Social Science audiobooks

The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

English society in the 1860's was on the brink of enormous change, and some of the biggest changes coming to birth in that time was the tremendous change in the status of women--changes affecting politics, economics, law, government, business, education, psychology, religion and sexuality, and the list goes on. The changes John Stuart Mill... Read more

Telling stories helps refugee children learn a new language

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

How do young children who have come to the United States as immigrants or refugees learn English? At one early education school and laboratory in Houston, the new language comes to life when kids use storytelling and dramatic play to get talking. The NewsHour's April Brown reports. Read more

The Scarlet Sisters

By: Helen Batten

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Oh my goodness – another girl Mrs Swain!’
Clara’s normal iron composure broke and she screamed, ‘No! That’s not the bloody deal!’
And that is how my nanna, Bertha Swain, entered the world.

When Helen Batten’s marriage breaks down, she starts on a journey of discovery into her family’s past and the mysteries surrounding her enigmatic nanna’s early... Read more

The Rift

By: Alex Perry

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.

Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers,... Read more

Under Our Skin

By: Benjamin Watson

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand... Read more

The Triumph of Faith

By: Rodney Stark

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular—that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists, secularists, and atheists applaud the change; religious believers lament it. But here's the thing: they're all wrong, and acclaimed author Rodney Stark has the numbers to prove it.



The Triumph of Faith explodes the myth... Read more

Expanding The Image Of The Divine To Include The Feminine

By: Jann Aldredge-Clanton, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jann Aldredge-Clanton doggedly persisted against the tide of the times in order to become a Baptist Minister. When she was growing up in the Baptist tradition, only women who were missionaries in other countries were allowed to baptize and preach, and perform other ministerial roles. However, in the United States, they were not allowed to preach... Read more

Magicians of the Gods

By: Graham Hancock

Narrated by: Graham Hancock

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with... Read more

Science of the Magical

By: Matt Kaplan

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Can migrations of birds foretell our future? Do phases of the moon hold sway over our lives? Are there sacred springs that cure the ill? What is the best way to brew a love potion? How do we create mutant humans who regenerate like Wolverine?



In Science of the Magical, noted science journalist Matt Kaplan plumbs the rich, lively, and surprising... Read more

A Nation of Nations

By: Tom Gjelten

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was ninety percent white, ten percent African American, with a little more than one hundred families who were "other." Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than fifty percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle... Read more

Andy and Don

By: Daniel de Visé

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy... Read more

Metadata

By: Jeffrey Pomerantz

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the... Read more

My Life on the Road

By: Gloria Steinem

Narrated by: Debra Winger & Gloria Steinem

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. She reveals the story of her own growth in tandem with the... Read more

The Other Paris

By: Luc Sante

Narrated by: Luc Sante

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside—one populated by working and criminal classes that,... Read more

The Evolution of Everything

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street JournalThe New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for... Read more

Notorious RBG

By: Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG""It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG."" — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an... Read more

Ugly: My Memoir

By: Robert Hoge

Narrated by: Robert Hoge

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness.

Home for the Hoges was a bayside suburb of... Read more

Charlie Mike

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is “a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work” (Jon Stewart).

In Charlie Mike, a true account that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly) and “explodes like a... Read more

The Brain Electric

By: Malcolm Gay

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machinesLeading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic... Read more

Becoming Nicole

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Amy Ellis Nutt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.

Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl

When Wayne... Read more

Slow Dancing with a Stranger

By: Meryl Comer

Narrated by: Meryl Comer

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s... Read more

Find Me Unafraid

By: Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner

Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried & P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, the largest slum in... Read more

Persephone Rising

By: Carol S. Pearson

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Our era of professional and familial pressures, constant connection, and a renewed debate on "having it all" presents unprecedented challenges to contemporary women. In Persephone Rising, celebrated scholar of depth psychology and archetypes Carol S. Pearson brings a fresh vision for meeting those challenges and rising above them, as only she... Read more

Drinking in America

By: Susan Cheever

Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Seen... Read more