Social Science audiobooks

The Third Plate

By: Dan Barber

Narrated by: Dan Barber

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post

Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. In his visionary New York Times–bestselling book,... Read more

Overwhelmed

By: Brigid Schulte

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer... Read more

The Big Fat Surprise

By: Nina Teicholz

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestsellerNamed one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that... Read more

Stubby the War Dog

By: Ann Bausum

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Unedited Jacket copy: The Story of a Dog So Brave He Saved Livesand Won Hearts. This is the true heart-warming story of Stubby, a small, stump-tailed terrier who fought alongside Allied forces on the Western Front during World War I. This brave and clever dog could detect enemy soldiers, impending gas attacks, and even salute higher-ranking... Read more

What does it mean to be a girl?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last few decades, a multi-billion dollar industry has evolved around princess stories and toys. But in contrast to this pink and purple “girlie” world are alternatives emphasizing more diverse interests and portraying different kinds of heroines. Gwen Ifill talks to author Peggy Orenstein and Angelica Perez of the Ella Institute about the... Read more

Where the Wind Leads

By: Dr. Vinh Chung

Narrated by: Josh Aaron

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the harrowing experiences of their journey across the South China Sea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War to the heartwarming account of their successful restaurant venture in America, the refugee story of Vinh Chung and his family is riveting. In a time where the current topics are immigration and human rights, this first-hand account... Read more

Forcing the Spring

By: Jo Becker

Narrated by: Jamie Leonhart

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8—which removed the right of gay men and women to marry—passed alongside Barack Obama’s stunning victory.

Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage... Read more

Cubed

By: Nikil Saval

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of... Read more

Inheritance

By: Moalem MD PhD

Narrated by: Moalem MD PhD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.

INHERITANCE

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human... Read more

The Tanning of America

By: Steve Stoute

Narrated by: Kerry Washington

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer—the tan generation.When Fortune 500 companies need to reenergize or reinvent a lagging brand, they call Steve Stoute. In addition to marrying cultural icons with blue-chip marketers, Stoute has... Read more

Inheritance

By: Moalem MD PhD

Narrated by: Moalem MD PhD

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.

INHERITANCE

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human... Read more

The Divide

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis
 
Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
 
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.
Fraud by the... Read more

Baptized in PCBs

By: Ellen Griffith Spears

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the... Read more

Life, Animated

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Ron Suskind & Owen Suskind

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. "A fantasy? A nightmare?" This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen... Read more

(Ver-)Führung zur Chancengleichheit

By: Cornelia Edding & Jochen Geppert

Narrated by: Brigitte Büscher & Stephan Schad

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer kann aktiv und effektiv etwas tun, damit in Deutschland die Zahl der Frauen in Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten steigt? Die Antwort liegt auf der Hand: Es sind die Frontmänner und -frauen selbst, die sich dafür einsetzen sollten, dass zukünftig mehr verantwortungsvolle Positionen von Frauen besetzt werden - auch unabhängig von ihrer... Read more

A Call to Action

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.

President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report... Read more

The Illuminati's Greatest Hits

By: Frank White

Narrated by: Mysti Jording

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Illuminati, established in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, is a notorious secret society said to be orchestrating significant global events for centuries. This group, often dismissed as a conspiracy theory, has a real historical presence. They are accused of inciting wars, manipulating political events from behind the scenes, and pushing for a New... Read more

Gedanken zur Zukunft mit Miriam Meckel und Frank Rieger - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Miriam Meckel & Frank Rieger

Narrated by: Miriam Meckel, Frank Rieger & Jürgen Wiebicke

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Werden Maschinen den Menschen ersetzen? Lässt die Datenflut das Individuum verschwinden? Zwei Perspektiven auf unsere Gesellschaft, eine Diagnose: Der Mensch verliert zusehends an Relevanz. "Wir verschwinden", so der Titel des Manifests der Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin Miriam Meckel. Sie sieht die Freiheit des Menschen durch die... Read more

Six Women of Salem

By: Marilynne K. Roach

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been... Read more

Charm

By: Stephen Bayley

Narrated by: Stephen Bayley

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone will not get him through”. Bayley took... Read more

The Generosity Network

By: Jennifer McCrea, Jeffrey C. Walker & Karl Weber

Narrated by: Laura Smith

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less stressful, more rewarding-- and even fun.... Read more

The Gifts Of The Feminine

By: Mary Anne Radmacher & Liz Kalloch

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

These two women share insights on the many attributes of the “Divine Feminine” such as what it means to be an intrepid traveler, why creativity needs to be expressed, how we are all artists, how moving and dancing can lift us out of a downward spiral, the three keys to friendship, and more. Read more

The Story of Music

By: Howard Goodall

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic and expansive tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop songsMusic is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multilayered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex.In his dynamic tour through forty thousand years of music, from... Read more

The DIM Hypothesis

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments... Read more