Social Science audiobooks

Sheepwrecked

By: Jackie Ellis

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm - tupping time in the autumn, winters as wet, bleak and cold here in Cumbria as elsewhere, lambing and the glories of spring, a bucolic, bee-filled Eden Valley summer with its many shows and fairs - will reveal much that you need to know about the countryside, its quirky customs and ways,... Read more

American Savage

By: Dan Savage

Narrated by: Dan Savage

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated sex advice columnist and founder of the Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly)
 
From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial... Read more

Don't Know Much About Geography

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, Pa...

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.

Was there an Atlantis?
What's the smallest country in the world?
What's the difference between a jungle and a rain forest?

Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About® the Civil War and Don't Know Much About®... Read more

Intellectuals and Race

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense—one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their... Read more

The Revolution Was Televised

By: Alan Sepinwall

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct like a warlord. The survivors of a plane crash trying to make sense of their disturbing new island... Read more

Into the Abyss

By: Carol Shaben

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).

On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the... Read more

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?

As a species, Homo... Read more

Torn

By: Justin Lee

Narrated by: Justin Lee

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

AN UPDATED EDITION OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

An evangelical Christian examines the impact of sexuality, the LGBTQ+ movement, and the future of the church in this thoughtful, deeply researched guide to navigating and mending the social and political division in our families and churches.
  As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee... Read more

Keep It Pithy

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Dan Woren

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the #1-rated... Read more

The Great Shark Hunt

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 29 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering... Read more

AfterLife

By: Hank Hanegraaff

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Are near-death experiences reliable?New York Times best-sellers on near-death experiences depict:
• A 3-year-old who meets Jesus and his rainbow-colored horse
• A neurosurgeon encountering Om and the Orb on the wing of a butterfly
• A real estate broker descending to earth’s center to discover hell is 300 degrees and zero humidityDo such exotic... Read more

Mythology

By: Edith Hamilton

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more

The Anatomy of Violence

By: Adrian Raine

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies... Read more

Life at the Marmont

By: Raymond Sarlot

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Back in print after two decades, the story of Hollywood’s most exclusive hotel and its star-studded guest list Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel’s incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont... Read more

In the Body of the World

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much... Read more

Diary of a Submissive

By: Sophie Morgan

Narrated by: Tatiana Sokolov

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In Diary of a Submissive, Sophie Morgan candidly explains what exactly an independent, twenty-first century woman gets out of relinquishing her power and personal freedom in a submissive relationship with a dominant man for their mutual sexual pleasure.

In the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey, here is a memoir that offers the real story of what it... Read more

The End of Big

By: Nicco Mele

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Radical connectivity—our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally—is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele... Read more

Cooked

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. 

Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur in cooking. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker... Read more

Dirty Wars

By: Jeremy Scahill

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 24 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book of new reportage, sure to stir a global debate, journalist Jeremy Scahill—author of the acclaimed international bestseller Blackwater—takes us into the heart of the War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time.From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen,... Read more

Top of the Morning

By: Brian Stelter

Narrated by: Brian Stelter

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

CNN correspondent Brian Stelter reveals the dark side of morning television with exclusive material about current and past morning stars, from Matt Lauer to Katie Couric.

When America wakes up with personable and charming hosts like Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, it's hard to imagine their show bookers having to guard a guest's hotel... Read more

Unaccountable

By: Marty Makary, M.D.

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Marty Makary is codeveloper of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical... Read more

The Invisible Girls

By: Sarah Thebarge

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A girl scarred by her past. A refugee mother uncertain of her future. Five little girls who brought them together. After nearly dying of breast cancer in her twenties, Sarah Thebarge fled her successful career, her Ivy League education, and a failed relationship on the East Coast and started over in Portland, Oregon. She was hoping to quietly... Read more

My Beloved Brontosaurus

By: Brian Switek

Narrated by: Brian Switek

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013

One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books

A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick

Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a... Read more

Great Time Coming

By: David Falkner

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

David Falkner, noted author of five previous books about baseball, deftly portrays the rise to stardom of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play on a major-league team in baseball's modern era. As Falkner traces the development of Robinson's natural skill and tireless dedication, he focuses on the strengths that earned Robinson a... Read more