Social Science audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Gay Revolution

By: Lillian Faderman

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 29 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this... 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

Surviving Ireland

By: Colm Tobin

Narrated by: Colm Tobin

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast.
Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world?
In Surviving Ireland,... Read more

Reclaiming Conversation

By: Sherry Turkle

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern Romance

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation... Read more

Then Comes Marriage

By: Lisa Dickey & Roberta Kaplan

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberta Kaplan's gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court. Attorney Roberta Kaplan knew it was the perfect case. Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had stayed together for better or worse, for forty-four years-battling through society's homophobia and Spyer's paralysis from MS. The couple married in... Read more

Sexploitation

By: Cindy Pierce

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As surprising as it may be to parents, young people today are immersed in porn culture everywhere they look. Through Internet porn, gaming, social media, marketing, and advertising, kids today have a much broader view of social and sexual possibilities, which makes it difficult for them to establish appropriate expectations or to feel adequate... Read more

In Order to Live

By: Yeonmi Park

Narrated by: Eji Kim

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park

"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller

“Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension.... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Narrated by: Karen White & Anne-Marie Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST• “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington

When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her... Read more

Woman on Fire

By: Amy Jo Goddard

Narrated by: Kate Turnball & Amy Jo Goddard

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Based on her sought-after sexuality workshops, the coauthor of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men shows women how to master the 9 elements of sexual empowerment to reclaim their desire and live the sexually fulfilling lives they want. The prevalence of low sexual desire ranges from 26.7% among premenopausal women to 52.4% among naturally menopausal... Read more

Scream

By: Margee Kerr

Narrated by: Margee Kerr

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For as long as we’ve gathered by campfires to tell ghost stories, humans have always loved a good scare. From the splatter flicks of the 70s, to Japan’s obsession with drowned girls, to creepy modern experiences like the overnight ghost hunt at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the horror industry has thrived across time and cultures. Our... Read more

Strangers Drowning

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

Narrated by: Larissa MacFarquhar

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.

A... Read more