Social Science audiobooks

Wisdom Awaits Just Beyond the Boundary of Your Skin

By: Paul Rademacher

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Rademacher guides us to engage the world in ways that invite mystical experiences into our lives every day. It's not easy, he notes, in a culture where the dominant belief system is rooted in science and the physical world. But the direct experience of altered states of awareness is available to each of us. Read more

The Eyes of Willie McGee

By: Alex Heard

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“A memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory.” —Jon Meacham“Riveting. . . . It’s like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety and complexity.” —Walter Isaacson, author of EinsteinIn this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard tells a moving and unforgettable story... Read more

Getting beyond Hello

By: Jeanne Martinet

Narrated by: Jeanne Martinet

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting beyond Hello is a practical and amusing book of advice and wisdom from Miss Mingle, who answers a variety of questions about social situations."Relax," says Miss Mingle. It's easy to avoid the "hell" in "hello," deflect the unwanted greeting kiss, feel okay when you're dressed all wrong, solve modern dilemmas such as meeting same-sex... Read more

My Fair Lazy

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on.

Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration... Read more

I'll Mature When I'm Dead

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I'll Mature When I'm Dead is the New York Times bestseller from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave Barry make the journey to adulthood a little easier—and a lot funnier.

Not everyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming through adulthood. Dave... Read more

I Am Hutterite

By: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and did not understand them in this powerful story of understanding how our beginnings often define us.“Your mother and father are running away," said... Read more

Preparing for Global Change

By: Marshall Vian Summers

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is clearly changing, and many of those changes promise to be challenging or even catastrophic. How will we deal with the struggles that lie ahead? Marshall Vian Summers anticipates a profound paradigm shift and a global depletion, that will demand more of us than anything we've experienced. Read more

The Great Reset

By: Richard Florida

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008–09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to “reset.” In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and... Read more

In the Place of Justice

By: Wilbert Rideau

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph.

After killing a woman in a moment of panic following a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a fair trial, was... Read more

Jane's Fame

By: Claire Harman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Mention Jane Austen and you'll likely incite a slew of fervent opinions from anyone within earshot. Regarded as a brilliant social satirist by scholars, Austen also enjoys the sort of popular affection usually reserved for girl-next-door movie stars, leading to the paradox of an academically revered author who has served as the inspiration for... Read more

AND

By: Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

Narrated by: Don Leslie/Richard Brewer, Don Leslie & Richard...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God's kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church models and see how to incorporate these values into a cohesive church movement.By the numbers, the American church... Read more

Scent of the Missing

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon discovered... Read more

Oprah

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Kitty Kelley

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influ¬ential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures,... Read more

Myths and Mysteries of Archaeology

By: Susan Johnston

Narrated by: Susan Johnston

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Otherwise rational people believe-or at least partially believe-in many fantastical myths about the world in which they live. Indeed, it is an entirely human inclination to want to believe in what might be called otherworldly explanations for phenomena for which there are no easily explainable causes. In these eye-opening lectures, Professor... Read more

The Language God Talks

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what... Read more

Murder City

By: Charles Bowden

Narrated by: Charles Bowden

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's warring cartels, Juárez is the border city that most brutally exposes the lies that we tell ourselves about globalization, NAFTA, immigration, corruption, and the war on drugs. Once known only as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad and Mogadishu. In this... Read more

The Male Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing... Read more

Paul and Me

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: A.E. Hotchner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.

A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition... Read more

The Long Way Home

By: David Laskin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants—never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million—nearly one out of every five men—were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of... Read more

Savage Inequalities

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Mark Winston

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the... Read more

This Playful Universe

By: Stephan Martin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephan Martin tells us that ninety-six percent of the universe is dark matter we can't see and don't understand. He sat down with leading physicists, spiritual leaders, and cultural creatives to get their insights on what we do know-and what we believe. In this riveting conversation he shares insights from every perspective-the questions that... Read more

The Media

By: Neal Cortell

Narrated by: Morton Dean

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran television reporter Neal Cortell tackles the subject of in The Media, Journalism in Crisis. With the help of renowned journalists, academics, regulators, and activists, The Media discusses the state of news that America awoke to each day included clearly delineated separation of reporting and editorial opinion, compared to the internet... Read more

Cheerful Money

By: Tad Friend

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tad Friend’s family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at a Smith college poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden, his mother came in second—to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the ’60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend... Read more

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

By: Nujood Ali

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
 
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells... Read more