Social Science audiobooks

Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 4: Europa und Soziale Demokratie

By: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Lesebücher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Möglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbständig anzunähern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugänge aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verständlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einführung zu den großen Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen.... Read more

Survey: Muslim-Americans

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks and with the American military involved in multiple Muslim nations, a Gallup survey showed strong positive feelings among Muslim-Americans about their prospects in this country. Ray Suarez discusses the poll's findings with Mohamed Younis of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. Read more

What's Love Got to Do with It?

By: Donna Franklin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

According to renowned sociology scholar Donna L. Franklin, relationships between American black men and women are in a state of crisis. The schism between black men and women is the result of complex, large-scale societal, economic, and cultural trends, and the African-American legacy of slavery. Franklin asserts that black men and women need to... Read more

Give Smart

By: Joel L. Fleishman & Thomas J. Tierney

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first half of the twenty-first century, giving to family and community foundations alone will be ten times in today's dollars what it was throughout the entire twentieth century. Yet despite tremendous innovation in the social sector, philanthropy's natural state is under-performance. Not since Andrew Carnegie wrote The Gospel of Wealth... Read more

Think

By: Lisa Bloom

Narrated by: Lisa Bloom

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

According to Lisa Bloom, the women and girls of today represent a stark paradox. While American women excel in education at every level, they likewise obsessively focus on celebrity media. While women outperform their male counterparts in employment in urban areas for the first time in history, they simultaneously spend countless hours staring... Read more

Indonesia on the Rise

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Indonesia is an evolving, prospering democracy, but the country continues to struggle with corruption and economic inequality. Ray Suarez reports. Read more

Sex on the Moon

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Casey Affleck

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
 
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with... Read more

Futurecast

By: George Barna

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

There are three types of people when it comes to the future: those who will watch what happens, those who will make it happen, and those who will wonder what happened. Which will you be? Our society has widespread and unprecedented access to information, but what do we do with it all? Who do we trust to accurately track our societal trends,... Read more

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

By: Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The book on sex in the twenty-first centuryWant to know what really turns your partner on? A Billion Wicked Thoughts offers the clearest picture ever of the differences between male and female sexuality and the teeming diversity of human desire. What makes men attracted to images and so predictable in their appetites? What makes the set up to a... Read more

How the Hippies Saved Physics

By: David Kaiser

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physicsIn the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the... Read more

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends - Abridged

By: Don Gabor

Narrated by: Don Gabor

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than twenty-five years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of conversation with necessary skills for communicating in the... Read more

The Dumbest Generation

By: Mark Bauerlein

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college enrollments have never been higher); more money ($100 a week in disposable income); more leisure time (five hours a day); and more news and information (Internet, The Daily Show, RSS feeds).



What do they do with all that time and... Read more

Coming Into Our Fullness

By: Azarm Ghareman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghareman describes the dilemma of women today who are especially culturally rewarded to say yes to most every request made of them. Most of us have dozens of stories about how we self-sabotage ourselves instead of building a more balanced life.. How can we say a soft but effective no? What are some skillful ways for us to move from stress to... Read more

Genocide In Darfur: Why We Should Care

By: Rebecca Tinsley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's never a waste of time reminding the world what's happening in places where genocide is occurring. Each of us is commissioned to speak out and shine a light on these dark atrocities that take place daily around the world. Rebecca Tinsley has been instrumental in getting the word out about the atrocity in Darfur. Read more

Area 51

By: Annie Jacobsen

Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). 

It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more

On the Verge

By: Alan Hirsch & Dave Ferguson

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West. The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West, and we are now facing the fact that more of the... Read more

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

These intertwining narratives "beautifully demonstrate . . . that the people who are excluded and bullied for their offbeat passions and refusal to conform are often the ones who are embraced and lauded for those very qualities in college and beyond" (The New York Times).

In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction,... Read more

Three Cups of Deceit

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also not what he appears to be. As acclaimed author Jon Krakauer discovered, Mortenson has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into... Read more

Real Boys - Abridged

By: William Pollack

Narrated by: William Pollack

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection through anger and acts of violence against themselves or... Read more

The Terrorist Next Door

By: Erick Stakelbeck

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Al-Qaeda doesn't care about "Hope" and "Change."The threat of terrorism in America, the Obama administration assures us, is contained and controlled. Attempted attacks like the Times Square bombing, the "underwear bombing" on a flight over Detroit, and the attack on a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in Oregon were all isolated plots that... Read more

The Itch

By: Benilde Little

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a sexy young model. As Abra and Natasha try to find a backer for their latest film, they must navigate the opulent... Read more

The True Story of The Bilderberg Group

By: Daniel Estulin

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has been comprised of prime ministers, presidents and the wealthiest... Read more