Social Science audiobooks

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Bitch in the House - Abridged

By: Cathi Hanauer

Narrated by: Cathi Hanauer

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry -- that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made -- about sex, children, love and work -- and explore what's working and what is not. Their... Read more

Psychosomatic Wellness

By: Candace Pert & Michael Ruff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Candace Pert and Mike Ruff are researchers at the forefront of immunology, and their work has led them to explore the measurable relationship between our emotions and the way our bodies heal. They've even discovered a link between the chakras and the presence of chemicals vital to the functioning of the immune system. The implications are exciting. Read more

The Odyssey of Sport

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Cousineau has found that as early as 1400 B.C. - and probably much earlier - competitive games anchored communities, created a diversion from violence, and even contributed to the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul. "This desire to shine brightly," says Cousineau, "at least in one moment in your life, either on the battlefield or... Read more

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken
 
H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more

Founding Mothers

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a ""custodian of time-honored values."" Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now... Read more

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Abridged

By: Helen Morrison

Narrated by: Helen Morrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life... Read more

Brothers in Arms - Abridged

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
 
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more

The Outlaw Sea

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: William Langewiesche

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it

Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"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

Tender and Tough: Being a Man in the 21St Century

By: Rebecca Walker

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Each of us has a role to play. We're black, we're white, we're Jewish. We're male or we're female. If we decide to step outside the boundaries of the role society has prescribed for us, we often pay a price. Rebecca Walker has confronted those boundaries from the inside, as the Jewish child of a biracial marriage. She also faces them from the... Read more

Loud and Clear - Abridged

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.

“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more

Creativity as a Path to Enlightenment

By: Nina Wise

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Wise is a dancer, a singer, and a performer of improvisational theater. She's also a spiritual seeker and teacher with an eclectic practice that embraces both Buddhism and her Jewish heritage. She sees absolutely no difference between her creative arts and her spirituality - in fact, they are one and the same. Read more

Activists for Freedom, Equity and Justice

By: Medea Benjamin & Kevin Danaher

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As Medea Benjamin says, "Patriotism is holding your nation to the highest standards possible. But we also have to evolve as human beings to a global consciousness." When we see the world from the point of view of these two visions, our own evolution becomes more attainable. Read more

The Essential Questions

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2001, Phillips released the book Socrates' Café and started a movement that shares its title, spawning gatherings where, like the sages of old, modern-day thinkers - citizens like you and me - gather in dialogue to make sense of the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Now, he shares the insights he's gleaned from participating in... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. 

With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear... Read more

The Death of Right and Wrong

By: Tammy Bruce

Narrated by: Tammy Bruce

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.

But if you’ve always... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
 
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more

Are You There Alone? - Abridged

By: Suzanne O'Malley

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction.

It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five... Read more

Victory Over Violence

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A casual conversation about menopause ultimately led to a grassroots movement that raised awareness about violence against women in the form of a play, The Vagina Monologues. Here Ensler discusses how violence against women affects everyone and why patriarchy actually oppresses men as well as women, and much more. Read more

Circles, Conversation and Community

By: Vicki Robin, Juanita Brown, Ph.D. & Leif Utne

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

These three guests believe that if Americans, both progressive and conservative, take time to speak freely and truly listen to one another we’ll find that our views have much more in common than we realize. At a time when our democracy seems threatened, these wisdom leaders inspire us to join together to move beyond the middle ground and find a... Read more

America's Women - Abridged

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-centuryIn this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over... Read more

Of Whales and Belly Flowers, Rebirth and Hope

By: Robin Kobaly & Doug Thompson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Masculine and feminine, earth and sea, forest and desert, nature and nurture…the balance of life shows up beautifully and metaphorically in the relationship and the work of Robin Kobaly and Doug Thompson. She is one of the nation's foremost experts on native desert plants; he is a leader in experiential research with marine mammals. Read more