Social Science audiobooks
SOUL OF SEX - Abridged
By: Thomas Moore
Narrated by: Thomas Moore
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In our age of science and psychology, it's tempting to think of human sexuality in terms of biology and interpersonal relationships. But in The Soul of Sex, Thomas Moore regards sex as an experience of the soul and emphasizes the more human themes of fantasy, desire, meaning, and morality. Moore turns especially to the religious traditions of... Read more
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By: Bill Rancic
Narrated by: Bill Rancic
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Success means something different for everyone. For Bill Rancic, it meant taking the things he loved -- like coming up with exciting ideas and never working a 9-to-5 job -- and translating that into a profitable business. By the time he was thirty, he'd achieved every goal he set for himself by creating an online cigar company from scratch and... Read more
View audiobookThe Shame of the Nation - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kozol
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he... Read more
Imperial Grunts - Abridged
By: Robert D. Kaplan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.
Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American... Read more
Die Indianer Nordamerikas - Abridged
By: Klaus Kamphausen
Narrated by: Wolf Enba
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Eine Dokumentation über das Leben der nordamerikanischen Indianer in der Zeit vor Columbus. "Ich bin das Land, meine Augen sind der Himmel, meine Glieder die Bäume. Ich bin der Fels, die Wassertiefe." (Hopi) Vor der Entdeckung und Eroberung durch den weißen Mann wurde der nordamerikanische Kontinent von etwa 300 verschiedenen... Read more
View audiobookTalking Back - Abridged
By: Andrea Mitchell
Narrated by: Andrea Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A frank, highly engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir by one of today's most respected journalists.
Read by the author
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New York Burning - Abridged
By: Jill Lepore
Narrated by: Beth McDonald
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted. Read more
View audiobookThe Reckoning
By: Randall Robinson
Narrated by: Cornell Womack
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community. In this powerful book, he convincingly argues that African Americans must fight the growing presence of modern prisons, which hold an alarmingly disproportionate number of black inmates. Read more
View audiobookThe City
By: Joel Kotkin
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this erudite and enjoyable Los Angeles Times best-seller, Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order. These exciting concentrations of ideas and energy have long been and should continue to be meaningful... Read more
View audiobookCollective Creating Through Conversations
By: Juanita Brown, Ph.D. & David Isaacs
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
More than ever, we are in need of conversations that bring people together for creative solutions. Imagine having the opportunity to sit with a group of people and have a deep interaction around something you all really care about. These kinds of dialogues are taking place across the globe and are making a difference in creating a better world.... Read more
View audiobookOutrageous Women
By: Elizabeth Debold, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In the last century, women made a declaration of independence from patriarchy, and still struggle to find a way to be powerful and compassionate, proactive and creative without repeating the mistakes of the old paradigm. It's a shift of evolutionary proportions. But the paradox, according to Elizabeth Debold, is that "the group that has... Read more
View audiobookLa chèvre de M. Seguin
By: Alphonse Daudet
Narrated by: Albert Millaire
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
M. Seguin avait choisi, cette fois, une chèvre toute jeune croyant ainsi la retenir. Mais Blanquette, comme toutes les autres, préféra la bruyère des montagnes au pré vert de son clos; la liberté et ses risques plutôt que la sécurité et l'ennui. Elle comprit bientôt qu'il ne suffisait pas d'être brave et courageuse pour se défendre contre le... Read more
View audiobookBound for Canaan - Abridged
By: Fergus Bordewich
Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more
View audiobook100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - Abridged
By: Bernard Goldberg
Narrated by: Bernard Goldberg
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at ""ordinary"" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous)...the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose... Read more
View audiobookUrgent Message: Gather The Women
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Bec Kageyama
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Informed by the Sacred Feminine, which both women and men embody into consciousness and culture, Bolen wants every child in the world to be wanted, to be fed, to be safe, to have healthcare. She speaks of realms of empathy, connectedness, and nurturing, and how, at this time, our world needs the combined qualities of each of these. Read more
View audiobookMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - Abridged
By: John Gray
Narrated by: John Gray
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The most well-know, long-lived, and tried-and-tested relationships guide ever, the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is now available for the first time ever as an audio book. In this classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women... Read more
View audiobookThe Murderer Next Door
By: David M. Buss
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are... Read more
View audiobookThe Genius Factory
By: David Plotz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more
Confessions of a Video Vixen
By: Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter
Narrated by: Karrine Steffans
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs,... Read more
View audiobookSurrounded by Idiots - Abridged
By: Mike Gallagher
Narrated by: Mike Gallagher
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The controvserial radio host speaks out on liberalism, grassroots politics, and the control of America in a polemic that is sure raise liberal hacklesIn the book his fans have long been clamoring for, conservative talk show host and commander in chief of “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike Gallagher chronicles the daily war between liberals and... Read more
View audiobookBlack Rednecks and White Liberals
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Hugh Mann
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis, slavery, and education. Through a series of essays, Sowell presents an in-depth look at key... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This phenomenal New York Times bestseller is an exposé of international corruption and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations.John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States, from Indonesia to Panama, to accept enormous loans for infrastructure... Read more
View audiobookKabloona
By: Gontran de Poncins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more
View audiobookBack in Action
By: David Rozelle
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more
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