Social Science audiobooks

DNA USA

By: Bryan Sykes

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics. In DNA USA, Sykes examines the unique fabric of the U.S. population-one of the world's most genetically variegated countries. His fascinating discoveries offer... Read more

The American Way of Eating

By: Tracie McMillan

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat... Read more

The World Dharma Of Freedom And Non-Violence

By: Alan Clements

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Clements dares to say we are living in a "post-mindfulness" era. What he means is that we all need to move into a post-hierarchical time where "nirvana" is not static and the mindful mind - observing one's self - is not mistaken for "dharma intelligence." Clements passionately challenges us to step out of the confines of set traditions,... Read more

City of Scoundrels

By: Gary Krist

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into “the Metropolis of the World.” But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city’s highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same... Read more

Bad Religion

By: Ross Douthat

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and... Read more

A History of English Food

By: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Narrated by: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas and ingredients have arrived, and as immigrant... Read more

No One Left to Lie To

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive."

In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a... Read more

No, They Can't

By: John Stossel

Narrated by: John Stossel

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.

Politicians—and we voters—can dream of guaranteed incomes or green energy. But the mature response to cries of “Yes, we can!” should be “No, we can’t”—not when “we” means government. There is nothing that... Read more

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame."

Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further... Read more

The Missionary Position

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."

Among his many books, perhaps none have... Read more

The Social Conquest of Earth

By: Edward O. Wilson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human... Read more

Out In The World A Global Gay History

By: Richard Coles

Narrated by: Richard Coles

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Coles examines same sex desire through the ages, in a journey reaching from the UK to India, Egypt, Greece and Native America. In episode one, his quest takes him to Saqqara, Egypt and the contested tomb of two men, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Were the men lovers or brothers? He explores the ideas of the 'sexologists' and tells the story... Read more

The Theory That Would Not Die

By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.

In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers,... Read more

Full Service

By: Scotty Bowers & Lionel Friedberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends.... Read more

The Sugar Girls

By: Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi

Narrated by: Penny McDonald

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of... Read more

Americans Are Living Alone

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

More and more Americans are living alone, according to sociologist Eric Klinenberg's new book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. Ray Suarez and Klinenberg discuss the emerging demographic, so-called "singletons," and what he calls the "biggest unnamed social change of the last 50 years." Read more

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years. Northup's account is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of... Read more

Gegensätze ziehen sich um - Mode im Blick - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Barbara Vinken, Thomas Meinecke & Philipp Hübl

Narrated by: Barbara Vinken, Thomas Meinecke & Philipp Hübl

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Angela Merkels Dekolleté bei der Eröffnung der Osloer Nationaloper war im Frühjahr 2008 eine mittlere Mediensensation, der "Spiegel" rief eine Dekolleté-Debatte aus. Seither sind Kanzlerinnendekolletés selten geworden. Ist weibliche Erotik unvereinbar mit politischer Macht und moralischer Autorität? Lautet die Alternative immer noch entweder... Read more

The Richer Sex

By: Liza Mundy

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.

This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing... Read more

Sister Citizen

By: Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as... Read more

I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did

By: Lori B. Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; participate in crowd-sourced scientific research; and become investigators, helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have even helped to bring... Read more

NPR American Chronicles: Women's Equality

By: NPR

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR explores the issues, struggles, and triumphs of the American women’s movement, from early pioneers to modern groundbreakers and leaders of today who fight to preserve hard-won rights. Profiles of Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony provide insights into the origins of the movement, while reflections from Betty... Read more

A Mindful Nation

By: Tim Ryan

Narrated by: Tim Ryan

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

All across America, people are feeling squeezed-running faster and faster yet falling farther behind. The economy struggles, wars rage on, and every week brings news of another environmental disaster. Everything seems broken and people feel helpless. Despite this bleak outlook, a quiet hope is emerging throughout the nation. People are beginning... Read more

Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?

By: The Believer

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt, George Saunders, Jerry Stahl, Ju...

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, Late Show with David Letterman, The Hangover, and The Colbert Report, along with other musicians, cartoonists, New Yorker writers, and those similarly unqualified to offer guidance.
 
Here Amy... Read more