Social Science audiobooks

Playing Dead

By: Elizabeth Greenwood

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life.

“A delightful read for anyone tantalized by the prospect of disappearing without a trace.” —Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Adnan's Story

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and... Read more

Syrian refugees to US bring complex health needs

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Refugees arriving in upstate New York in recent years have increasingly come from active conflict zones, including Syria and Iraq - many fleeing with injuries of war and deep emotional scars. As the refugee populations in places like Buffalo change, the health care systems and cultures of U.S. cities welcoming these populations have been... Read more

The Art and Science of Aging Well

By: Mark E. Williams, MD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own latter years. In... Read more

The “Narrative Intelligence” of the Greek Myths

By: Carol Pearson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us are trapped in the stories we tell ourselves; they guide what we pay attention to. When we expand that story, our possibilities increase. Archetypes, such as found in the Greek myths, can help us identify and change a debilitating tale into a powerful one that shifts our perspective and changes what we are noticing. This can enhance... Read more

The Fire This Time

By: Jesmyn Ward

Narrated by: Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, Korey Jackson, Ch...

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The... Read more

Emotional Rescue

By: Ben Greenman

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What songs have made up your life’s soundtrack? Which have captured your every mood and deepest sentiments? Pop music, like no other form of entertainment or art, is capable of articulating our feelings, desires, joy, and pain. In a few soul-grabbing minutes, artists from every genre—from Little Richard to Lou Reed, Willie Nelson to Wu-Tang... Read more

Walking into Fire

By: Susan Piver, Jennifer Loudon & Patti Digh

Narrated by: Susan Piver, Jennifer Loudon & Patti Digh

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Please join best-selling authors and experienced teachers Jen Louden, Susan Piver, and Patti Digh (here on out to be called DiLoPi) for a heart-expanding, writing refreshing day bursting with learning, craft, and creativity. Read more

The Devil’s Defender

By: John Henry Browne

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s The Devil’s Defender recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being.For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero the “Barefoot... Read more

Die Wise

By: Stephen Jenkinson

Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us... Read more

Isn't That Rich?

By: Richard Kirshenbaum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth-of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating... Read more

Other People's Children

By: Lisa Delpit

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new... Read more

Norway - Culture Smart!

By: Linda March

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Norway provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more

When a Migrant's Desperate Journey Becomes a Deadly Journey

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The NewsHour’s Malcolm Brabant was there, and the cameras were rolling, as the Doctors Without Borders rescue ship he was on came across a horrific scene: More than 20 migrants dead on an unseaworthy ship that was taking them from Northern Africa to Italy. Brabant files this, his third and final report, on the plight of refugees trying to cross... Read more

Why the Jews?

By: Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this seminal work that has spent more than thirty years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world’s preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs to confront anti-Jewish sentiment.Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map; don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living; can't say how many calories are in a Big Mac or how many candles are on a menorah. How important it is to know things, anyway?... Read more

Not Pretty Enough

By: Gerri Hirshey

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon

When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even... Read more

Why South is epicenter of AIDS crisis in America

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current trends continue. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the... Read more

The Defender

By: Ethan Michaeli

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 22 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one... Read more

Brazillionaires

By: Alex Cuadros

Narrated by: Alex Cuadros

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country’s spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil’s wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista—a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES

When Bloomberg... Read more

Undercover

By: Joe Carter

Narrated by: Simon Paisley Day

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years undercover - one man's true story of life as an undercover cop. A must-read for fans of Donnie Brasco.

For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. He travelled the globe on different passports. He fraternised with thieves, international drugs and arms dealers. He worked alongside the most dangerous... Read more

TWA 800

By: Jack Cashill

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happened to TWA 800? On the twentieth anniversary of the crash, author Jack Cashill reveals shocking new evidence. TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 passengers on board. Although initial reports suggested a terrorist attack, FBI and NTSB investigators... Read more

Impossible People

By: Os Guinness

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever, Christians must resist the negative cultural forces of our... Read more