Social Science audiobooks

She Comes First: Introduction - Abridged

By: Ian Kerner

Narrated by: Ian Kerner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Every man’s must-read. Tell your guy to put down the remote and pick up She Comes First.”
—Cosmopolitan Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First—an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest—You’re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner’s “cool sense of humor and an... Read more

Sensing The Divine Sacred Sizzle

By: Sera Beak

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sera Beak is a modern day mystic who speaks in the plain, down to earth, uncensored language of youth and vitality. She is open–wide open–to the divine and invites you to join her, but only if you follow your own voice. Read more

There Is No Me Without You

By: Melissa Fay Greene

Narrated by: Julie Fain Lawrence

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa with this account of an Ethiopian widow who welcomed over sixty AIDS orphaned children into her home, caring for them and helping to place them with new families.

A powerful and ongoing story of hope in the face of despair, it is at its heart simply about children... Read more

The Immortal Game

By: David Shenk

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over.

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two... Read more

The Confident Woman - Abridged

By: Joyce Meyer

Narrated by: Pat Lentz

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What keeps women from being their best? Joyce has been helping women better themselves by helping identify emotional barriers and physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles in their lives for years. Now she provides another answer-confidence.

Our society has an insecurity epidemic, women in particular. Compensating by pretending to be secure-a... Read more

Chuck Klosterman IV - Abridged

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously... Read more

The Immortal Game - Abridged

By: David Shenk

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over.

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two... Read more

All Aunt Hagar's Children

By: Edward P. Jones

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the... Read more

Women of Grace

By: Carol Lee Flinders, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If Saint Teresa of Avila were alive today, would she be running for public office? If Julian of Norwich were around, would she be completing a doctorate in psychoneuroimmunology? Would Saint Clare of Assisi run a nonprofit? Would any of these women choose a cloistered life if they were born today? Flinders traces the “mother-line” of... Read more

Behold a Pale Horse - Abridged

By: William Cooper

Narrated by: William Cooper

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper reveals classified information kept in secret government files since the 1940s. In this eye-opening work—read by the author—Cooper explores the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the Secret Government, and UFOs. His lucid presentation of information transcends partisan affiliations as he... Read more

He-Motions - Abridged

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you find it difficult to express how you feel and what you need in your personal relationships?
Do you have trouble communicating and developing relationships with other men?
Does the weight of responsibility drag you down?
Do you wonder why it seems difficult to get the support and encouragement you need from your wife?
Do you often feel that... Read more

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Abridged

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over half a million copies sold!

From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power... Read more

Dispatches from the Edge

By: Anderson Cooper

Narrated by: Anderson Cooper

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly... Read more

Change the Story: Change the Future

By: David Korten

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We now stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future.  As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future holds great peril and great promise. Read more

Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage - Abridged

By: John Gottman, PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD ...

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser & Anne Gartlan

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, marital psychologists John and Julie Gottman provide vital tools—scientifically based and empirically verified—that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication.

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a... Read more

Mayflower

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."
--The New York Times Book Review

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year

How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey... Read more

Crime Beat - Abridged

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Len Cariou, Nancy McKeon & Carl Franklyn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of... Read more

Everything Bad is Good for You

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth - Abridged

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Kevin Gray & Laura Dean

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

To Hell with All That

By: Caitlin Flanagan

Narrated by: Julia Fletcher

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented as a series of essays, it follows the natural course of women’s lives. Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening... Read more

Game of Shadows

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more