Social Science audiobooks

From Scratch

By: Allen Salkin

Narrated by: Julian Fleischer

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food.

In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in... Read more

Drink

By: Ann Dowsett Johnston

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and... Read more

Paddle Your Own Canoe

By: Nick Offerman

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson?  Combining... Read more

Jim Henson

By: Brian Jay Jones

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson

He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born... Read more

Countdown

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.

In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his... Read more

Slimed!

By: Mathew Klickstein

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All of 2013!One of Parade Magazine's Best Books About Movies/TV of 2013!The behind the scenes story of the network that shaped a generationSlimed! is the first oral history to chronicle the surprisingly complex, wonderfully nostalgic, and impressively compelling story of Nickelodeon, the first kids’ network.... Read more

Discipline & Punish

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us... Read more

La mort du roi Tsongor

By: Laurent Gaudé

Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dans une Antiquité imaginaire, le vieux Tsongor, roi de Massaba, souverain d'un empire immense, s'apprête à marier sa fille. Mais au jour des fiançailles, un second prétendant surgit. La guerre éclate : c'est Troie assiégée, c'est Thèbes livrée à la haine. Le monarque s'éteint ; son plus jeune fils s'en va parcourir le continent pour édifier... Read more

Facing the Music

By: Nick Carter

Narrated by: Ted Evans

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This audio-book is Nick Carter's autobiography and self-help hybrid, in which he chronicles his struggles with a dysfunctional family and the unimaginable rigors of becoming an internationally successful pop-star at the age of 12. From his battle with addiction to serious health complications and the pain of his younger sister's tragic death -... Read more

Her Best-Kept Secret

By: Gabrielle Glaser

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What's the first thing many women do when they go home? Make a dash for the white wine in the refrigerator.In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers this hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic—but doesn't cause you to recoil in alarm. She is the first to document that American women are drinking more often than ever and in... Read more

Generation of Swine

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune... Read more

Smarter Than You Think

By: Clive Thompson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeIt’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both... Read more

Five Days at Memorial

By: Sheri Fink

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter

“An amazing tale, as... Read more

The Idealist

By: Nina Munk

Narrated by: Susan Nezami

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award


A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
    
 "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the... Read more

Getting to 50/50

By: Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and... Read more

Ten Billion

By: Stephen Emmott

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us.
 
As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a... Read more

The Business Solution to Poverty

By: Paul Polak & Mal Warwick

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearly three billion people living on two dollars a day are not just the world's greatest challenge—they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based Design: starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor, armed with a thorough... Read more

The Devil That Never Dies

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking -- and terrifying -- examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.

Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is... Read more

Scarcity

By: Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.

Why do successful people... Read more

Taylor Branch and Shukree Hassan Tilghman

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the March on Washington, African-Americans still confront high rates of unemployment, segregation in education and race-based partisan gridlock. In what areas have we seen progress? Gwen Ifill discusses the advances and what's left to be done with historian Taylor Branch and filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman. Read more

Of Dice and Men

By: David M. Ewalt

Narrated by: David M. Ewalt & Mikael Naramore

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hobbit meets Moneyball in this definitive book on Dungeons & Dragons—from its origins and rise to cultural prominence to the continued effects on popular culture today. HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS.Ancient red dragons with 527 hit points, +44 to attack, and a 20d10 breath weapon, to be specific. In the world of fantasy role-playing, those... Read more

Buck

By: MK Asante

Narrated by: MK Asante & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.
 
MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and a father who would soon become a revered... Read more

Down in the Chapel

By: Joshua Dubler

Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiaryBaraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at... Read more

Seniors Hold on to Urban Independence Into Old Age

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A new community model lets seniors enjoy all of the security and social amenities of a retirement community without leaving their homes. The alternative is called "aging in place." Ray Suarez reports on how this village concept may help seniors retain their independence into their golden years. Read more