Social Science audiobooks
Mind = Blown
By: Matthew Santoro
Narrated by: Matthew Santoro
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
YouTube sensation Matthew Santoro amazes with eye-opening facts that are sure to blow your mind.
Matthew Santoro's originality and humor has attracted millions of fans, making him a beloved YouTube star. His weekly videos on amazing and little-known facts are eagerly anticipated by his many subscribers and followers around the world. In his... Read more
Playing Dead
By: Elizabeth Greenwood
Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life.
“A delightful read for anyone tantalized by the prospect of disappearing without a trace.” —Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
Adnan's Story
By: Rabia Chaudry
Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.
In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and... Read more
The Art and Science of Aging Well
By: Mark E. Williams, MD
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own latter years. In... Read more
View audiobookSyrian refugees to US bring complex health needs
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Refugees arriving in upstate New York in recent years have increasingly come from active conflict zones, including Syria and Iraq - many fleeing with injuries of war and deep emotional scars. As the refugee populations in places like Buffalo change, the health care systems and cultures of U.S. cities welcoming these populations have been... Read more
View audiobookThe “Narrative Intelligence” of the Greek Myths
By: Carol Pearson, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of us are trapped in the stories we tell ourselves; they guide what we pay attention to. When we expand that story, our possibilities increase. Archetypes, such as found in the Greek myths, can help us identify and change a debilitating tale into a powerful one that shifts our perspective and changes what we are noticing. This can enhance... Read more
View audiobookThe Fire This Time
By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, K...
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The... Read more
View audiobookReal Food, Fake Food
By: Larry Olmsted
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes this pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on... Read more
View audiobookWalking into Fire
By: Susan Piver, Jennifer Loudon & Patti Digh
Narrated by: Susan Piver, Jennifer Loudon & Patti Digh
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Please join best-selling authors and experienced teachers Jen Louden, Susan Piver, and Patti Digh (here on out to be called DiLoPi) for a heart-expanding, writing refreshing day bursting with learning, craft, and creativity. Read more
View audiobookThe Devil’s Defender
By: John Henry Browne
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s The Devil’s Defender recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being.For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero the “Barefoot... Read more
View audiobookEmotional Rescue
By: Ben Greenman
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
What songs have made up your life’s soundtrack? Which have captured your every mood and deepest sentiments? Pop music, like no other form of entertainment or art, is capable of articulating our feelings, desires, joy, and pain. In a few soul-grabbing minutes, artists from every genre—from Little Richard to Lou Reed, Willie Nelson to Wu-Tang... Read more
View audiobookOther People's Children
By: Lisa Delpit
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new... Read more
View audiobookIsn't That Rich?
By: Richard Kirshenbaum
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth-of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating... Read more
View audiobookDie Wise
By: Stephen Jenkinson
Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us... Read more
View audiobookNorway - Culture Smart!
By: Linda March
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Culture Smart! Norway provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more
View audiobookWhen a Migrant's Desperate Journey Becomes a Deadly Journey
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The NewsHour’s Malcolm Brabant was there, and the cameras were rolling, as the Doctors Without Borders rescue ship he was on came across a horrific scene: More than 20 migrants dead on an unseaworthy ship that was taking them from Northern Africa to Italy. Brabant files this, his third and final report, on the plight of refugees trying to cross... Read more
View audiobookHead in the Cloud
By: William Poundstone
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information... Read more
View audiobookWhy the Jews?
By: Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this seminal work that has spent more than thirty years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world’s preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs to confront anti-Jewish sentiment.Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred... Read more
View audiobookHead in the Cloud
By: William Poundstone
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.
More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map; don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living; can't say how many calories are in a Big Mac or how many candles are on a menorah. How important it is to know things, anyway?... Read more
Brazillionaires
By: Alex Cuadros
Narrated by: Alex Cuadros
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country’s spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil’s wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista—a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES
When Bloomberg... Read more
Why South is epicenter of AIDS crisis in America
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current trends continue. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Defender
By: Ethan Michaeli
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one... Read more
View audiobookNot Pretty Enough
By: Gerri Hirshey
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 18 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon
When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even... Read more
Undercover
By: Joe Carter
Narrated by: Simon Paisley Day
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty years undercover - one man's true story of life as an undercover cop. A must-read for fans of Donnie Brasco.
For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. He travelled the globe on different passports. He fraternised with thieves, international drugs and arms dealers. He worked alongside the most dangerous... Read more