Social Science audiobooks

How to Smoke Pot (Properly)

By: David Bienenstock

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Once literally demonized as "the Devil's lettuce," and linked to all manner of deviant behavior by the establishment's shameless anti-marijuana propaganda campaigns, cannabis sativa has lately been enjoying a long-overdue Renaissance. So now that the squares at long last seem ready to rethink pot's place in polite society, how, exactly, can... Read more

Woman in History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

History can hardly be complete without talking about the role women played in forming the history of the world. They changed societies and beliefs, being the reason why empires toppled and rose to glory. There is hardly enough reason to believe that women were insignificant in a society because no matter how many wars men fought and the ways in... Read more

Public Choice Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Elections are the primary mechanism through which governments are decided. It is indeed, also one of the oldest practices of universal consent and what might be called as ‘multiple voices, one government’. Elections decide the destiny of a country, the government that the people choose; it is in its very essence, a characteristic activity that... Read more

We Believe You

By: Annie E. Clark & Andrea L. Pino

Narrated by: Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino, Katie Schorr, E...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us all


Across the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other... Read more

A Burglar's Guide to the City

By: Geoff Manaugh

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. 

At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any... Read more

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

By: Laura Tillman

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one... Read more

Kill 'Em and Leave

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul
 
Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied... Read more

Understanding Karl Marx

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Megan Mateer

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Marx named as socialism father advocated equality for all, sought tribalists rights to operatives and that there were state-owned enterprises to private lives of which profits are distributed to society for the welfare of all. He developed the idea that the nation excluding capitalism that benefited the worker and discards when this is not... Read more

Sociology

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most interesting topics of discussion, sociology, has been the subject of attention for a really long time. You are lucky to have landed here if you have been wondering about all the details of this topic. I assure you that you are not going to regret buying this book and your knowledge will be equally good as a professional once you... Read more

How migrants and refugees are being welcomed

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting tomorrow, the European Union plans to start sending back some of the 170,000 migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous journey by sea to Europe this year. Along another main migrant sea route from North Africa toward Italy, one small town has adopted a very friendly posture toward migrants and refugees. Special correspondent... Read more

Fire and Brimstone

By: Michael Punke

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant--basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio--tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. 

The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out... Read more

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

Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Evicted

By: Matthew Desmond

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).

In... 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