Social Science audiobooks

Scream

By: Margee Kerr

Narrated by: Margee Kerr

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For as long as we’ve gathered by campfires to tell ghost stories, humans have always loved a good scare. From the splatter flicks of the 70s, to Japan’s obsession with drowned girls, to creepy modern experiences like the overnight ghost hunt at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the horror industry has thrived across time and cultures. Our... Read more

Overwhelmed

By: Brigid Schulte

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer... Read more

Alexanderplatz, Berlin

By: Georg Diez

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more

Artemis

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jean Shinoda Bolen’s bestselling, game-changing Goddesses in Everywoman, myths came to life in a whole new way that resonated with our own lives. Even fictional character Bridget Jones was reading that book.Now comes Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, a groundbreaking new audiobook that explores the archetype of the activist.... Read more

Meatonomics

By: David Robinson Simon

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what—and how much—to eat. Those decisions are made for us by animal food producers who control... Read more

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

By: John Hope Bryant

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook has a simple message for business leaders: your primary goal must be to serve and raise the poor. The poor need to enter the economic system to buy products, put money in banks, and move into the middle class. This is the only approach that can possibly save the American Dream.John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and... Read more

Is Shame Necessary?

By: Jennifer Jacquet

Narrated by: Jennifer Jacquet

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame, and of the ways in which it might be used, sparingly and pointedly, to promote political change and social reform.In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. Yet while guilt holds individuals to personal standards, it proves... Read more

Please Stop Helping Us

By: Jason L. Riley

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price... Read more

Shame

By: Shelby Steele

Narrated by: Randall Bain

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans and their failure to offer a viable way forward for American society The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply... Read more

Tomorrowland

By: Steven Kotler

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how... Read more

Fast Food Maniac

By: Jon Hein

Narrated by: Jon Hein

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The charismatic radio personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates what we love about American fast food, covering chains both national and regional and offering an opinionated view on restaurant history, secret menu items, and even drive-thru strategy.Jon Hein is a fast food maniac, with a themed Discovery Channel show under his belt to... Read more

The Buddha's Wife

By: Janet Surrey, PhD & Samuel Shem, PhD

Narrated by: Sherry Adams Foster

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

As the category of women’s spirituality continues to grow, The Buddha’s Wife offers to a broad audience for the first time the intimate and profound story of Princess Yasodhara, the wife Buddha left behind, and her alternative journey to spiritual enlightenment.What do we know of the wife and child the Buddha abandoned when he went off to seek... Read more

The Brain Electric

By: Malcolm Gay

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machinesLeading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic... Read more

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, John Lee & Susan Denaker

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually... Read more

To Protect and Serve

By: Norm Stamper

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism—from raw, individualized... Read more

The Big Empty

By: Norman Mailer & John Buffalo Mailer

Narrated by: John Buffalo Mailer & Stephen Mailer

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Questions are posed,” writes Norman Mailer, “in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions.” In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American... Read more

Chokehold

By: Paul Butler

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book A Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for... Read more

Who Speaks for Islam?

By: John L. Esposito & Dalia Mogahed

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we on the verge of an all-out war between the West and 1.3 billion Muslims? When the media searches for an answer to that question, they usually overlook the actual views of the world’s Muslims.Who Speaks for Islam? is about this silenced majority. This book is the product of the Gallup World Poll’s massive multiyear research study. As part... Read more

Rethink

By: Steven Poole

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored... Read more

Upside

By: Kenneth W. Gronbach

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change. For those who can read beyond the raw figures, they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter supermarkets? Which states will have the most dynamic workforces? Will... 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

Get What's Yours for Medicare

By: Philip Moeller

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What’s Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation’s other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees’ income and Medicare guarantees them... 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

The Mediterranean Love Plan

By: Stephen Arterburn & Misty Arterburn

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mediterranean Love Plan unveils the “7 Secrets of Passion” from some of the most romantic countries in the world:  Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Israel.  Most couples marry in a flurry of passion, but soon find themselves wondering “How do we keep love interesting, fun and romantic?  How do we keep the spark growing for decades?”Steve and... Read more