Social Science audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Untold Story of the Talking Book

By: Matthew Rubery

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison’s recitation of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for his tinfoil phonograph in... Read more

Playing for Their Lives

By: Tricia Tunstall & Eric Booth

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.



In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians... Read more

The Revenge of Analog

By: David Sax

Narrated by: David Sax

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016

A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to brick-and-mortar retail, are now springing... Read more

Anfangen! - Reden von Carolin Emcke (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Dr. Carolin Emcke

Narrated by: Dr. Carolin Emcke

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Carolin Emcke setzt sich schwierigen Lebensbedingungen aus und beschreibt - vor allem in ihren Essays und ihren Berichten aus Kriegsgebieten - auf sehr persönliche und ungeschützte Weise, wie Gewalt, Hass und Sprachlosigkeit Menschen verändern können. Mit analytischer Empathie appelliert sie an das Vermögen aller Beteiligten, zu Verständigung... Read more

Black and British

By: David Olusoga

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 24 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times

In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles... Read more