Social Science audiobooks

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

Why are Younger Children Alone in Reducing Obesity Rates?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Centers for Disease Control is reporting progress in cutting obesity among pre-schoolers. During the past decade, obesity in children aged 2 to 5 has dropped from 14 percent to 8 percent. Christina Economos of the Tufts University School of Medicine joins Gwen Ifill to discuss possible factors in the decrease, including changes to food... Read more

Little Demon in the City of Light

By: Steven Levingston

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.

Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of... Read more

Suspicion Nation

By: Lisa Bloom

Narrated by: Lisa Bloom

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative examination of race, gun laws, and violence that exposes how the state of Florida bungled the Trayvon Martin case through new interviews and revelations about the trial.Many thought the election of our first African-American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a... Read more

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House

By: Elizabeth Keckley

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release—an uncompromising work... Read more

The Age of Fable, Part 1

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Bulfinch, as one reviewer put it, "created an anthology of mythology." This audiobook contains the first fourteen chapters of The Age of Fable, the first of three volumes, comprising Bulfinch's complete work. The Age of Fable recounts stories of Greek gods, demigods, and best-known characters in mythology. In our times, many references... Read more

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Olive Gilbert

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree—a slave born at the end of the eighteenth century who later took the name of Sojourner Truth. She recounts the harshness of life under slavery, as well as what transpired after she won her freedom, when she became a vociferous abolitionist, a... Read more

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The colorful characters from Greek mythology come alive in exciting adventures captured by the author of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. Ride Pegasus, open Pandora’s Box, slay Medusa with her head of many snakes, join Hercules as he flexes his muscles and King Midas as he turns his daughter into gold. The stories, moral in... Read more

Murder Mistrial - Jordan Davis Case

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This weekend, a Florida jury convicted 47-year-old Jacksonville software developer Michael Dunn on three counts of attempted murder, but declared a mistrial on a charge that he murdered 17-year-old black teenager Jordan Davis in a case that has drawn comparison to the killing of Trayvon Martin. Read more

A Storm Too Soon

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storytellerSeventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, Jean Pierre de Lutz, a dual citizen... Read more

Yakety Yak I Fought Back

By: Carl Gardner

Narrated by: Tommie Earl Jenkins

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

If you don't know who Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carl Gardner is, you should. The story of the lead tenor of pioneering vocal group The Coasters is brought to life in this audiobook. Telling the story of their rise to fame and laying bare the barriers that not only The Coasters but all black artists through the 1950s and 60s faced, it's a must... Read more

Wieso Frauen immer Sex wollen und Männer immer Kopfschmerzen haben

By: Christian Thiel

Narrated by: Andreas Denk

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Irrungen und Wirrungen der Liebe Liebe auf den ersten Blick? Gibt es nicht! Die Zahl der Ehescheidungen? Steigt nicht! Und Männer wollen noch können immer. Fazit: Das meiste, was wir über die Liebe zu wissen glauben, ist falsch! Nirgendwo sonst leisten wir uns so viel Ignoranz gegenüber den Fakten. Die Liebe führt also eine Art Doppelleben... Read more

The Manor

By: Mac Griswold

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Mac Griswold' s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister-- and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian... Read more

Sex After…

By: Iris Krasnow

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly honest look at how to enjoy a long, satisfying sex life no matter what life throws at you.Hooking up, marriage, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood—women's lives have many stages, changes, and challenges. A prevailing question on women's minds as they age... Read more

Demon Camp

By: Jennifer Percy

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan, killing everyone on board.

In that instant, machine gunner Caleb Daniels lost his best friend, Kip Jacoby, and seven members of his unit. Back in the U.S., Caleb begins to see them everywhere—dead Kip, with his... Read more

Fairytales: Liberators Of The Soul

By: Isha Lerner

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lerner explores fairytales as helpers to better understand our evolutionary path. As in life, there is an initiation, a leaving home, an enchantment, the miracle, the kiss, or some outside event that propels us into our transformation, and, hopefully, if our lives follow this path, there is an awakening. The curse is broken and we glimpse the... Read more

Loveology

By: John Mark Comer

Narrated by: John Mark Comer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally--a theology of love that will help you navigate the confusing waters of modern relationship.In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the pieces.With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female... Read more

The Triple Package

By: Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are black and Hispanic subgroups in the United States far... Read more

The Locust Effect

By: Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor.It is a plague of everyday violence.Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence—like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and... Read more

The Search For Wisdom

By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosopher Needleman eloquently shares with us how the ability to focus our attention is an energy that is uniquely human. He astounds us with ideas of what love is and how it may be sustained. Further, he talks about time and the two fundamental natures of humankind, the external nature and the divine nature. All this and more is covered in... Read more

Grand Central Winter, Expanded Second Edition

By: Lee Stringer

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer—homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years—found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.With humane... Read more

Social Physics

By: Alex Pentland

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled... Read more

All Joy and No Fun

By: Jennifer Senior

Narrated by: Jennifer Senior

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom…[an] excellent book.” —Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review""[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny book.” —The Washington PostThousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children.... Read more

The Golden Bough

By: James Frazer

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 21 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as Proust derives an entire world of feeling, people and events from the taste of a madeleine, James G. Frazer brings us into a worldwide survey of religion, folklore, culture, symbolism and ritual using the Priest of Nemi as his starting point. Starting from the image of the lonely, doomed high priest, prowling his precinct night and day,... Read more