Social Science audiobooks

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

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 Nonviolence Handbook

By: Michael N Nagler

Narrated by: Michael N. Nagler

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharing a lifetime's worth of learning and experience by noted peace scholar Michael Nagler, this work distills the practice and theory of nonviolent action into a concise, highly readable manual for thought and action. 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

(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

Life, Animated

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Owen Suskind & Ron 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

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

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

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

Deepening Community

By: Paul Born

Narrated by: Jon Repp

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

People in all areas of society hunger for community. Tamarack director Paul Born shows how people can move from no community, shallow community, or bogus community ("community of fear") to deep community in their relationships with others. Read more

The Generosity Network

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

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 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

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

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

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