Social Science audiobooks

Woman on Fire

By: Amy Jo Goddard

Narrated by: Kate Turnball & Amy Jo Goddard

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Based on her sought-after sexuality workshops, the coauthor of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men shows women how to master the 9 elements of sexual empowerment to reclaim their desire and live the sexually fulfilling lives they want. The prevalence of low sexual desire ranges from 26.7% among premenopausal women to 52.4% among naturally menopausal... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Narrated by: Karen White & Anne-Marie Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST• “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington

When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her... Read more

In Order to Live

By: Yeonmi Park

Narrated by: Eji Kim

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park

"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller

“Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension.... Read more

Strangers Drowning

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

Narrated by: Larissa MacFarquhar

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.

A... Read more

Black Gun, Silver Star

By: Art T. Burton

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of "eight notable Oklahomans," the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Bucking the odds ("I’m sorry, we didn't keep black people's... Read more

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Kermit Alexander, Alex Gerould & Jeff Snipes

Narrated by: Kermit Alexander

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life.

On the morning of August 31, 1984, in the South Central section of Los... Read more

The Travel Adventures Of An Intrepid Spiritual Seeker

By: Ralph White

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph White came to America in the early 1970s while the Vietnam War was still raging. On his Christmas break while teaching courses in Chicago he drove Route 66 to Los Angeles. In the desert of New Mexico he had his first spiritually transcendent experience. He says, “I felt like my mind expanded in consort with the scope of the landscape:... Read more

Paid For

By: Rachel Moran

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to mentally unstable parents, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she became a prostitute to survive. In Paid For, she describes, with intelligence and empathy, the fears that she and others had working on the streets and in the brothels. She also speaks to the psychological damage that accompanies prostitution... Read more

Killing the Messenger

By: David Brock

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

David Brock is the ultimate happy warrior. Once a leading right-wing hit man, Brock is now the Left's pre-eminent defender and truth-teller.

In this incisive, personal account, Brock disarms the major tentacles of the Republican Leviathan: the Koch Brothers, the Clinton haters, and the Fox Noise Machine. With the acumen of a seasoned political... Read more

Mate

By: Geoffrey Miller & Tucker Max

Narrated by: Geoffrey Miller

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys.

Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really want from their men, why they want it, and how men can deliver... Read more

The Prize

By: Dale Russakoff

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's... Read more

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while... Read more

Girl in the Woods

By: Aspen Matis

Narrated by: Stephanie Tucker

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack,... Read more

Doing Good Better

By: William MacAskill

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result, even our... Read more

Mr. Smith Goes to Prison

By: Jeff Smith

Narrated by: Jeff Smith

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.

In 2009, Smith lied to the Feds about seemingly minor campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and a day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in... Read more

The Silo Effect

By: Gillian Tett

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.

The Silo Effect asks a basic question:... Read more

The Making of Asian America

By: Erika Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.



An epic history of... Read more

Verarschen kann ich mich alleine

By: HG. Butzko

Narrated by: HG. Butzko

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer politikverdrossen werden will, sollte dieses Buch lesen. Wer nicht, auch. HG. Butzko liefert eine wütende Abrechnung mit unserer Gesellschaft, wobei er die Wut nicht den Stammtischen überlässt, sondern Witz statt Populismus bietet und Differenzierung statt Schwarz-Weiß-Denken. Endlich die Antwort auf Sarrazin, Matussek, Ulfkotte, Pirinci und... Read more

Archaeology in Fiction

By: Scott C. Viguié

Narrated by: Scott C. Viguié & Austin Downey

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular fiction is filled with images of archaeologists as daring adventurers who constantly risk life and limb in the pursuit of fabulous antiquities of immense historical and monetary value. There are evil villains, great romances, and unknown perils lurking around every corner.That’s the view many people have of archaeology. But what is the... Read more

Asking for It

By: Kate Harding

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that’s a football star, beloved celebrity, elected official, member of the clergy, or just an average Joe (or Joanna), there’s probably a community eager to make excuses for that person.In Asking for It, Kate Harding combines in-depth research with an in-your-face voice to make... Read more

NeuroTribes

By: Steve Silberman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Shots on the Bridge

By: Ronnie Greene

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a... Read more

The Last Word Movie And Capital Punishment: A Review

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Jamie Cutler

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty or execution, is the legal process of sentencing someone to death for committing certain crimes, known as capital offenses. This scholarly article delves into the documentary "The Last Word," which explores the emotional and moral impacts of capital punishment on death row inmates. The review... Read more

NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour

By: author

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An energetic, fun-filled round table from NPR exploring the many ways entertainment intersects with day-to-day life.

NPR's popular podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop... Read more