Social Science audiobooks

Wie wir arbeiten, und was wir fordern

By: Philipp Riederle

Narrated by: Philipp Riederle

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschlands jüngster Unternehmensberater Philipp Riederle erklärt in diesem Debattenbuch, wie die digitale Generation wirklich tickt: Viele Unternehmen befürchten, keinen qualifizierten Nachwuchs mehr zu bekommen, denn die nun auf den Arbeitsmarkt drängende Generation - die sogenannte Handy-Generation - gilt bei Managern und Personalern als... Read more

What Algorithms Want

By: Ed Finn

Narrated by: Scott Merriman

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely... Read more

Old School

By: Bill O'Reilly & Bruce Feirstein

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Holter Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.

Old School is in session....

You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.

It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not... Read more

The Creative Spark

By: Agustín Fuentes

Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
 
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín... Read more

A Colony in a Nation

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely... Read more

Black Lies Matter

By: Taleeb Starkes

Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chicago a.k.a "Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore's 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year—on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit's police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, criminal subculture.



Unfortunately, these cities aren't anomalies. Year... Read more

Why is job opportunity still lagging for people with disabilities?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The unemployment rate for people with a disability is more than double than for those without. Even though the law bars such discrimination, it can be difficult for these Americans to get hired. But that’s not the full story: Some employers are seeing how the special abilities of workers on the autism spectrum can boost their bottom lines.... Read more

Free Women, Free Men

By: Camille Paglia

Narrated by: Camille Paglia

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men. 

Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of... Read more

Born Both

By: Hida Viloria

Narrated by: Hida Viloria

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.

My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more

The Rules Do Not Apply

By: Ariel Levy

Narrated by: Ariel Levy

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Vogue• Time• Esquire• Entertainment Weekly• The Guardian• Harper’s Bazaar• Library Journal• NPR 

All her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too... Read more

Deadliest Enemy

By: Mark Olshaker & Michael T. Osterholm

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.

Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period... Read more

How To Get Over A Breakup For Women

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Krystle L. Minkoff

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have just undergone a break up, then get this "How to Get Over a Breakup For Women" step-by-step guide.It is written by a person who has also gone through the break up and lose loved ones.In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to overcome and endure the pain cause by the break up.- How to reflect and accept difficult... Read more

Born on Third Base

By: Chuck Collins

Narrated by: Chuck Collins

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more

Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder (ungekürzt)

By: Steffen Schroeder

Narrated by: Steffen Schroeder

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

2013 stehen sich Steffen Schroeder und Micha im Gefängnis Berlin-Tegel zum ersten Mal gegenüber. Ein Gespräch über ihre schwierige Jugend bringt sie einander näher, bei allen Unterschieden: Schroeder wurde Schauspieler, Micha rutschte ins rechte Milieu ab, brachte einen Menschen um. Es beginnt eine besondere Beziehung: Schroeder, bekannt als... Read more

Rules for Revolutionaries

By: Becky Bond & Zack Exley

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A... Read more

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women

By: Catherine Mayer

Narrated by: Tanya Moodie

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. ... Read more

We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere

By: Gillian Anderson & Jennifer Nadel

Narrated by: Gillian Anderson & Jennifer Nadel

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Urgent and provocative, We: A Manifesto for Women Everwhere is “part self-help, part social theory, centered in the idea that instead of having it ‘all,’ women can live happier, better lives by becoming more free” (Glamour), from longtime friends Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel.

We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, timely,... Read more

Irresistible

By: Adam Alter

Narrated by: Adam Alter

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers

“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are... Read more

Imagining A Sustainable and Regenerative Society

By: Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Change is going to come no matter what, so it behooves us to engage our imagination toward the kind of future we want. We need to go deep into what truly makes us happy. Pinchbeck is advocating nothing less than the need to embrace our responsibility for understanding what’s happening and play an active part in caring for the world. Even though... Read more

Slavery’s Capitalism

By: Sven Beckert & Seth Rockman

Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pa...

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades... Read more

Inferno

By: Steven Hatch

Narrated by: Steven Hatch

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A first-hand account of the Ebola epidemic by an American doctor who has been featured on the front page of the New York Times.Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and... Read more

Harvest of Empire

By: Juan Gonzalez

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries—from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture—from food to entertainment to... Read more

Welcome Homeless

By: Alan Graham

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Homeless.No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions—not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First! Village, is improving the quality of life for a large quantity of people through sharing his personal story... Read more

Wish Lanterns

By: Alec Ash

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically... Read more