Social Science audiobooks

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

The Cosmic Serpent

By: Jeremy Narby

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology,... Read more

The Cassandra Sanction

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

THE MOST SHOCKING ADVENTURE YET FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott A TRAGIC DEATH. A GRIEVING BROTHER. A PLOT TO DECEIVE THE ENTIRE WORLD. Ex-SAS major and kidnap... Read more

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

By: Austin Reed

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.

In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the... Read more

Lessons on the Way to Heaven

By: Michael Fechner

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Once you hear this new book, you can't go back to your old life.

Texas businessman Mike Fechner had it all. Money. Investments. Prestige.
 Until he did the unthinkable. He sold his company and poured his life’s earnings into a ministry for the poor.
 With a strong faith in God at his core, this millionaire-turned-missionary envisioned a long future... Read more

The End of Average

By: Todd Rose

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance... Read more

Radical

By: Maajid Nawaz

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful account of one man’s drastic evolution from religious fervor to enlightened peace.Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and ’90s. At sixteen, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a... Read more

The Confidence Game

By: Maria Konnikova

Narrated by: Maria Konnikova

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”
—Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White City

Think you can’t get conned? Think again. The New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Open Letter

By: Charb

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions.

On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb."

Known by his pen name, Stèphane... Read more

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: James Agee

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (New York Times)In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a... Read more

The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave; related by herself

By: Mary Prince

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mutineers of the Bounty is a short story by Jules Verne, part of the series The Extraordinary Voyages. It is based on a true story: a mutiny that occured on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty in 1789. The ship had been sent to Tahiti, and the relations between Captain William Bligh and his crew quickly deteriorated, leading to increasingly... Read more

Making It In High Heels 4

By: Nicolette Hernandez

Narrated by: Sydney Delft

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Success. It means wanting something so grand, and finally taking it. But for young women, this wanting goes hand in hand with doubt and fear. Making it in High Heels addresses her inner voice that says, "I'm not good enough." It celebrates how successful women are able to tame that inner voice, and ultimately transform it into, "I am worth it! I... Read more

The Forgotten Village

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE is unique among them in that... Read more

The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer

By: Unni Turrettini

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring Breivik was apprehended by the police at Utoya Island. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers and young... Read more

Presence

By: Amy Cuddy

Narrated by: Amy Cuddy

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with... Read more

Out of a Far Country

By: Christopher Yuan

Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Christopher Yuan

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control - and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her.... Read more

The Emperor of All Maladies

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Now updated with three chapters illuminating the new... Read more

Young Orson

By: Aaron Digan & Patrick McGilligan

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 27 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years—from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. In this magisterial... Read more

Greek Mythology

By: Lance Hightower

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of the best stories about Ancient Greece are mixed with actual historical events: equal parts truth and fantasy, and that’s what makes them so intriguing. The Trojan War for example, in which we see the hero Achilles, the bulwark of the Greek Army who saved the kidnapped Helen, is told from the perspective of his goddess mother. But did you... Read more

Reden für die Freiheit (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Navid Kermani

Narrated by: Navid Kermani

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Navid Kermani wurde für seine Arbeit und sein Engagement 2015 mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet. In der Begründung der Jury heißt es: "Der deutsche Schriftsteller, Orientalist und Essayist ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen in unserer Gesellschaft, die sich mehr denn je den Erfahrungswelten von Menschen... Read more

Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

By: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Narrated by: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice... Read more

Negroland

By: Margo Jefferson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a television series by New York Times bestselling essayist Roxane Gay At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with... Read more

First Bite

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?In First Bite, the beloved food writer Bee Wilson draws on the... Read more