Social Science audiobooks

The End of Men

By: Hanna Rosin

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. And yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely gaining on men; they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure. Already “the end of men” — the phrase Rosin coined — has... Read more

How Women Lead

By: Sharon Hadary & Laura Henderson

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

LEAD LIKE A WOMAN “Rich with proven, practical knowledge and insights from highly successful women that you can put into action immediately to create your executive presence, be viewed as ‘leadership material,’ and maximize your opportunities.”
-Nina McLemore, Founder and CEO, Nina McLemore, Inc.; founder and former President, Liz Claiborne... Read more

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By: Fran Lebowitz

Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.

In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends,... Read more

Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well... Read more

Why Have Kids?

By: Jessica Valenti

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and intimate exploration of modern parenthood from a writer named “a gutsy young third-wave feminist” by the New York Times.If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support parenting, then why do it?In Why Have Kids?,... Read more

Brothers

By: Donna Britt

Narrated by: Rachel Leslie

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Former Washington Post columnist Donna Britt's memoir presents an honest and thoughtful look at a life spent giving to others. In 1977, Britt lost one of her brothers in a senseless police shooting. Plagued by her grief, she spent the next three decades putting her own needs aside to care for the men in her life. "[A] gutsy memoir . Britt writes... Read more

Fire in the Ashes

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Keythe Farley

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into... Read more

Help Me to Find My People

By: Heather Andrea Williams

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide listeners back to devastating moments of family separation... Read more

Smoke Signals

By: Martin A. Lee

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 21 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry.In 1996, California voters approved... Read more

Re-Creating the World

By: Michael Meade

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though it may seem like the end of things, Meade reminds us there are always beginnings embedded in the endings. He takes us on a mythological journey that tips the world towards renewal and says, “Why not find our own thread even in the midst of uncertainty and pain and learn how to weave and create?” Read more

He-Motions

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you find it difficult to express how you feel and what you need in your personal relationships?
Do you have trouble communicating and developing relationships with other men?
Does the weight of responsibility drag you down?
Do you wonder why it seems difficult to get the support and encouragement you need from your wife?
Do you often feel that... Read more

Hollywood vs. America

By: Michael Medved

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation’s best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public,... Read more

Who Killed Homer?

By: Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general... Read more

Busy Bodies

By: Lee Burns

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In our affluent society, technology was supposed to free us for greater leisure time and creativity. Instead, the demands of our increasingly complex lives have come up against the unyielding 24-hour day. Today many Americans are harried and frustrated with their lives, despite being richer in material goods. We have become "busy bodies,"... Read more

Technopoly

By: Neil Postman

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying,... Read more

The Convert

By: Deborah Baker

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam' s argument with the... Read more

Daughters Of Britannia

By: Katie Hickman

Narrated by: Full Cast & Katie Hickman

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating BBC Radio series, Katie Hickman examines the lives of 'diplomatic women' through their letters and diaries. From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor... Read more

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen... Read more

The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It's Our Choice

By: Joanna Macy

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy. Read more

Teach Your Children Well

By: Madeline Levine

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.Teach Your Children Well is a toolbox for... Read more

What's Tha Up To?

By: Martyn Johnson

Narrated by: Martyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'

No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a... Read more

Native American Wisdom

By: Kent Nerburn & Louise Mengelkock

Narrated by: Kent Nerburn & Marc Allen

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa, and many others share their insights on Native American ways of living, learning, and dying. There is something archetypal about the philosophy of the original Americans, especially to the sensibilities of modern European Americans. We recognize it as coming from the earth we walk on, from... Read more

The Chalice and the Blade - Abridged

By: Riane Eisler

Narrated by: Riane Eisler

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice and the Blade, in which she combined original theory with noted scholarship to tell a new story of our cultural origins. Drawing evidence from literature, art, sociology, archeology, politics, and economics, she eloquently reconstructs a prehistoric... Read more

Negro President

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune). In 1800... Read more