Social Science audiobooks

Eating the Dinosaur

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.

Q: What is this book about?

A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve... Read more

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Thomas Cathcart

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too). Read more

Bright-sided

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism

Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key... Read more

Barack Like Me

By: David Alan Grier

Narrated by: David Alan Grier

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier.

Within these pages,... Read more

What on Earth is Going On?

By: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Narrated by: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein READ BY TOM BAIRD AND ARTHUR HOUSE.The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all... Read more

The Murder Business

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and put the guilty behind bars. The media wants a case to drag on as long as humanly possible and do all they can to extricate every last bit of drama—drop by bloody drop—in order to hold the attention of the millions of viewers who have... Read more

Changing the World, Seven Boys At a Time

By: Michael Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the lead of his racially color-blind son, Michael Rosen and his wife found themselves adopting a group of underprivileged African American boys within the context of their very privileged Caucasian world. What began as a kids' baseball game in the park, became a commitment that would bridge the racial and cultural divide. Read more

Nothing Was the Same

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist... Read more

Connected

By: Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler

Narrated by: Nicholas A. Christakis

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A colleague’s husband’s sister can make a person fat, even if they don’t know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much people truly influence each other are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. Their... Read more

The Predictioneer's Game

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have... Read more

Tapping the Wisdom of the World'S Ancient Oracles

By: Nicki Scully

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a fascinating sojourn into the world of oracles, from direct contact with the ancient Egyptian Thoth and Seth to the various cards and divination tools you use at home. Nicki Scully is one of the best loved guides who works with oracles, deities, and shamanic wisdom. She has developed a deep relationship to the gifts and powers each of... Read more

Spontaneous Remission For A Terminally Ill Planet

By: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. & Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it appears, the news about climate change is worse, as is the precarious balance of global politics. When it seems we are bent on destruction Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman see our dire state as evidence of an evolutionary shift, as profound as the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Read more

The Case for God

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities,... Read more

Rescue Ink

By: Rescue Ink

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger while spreading the message that “Abusers Are Losers.”When Joe Panz, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, and Eric initially met at tattoo and motorcycle conventions, they soon learned that they shared another passion: animals. Each had been rescuing... Read more

Think No Evil

By: Jonas Beiler & Shawn Smucker

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Amish will be the first to tell you they're not perfect.  But they do a lot of things right.  Forgiveness is one of them.  A one-room schoolhouse sat amid the gentle, quaint Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.  It made such a picturesque scene with its wide, welcoming front porch and white clapboard fence, set peacefully among... Read more

Why Our Health Matters

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it.Healthcare is no longer just a public issue; for millions of Americans it is now a crisis on their own doorstep. Cost of medical care today are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. Although policy... Read more

The 50th Law

By: 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Narrated by: 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. With stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the... Read more

Out of Poverty

By: Paul Polak

Narrated by: Eric Bodrero

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong in our efforts to end the root causes of poverty. He then, through the story of a Nepali farmer, goes on to detail solutions for what actually works in... Read more

What French Women Know

By: Debra Ollivier

Narrated by: Debra Ollivier

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A primer on the ineffable, je ne sais quoi appeal of the French woman.

I t?s not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It?s this: French women don?t give a damn. They don?t expect men to understand them. They don?t care about being liked or being like everyone else. They generally reject notions of... Read more

No Impact Man

By: Colin Beavan

Narrated by: Colin Beavan

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment.

In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes... Read more

Def Jam, Inc.

By: Stacy Gueraseva

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Def Jam is the hip-hop label that introduced mainstream America to the likes of Run DMC, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and Slick Rick. Beginning in the NYU dorm room of co-founder Rick Rubin, this never-before-told story captures all the behind-the-scenes action, outrageous hype, and raw talent that made rap a household word. Read more

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

By: Arthur Goldwag

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Did you know?

• Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members.

• The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers.

• Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, “The Box,” are all names for Area 51.

An indispensable... Read more

Archives of the Centuries

By: Roberto Trujillo

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to create a library-in particular, a research library worthy of Stanford University? Robert Trujillo has been developing special collections at Stanford for more than three decades. In this interview he shares the fascinating story of how the vast literary resources we rely on are generated. Read more

The Snakehead

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown,... Read more