long Island kitchen, refugees offer flavors of their native lands

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City is known for the stunning variety of ethnic cuisines available on its street corners, and one local entrepreneur is looking to expand that breadth even further — by leveraging the city’s most recent arrivals. William Brangham reports from a Long Island kitchen where refugees prepare meals using the flavors of their native lands and... Read more

Marte y Venus en el dormitorio

By: John Gray

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Aprende los principios y métodos para mejorar la comunicación de pareja! ¿Es la extinción del deseo sexual una ley inexorable de la vida en pareja? Si bien la experiencia de muchos matrimonios parece corroborarlo, no hay nada que lo determine. Partiendo de la idea, universalmente aceptada, de que la pasión sexual es la base de la convivencia en... Read more

They Can't Kill Us All

By: Wesley Lowery

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.

Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting... Read more

Hi, Anxiety

By: Kat Kinsman

Narrated by: Kat Kinsman

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep because your brain won’t stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you’ll... Read more

The Platinum Age of Television

By: David Bianculli

Narrated by: David Bianculli

Length: 23 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains—historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves—how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved.

Darwin had his theory of evolution, and David Bianculli... Read more

The Social Organism

By: Oliver Luckett

Narrated by: Oliver Luckett

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

"A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world." -- Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company

From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media -- how it works, how it's changing human life, and... Read more

Tranny

By: Laura Jane Grace

Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.

It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more

Assassination Generation

By: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman & Kristine Pau...

Narrated by: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.

Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school.

Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other... Read more

Water Tossing Boulders

By: Adrienne Berard

Narrated by: Moe Egan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told

On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale,... Read more