Social Science audiobooks
Slim by Design
By: Brian Wansink
Narrated by: Brian Wansink
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces—schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others—in order to make positive changes in how we approach and manage our diets.Anyone familiar with... Read more
View audiobookSecret Sexual Desires Of 100 Million People: Seduction Recipes For Men And Women
By: Kate Bazilevsky
Narrated by: Kevin Iggens
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Whether you are a man or a woman, gorgeous or ugly, rich or poor, young or not so young - you can use the practical information provided in this book! It reveals proven recipes of seduction. Once you apply them and indulge in immediate results, you will become happier and healthier automatically. Why? Because you will get what you want and... Read more
View audiobookThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
By: Jeff Hobbs
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
*Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets... Read more
Soldier Girls
By: Helen Thorpe
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the... Read more
View audiobookA Path Appears
By: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Narrated by: Olivia Wilde
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.
In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and... Read more
The Underground Girls of Kabul
By: Jenny Nordberg
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, if imperfect, solution to the problem of girlhood in a society where women have few rights and overwhelming restrictions.”—The Boston Globe
In... Read more
Finding Your Roots
By: Henry Louis Gates
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots,... Read more
View audiobookLincoln's Gamble
By: Todd Brewster
Narrated by: Todd Brewster
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation... Read more
View audiobookOff the Sidelines
By: Kirsten Gillibrand
Narrated by: Kirsten Gillibrand & Susan Denaker
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them.
“One of the most helpful, readable, down-to-earth, and truly democratic books ever to come out of... Read more
Waking Up
By: Sam Harris
Narrated by: Sam Harris
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.
From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who... Read more
Dataclysm
By: Christian Rudder
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.
For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or... Read more
Tomlinson Hill
By: Chris Tomlinson
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name.
LaDainian Tomlinson,... Read more
The World's Greatest Arguments In Favor of Legalized Abortion
By: Trevor Clinger
Narrated by: Allen Prohaska
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Delving into the contentious debate surrounding abortion, this book carefully dissects three of the most polarizing arguments from both pro-choice and pro-life perspectives. With a neutral stance, the author navigates through the complexities of each position, offering thorough analysis and insight. Acknowledging the significance of both sides,... Read more
View audiobookIn Real Life
By: Nev Schulman
Narrated by: Nev Schulman
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From the host of MTV's #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today's increasingly digital world.
In Real Life:Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
As the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or... Read more
Glimpsing Heaven
By: Judy Bachrach
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life?Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the moment when the heart stops beating and brain... Read more
View audiobookThe Vanishing Neighbor
By: Marc J. Dunkelman
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism. Americans today find themselves mired in an era of uncertainty and frustration. The nation's safety net is pulling apart under its own weight; political compromise is viewed as a form of defeat; and our faith in the enduring concept... Read more
View audiobookThe Price of Silence
By: Liza Long
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Liza Long is the mother of a child with an undiagnosed mental disorder. When she heard about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, her first thought was, "What if my son does that someday?" She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal posted as "I Am Adam Lanza's... Read more
View audiobookMeatonomics
By: David Robinson Simon
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what—and how much—to eat. Those decisions are made for us by animal food producers who control... Read more
View audiobookEntertainment and activism of "Orange Is the New Black"
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Piper Kerman, whose memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, inspired a hit series on Netflix, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the prevalence of mental illness, sexual abuse and inequality in the American justice system, as well as how the Emmy-nominated show compares to real life. Read more
View audiobookSharp black-white divide on perceptions of Ferguson
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Unrest continues to grip Ferguson, Missouri as the National Guard struggles to help restore order. Meanwhile, a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center has found a stark racial divide in reactions to the Michael Brown shooting and the ongoing protests and violence in Ferguson. Judy Woodruff explores the situation with Carroll Doherty, the... Read more
View audiobookWhat will it take to restore calm to the Ferguson community?
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The St. Louis-area community is struggling to keep order and heal divisions after more than a week of unrest over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. Judy Woodruff gets an update from Yamiche Alcindor of USA Today about the deployment of the National Guard, plus reaction from former Ferguson Mayor Brian Fletcher... Read more
View audiobookGenius: The Divine Mission Of The Soul
By: Michael Meade
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
True genius isn’t necessarily a high IQ score or prodigy, although it often manifests as such. It’s the spirit within each of us. Meade explains that “the genius is a unique spirit in a person; it’s the part of them that makes them unique and it’s tied to their destiny, or the destination of their soul...” He asserts that we have an obligation... Read more
View audiobookWarum dick nicht doof macht und Genmais nicht tötet
By: Gerd Gigerenzer, Thomas Bauer & Walter Krämer
Narrated by: Umut Dirik
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Trockenobst ist giftig. Fast Food macht depressiv, Choleragefahr nimmt rasant zu, Polen sind fleißiger als Deutsche: Mit solch dramatischen Meldungen auf höchst fragwürdiger Datenbasis lassen wir uns täglich nur allzu gern aufstören. Der Psychologe Gigerenzer, Gerd, der Ökonom Thomas Bauer und der Statistiker Walter Krämer diagnostizieren uns... Read more
View audiobookAlexanderplatz, Berlin
By: Georg Diez
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more
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