Social Science audiobooks

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

AND

By: Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

Narrated by: Don Leslie/Richard Brewer, Don Leslie & Richard...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God's kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church models and see how to incorporate these values into a cohesive church movement.By the numbers, the American church... Read more

Scent of the Missing

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon discovered... Read more

Oprah

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Kitty Kelley

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influ¬ential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures,... Read more

Myths and Mysteries of Archaeology

By: Susan Johnston

Narrated by: Susan Johnston

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Otherwise rational people believe-or at least partially believe-in many fantastical myths about the world in which they live. Indeed, it is an entirely human inclination to want to believe in what might be called otherworldly explanations for phenomena for which there are no easily explainable causes. In these eye-opening lectures, Professor... Read more

The Language God Talks

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what... Read more

Murder City

By: Charles Bowden

Narrated by: Charles Bowden

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's warring cartels, Juárez is the border city that most brutally exposes the lies that we tell ourselves about globalization, NAFTA, immigration, corruption, and the war on drugs. Once known only as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad and Mogadishu. In this... Read more

Paul and Me

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: A.E. Hotchner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.

A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition... Read more

The Long Way Home

By: David Laskin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants—never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million—nearly one out of every five men—were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of... Read more

The Male Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing... Read more

Savage Inequalities

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Mark Winston

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the... Read more

This Playful Universe

By: Stephan Martin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephan Martin tells us that ninety-six percent of the universe is dark matter we can't see and don't understand. He sat down with leading physicists, spiritual leaders, and cultural creatives to get their insights on what we do know-and what we believe. In this riveting conversation he shares insights from every perspective-the questions that... Read more

The Media

By: Neal Cortell

Narrated by: Morton Dean

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran television reporter Neal Cortell tackles the subject of in The Media, Journalism in Crisis. With the help of renowned journalists, academics, regulators, and activists, The Media discusses the state of news that America awoke to each day included clearly delineated separation of reporting and editorial opinion, compared to the internet... Read more

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.

Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed... Read more

Cheerful Money

By: Tad Friend

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tad Friend’s family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at a Smith college poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden, his mother came in second—to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the ’60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend... Read more

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

By: Nujood Ali

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
 
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells... Read more

Amazing Grace

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazing Grace is an audiobook about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx—the poorest congressional district of our nation.The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Jonathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender,... Read more

Sophrologie Relaxation

By: Laurent Hurtel

Narrated by: Laurent Hurtel

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

LA SOPHROLOGIE est une approche humaniste qui étudie la conscience humaine. C’est une méthode pratique de restructuration fondée sur des techniques de relaxation corporelle et de détente mentale (yoga, zen, méditation). Le but essentiel est l’épanouissement de l’Être et la transformation positive de son existence. Elle a pour postulat l’unité du... Read more

Shock of Gray

By: Ted Fishman

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Ted C. Fishman reveals the stunning challenges of a world awash with seasoned citizens. By 2030, those over 50 will outnumber people under 17 for the first time in history. Fishman explores the resulting impact on families, businesses, nations, and medical care. Read more

How Evil Works

By: David Kupelian

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite the human race’s extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in one all-important area: We don’t understand evil—what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives. Put another way, we don’t understand ourselves. David Kupelian, the best-selling author of... Read more

Creative Community Organizing

By: Si Kahn

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A revealing and practical guide to community organizing that pulls together the accumulated lessons, strategies, and secrets from Si Kahn's 44 years of experience at the forefront of many civil rights, labor rights, and other social justice battles. Read more

The Pickup Artist

By: Mystery

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pickup Artist is a salacious book about the continuing adventures of the world's most famous pickup artist, Mystery, who was first introduced as the ringleader of a subculture of pickup artists chronicled in Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game. After fame, fortune, and reality television, a group of pickup artists live in a gorgeous... Read more

When Everything Changed

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

An enthralling blend of oral history and Gail Collins' keen research, this definitive look at 50 years of feminist progress shimmers with the amusing, down-to-earth liberal tone that is this New York Times columnist's trademark. "An engrossing account . deadly serious and great fun to read at the same time . sure to become required... Read more