Social Science audiobooks

Our Occulted History

By: Jim Marrs

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Jim Marrs steps once again to the cutting-edge of research into conspiracies and hidden truths. In Our Occulted History, Marrs  goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda and illustrates how human civilization may have originated with non-humans who visited earth eons ago...and may still be here todayOur Occulted... Read more

Radical

By: Michelle Rhee

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings—not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the... Read more

Asking Better Questions

By: Robert Fuller, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether Fuller is talking about the end of the cold war or the digitarian movement, he's constantly reminding us to ask better questions. It's the questions we are formulating that gives us a clue into solving our personal and our global problems. Read more

Jump Ship to Freedom

By: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel’s father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers’ notes to buy his family’s freedom.But now Daniel’s father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel... Read more

Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 7: Geschichte der Sozialen Demokratie

By: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Lesebücher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Möglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbständig anzunähern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugänge aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verständlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einführung zu den großen Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen.... Read more

Fresh Off the Boat

By: Eddie Huang

Narrated by: Eddie Huang

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People
 
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and... Read more

12 Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years... Read more

Abortion

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty years ago, in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that abortion should be legal in the United States. Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life and Nancy Keenan of NARAL Pro-Choice America join Gwen Ifill to debate the state of abortion rights and activism today. Read more

Saturday Night Widows

By: Becky Aikman

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.

   In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world.  In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and,... Read more

Breaking the Chains

By: William Loren Katz

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Generations of American history students grew up believing that slave rebellion was relatively rare, that slaves accepted their lot and became attached to their masters, and that they were ultimately liberated with little or no effort of their own. Liberally sprinkled with quotations from Civil War era blacks, both slave and free, Breaking the... Read more

Rosenfeld: Guns in School

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez looks at responses by lawmakers and the NRA to President Obama's gun violence proposals. Jeffrey Brown hones in on the topic of mental health with Barry Rosenfeld, a clinical forensic psychologist at Fordham University, and Dr. Paramjit Joshi of the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Read more

Searching for Zion

By: Emily Raboteau

Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion takes listeners around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement. At twenty-three, Raboteau... Read more

The World Until Yesterday

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former... Read more

Coming of Age in Mississippi

By: Anne Moody

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the... Read more

How to Think More About Sex

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE.

We don't think too... Read more

The Amistad Rebellion

By: Marcus Rediker

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted historian Marcus Rediker has earned numerous awards for his work, including the sought-after George Washington Book Prize. In The Amistad Rebellion, he turns his attention to the famed slave ship that set sail from Havana in 1839. Painstakingly researched, Rediker's account follows the slaves' point of view, from the joyous moments after... Read more

Utopian Frontiers

By: Drew Tapley

Narrated by: John Phillip Roach

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

What if there was a secret city at work on finding answers to the survival of humanity? Technologies beyond your imagination. A city expanding, recruiting and evolving. There is no government, no money, no bosses, institutions, cars or roads; and age takes on new meaning. This “facity” is one big research product in and of itself, and nothing... Read more

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the fictional account of 'an ex-colored man' - an African-American who could pass for white - as he attempts to... Read more

Co-Creating A Dream Of A Modern Day Oz

By: Jean Houston, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Houston takes us on a whirlwind tour of the authentic American myth of the Wizard of Oz. She answers the question of what it means to have a brain, a heart, and to act with courage. Using the characters of the scarecrow, tin man, lion, and Dorothy, Houston inspires us to follow our deep yearning in order to develop and contribute to a... Read more

Drinking Water

By: James Salzman

Narrated by: Lee Hahn

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs... Read more

Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his... Read more

Far From the Tree

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 40 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *

* WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *

This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only... Read more

Die Stunde der Dilettanten

By: Thomas Rietzschel

Narrated by: Anke Fabian

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Der moderne Beruf: Dilettant. Nicht erlernbar, kein Studium erforderlich, auf allen (Interessens-)Gebieten anzutreffen, Wissen unnötig. Zeichnet sich besonders durch Ahnungslosigkeit aus, spricht ohne Sinn und Verstand unqualifiziertes Zeug, handelt ohne sich der Konsequenzen bewusst zu sein, es geht um mehr Schein als Sein. Trotz... Read more

The Economics and Politics of Race

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How much of a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society it lives in and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world? Using an international framework to analyze group differences, Sowell has pioneered a new approach for pursuing this important study based on historical experience and... Read more