Social Science audiobooks

Assholes

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.

What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no... Read more

Pendulum

By: Michael R. Drew & Roy H. Williams

Narrated by: Michael R. Drew & Roy H. Williams

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable.

Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth... Read more

Silent Tears

By: Kay Bratt

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Irrepressible memories. Vacant eyes. A child being dangled from a third story window. A boy tied to a chair. Children sleeping in layers of clothing to fight off the bitter cold. An infant dying from starvation. Some things your mind will never allow you to forget.Silent Tears is the true story of the adversity and triumphs one woman faced as... Read more

Londoners

By: Craig Taylor

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Jo Hall, Multiple Narrators, Rob...

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents to create this amazingly rich portrait of London.
Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the... Read more

Changes that Transformed the American Dream

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, the American Dream depends upon the prosperity of middle class. Ray Suarez talks to Smith about his latest book, Who Stole the American Dream? for more on what needs to change to restore the American Dream, economically, politically and culturally. Read more

Mugged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.” 

For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept... Read more

Bully

By: Lee Hirsch & Cynthia Lowen

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

PRAISE FOR THE FILM:
“An insightful and moving documentary.” —USA Today“Moving and touching…Bully forces you to confront…the extent to which cruelty is embedded in our schools and therefore in our society as a whole.” —New York Times, Critics’ PickABOUT THIS AUDIOBOOK:
A companion to the acclaimed film Bully, this audiobook brings the story of the... Read more

The Color of Christ

By: Edward J. Blum & Paul Harvey

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions—from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to... Read more

Future Perfect

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Samuel Cohen

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest... Read more

Life After Death

By: Damien Echols

Narrated by: Damien Echols

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in ... Read more

Dr. Mary's Monkey

By: Edward T. Haslam

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage
for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert
government operations over the course of three decades. Following a
trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical
journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical... Read more

Bon voyage

By: Laurent Hurtel

Narrated by: Laurent Hurtel

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Un nouveau recueil d’histoires pour changer votre histoire... « Bon voyage ! » vous invite à un nouveau périple au coeur du monde merveilleux des métaphores et des contes. Comme une prière, l’écouter, le réciter ou le chanter conduit vers une expérience magique qui réveil le divin en nous et autour de nous, pacifie notre coeur et le monde,... Read more

Hidden America

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”

Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects... Read more

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

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

How Women Lead

By: Sharon Hadary & Laura Henderson

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

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