Social Science audiobooks
Real Boys - Abridged
By: William Pollack
Narrated by: William Pollack
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection through anger and acts of violence against themselves or... Read more
View audiobookThe Terrorist Next Door
By: Erick Stakelbeck
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Al-Qaeda doesn't care about "Hope" and "Change."The threat of terrorism in America, the Obama administration assures us, is contained and controlled. Attempted attacks like the Times Square bombing, the "underwear bombing" on a flight over Detroit, and the attack on a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in Oregon were all isolated plots that... Read more
View audiobookThe True Story of The Bilderberg Group
By: Daniel Estulin
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has been comprised of prime ministers, presidents and the wealthiest... Read more
View audiobookForgotten Continent
By: Michael Reid
Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world's largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily... Read more
View audiobookTangled Webs
By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 19 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.
Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the... Read more
What Women Want
By: Paco Underhill
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Paco Underhill, the author of the hugely successful Why We Buy and Call of the Mall, reports on the growing importance of women in everybody’s marketplace—what makes a package, product, space, or service “female friendly.” Underhill offers a tour of the world’s marketplace—with shrewd observations and practical applications to help everybody... Read more
View audiobookIn Defense of Women
By: H. L. Mencken
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1918, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today’s readers, including monogamy and polygamy, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining marriage rates. Written in Mencken’s characteristic no-nonsense manner, In Defense of Women crackles with controversy and caustic wit.“The truth is that... Read more
View audiobookIt Gets Better
By: Dan Savage & Terry Miller
Narrated by: Richard Powers & Marguerite Gavin
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every story can change a life.Growing up isn’t easy. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, making them feel like they have nowhere to turn. This is especially true for LGBT kids and teens who often hide their sexuality for fear of being bullied. Without other openly gay adults and mentors in their lives, they can’t imagine what... Read more
View audiobookTruth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
By: Howard Gardner
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates, humankind has explored these virtues in an attempt to describe and categorize them. Our definitions of these concepts, moreover, have unceasingly changed over the ages and across continents. Every known civilization... Read more
View audiobookWalk Out Walk On
By: Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze
Narrated by: Deborah Frieze
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an era of increasingly complex problems, fewer and fewer resources to address them, and failing solutions. Is it possible to find viable solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? This inspiring book takes readers on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have... Read more
View audiobookUsing Limits and Consequences
By: EDCON Publishing
Narrated by: Professional Associates
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This audio-book will teach you to manage children using limits and consequences. Organizational patterns of families are reviewed. Limits for managing behavior of children are discussed and eight practical techniques for effective usage of limit setting are reviewed. When to set limits, how to set them and important points to remember, is also... Read more
View audiobookTriumph of the City
By: Edward Glaeser
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they?
As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and... Read more
Everything Is Obvious
By: Duncan J. Watts
Narrated by: Duncan J. Watts
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future.
Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into believing that we understand more... Read more
Join the Club
By: Tina Rosenberg
Narrated by: Dana Green
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In the style of The Tipping Point or Freakonomics, a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.
The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and... Read more
Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, first published in 1915, is a feminist utopian novel that describes an isolated society composed entirely of women—a progressive, environmentally conscious land where peace and rationality reign and poverty is unknown. Told from the perspective of Vandyk Jennings, a male sociology student who sets out with his... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Shame
By: Thomas Keneally
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 35 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Keneally, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List, is universally praised for crafting smooth narratives from authentic historical events. With The Great Shame, he turns his insightful eye toward the Irish struggle through the nineteenth century. In sharp contrast to much of Europe, Ireland was a terrible place to be during... Read more
View audiobookIdiot America
By: Charles P. Pierce
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist's caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.The three Great Premises of Idiot America:– Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. – Anything can be true if someone... Read more
View audiobookEconomic Paths Diverged Over 30 Years
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from two Ohio counties -- Crawford and Delaware -- that had similar incomes 30 years ago, but their economies and populations have since taken very different paths. Read more
View audiobookCitadels of Power: Castles in History and Archaeology
By: Thomas Finan
Narrated by: Thomas Finan
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor Thomas J. Finan conducts an enthralling series of lectures on a subject that is an enduring part of the popular imagination: the castle. Professor Finan examines the castle from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including those of history, archaeology, geography, and landscape studies. The course also covers the morphology of... Read more
View audiobookThe Social Animal
By: David Brooks
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a... Read more
View audiobookLas crónicas de Jackson Heights
By: Orlando Tobon
Narrated by: Jorge Pupo
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
El padrino de Jackson Heights hace mucho mas que arreglos de viajes desde su diminuta agencia escondida en un rincon del sector de Queens conocido como la Pequena Colombia de Nueva York. Con frecuencia Fernando Padron es la unica mano amiga para miles de inmigrantes latinos. Entre sus diversos oficios estan el de contador, buscador de empleos,... Read more
View audiobookWest End Girls - Abridged
By: Barbara Tate
Narrated by: Kate O'Sullivan
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Now a Top Ten bestseller. Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war - things would never be the same... Read more
View audiobookThe Information
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our... Read more
On Gold Mountain
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life” (Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club).
"As... Read more