Social Science audiobooks

Walking with Abel

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands—as they embark on their annual migration across the savannah. It's a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly... Read more

Telling Your Story

By: Sam Keen

Narrated by: Sam Keen

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Telling Your Story, Sam Keen speaks on humans living in a machine world and losing touch with the organic world, our story-driven lives in our time obsessed cultures, and a new spiritual reformation. Read more

The Power of Stories Workshops

By: Sam Keen

Narrated by: Sam Keen

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Keen, bestselling author of Fire in the Belly has created a way to use stories to give shape and clarity to our personal destinies. Keen tells how to use story elements to reveal hidden potentials with step-by-step exercises to help us investigate the stories behind issues central to a greater self-understanding. Read more

Life on the Edge

By: Johnjoe McFadden & Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim... Read more

I'm Special

By: Ryan O'Connell

Narrated by: Ryan O'Connell

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW a NETFLIX series entitled Special from Executive Producer JIM PARSONS starring RYAN O‘CONNELL as himself.

From the beloved blogger turned voice of an online generation, an unforgettable and hilarious memoir-meets-manifesto exploring what it means to be a millennial gay man living with cerebral palsy, which VICE calls “a younger, gay version... Read more

S=EX2 - Abridged

By: Pere Estupinyà

Narrated by: Alba Sola & Pere Estupinyà

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Escucha esta aproximación al sexo innovadora y original que revolucionará nuestra mente y quizá también nuestro comportamiento. Estás a punto de escuchar el libro más riguroso, ameno, y completo jamás narrado sobre el fascinante estudio científico de la sexualidad humana. Por amor a la ciencia, Pere Estupinyà, el ladrón de cerebros, se sumerge... Read more

The Heretic’s Treasure

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

AN EXHILARATING TREASURE-HUNT THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott An ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to... Read more

Violated

By: Sarah Wilson

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been regularly abused by sex... Read more

Project Animal Farm

By: Sonia Faruqi

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Project Animal Farm provides a riveting and revealing look at what truly happens behind farm doors, as discovered by a fearless young woman.Sonia Faruqi, a twenty-five-year-old Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of an organic dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that... Read more

Project Fatherhood

By: Jorja Leap

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to colead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles. These men, black and brown, from late adolescence to middle age, come together each week to help one another answer the question "How can I be a good... Read more

A Book for Her

By: Bridget Christie

Narrated by: Bridget Christie

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever.

A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of stand-up comedy and the sudden epiphany that made her, unbelievably, one of the most... Read more

Intelligent Disobedience

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

They say the rules are made to be broken. But which rules? When should you break them? And how do you do it? Ira Chaleff explores when following orders does more harm than good and what to do about it.

Abu Ghraib prison. Enron. Abuse in the Catholic Church. NSA surveillance of blameless citizens. Needless deaths at Veterans Administration... Read more

Rethinking Narcissism

By: Dr. Craig Malkin

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing."What is narcissism?" is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the... Read more

Intelligent Disobedience

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When It's Smart to Say No

Nearly every week we read about a tragedy or scandal that could have been prevented if individuals had said no to ill-advised or illegitimate orders. In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

The... Read more

The Sisters Are Alright

By: Tamara Winfrey Harris

Narrated by: Tamberla Perry

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone seems to have an opinion about American black women-they need to get married, change their hair, act like "ladies," and so on. Celebrated writer Tamara Winfrey Harris writes a searing account of being a black woman in America and explains why it's time for black women to speak for themselves.

It is hard to name a group more caricatured,... Read more

Getting Wild Sex from Your Conservative Woman

By: Brandi Love

Narrated by: Brandi Love

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Even the most conservative women have a naughty side to them. To see it, you have to communicate and make them feel comfortable.
Brandi Love can show you what women want to hear, and what to do to get them to go wild on you!
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That's Not English

By: Erin Moore

Narrated by: Shannon Parks

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An expat’s witty and insightful exploration of English and American cultural differences through the lens of language that will leave readers gobsmacked
In That’s Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic and fascinating cultural divide. In each of... 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

Banned Body Language Secrets

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you struggle to get your point across to people? Do you ever feel like you are somehow weak and ineffectual in the way you communicate? Perhaps others just don't take you seriously. There is no easy fix for all of your problems. However, whatever those problems are, if social interaction is involved then a firm grip on the tenets of... Read more

Population Control

By: Jim Marrs

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police tactics. All a coincidence? Think again. In Population... Read more

The Challenges of Becoming a Father

By: Bruce Linton, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Cory Smith

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Linton talks about what it means to be a father and a partner in parenting. He describes the developmental phases of fatherhood and how to share the experience with others in a meaningful way. Linton believes that engaging in a mutual support system with other fathers is key. He says, “Being a father is a journey that we’re going on, and it’s... Read more

The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

By: Erika Eichenseer, Franz Xaver von Schonwerth & ...

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu­scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time,... Read more

Coming Out to Play

By: Robbie Rogers & Eric Marcus

Narrated by: Robbie Rogers

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A history making memoir of the first openly gay professional athlete in North America, now the producer of Fellow Travelers and My Policeman

“Rogers made history.” —Sports Illustrated

Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would... Read more

Violence In Our Public Schools

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Christopher Hudspeth

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Violence is a critical issue often overlooked, postponed for future handling. Delaying policies and security measures in schools increases the risk of student fatalities. While complete prevention of violence is possible, understanding statistical trends can identify high-risk schools. Delve deep into the concealed realities of school violence,... Read more