Social Science audiobooks

Big: a Personal Journey

By: Michael S. Berman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Berman has spent most of his sixty-plus years "living large." Though his weight has gone up and down dramatically a number of times, he estimates that he has gained and lost well over a thousand pounds.  Yet even with a healthy and loving family and an accomplished career, Berman felt the humiliation and the sadness which often... Read more

Cod

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The cod has played a vital part in livelihoods, diets, and health in general—as well as roles in national economies and international wars. Drawing on his love of food and food culture, Mark Kurlansky leaps into history and folklore to explore how this innocuous fish had such an impact over the centuries. Kurlansky recounts how the cod spurred... Read more

The Tipping Point - Abridged

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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 can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a... Read more

Game of Shadows - Abridged

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Arnie Mazer

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Rethinking Our Love Affair With Technology

By: Bob Seidensticker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Seidensticker has been at the fifty-yard line of technology since the 1970s, when computers had 64 kilobytes of memory and ran on disks larger than car tires. He graduated from M.I.T., and worked for I.B.M. and Microsoft. But from his vantage point as an inside player, the current technological revolution is just another day at the ballpark. Read more

Tripping the Prom Queen

By: Susan Shapiro Barash

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Tripping the Prom Queen is an investigation of the dark secret of female friendships-the deep vein of female rivalry. Based on interviews with women across the social spectrum, Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women are generally supportive of one another. In fact, the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it... Read more

Field Notes From a Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any... Read more

Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads - Abridged

By: Rosalind Wiseman & Elizabeth Rapoport

Narrated by: Rosalind Wiseman

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?

Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and... Read more

Birthing Death

By: Jerrigrace Lyons & Leslene della Madre

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a profound shift taking place in the way we handle death. Because of the work of people like Lyons and della Madre, we find encouragement to return to the ancient practices of caring for the dying at home and caring for the body of a deceased loved one, rather than relinquishing it to the care of a funeral home. Read more

Murder in Greenwich - Abridged

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Newsflash: Grand Jury just empaneled to investigate the unsolved murder of Martha Moxley!The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club on the grounds of her family1s Greenwich home.The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been... Read more

Money, A Memoir - Abridged

By: Liz Perle

Narrated by: Liz Perle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: She would do what it took to get it—work hard, marry right—but she didn't want to have to think about it too much. Since she was a young girl, the subject of money had been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. When... Read more

On Michael Jackson

By: Margo Jefferson

Narrated by: Andrea Johnson

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Abridged

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Gail Sheehy

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

Sabotage

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking new book, bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage. Using first-rate sources in all levels of national security, from field officers to high ranking analysts to former intelligence heads,... Read more

Whatever It Takes

By: Congressman J. D. Hayworth & Joseph J. Eule

Narrated by: J. D. Hayworth

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What should we do to solve America's border crisis? Whatever it takes! That's the no-nonsense approach of Arizona congressman J. D. Hayworth, one of America's most outspoken and eloquent conservative spokesmen. J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans. He's read the... Read more

Escape from Alcatraz

By: J. Campbell Bruce

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone; "Machine Gun" Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope.This gripping true-crime classic was originally... Read more

The West’s Last Chance

By: Tony Blankley

Narrated by: Mark Warner

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The West, says author Tony Blankley in this shocking book, is down to its last chance. Within our lifetimes, Europe could become Eurabia, a continent overwhelmed by militant Islam that poses a greater threat to the United States than even Nazi Germany did. In The West’s Last Chance, Blankley shows how that could happen and how we can prevent... Read more

God’s Harvard

By: Hanna Rosin

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the... Read more

Kabul Beauty School

By: Deborah Rodriguez

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside the wall of a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives life smack in the middle of Kabul. Now, Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who were her students there.When Rodriguez opened the... Read more

Class Action

By: Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one found the courage to file the first sexual harassment class action suit in America, permanently changing the legal landscape.When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn’t... Read more

The N Word

By: Jabari Asim

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the use and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the... Read more

The World of the Ancient Maya, Second Edition

By: John S. Henderson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient Maya were the only fully literate pre-Colombian people in the Americas. Superb scientists, they developed highly sophisticated mathematics and an intricate and accurate calendar system. Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture,... Read more

The Age of Chivalry

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Chivalry, Thomas Bulfinch’s masterpiece of history and fable, recounts the legend of Arthur and the Round Table. A timeless tale retold by Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and writers before and since, the Arthurian legend has metamorphosed from medieval Welsh texts to the French vernacular romances of Chrétien de Troyes, from obscure... Read more