Social Science audiobooks

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

By: Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The book on sex in the twenty-first centuryWant to know what really turns your partner on? A Billion Wicked Thoughts offers the clearest picture ever of the differences between male and female sexuality and the teeming diversity of human desire. What makes men attracted to images and so predictable in their appetites? What makes the set up to a... Read more

How the Hippies Saved Physics

By: David Kaiser

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physicsIn the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the... Read more

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends - Abridged

By: Don Gabor

Narrated by: Don Gabor

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than twenty-five years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of conversation with necessary skills for communicating in the... Read more

The Dumbest Generation

By: Mark Bauerlein

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college enrollments have never been higher); more money ($100 a week in disposable income); more leisure time (five hours a day); and more news and information (Internet, The Daily Show, RSS feeds).



What do they do with all that time and... Read more

Coming Into Our Fullness

By: Azarm Ghareman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghareman describes the dilemma of women today who are especially culturally rewarded to say yes to most every request made of them. Most of us have dozens of stories about how we self-sabotage ourselves instead of building a more balanced life.. How can we say a soft but effective no? What are some skillful ways for us to move from stress to... Read more

Genocide In Darfur: Why We Should Care

By: Rebecca Tinsley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's never a waste of time reminding the world what's happening in places where genocide is occurring. Each of us is commissioned to speak out and shine a light on these dark atrocities that take place daily around the world. Rebecca Tinsley has been instrumental in getting the word out about the atrocity in Darfur. Read more

Area 51

By: Annie Jacobsen

Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). 

It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more

On the Verge

By: Alan Hirsch & Dave Ferguson

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West. The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West, and we are now facing the fact that more of the... Read more

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

These intertwining narratives "beautifully demonstrate . . . that the people who are excluded and bullied for their offbeat passions and refusal to conform are often the ones who are embraced and lauded for those very qualities in college and beyond" (The New York Times).

In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction,... Read more

Three Cups of Deceit

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also not what he appears to be. As acclaimed author Jon Krakauer discovered, Mortenson has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into... Read more

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

The 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

The Itch

By: Benilde Little

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a sexy young model. As Abra and Natasha try to find a backer for their latest film, they must navigate the opulent... Read more

The 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

Tangled 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

Forgotten 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

In 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

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

It 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

Truth, 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

Walk 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

Walk Out Walk On

By: Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze

Narrated by: Deborah Frieze

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley and long-time Berkana Institute collaborator Deborah Frieze take readers on a learning journey into seven diverse communities that have walked out of limiting beliefs and practices and walked on to something new. From Brazil to Ohio, they demonstrate how each of these communities made a conscious choice to... Read more