Social Science audiobooks

The Disappointment Artist

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these “voyages out... Read more

Emperors and Idiots - Abridged

By: Mike Vaccaro

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and... Read more

Space Between the Stars - Abridged

By: Deborah Santana

Narrated by: Deborah Santana

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.

In this... Read more

Underground Railroad

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown looks at the newly-opened National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which chronicles the struggle of slaves seeking freedom in pre-Civil War America. Read more

Feet on the Street

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Walking in Peace

By: Angela Porter & Emily Hooker

Narrated by: Rebecca Kageyama

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack of 9/11, surrounded by surging, blind patriotism, Angela Porter felt called to do something - something that would make a statement for peace. That call became a walk across the nation, from Berkeley, California, to Washington, D.C. Joined by Emily Hooker and five other women, she traveled eight months... Read more

A World Without Oil

By: Richard Heinberg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. Soon after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The impact on our culture will be extraordinary - in fact, as Heinberg warns, "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable." Read more

Feet on the Street: - Abridged

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Ola Latina, La - Abridged

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Jorge Ramos

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En las elecciones del 2004, hubo 3 millones más votantes hispanos que en el año 2000. Los hispanos pusieron al presidente George W. Bush en la Casa Blanca en el 2000 y luego lo reeligieron en el 2004. Es imposible ignorar una influencia tan grande y un voto tan importante.El cambio más dramático que está viviendo este país no tiene nada que ver... Read more

We Are All the Same

By: Jim Wooten

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.



Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all... Read more

Collapse - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Christopher Murney

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization.

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber - Abridged

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

Learning to Sing - Abridged

By: Clay Aiken & Allison Glock

Narrated by: Clay Aiken

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing

When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star.... Read more

Staying Centered in a Busy World

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Borysenko shares tools and techniques to help each of us avoid the inevitable burn-out that comes when we cross the line between compassion and codependence. Read more

The Good Body

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. . . . In recent years good... Read more

Learning to Sing

By: Clay Aiken & Allison Glock

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing

When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star.... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

Planet Simpson - Abridged

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Read more

Learning as if People Really Mattered

By: Debora Hammond, Francisco Vazquez & Tony Mountain

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is facing more problems than we can count, and it's often difficult to see how we'll find the solutions. Many fear our education system is not producing the creative thinkers we'll need in the times ahead. But an innovative approach to education goes beyond traditional courses and classrooms to emphasize creativity and inspiration, so... Read more

Navigating Nature Naturally

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brenda Peterson finds her spirituality in the soulfulness, humility, and forgiveness of the natural world. With a voice as gentle as her heart, she shares her first mystical encounter with the spirit of a river, and points the way to a sacredness grounded in the natural world, the wisdom of women, and the love of family. Read more

Persecution - Abridged

By: David Limbaugh

Narrated by: David Limbaugh

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Limbaugh’s meticulously researched book is a devastating indictment of liberal intolerance-and a call to arms for all true believers of religious liberty to reclaim their rightful place in the public square.”—Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of InvasionThis New York Times bestseller is that rare phenomenon, a book... Read more

Nickel and Dimed

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers... Read more

Joseph Campbell: A Hero For All Seasons

By: Jonathan Young & David Kudler

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Campbell had a unique gift for helping us see deep meaning in our everyday struggles. Through his passion and wisdom we can see our lives as part of a vast continuum that connects us with all of humanity. As David Kudler puts it, Campbell taught us "to look up and say, 'This is part of something larger. I'm doing this for something that... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Warren St. John

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more