Social Science audiobooks

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, John Lee & Susan Denaker

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually... Read more

The Internet of Us

By: Michael P. Lynch

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.
We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia shelf... Read more

Dark Seduction

By: Michael Pace

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Seduction is one of the areas of life which has the potential to bring people the most pleasure and the most pain. If people are able to effectively move through life getting what they want and need out of romance and relationships then they are sure to be spared the pain of heartbreak and loneliness. If people are unable to master this area of... Read more

A Monstrous Commotion

By: Gareth Williams

Narrated by: Andrew Cullum

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?

Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and Chicago... Read more

Jihad Academy

By: Nicolas Hénin

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Islamic State hostage and veteran Middle East journalist explores misperceptions of Islamic State and their consequences.For more than a decade, French journalist Nicolas Hénin has reported from the front lines of conflict in the Middle East, much of his time spent in Iraq and Syria. He witnessed the events leading to the rise of... Read more

Writing My Wrongs

By: Shaka Senghor

Narrated by: Shaka Senghor

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100

Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s... Read more

Bullies

By: Alex Abramovich

Narrated by: Alex Abramovich

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities.

Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost... Read more

Answering Jihad

By: Nabeel Qureshi

Narrated by: Nabeel Qureshi

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshi—a former Muslim—come his deeply personal, challenging, and respectful answers to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.San Bernardino was the most lethal terror attack on American soil since 9/11, and it came on the heels... Read more

We Are Afghan Women

By: George W. Bush Institute

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Afghanistan has been described as "the worst nation in the world to be a woman." More than fifty percent of girls who are forced into marriage are sixteen or younger. Too many women live in fear, and in many areas education and employment for women are still condemned. The women featured in We Are Afghan Women are fighting to change all that.... Read more

Es darf gern ein bisschen mehr sein - Abridged

By: Birgit Schrowange

Narrated by: Birgit Schrowange

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Birgit Schrowange ist alleinerziehende Mutter, steht seit über dreißig Jahren vor der Kamera und hat sich das Leben geschaffen, das sie sich erträumt hat. In ihrem Buch beschreibt sie, wie wichtig es gerade für Frauen ist, ihr Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, sich finanziell nicht von Männern abhängig zu machen und immer wieder auch Zeit fürs... Read more

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
 
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?
 
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it... Read more

A Murder Over a Girl

By: Ken Corbett

Narrated by: Ken Corbett

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate

On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and... Read more

Locally Laid

By: Lucie B. Amundsen

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

How a midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm—and discovered why local chicks are betterWhen Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he’d tell her over dinner—that his dream was to quit his office job (with benefits!) and start a... Read more

Pandemic

By: Sonia Shah

Narrated by: Sonia Shah

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics

Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today,... Read more

American Girls

By: Nancy Jo Sales

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Nancy Jo Sales

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller


Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls.

With extraordinary... Read more

If the Oceans Were Ink

By: Carla Power

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by the Washington Post as “mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” this powerful journey will help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power’s eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi... Read more

United

By: Cory Booker

Narrated by: Cory Booker

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.

Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at... Read more

Redeeming the Great Emancipator

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. Redeeming the Great Emancipator enumerates Lincoln's anti-slavery... Read more

One Child

By: Mei Fong

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply... Read more

The Highest Glass Ceiling

By: Ellen Fitzpatrick

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Victoria Woodhull launched her symbolic bid for the presidency in 1872, dozens of women have sought the presidency over the past 150 years. Their quest began long before women won the vote and it unfolded over decades when a woman's pursuit of any higher political office was met with prejudice, mockery, and hostility. Even after women... Read more

In a Different Key

By: John Donvan & Caren Zucker

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker
 
“Remarkable . . . A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder... Read more

Fast Food Maniac

By: Jon Hein

Narrated by: Jon Hein

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The charismatic radio personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates what we love about American fast food, covering chains both national and regional and offering an opinionated view on restaurant history, secret menu items, and even drive-thru strategy.Jon Hein is a fast food maniac, with a themed Discovery Channel show under his belt to... Read more

One Righteous Man

By: Arthur Browne

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer.
 
When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he had to fear his racist colleagues as much as... Read more

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

By: Seth Holmes

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes's... Read more