Social Science audiobooks

The Disuniting of America

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The promise of America has always been that of a fresh economic start on equal footing. This is linked to the classic image of the republic as a melting pot, where differences of class, race, and religion are submerged in the pursuit of democracy. But today, the idea of assimilation into the mainstream is giving ground to the cult of ethnicity.... Read more

Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The anti-white racism of the political left remains one of the few taboo subjects in America. In this book, David Horowitz, a former confidante of the Black Panthers, lays bare the liberal attack on “whiteness,” the latest battle in the war against American democracy.Horowitz acknowledges that America’s political culture is the creation of... Read more

Outcasts United

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Outcasts United - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Not For Sale

By: David Batstone

Narrated by: Michael McIlhonnie

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.” —Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics“David Batstone is a heroic character.” —BonoIn the revised and updated version of this harrowing yet deeply... Read more

Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg

By: Kathie Lee Gifford

Narrated by: Kathie Lee Gifford

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of America’s most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And that’s why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething (!) devoted mother and dedicated television personality yet to be revealed.

Just When I Thought I’d Dropped... Read more

High-Tech India Contrasts with Rural Ways

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

India has benefited from supplying other countries with outsourcing services from computer help to legal document analysis, while in other parts of the country poor farmers are struggling to make a living. NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks reports on the two Indias. Read more

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.”
—Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.”
— Los... Read more

Crowded Land of Liberty

By: Dirk Chase Eldredge

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The number of legal immigrants accelerated in the 1990s to an average of more than a million a year. That was up from just over 300,000 a year in the 1960s and 600,000 a year by the 1980s. When the number of illegal immigrants is added to this, the total inflow during the 1990s was approximately 12 million. That compares with 500,000 in the... Read more

No god but God

By: Reza Aslan

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot

Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded by ignorance and fear. What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews and... Read more

The Mirror Effect

By: Drew Pinsky & S. Mark Young

Narrated by: Drew Pinsky

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Drew Pinsky takes a hard look at the profound changes blogging, tweeting, tabloids, and reality TV are having on the American way of life. An important wake up call for... Read more

The Yoga of Christianity

By: Russill Paul

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people bridge the spiritual traditions of East and West, of the yogi and the Christian, as Russill Paul does. He is a native of India raised as a Catholic, with deep ties to Hinduism and the yogic tradition, and studied as a Benedictine monk at an ashram near Madras. From his perspective, neither tradition is better than the other-only unique. Read more

Passing Strange

By: Martha A. Sandweiss

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent... Read more

A Saint on Death Row

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African... Read more

Snark

By: David Denby

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is snark? You recognize it when you see it—a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her... Read more

Stepping Out of Line

By: Nell Merlino

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When activist Nell Merlino decides something needs to change, she throws everything she has into changing it. Whether it is raising the visibility of girls or helping women build their businesses, her many campaigns have helped women make dreams come true. Now she marshals her life lessons – and those of other gutsy women – to help women have it... Read more

Why Sh*t Happens

By: Peter J. Bentley, Ph.D

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Your laptop mysteriously crashes. There’s a fresh red wine stain on the carpet. An overhead bird targets your windshield. Sh*t, as they say, happens – to all of us. But have you ever thought about why such accidents occur? It’s not just bad luck. . . What causes the mishaps that can ruin your day? In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed scientist Peter J.... Read more

Accountable

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tavis Smiley presents the successor to his two bestselling books, The Covenant of Black America and The Covenant in Action—Accountable will serve as a report card, holding the politicians accountable for what they have promised and holding the community responsible for its actions or inactions.

In Accountable, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

The Third Chapter

By: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by people—those between ages fifty and seventy-five—who are... Read more

The Empathy Gap

By: J. D. Trout

Narrated by: J. D. Trout

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on his sweeping and innovative research, philosopher and cognitive scientist J. D. Trout recruits the latest findings in psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience to answer the question: How can we make better personal decisions and design social policies that improve the lives of everyone?We are touched when faced with the... Read more

The Next 100 Years

By: George Friedman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, eye-opening, and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the United States—and the world—from one of our most incisive futuristsGeorge Friedman has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends. In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his eye... Read more

Elsewhere, U.S.A.

By: Dalton Conley

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while... Read more

The Hole in Our Gospel

By: Richard Stearns

Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US? Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the... Read more

Forecast

By: Stephan Faris

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and he began to wonder what current and impending—and largely unanticipated—crises such changes have in store for the world.

Forecast provides the answers.

Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. Italy has... Read more