Social Science audiobooks

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

Last Night at the Viper Room

By: Gavin Edwards

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for... Read more

Fight

By: Craig Groeschel

Narrated by: Craig Groeschel

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your playbook to becoming who God created you to be: a man who knows how to fight for what's right. Pastor, bestselling author, husband, and father Craig Groeschel helps you uncover who you really are--a powerful man with the heart of a warrior. With God's help, you'll find strength to fight the battles you know you... Read more

Humanity Moving From Adolescence To Maturity

By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith takes us on a historical journey and moves us into the present era. She has hope for the future and points out that there is an under-reported grassroots movement taking place today, but warns, “We need to be careful not to judge it as a system that doesn’t work just because it’s young… we have to move through the chaos and find a new... Read more

Dallas 1963

By: Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Narrated by: Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis & Tony Messano

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest... Read more

Perv

By: Jesse Bering

Narrated by: Jesse Bering

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless—and peerless." —Dan Savage

"You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through." We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv, there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether it's voyeurism, exhibitionism, or your... Read more

By the Rivers of Water

By: Erskine Clarke

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a seventeen-year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way... Read more

The Why Axis

By: Uri Gneezy & John A. List

Narrated by: Eric Martin

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people... Read more

Superheroes!

By: Laurence Maslon & Michael Kantor

Narrated by: Laurence Maslon

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture.
 
Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two... Read more

Aging: A Tender And Ferocious Time

By: Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When a realization flashes into our consciousness that we are aging, we tend to tighten up with fear. Negative images of our parents, grandparents, and friends loom before us. Anderson counsels us to move from that gripping fear into curiosity. She shares poignant stories about elders and luminaries such as Marion Woodman. This is a deeply... Read more

David and Goliath

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.

Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with... Read more