Social Science audiobooks

Mysteries of the Middle Ages

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

The Perfect Thing - Abridged

By: Steven Levy

Narrated by: Anthony Rapp

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic:... Read more

Mind Set! - Abridged

By: John Naisbitt

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world. Mind Set! goes beyond that—Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand... Read more

The Innocent Man

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone... Read more

Imagine The Possibilities

By: Marc Allen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc Allen has a found a way to have everything he wants, and attain success and fulfillment-the easy way. This Type-Z entrepreneur, business guru, and life coach will explain the simple steps you can take to turn your life in the direction of your goals. Because, as he says, "We all have our unique strengths, and we all have what we need to... Read more

War on the Middle Class - Abridged

By: Lou Dobbs

Narrated by: Lou Dobbs

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream.

Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours Read more

Once Upon a Town

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Fritz Weaver

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska on troop trains, en route to Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen -- a place where soldiers could enjoy coffee, music, home-cooked food, magazines, and friendly... Read more

Conservatize Me - Abridged

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would happen to a liberal's mind if he subsisted entirely on conservative media and rhetoric? That's what critically acclaimed political humorist, NPR commentator, and McSweeney's contributor John Moe sets out to learn in Conservatize Me.We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently... Read more

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

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

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