Social Science audiobooks

Cowboys Full - Abridged

By: James McManus

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate.

Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global—but especially an American—phenomenon. It describes how... Read more

Why Women Have Sex

By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.



Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more

Eating Animals

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he... Read more

The Curse of the Good Girl

By: Rachel Simmons

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good." Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the... Read more

Poet Sherman Alexie Talks

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Sherman Alexie talks about his new book of poetry called Faces and his new short story collection, War Dances. Read more

The Department of Mad Scientists

By: Michael Belfiore

Narrated by: Michael Belfiore

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars
America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive,... Read more

Eating the Dinosaur

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.

Q: What is this book about?

A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve... Read more

What the Dog Saw

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one... Read more

SuperFreakonomics

By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on revolutionary research and original studies... Read more

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Thomas Cathcart

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too). Read more

Bright-sided

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism

Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key... Read more

Barack Like Me

By: David Alan Grier

Narrated by: David Alan Grier

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier.

Within these pages,... Read more

What on Earth is Going On?

By: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Narrated by: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein READ BY TOM BAIRD AND ARTHUR HOUSE.The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all... Read more

The Murder Business

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and put the guilty behind bars. The media wants a case to drag on as long as humanly possible and do all they can to extricate every last bit of drama—drop by bloody drop—in order to hold the attention of the millions of viewers who have... Read more

Nothing Was the Same

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist... Read more

Changing the World, Seven Boys At a Time

By: Michael Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the lead of his racially color-blind son, Michael Rosen and his wife found themselves adopting a group of underprivileged African American boys within the context of their very privileged Caucasian world. What began as a kids' baseball game in the park, became a commitment that would bridge the racial and cultural divide. Read more

The Predictioneer's Game

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have... Read more

Connected

By: Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler

Narrated by: Nicholas A. Christakis

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A colleague’s husband’s sister can make a person fat, even if they don’t know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much people truly influence each other are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. Their... Read more

Tapping the Wisdom of the World'S Ancient Oracles

By: Nicki Scully

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a fascinating sojourn into the world of oracles, from direct contact with the ancient Egyptian Thoth and Seth to the various cards and divination tools you use at home. Nicki Scully is one of the best loved guides who works with oracles, deities, and shamanic wisdom. She has developed a deep relationship to the gifts and powers each of... Read more

Spontaneous Remission For A Terminally Ill Planet

By: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. & Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it appears, the news about climate change is worse, as is the precarious balance of global politics. When it seems we are bent on destruction Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman see our dire state as evidence of an evolutionary shift, as profound as the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Read more

The Case for God

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities,... Read more

Rescue Ink

By: Rescue Ink

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger while spreading the message that “Abusers Are Losers.”When Joe Panz, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, and Eric initially met at tattoo and motorcycle conventions, they soon learned that they shared another passion: animals. Each had been rescuing... Read more

Think No Evil

By: Jonas Beiler & Shawn Smucker

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Amish will be the first to tell you they're not perfect.  But they do a lot of things right.  Forgiveness is one of them.  A one-room schoolhouse sat amid the gentle, quaint Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.  It made such a picturesque scene with its wide, welcoming front porch and white clapboard fence, set peacefully among... Read more

The 50th Law

By: 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Narrated by: 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. With stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the... Read more