Social Science audiobooks

Things I've Been Silent About

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Naila Azad

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... Read more

Things I've Been Silent About - Abridged

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... Read more

A Woman's Worth - Abridged

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice--and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A Return to Love-- to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author illuminates her thought-provoking positions... Read more

The Sun and the Moon

By: Matthew Goodman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and... Read more

Spoken Word Club

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Through verse, members of the Spoken Word Club at the Santa Fe Indian School articulate identities both modern and traditional, and maintain links to the past through native language and culture. Read more

Reclaiming The Feminine

By: Gail Straub

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gail Straub has the vision and experience to help us understand what it means to be feminine and empowered in the twenty-first century. In her ongoing quest to mine the greatest truths from every era, she’s found answers that let her strike a balance between contemporary roles and the archetypes that call to us from a deeper place. Read more

Why We Suck - Abridged

By: Denis Leary

Narrated by: Denis Leary

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged CDs * 4 CDs, 5 hours

“Denis Leary snarls as naturally as most actors smile,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck, Leary snarls to brilliant effect. With his patented highspeed ranting and killer comic instinct, Denis Leary has become a beloved antihero whose bracing invective and outrageous riffs have earned him a... Read more

How to Read a Person Like a Book

By: Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero

Narrated by: Various

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Read a Person Like a Book teaches listeners how to understand the strangers, friends, work colleagues around them by reading their body language. Read more

Letters to a Young Sister

By: Hill Harper

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of two NAACP awards for his writing, bestselling author Hill Harper is an acclaimed actor known for his role on CSI: NY. A Brown University and Harvard Law School alum, Harper is also a passionate public servant. In this book he offers comforting advice for today's youth through his own wisdom as well as that of such luminaries as... Read more

Measuring Our Gross National Happiness

By: Anne Muller & Tashi Wangchuk

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Tashi Wangchuk and Anne Muller share how applying a few simple values-based principles, each of us can make Gross National Happiness a reality in our own lives and in our communities. Read more

Reawakening the Spirituality of Men

By: Matthew Fox, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Fox, Ph.D. has had his finger on the pulse of Western Spirituality for decades. When he casts his keen eye on the state of spirituality among men in the twenty-first century, you can be sure he’ll discern the unspoken woundedness, yearning, and passion of the modern warrior. Read more

The Wordy Shipmates

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Sarah Vowell

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the... Read more

Feminism and The Future of Women

By: Estelle Freedman

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the time of the abolitionists, no movement has so politicized social life in the United States as feminism. Responsible for wide-ranging legislation, such as women's right to vote and the right to an abortion, feminists have fought their way to the center of the country's political dialogue and made themselves a major presence there. But... Read more

The Incas

By: Terence N. D'Altroy

Narrated by: Denis Judd

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Incas were a small ethic group from the southern Peruvian highlands who created the greatest empire ever seen in the independent Americas--an empire of 10 to 12 million people. Inca history, largely presented to us by the conquering Spanish, reveals a rich culture of stunning achievement. In many ways, Inca life was defined by its unique... Read more

Mudbound

By: Hillary Jordan

Narrated by: Joseph Collins, Ezra Knight, Brenda Pressley, P...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The International BestsellerNow a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place... Read more

Among Schoolchildren

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Stephen Yankee

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's classic, "brilliantly illuminated" account of education in America (The New York Times Book Review). Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady teacher." (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: "She is mean, bro," says one of her... Read more

Stubborn Twig

By: Lauren Kessler

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Stubborn Twigis the true story of immigrants making their way in a new land, a moving saga about the promise and perils of becoming an American.Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets. He worked on the railroads, in a cannery, and as a houseboy before settling in Oregon to open a store, raise a large family, and... Read more

The New Elite - Abridged

By: Jim Taylor, Doug Harrison & Stephen Kraus

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We are all fascinated by them - that enigmatic class of people often referred to as the rich. With all the emphasis on the rich and famous in America, we would think we know everything about them. In reality, very few of us truly understand those who make up the very wealthiest Americans - those with liquid assets of $5 million or more. What is... Read more

The Courage to Raise Good Men - Abridged

By: Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum

Narrated by: Olga Silverstein

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more

Women & Self-Esteem - Abridged

By: Linda Tschirhart Sanford & Mary Ellen Donovan

Narrated by: Linda Tschirhart Sanford

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For any woman who knows the pain of low self-esteem, who feels inadequate or worthless, who hates her looks, who secretly believes she doesn't deserve success or happiness—this audio offers invaluable support and guidance.

Drawing on extensive research, the authors explain how women's self-attitudes are shaped by family relationships, schools,... Read more

Maggie's American Dream - Abridged

By: James P. Comer

Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up earning a total of thirteen college degrees between... Read more

The Numerati

By: Stephen Baker

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves simply by living in the modern world: we click web pages, flip channels, drive through automatic toll booths, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls. Now, in one of the greatest undertakings of the twenty-first century, a savvy group of mathematicians and computer scientists is... Read more

Archaeology and the Iliad

By: Eric Cline

Narrated by: Eric Cline

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences. But did Troy actually exist? And if so, where is it located? Was the Trojan War actually fought? If it was, did it take place... Read more

The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to... Read more