Social Science audiobooks

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By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 26 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past... Read more

Science...For Her!

By: Megan Amram

Narrated by: Megan Amram

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the funniest—and most subversive—books of the year” (Esquire): Megan Amram, a writer for Parks and Recreation, delivers a politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect “textbook” that will have women screaming with laughter, and men dying to know what the noise is about.

“Laugh-out-loud funny…an exuberantly scathing takedown of... Read more

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Jill Lepore

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism

Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as... Read more

The Woman Code

By: Sophia A. Nelson

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every woman lives by a code, whether she realizes it or not. It informs how she treats others and herself, how much she expects of herself, and how far she is willing to go in order to find success. But is the code we're living by truly helping us create the lives of purpose and fulfillment we desire? Or are we sacrificing the deeper things for... Read more

Even This I Get to Experience

By: Norman Lear

Narrated by: Norman Lear

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling memoir from the creator of some of the most iconic television programs ever, including All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

“Charming, candid, and copious . . . There is still a lot of zest, passion, and whimsy in the man who taught Americans to laugh at their... Read more

Playing Big

By: Tara Mohr

Narrated by: Tara Mohr

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world.
 
In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were "playing small" in their lives and careers, were frustrated by it, and wanted to "play... Read more

Getting Life

By: Michael Morton

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed—and the Williamson County Sherriff's office in Texas wasted no time in pinning her murder on Michael, despite an absolute lack of... Read more

Losing Our Way

By: Bob Herbert

Narrated by: Bob Herbert

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way

In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey... Read more

Deep Down Dark

By: Héctor Tobar

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Hand to Mouth

By: Linda Tirado

Narrated by: Linda Tirado

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the eye-opening and controversial essay on poverty that was read by millions comes the real-life Nickel and Dimed, and Linda Tirado explains what it’s like to be working poor in America, and why poor people make the decisions they do.
 
We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her... Read more

The News Sorority

By: Sheila Weller

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists.” --Vanity Fair

For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women—Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour—broke into the newsroom’s once... Read more

On Immunity

By: Eula Biss

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.

In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and... Read more

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

By: Anne Helen Petersen

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown, and allegations against Woody Allen. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be.




Part biography, part cultural history, the stories contained in this book... Read more

Enough

By: Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

Narrated by: Mark Kelly

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabrielle Giffords's documentary Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down is now in theaters nationwide!

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.

After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed... Read more

A 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

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

Secret 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

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

The 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

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

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

Off 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