Social Science audiobooks
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
By: Barbara Seaman
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
For over 40 years Barbara Seaman has been a leading women's health advocate. Now she blows the lid off the estrogen industry in this fascinating book that holds the power to improve-possibly even save-women's lives. In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In... Read more
View audiobookQuirk
By: Hannah Holmes
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents, our children, our co-workers, our neighbors.... Read more
View audiobookI Beat the Odds
By: Michael Oher
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.
Michael Oher is the young man at the center of the true story depicted in The Blind Side movie (and book) that swept up awards and accolades. Though the odds were heavily stacked against him, Michael had a burning... Read more
Never Say Die
By: Susan Jacoby
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Susan Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity—pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of aging. She separates wishful hype from... Read more
View audiobookFaster - Abridged
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: James Gleick
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.
Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers,... Read more
The Next Decade
By: George Friedman
Narrated by: Bruce Turk
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.
The next ten years will be a time of massive... Read more
Reality is Broken
By: Jane McGonigal
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the U.S. will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to virtual worlds is that videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. In this groundbreaking exploration of... Read more
View audiobookJust Like Us
By: Helen Thorpe
Narrated by: Paula Christensen
Length: 15 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all four want to live the American dream, but only two have documents. As the girls attempt to make it into college, they discover that only the legal pair see a clear... Read more
View audiobookBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
By: Amy Chua
Narrated by: Amy Chua
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Courageous and thought-provoking.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
“Breathtakingly personal . . . [Chua’s] tale is as compelling as a good thriller.” —The Financial Times
"[F]ascinating. . . . the most stimulating book on the subject of child rearing since Dr. Spock." —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Chua’s memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,... Read more
Anständig essen (Gekürzt) - Abridged
By: Karen Duve
Narrated by: Karen Duve
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lebt es noch oder isst Du es schon? Karen Duve gehörte nicht eben zur Gesundheitsfraktion. Bratwürstchen und Gummibären wanderten genauso in ihren Einkaufswagen wie Schokolade und Curryketchup in 1-L-Plastikflaschen. Doch dann zog sie mit jemandem zusammen, der schnell den Spitznamen Jiminy Grille erhielt - nach dem personifizierten Gewissen der... Read more
View audiobookThe Closing of the American Mind
By: Allan Bloom
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
More than just a huge #1 bestseller, this is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and political crisis of twentieth century America is really an intellectual crisis. From the... Read more
View audiobookZombie Spaceship Wasteland
By: Patton Oswalt
Narrated by: Patton Oswalt
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratatouille) and television (The King of Queens and The United States of Tara), but also beloved for his ascerbic, highly eloquent, and wildly funny... Read more
View audiobookStephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology... Read more
View audiobookPractical Wisdom
By: Barry Schwartz & Kenneth Sharpe
Narrated by: Barry Schwartz
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The surest route to a happier, more productive life and future
Most of us want to succeed. And most of us want to do the right thing. But we often forget that the way to
succeed is by doing the right thing, as Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe remind us in Practical Wisdom:
The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. When the institutions that shape... Read more
American Freak Show
By: Willie Geist
Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In just three short years, Willie Geist has gone from behind-the-scenes producer at MSNBC to rising on-air star, as the host of Way Too Early with Willie Geist and cohost of Morning Joe. He's fast, he's funny—something of an early-morning Jon Stewart.
Now, in his first book, Geist focuses on America's ongoing parade of giant pop culture... Read more
The Vampire
By: Alan Dundes
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Finally, the truth about vampires. Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history,... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Thirteen
By: Paul Stillwell
Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In January 1944, sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African American officers on active duty. The men believed that if they failed they would set back the course of racial justice, so they banded together and all sixteen... Read more
View audiobookDisintegration
By: Eugene Robinson
Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black... Read more
View audiobookThe Town That Food Saved
By: Ben Hewitt
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America. Even as the recent financial downturn threatens to cripple small businesses and privately... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Grace
By: David E. Campbell & Robert D. Putnam
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 18 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
American Grace takes its findings from two of the largest, most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America, plus in-depth studies of diverse congregations—among them a megachurch, a Mormon congregation, a Catholic parish, a reform Jewish synagogue, and an African American congregation.
From abortion to gay... Read more
The War for Late Night
By: Bill Carter
Narrated by: Sean Kenin
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.
When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a... Read more
Learning to Die in Miami
By: Carlos M. N. Eire
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962—a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born.
In this enchanting new work, narrated in... Read more
Frank
By: James Kaplan
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 22 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs.
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. As Bob... Read more
Keep the Change
By: Steve Dublanica
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Tipping is huge in America. Almost everyone leaves at least one tip every day. More than five million American workers depend on them, and we spend $66 billion on tips each year. And everyone recognizes that queasy feeling - in bars and restaurants, barbershops and beauty parlors, hotels and strip clubs, and everywhere else - when the check... Read more
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