Social Science audiobooks

Buried in the Bitter Waters

By: Elliot Jaspin

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaspin exposes a shocking history of racial cleansing in the United States, and one that, alarmingly, continues to affect the geography of race in America to this day. Read more

Speaking of Faith

By: Krista Tippett

Narrated by: Krista Tippett

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The host of the popular weekly program on National Public Radio talks about her journey from politics back to religion—and a life of conversation. Includes excerpts from radio program.

For Krista Tippett, politics was the primary arena of human action, and reporting was the way to tell a story. The granddaughter of a Southern Baptist minister,... Read more

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings

By: Tyler Perry

Narrated by: Tyler Perry

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If you can count on one thing from "Madea" Mabel Simmons, star of the smash hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, and Madea's Witness Protection, it's that she's got something to say. Now the beloved, sharp-tongued, pistol-packing grandmother has her own lifestyle book-part memoir, many parts hard-won, hilarious, straight-up... Read more

The New Rules of Marriage

By: Terrence Real

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In his extraordinary new audiobook, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy–you’re right!
Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and... Read more

The New Rules of Marriage - Abridged

By: Terrence Real

Narrated by: Terrence Real

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his extraordinary new audiobook, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy–you’re right!
Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and... Read more

New York Divided

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Although slavery was abolished in New York City in 1827, residents remained divided on the issue through the Civil War. PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill talks with historian James Horton about slavery's impact on New York. Read more

How to Remember Names and Faces

By: Harry Lorayne

Narrated by: Harry Lorayne

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Remember the name - but can't remember the face?
Remember the face - but can't remember the name?

Harry Lorayne's easy-to-use techniques will teach you how!

How important is recalling a name or face? No matter how briefly you may have met, remembering someone can be a crucial social and business skill. By applying Lorayne's proven system of memory... Read more

Death in the Afternoon

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he... Read more

Final Exam

By: Pauline Chen

Narrated by: Pauline W. Chen

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's... Read more

Unlimited Access

By: Gary Aldrich

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of two FBI agents posted at the White House to perform background checks on appointees, FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich intended to close his eventful career in peace and dignity. But what he witnessed during the Clinton administration left him deeply troubled—then alarmed—and finally, so outraged that he felt compelled to leave. Unlimited... Read more

All in the Family, Doctor Included

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more

The Disappearance of Childhood

By: Neil Postman

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today—and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman suggests that... Read more

Ten Hours until Dawn

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and... Read more

The Lakota Way

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way offers a fresh and compelling outlook on spiritual and ethical living.Joseph M. Marshall III, a gifted storyteller, historian, and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The... Read more

The War against Parents

By: Sylvia Ann Hewlett & Cornel West

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the best-kept secrets of the last thirty years is that big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents, undermining the work that they do…parents have been left twisting in the wind by a society intent on other agendas.”—from the bookIn The War against Parents, two different parents from diverse... Read more

How to Watch TV News

By: Neil Postman & Steve Powers

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve... Read more

Ending the War on Drugs

By: Dirk Chase Eldredge

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outstanding examination of the country’s most troubling problem, a conservative Republican shows how and why America is losing the war on drugs and makes an important contribution to the debate on alternative policies.Author Dirk Eldredge demonstrates how the drug war has led only to overcrowded courts and prisons, rising crime, official... Read more

Double Victory

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerges to illustrate the country's multicultural struggles and victories during World War II. We hear from a Japanese-American at an internment camp; a Native American code breaker using the Navajo language for the first time; a Mexican-American woman, "Rosarita, the riveter," who was able... Read more

It Takes a Village - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest—both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public—to help make our society into the kind of village that enables... Read more

Inner Journeys In Egypt

By: Nicki Scully

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

People everywhere have some sense of the importance of the antiquities of Egypt. Nicki Scully's passion for Egypt goes much much deeper than the typical tourists' experience. Scully has discovered and experienced the deep wisdom of the Egyptian mysteries. She introduces us to the power of ancient rights and symbols once reserved for Pharaohs,... Read more

Letter to a Christian Nation

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Jordan Bridges

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediate New York Times Best Seller . . .
The Challenge to Religious Dogma that has Sparked a National Debate!

"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris. "Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the... Read more

Me to We - Abridged

By: Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger

Narrated by: Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestseller from the founders of WE Charity—a human rights organization that has lifted over 1 million people from poverty globally—Me to We is an uplifting and actionable guide for personal and social change and a call to action to helping others, featuring a new introduction by Academy Award­–winning actress and activist... Read more

The Old Way

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it



When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as... Read more

From High Tech to Higher Education

By: Steven Mayer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Steve Mayer and his colleagues began their careers in technology, they explored new ideas "with the knowledge that they were going to fail." This might sound like anything but a recipe for success, but it gave the young inventors freedom to try anything and everything. In the process, they created the world's first video games, and also... Read more