Social Science audiobooks

Forty Chances

By: Howard G. Buffett

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do?Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son in 2006, when he announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. So, Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth—nearly a billion individuals who lack... Read more

The Empire of Necessity

By: Greg Grandin

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America' s struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree


In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.

Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to... Read more

Promises Kept

By: Dr. Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson & Hilary B...

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on PBS’s POV

An unprecedented guide to helping black boys achieve success at every stage of their lives—at home, at school, and in the world
 
Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the “achievement gap”: a divide that shows up not only in our sons’ test scores, but in their social... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."

In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: David R. Dow

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist David R. Dow confronts the reality of his work on death row when his father-in-law is diagnosed with lethal melanoma, his beloved Doberman becomes fatally ill, and his young son begins to comprehend the implications of mortality.
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with... Read more

In Search of America - Abridged

By: Peter Jennings & Tod Brewster

Narrated by: Peter Jennings

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster conceived IN SEARCH OF AMERICA long before the events of September 11th. But watching America respond to one of the worst attacks in its history deepened the meaning of this project. Now, more than ever, Americans need to treasure their way of life, and to reacquaint themselves with the founding ideas that... Read more

The Renaissance Society

By: Mika Aaltonen & Rolf Jensen

Narrated by: Eli Woods

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A BOLD NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DREAM SOCIETY THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT THE FUTURE.
Your future. Our future. The future of companies, the marketplace, and society. According to futurists Rolf Jensen and Mika Aaltonen, we are currently "between dreams." We've managed to achieve many of our material... Read more

Freud : la sexualité féminine

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Freud n'a abordé que très tard, dans ses élaborations théoriques, la sexualité féminine. Au début il se référait surtout à celle du garçon et de l'homme à travers sa conception du complexe d'Œdipe. Freud envisage en effet la sexualité infantile comme ayant le même tronc commun masculin. La théorie freudienne peut bien être contestable d'un point... Read more

Gaining Ground

By: Forrest Pritchard

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's... Read more

Who Are The Illuminati

By: Frank White

Narrated by: Mysti Jording

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden behind the veil of their secret society the group known as the Illuminati have still managed to garner great attention and acclaim. They have been blamed for everything imaginable such as being the igniting force behind the French Revolution and being the real masterminds behind the 9/11 attacks. They have even been credited with... Read more

Thoughts To Get You Through The Night

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cousineau tantalizes us with his understanding of how night is a powerful companion for creativity. The quiet rhythm of the night is a holy experience of soul. He describes how language and culture arose around the fires of our ancestors talking into the night. By sharing stories and poems he takes us from the contemplative, starry night to the... Read more

You and Yours

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and... Read more

The Rolling Stones Discover America

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour across America that ended at Altamont. His long, intimate piece on the tour, THE ROLLING STONES DISCOVER AMERICA, captures the highs and lows of the grueling tour... Read more

The Rolling Stones Discover America

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Michael Lydon

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A founding editor of Rolling Stone and acclaimed journalist gives a backstage pass to the most important band in rock’n’roll history during the height of their fame.

In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour... Read more

Henry Louis Gates: Many Rivers to Cross

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Many Rivers to Cross, Henry Louis Gates Jr. recounts 500 years of African-American history in a six-part series for PBS. Gwen Ifill sits down with Gates, a Harvard University professor, to discuss the journey of black Americans who created hope and persistence in the face of brutal discrimination. Read more

Facing the Wave

By: Gretel Ehrlich

Narrated by: Sumalee Montano

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration... Read more

Fred & Rose

By: Howard Sounes

Narrated by: Howard Sounes

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. AS FEATURED ON TV, AND IN THE PODCAST SERIES, UNHEARD: THE FRED & ROSE WEST TAPES

Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.

During their long... Read more

The Tell

By: Matthew Hertenstein

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a yearbook photo have to do with future marital success? Can the CEO's appearance tell you anything about a company's quarterly earnings? In The Tell, psychologist Matthew Hertenstein reveals that our intuition is surprisingly good at using small clues to make big predictions, and shows how we can make better decisions by homing in on... Read more

Ingenious

By: Jason Fagone

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars... Read more

Baby Bust

By: Stewart D. Friedman

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lean in. Opt out. Have it all. None of the above. A new audiobook based on a groundbreaking cross-generational study reveals both greater freedom and new constraints for men and women in their work and family lives. Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School’s Work/Life Integration Project, studied two generations of Wharton... Read more

All the Time in the World

By: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book... Read more