Social Science audiobooks

The Notorious Benedict Arnold

By: Steve Sheinkin

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On a bitter cold day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country’s greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America’s first action... Read more

How Remarkable Women Lead

By: Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston & Geoffrey Lewis

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. It's the new "right stuff" of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing,... Read more

Snow-Storm in August

By: Jefferson Morley

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington's first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and ''Star... Read more

The Mormonizing of America

By: Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What the Mormonizing of America means for the nation, the world—and for you. A century ago, there was one Mormon celebrity in the United States—a member of Congress so controversial, his confirmation hearing lasted four years. The Latter-day Saints’ practice of polygamy had ended only a decade or so before. Mormons were a despised sect with... Read more

Shifting Into a New Era of Conscious Evolution

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Hubbard inspires us with a vision of the possibility as we move into a new era of conscious evolution. She says we are at a choice point, and describes a tipping point of people who are collectively becoming excited by the changes. Read more

Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 6: Staat, Bürgergesellschaft und Soziale Demokratie

By: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Length: 5 hours 52 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

Rez Life

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and... Read more

Why Women Can, and Can't Have It All

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Women, Work and Having it All: Article Reignites Old Debate An article on balancing career and motherhood has drawn nearly a million views online and sparked a bigger debate about the role of women in the work force. Judy Woodruff discusses the subject with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Monica Olivera of MommyMaestra and Naomi Decter, vice president of... Read more

Peace: The Real Game Changer

By: James O’Dea

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

O’Dea has been on the front line of peace building and shares with us practical, insightful, and inspiring messages of peace. He tells us that peace is not passive; it is a dynamic force moving across the planet. This conversation includes the spiritual and scientific dimensions of peace building. Read more

The Beautiful Fall

By: Alicia Drake

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion’s most beloved luminaries—Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant... Read more

Poet Natalie Diaz Returns to Her Roots

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After spending several years away from home, poet Natalie Diaz felt a calling to return to her reservation to help preserve the Mojave language, which is rapidly being lost. Read more

The Velvet Rage

By: Alan Downs, PhD

Narrated by: Alan Downs

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The most important issue in a gay man’s life is not “coming out,” but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, “Are we better off?” The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, rejection, and anger—a toxic cocktail that... Read more

Darwin's Ghosts

By: Rebecca Stott

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the... Read more

Twilight of the Elites

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another –  from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the... Read more

Superman

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made him the icon he is today, from the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy

“A story as American as Superman himself.”—The Washington Post
 
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the... Read more

Full Body Burden

By: Kristen Iversen

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Kristen Iversen

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
 
A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic... Read more

I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

By: Joan Rivers

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850“How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?”—Joan Rivers, today, about two-ish
Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She’s also opinionated—especially when it comes to people she hates. Like people who think... Read more

The Mansion of Happiness

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.... Read more

Jeff, One Lonely Guy

By: Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields & Michael Logan

Narrated by: Jeff Ragsdale

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. They came from all over the country and from as far away... Read more

Tubes

By: Andrew Blum

Narrated by: Andrew Blum

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of TrafficIn Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind... Read more

Why You're Not Married . . . Yet

By: Tracy McMillan

Narrated by: Tracy McMillan

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re looking to get married and you’re not, there’s most likely a very good reason: you. Not that you’re a bad person—you’re certainly not! It’s just that you haven’t yet become the woman you need to be in order to have the partnership you want. So how you can grow into someone who is ready to say “I do” and to attract the same in a mate?
 
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Beautiful Souls

By: Eyal Press

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's most elite... Read more

The Sacred Sword

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Jack Hawkins

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott AN ANCIENT SWORD. A LONG BURIED SECRET.ONE MAN WILL UNCOVER THE MYSTERY. It’s Christmas, and on a trip back to the UK to try to sort... Read more

The Speckled Monster

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SPECKLED MONSTER is both a hair-raising tale of courage in the face of the deadliest disease that has ever struck mankind, and a gripping account of the birth of modern immunology. Jennifer Lee Carrell's dramatic story follows two parents who, after barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, flouted eighteenth-century European... Read more