Social Science audiobooks

The Devil Never Sleeps

By: Juliette Kayyem

Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why... Read more

A Bigger Picture

By: Vanessa Nakate

Narrated by: Vanessa Nakate

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all, inclusive to all, by a rising star of the global climate movement

Leading climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fierce, fearless spirit, new perspective, and superstar bona fides to the biggest issue of our time. In A Bigger Picture,... Read more

Where the Children Take Us

By: Zain E. Asher

Narrated by: Zain E. Asher

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is... Read more

Savor

By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell

Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.

“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines... Read more

Poisoned

By: Jeff Benedict

Narrated by: Jackie Sanders

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.

On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

By: Derecka Purnell

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more

Don't Know Much About Mythology

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing the popular Don't Know Much About® style, with its familiar question-and-answer format, DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MYTHOLOGY will explore the myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. It will offer listeners a wide-ranging, comprehensive, entertaining and listenable survey of the great myths of... 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

Panic in Level 4

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never... 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

The Time of Our Lives

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.
 
“What happened to the America I thought I knew?”... Read more

How to Remember Names and Faces

By: Harry Lorayne

Narrated by: Harry Lorayne

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Remember the name - but can't remember the face?
Remember the face - but can't remember the name?

Harry Lorayne's easy-to-use techniques will teach you how!

How important is recalling a name or face? No matter how briefly you may have met, remembering someone can be a crucial social and business skill. By applying Lorayne's proven system of memory... Read more

Screamfree Parenting, 10th Anniversary Revised Edition

By: Hal Runkel, LMFT

Narrated by: Hal Runkel, LMFT

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A new recording for the 10th anniversary of this parenting staple, on how parents can control their own behavior instead of unsuccessfully attempting to control their kids. Now with new information on keeping your cool in the digital age, examining the new wave of calm parenting, and dealing with defiant teens.

WANT A PEACEFUL HOME?
 
If you’re... Read more

The Idealist

By: Nina Munk

Narrated by: Susan Nezami

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award


A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
    
 "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the... Read more

Crowdsourcing

By: Jeff Howe

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“The amount of knowledge and talent dispersed among the human race has always outstripped our capacity to harness it. Crowdsourcing ­corrects that—but in doing so, it also unleashes the forces of creative destruction.”
—From Crowdsourcing

First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, “crowdsourcing” describes the process... Read more

Giving

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out... Read more

The Prince of Frogtown

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.

He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman... Read more

Showing Up for Life

By: Bill Gates, Sr. & Mary Ann Mackin

Narrated by: Patrick Egan & Bill Gates, Sr.

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill... Read more

No god but God

By: Reza Aslan

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot

Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded by ignorance and fear. What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews and... Read more

Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg

By: Kathie Lee Gifford

Narrated by: Kathie Lee Gifford

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of America’s most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And that’s why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething (!) devoted mother and dedicated television personality yet to be revealed.

Just When I Thought I’d Dropped... Read more

A Saint on Death Row

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African... Read more

How to Read a Person Like a Book

By: Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero

Narrated by: Various

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Read a Person Like a Book teaches listeners how to understand the strangers, friends, work colleagues around them by reading their body language. Read more

The Male Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing... Read more

Say Everything

By: Scott Rosenberg

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral,... Read more