Social Science audiobooks

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

It's Not About the Truth

By: Mike Pressler & Don Yaeger

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Pressler walked into the bottom-floor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.



It was 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's... Read more

Once Upon a Quinceanera

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Daphne Rubin-Vega

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era. Read more

Heaven Is Real

By: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Narrated by: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

So how should we spend our time on Earth? Don Piper, the Minister of Hope who spent 90 minutes in Heaven, brings us God's message.

Hope for the here and now from the multimillion-selling author of 90 Minutes in Heaven.

Millions believe in Heaven. Don Piper's been there. He was pronounced dead after a car accident on January 18, 1989. Ninety... Read more

Sam Quinones: Antonio's Gun and Defino's Dream

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A book conversation about the lives and dreams of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in the 1920s and the current day with Sam Quinones, author of Antonio’s Gun and Defino’s Dream. Read more

The World Is Flat 3.0

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 27 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become... Read more

The Secret of The Secret

By: Karen Kelly

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Secret has taken the book world by storm, giving people the power to live happier, more prosperous lives through the law of attraction.

In the same vein as Breaking the Da Vinci Code, The Secret of "The Secret" takes an independent look at the people and the ideas behind the bestseller and examines what made The Secret so successful.

Some... Read more

The World Is Flat 3.0 - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become... Read more

The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and... Read more

Freakonomics Rev Ed

By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner offer the long-awaited paperback edition of Freakonomics, the runaway bestseller, including six Freakonomics columns from the New York Times Magazine and a Q & A with the authors. Read more

Humanity's Potential to Consciously Evolve

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hubbard's research through history she realized that when a culture lost an image of its own future, which was positive to that culture, and they didn't believe in themselves anymore, the culture declined. Read more

Her Way - Abridged

By: Don Van Natta Jr. & Jeff Gerth

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The truth about the most important woman in America

In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary.

Never-before-revealed information about Hillary's... Read more

To Catch a Predator

By: Chris Hansen

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline NBC's ongoing "To Catch a Predator" series, with an average of 11 million viewers per episode. So far, the Dateline series has led to the arrest of over 200 men and has shown that child predators can be anyone—even those who are the most trusted in the community, including rabbis and teachers.



In his... Read more

The Feminine Mistake - Abridged

By: Leslie Bennetts

Narrated by: Leslie Bennetts

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really ""have to"" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the... Read more

How to Be a Wild, Wise, and Witty Woman

By: Loretta Laroche

Narrated by: Loretta Laroche

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and speaker Loretta LaRoche has helped millions of people lighten up, overcome anxiety, and truly enjoy their everyday lives. Here in this fun-filled yet deeply insightful live presentation, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce stress and gloom, but fill your days with laughter, passion, and delight.Instead of... Read more

Opening Day

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for... Read more

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

By: James Wolcott

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. Read more

The Tipping Point

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. 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... Read more

The 33 Strategies of War

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Donald Coren

Length: 27 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The contemporary companion to Sun-Tzu's The Art of War, this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Read more

The 33 Strategies of War - Abridged

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The contemporary companion to Sun-tzu's The Art of War, this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war can help us gain mastery in the modern world.<

Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, this is a comprehensive guide to getting... Read more

The Male Change of Life: It's No Joke

By: Jed Diamond

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Jed Diamond, a licensed psychotherapist who has worked with men's health issues for thirty-five years, is concerned about the decline in men's health. He began to recognize constellations of symptoms in his male clients that led him to suspect this pattern of physical, behavioral and emotional disorders might be hormonally related. Later... Read more

Failing America's Faithful

By: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For too long the subject of religion has been politicized by the Right and largely ignored by the Left, as American churches have become increasingly more concerned with what people do with their bodies than with their souls. Now Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to arms to all those who feel that churches in America... Read more

Finding Oprah's Roots

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make,” says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone.”

This audiobook will help millions of African Americans never again to walk alone.
What’s more, it... Read more

Maxed Out - Abridged

By: James D. Scurlock

Narrated by: James D. Scurlock

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this shocking and illuminating road trip through an America ravaged by debt, award-winning film director James Scurlock examines our multitrillion-dollar addiction to easy credit in all of its absurdities and contradictions.

Maxed Out ventures beyond the mind-numbing statistics to expose a financial industry spinning wildly out of control.... Read more