Social Science audiobooks

Double Cup Love

By: Eddie Huang

Narrated by: Eddie Huang

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork

Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was... Read more

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new... Read more

Lolita in the Lion's Den

By: Justin Forest

Narrated by: Steve Carlson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons in Justin Forest’s shocking new cross-genre novel, Lolita in the Lion’s Den. Glen has fought for years to escape a brutal home life, one in which he acts as his mother’s only friend and to accept that his father has been molesting his sister for over a decade. But... Read more

Tribe

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Sebastian Junger

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing... Read more

The Politicians and the Egalitarians

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history." So begins Princeton historian Sean Wilentz's new work of history.

First, America is built on an egalitarian tradition. At the nation's founding, Americans believed that extremes of wealth and want would destroy their experiment in republican... Read more

The Gene

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what... Read more

What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?

By: Marianne Schnall

Narrated by: Erin Bennett & Tom Taylorson

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Featuring conversations with more than twenty leading politicians, writers, artists, and activists, this book is expert interviewer Marianne Schnall’s examination of why America has not yet elected a female president—and how this might change.Prompted by a question from her eight-year-old daughter during the 2008 election of Barack Obama—“Why... Read more

The Seventh Sense

By: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?

The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us... Read more

The Boys in the Bunkhouse

By: Dan Barry

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of... Read more

Labor of Love

By: Moira Weigel

Narrated by: Kyra Miller

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: That's not the way to find... Read more

Shrill

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West... Read more

The Power Paradox

By: Dacher Keltner

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced... Read more

How Women Decide

By: Therese Huston

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Narratives about decision making are often inadvertently tailored primarily to men. Meanwhile, narratives about women in business overlook decision making or offer advice that is unhelpful and can even backfire. How Women Decide fills this gap. It takes on the very real psychological and cultural obstacles women face, asks how these affect... Read more

Katrina

By: Gary Rivlin

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’ efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great... Read more

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By: Tom Vanderbilt

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we get so embarrassed when a colleague wears the same shirt? Why do we eat the same thing for breakfast every day, but seek out novelty at lunch and dinner? How has streaming changed the way Netflix makes recommendations? Why do people think the music of their youth is the best? How can you spot a fake review on Yelp?

Our preferences and... Read more

Communication Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Communication plays a vital role in human beings. In fact, this is the way to understand the society and human behavior. The human brain has the ability to capture the words spoken by the other person and respond. It is very difficult to imagine the world without communication. The social and behavioral events would be absent, if communication... Read more

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

By: Chris Packham

Narrated by: Chris Packham

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence.

An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at... Read more

The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

By: Joel Salatin

Narrated by: Joel Salatin

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles.
What on earth is The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs? It's an inspiring call to action for people of faith . . . a heartfelt plea to heed the Bible's guidance . . . .

It's an important and... Read more

Devoured

By: Sophie Egan

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche,... Read more

We Were Feminists Once

By: Andi Zeisler

Narrated by: Joell A. Jacob

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, feminism is no longer a dirty word, and women purporting to stand up for women's equality now include high-powered names like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Emma Watson. Hip underwear lines sell granny pants with "feminist" emblazoned on the back. In every bookstore, there are scores of seductive feminist how-to business guides telling women... Read more

Growing Up in Xin Jiang

By: Li Ju

Narrated by: Ming Lu

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing Up in Xin Jiang is a long epic from Xinjiang writer Ju Li that recounts stories from southern Xinjiang. It is a key literary project supported by the Aksu Regional Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The novel depicts the story of the "second generation of Xinjiang" born in the oases of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps... Read more

Tied Up in Knots

By: Andrea Tantaros

Narrated by: Andrea Tantaros

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and... Read more

City of Thorns

By: Ben Rawlence

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a... Read more

Animal

By: Sara Pascoe

Narrated by: Sara Pascoe

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The hilarious feminist account of the female body by the award-winning comedian **BUY SARA PASCOE'S LATEST BOOK SEX POWER MONEY NOW** 'HILARIOUS' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant' Frankie Boyle Sometimes Sara Pascoe confuses herself. She gets wildly and pointlessly jealous. She spends too much time hating her bum. And you know what she hates more... Read more