Social Science audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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