Social Science audiobooks

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - Abridged

By: Sarah Ban Breathnach

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves. Read more

The Coalwood Way - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.

The strains can be felt within the... Read more

Ethnic Diversity:  A Time of Change

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley for over two decades, reflects on the past and the future of America's expanding ethnic diversity and how this diversity will affect the way we relate as individuals and as a nation to the rest of the world. Read more

The Fortune Tellers - Abridged

By: Howard Kurtz

Narrated by: Howard Kurtz

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks has produced an insatiable demand for financial intelligence. On television and the Internet, commentators and analysts are not merely reporting the news, they are making news in ways that provide huge... Read more

You Go Girl! Winning the Woman's Way

By: Kim Doren & Charlie Jones

Narrated by: Matilda Novak

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of first-person insights, thoughts, and stories from successful women in the world of sports, including Mia Hamm; Gabrielle Reece; Marion Jones; Kerri Strug; Chris Evert; Nancy Lopez; Picabo Street and more. Read more

Ranting Again - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage.  This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.

Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more

Actual Innocence - Abridged

By: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your... Read more

The End of the Road - Abridged

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Culled from Bodett's syndicated radio show, these interconnected stories captures the essence of life in America--especially Homer, Alaska, the sort of place where the keys are left in the snowplow in case someone gets stuck after hours. Read more

The Rants - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's good news for those that rage at the  evening news, shake their heads at Washington's  business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from  social crisis to political crisis to economic  crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the  nation by its lapels.

Miller respects no  boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more

The Future of Success - Abridged

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his... Read more

The Other Side of the River - Abridged

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by... Read more

Reviving Ophelia - Abridged

By: Mary Pipher, PhD

Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating... Read more

Mythic Wisdom from Africa

By: Clyde Ford

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Clyde Ford brings to light the unmapped territory of African mythology, drawing upon sacred stories from the wisdom treasury of this ancient land. Read more

Life Stories

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Amy Irving, Philip Bosco & Alton Fitzgerald White

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the... Read more

Squandering Aimlessly - Abridged

By: David Brancaccio

Narrated by: David Brancaccio

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would you do if you received a sudden financial windfall? David Brancaccio, whose ability to clarify economic matters has made public radio's Marketplace a hit, set out to discover where, why, and how people are spending their riches -- whether it's proceeds from stock options, profits from the sale of a house, or an unexpected inheritance... Read more

Music, Magic & Mirrors

By: Ysaye Barnwell & Christina Fleming

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A dream came true for 23-year-old Christina Fleming, when she got the opportunity to interview Ysaye Barnwell, a member of the Grammy award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.  Experience her excitement as she and Barnwell discuss a myriad of topics, from the group’s African roots to the magic behind the... Read more

Making Love Sacred

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-listen for anyone seeking to find or deepen that mysterious, mystical, magical thing called love. Whether you are in a relationship or searching for one, Williamson shows you how to do both better by getting "involved in a deep and sacred grand romantic adventure." Read more

China and the Global Economy

By: Chungliang Al Huang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Chungliang Al Huang brings his heartfelt wisdom, engaging style of communication, and ability to bridge Eastern and Western philosophies to the listener.  Here, China and the emerging global society serve as the focus of his remarkable world view. Read more

Havana Dreams

By: Wendy Gimbel

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the fascinating true story of four generations of Cuban women whose personal lives are woven with the story of their nation. At its center is Naty, a socialite born in 1925, who becomes intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. Here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while Castro was in jail. Naty raises... Read more

Savage Spawn

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As tragedies in Oregon, Arkansas, and Colorado have shown, children as young as eight years old are capable of murder and violence. Experts ranging from law enforcement officials to guidance counselors are confused and conflicted about how to approach this tragic phenomenon. Best-selling novelist Jonathan Kellerman returns to his roots as a... Read more

UFOs, JFK, and Elvis

By: Richard Belzer

Narrated by: Richard Belzer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Just what is it that they don't want you to know about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Area 51, and the mysterious “face” on Mars? In UFOs, JFK, and Elvis, the television actor and legendary statesman of stand-up comedy, Richard Belzer, delivers a witty rant on some of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups this side of Roswell. With a... Read more

Heaven on Earth - Abridged

By: Danny Seo

Narrated by: Danny Seo

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Danny Seo is the remarkable young entrepreneur of altruism, the twenty-one-year-old recently honored with the 1998 "Oprah's Angel Network™ Award." In Heaven On Earth, he offers inspiration and practical advice for anyone who wants to join him in finding personal fulfillment by committing oneself to making a postive difference in the lives of... Read more

Shedding Light On The Dark Goddess

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving exploration of the Dark Goddess and her transformative power. Woodman reveals how to bring this feminine energy of life, death, and rebirth out of the oppression and mockery it has suffered for centuries. She cites her own experience of seeing a tulip after experiencing intense radiation for cancer: “It was so red it hurt.  Tears... Read more

Brave Dames and Wimpettes

By: Susan Isaacs

Narrated by: Tracey Brooks Swope

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer a "brave dame" but Ally McBeal a "wimpette"? In this witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls, "the articles of wimpette philosophy." Although female... Read more