Social Science audiobooks
Intelligent Evolution
By: Nicki Scully
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Healer Nicki Scully tells us that it’s time for us to consciously evolve. We must continue to heal ourselves as we join with others to heal the planet. Read more
View audiobookThe Ragged Edge of the World
By: Eugene Linden
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization. Read more
View audiobookRunning with the Kenyans
By: Adharanand Finn
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
“A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhino, and buffalo roam the plains on either side. But I haven’t come to Kenya to spot wildlife. I’ve come to run.”
Whether running is your recreation, your religion, or just a spectator sport, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite... Read more
DNA USA
By: Bryan Sykes
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics. In DNA USA, Sykes examines the unique fabric of the U.S. population-one of the world's most genetically variegated countries. His fascinating discoveries offer... Read more
View audiobookThe American Way of Eating
By: Tracie McMillan
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat... Read more
View audiobookThe World Dharma Of Freedom And Non-Violence
By: Alan Clements
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Clements dares to say we are living in a "post-mindfulness" era. What he means is that we all need to move into a post-hierarchical time where "nirvana" is not static and the mindful mind - observing one's self - is not mistaken for "dharma intelligence." Clements passionately challenges us to step out of the confines of set traditions,... Read more
View audiobookBad Religion
By: Ross Douthat
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and... Read more
View audiobookCity of Scoundrels
By: Gary Krist
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into “the Metropolis of the World.” But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city’s highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same... Read more
View audiobookHell's Angels
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson rocked the literary world with his mind-bending style of Gonzo journalism. First published in 1966, Hell's Angels is Thompson's up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared. "[Thompson's] language is brilliant . [he] has... Read more
View audiobookA History of English Food
By: Clarissa Dickson Wright
Narrated by: Clarissa Dickson Wright
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas and ingredients have arrived, and as immigrant... Read more
View audiobookThe Missionary Position
By: Christopher Hitchens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
Among his many books, perhaps none have... Read more
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
By: Christopher Hitchens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame."
Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further... Read more
No One Left to Lie To
By: Christopher Hitchens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive."
In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a... Read more
No, They Can't
By: John Stossel
Narrated by: John Stossel
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.
Politicians—and we voters—can dream of guaranteed incomes or green energy. But the mature response to cries of “Yes, we can!” should be “No, we can’t”—not when “we” means government. There is nothing that... Read more
China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation. Framed by ten phrases common in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Social Conquest of Earth
By: Edward O. Wilson
Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.
Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human... Read more
Out In The World A Global Gay History
By: Richard Coles
Narrated by: Richard Coles
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Coles examines same sex desire through the ages, in a journey reaching from the UK to India, Egypt, Greece and Native America. In episode one, his quest takes him to Saqqara, Egypt and the contested tomb of two men, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Were the men lovers or brothers? He explores the ideas of the 'sexologists' and tells the story... Read more
View audiobookFull Service
By: Scotty Bowers & Lionel Friedberg
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends.... Read more
View audiobookThe Theory That Would Not Die
By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.
In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers,... Read more
The Sugar Girls
By: Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
Narrated by: Penny McDonald
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of... Read more
View audiobookAmericans Are Living Alone
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
More and more Americans are living alone, according to sociologist Eric Klinenberg's new book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. Ray Suarez and Klinenberg discuss the emerging demographic, so-called "singletons," and what he calls the "biggest unnamed social change of the last 50 years." Read more
View audiobookTwelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years. Northup's account is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of... Read more
View audiobookGegensätze ziehen sich um - Mode im Blick - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)
By: Barbara Vinken, Thomas Meinecke & Philipp Hübl
Narrated by: Barbara Vinken, Thomas Meinecke & Philipp Hübl
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Angela Merkels Dekolleté bei der Eröffnung der Osloer Nationaloper war im Frühjahr 2008 eine mittlere Mediensensation, der "Spiegel" rief eine Dekolleté-Debatte aus. Seither sind Kanzlerinnendekolletés selten geworden. Ist weibliche Erotik unvereinbar mit politischer Macht und moralischer Autorität? Lautet die Alternative immer noch entweder... Read more
View audiobookThe Richer Sex
By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.
This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing... Read more