Social Science audiobooks

Wrong

By: David H. Freedman

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Our investmeents are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists, and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?



Actually, those experts are a big... Read more

A Wild and Crazy Time

By: Don Lattin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As the 1950s came to a close, a new era of social, spiritual, sexual, political and psychological revolution was beginning. Here in this provocative dialogue, you will meet some of the wild characters who made the 1960s the most memorable decade of the 20th century. Lattin says, "[The] big question at the time was: are these experiences people... Read more

The Price of Stones

By: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri & Susan Urbanek Linville

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredibly inspiring and thrilling book, this is the story of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, who grew up in rural southwestern Uganda, the son of an irascible small-time farmer and his loving wife. In spite of the family's poverty, Jackson succeeds and graduates from the national university with a calling to work in human rights that leads him to... Read more

Click

By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more

Extra Lives

By: Tom Bissell

Narrated by: Tom Bissell

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the... Read more

Pandora's Seed

By: Spencer Wells

Narrated by: Spencer Wells

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.



What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need... Read more

The Upside of Irrationality

By: Dan Ariely

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller“Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.” — James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely offers a... Read more

The Invisible Gorilla

By: Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. Two renowned psychologists explain how and why our intuitions lead us astray, “[spinning] the plain world [we] know into a wonderment of surprising new insights” (Time).
 
“A must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how the mind works.”—Associated Press 
 
In The... Read more

Magical, Combustible Words

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

You'll love Cousineau's stories of the long journeys his favorite words have taken to find their way into our lives, and the provocative nuances hidden in the origins of others. You'll even find clues to how you can stop procrastinating, and finally finish that novel you've been working on, if only you can find the words. Read more

The Rational Optimist

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven PinkerIn a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce,... Read more

Nomad

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced adapting to Western society as Muslim immigrants.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent... Read more

Wes Moore: The Other Wes moore

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, The Other Wes Moore which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives. Read more

Wisdom Awaits Just Beyond the Boundary of Your Skin

By: Paul Rademacher

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Rademacher guides us to engage the world in ways that invite mystical experiences into our lives every day. It's not easy, he notes, in a culture where the dominant belief system is rooted in science and the physical world. But the direct experience of altered states of awareness is available to each of us. Read more

The Eyes of Willie McGee

By: Alex Heard

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“A memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory.” —Jon Meacham“Riveting. . . . It’s like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety and complexity.” —Walter Isaacson, author of EinsteinIn this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard tells a moving and unforgettable story... Read more

Getting beyond Hello

By: Jeanne Martinet

Narrated by: Jeanne Martinet

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting beyond Hello is a practical and amusing book of advice and wisdom from Miss Mingle, who answers a variety of questions about social situations."Relax," says Miss Mingle. It's easy to avoid the "hell" in "hello," deflect the unwanted greeting kiss, feel okay when you're dressed all wrong, solve modern dilemmas such as meeting same-sex... Read more

My Fair Lazy

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on.

Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration... Read more

Malcolm Gladwell Box Set

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Author

Length: 23 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time all three of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling, groundbreaking audiobooks are available together in an "instant classic" box set at a value-price.

THE TIPPING POINT: The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can... Read more

I'll Mature When I'm Dead

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I'll Mature When I'm Dead is the New York Times bestseller from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave Barry make the journey to adulthood a little easier—and a lot funnier.

Not everyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming through adulthood. Dave... Read more

I Am Hutterite

By: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and did not understand them in this powerful story of understanding how our beginnings often define us.“Your mother and father are running away," said... Read more

Preparing for Global Change

By: Marshall Vian Summers

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is clearly changing, and many of those changes promise to be challenging or even catastrophic. How will we deal with the struggles that lie ahead? Marshall Vian Summers anticipates a profound paradigm shift and a global depletion, that will demand more of us than anything we've experienced. Read more

In the Place of Justice

By: Wilbert Rideau

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph.

After killing a woman in a moment of panic following a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a fair trial, was... Read more

The Great Reset

By: Richard Florida

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008–09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to “reset.” In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and... Read more

There Are No Children Here

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang... Read more

Jane's Fame

By: Claire Harman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Mention Jane Austen and you'll likely incite a slew of fervent opinions from anyone within earshot. Regarded as a brilliant social satirist by scholars, Austen also enjoys the sort of popular affection usually reserved for girl-next-door movie stars, leading to the paradox of an academically revered author who has served as the inspiration for... Read more