Social Science audiobooks

Creating Equal

By: Ward Connerly

Narrated by: Ward Connerly

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a man who searched his conscience, decided that the American Dream should be colorblind, and then set out to change the rules. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part road map, Creating Equal tells how a black man fought against affirmative action in California and Washington state.It begins in segregated Louisiana with a... Read more

Guerrilla P.R.

By: Michael Levine

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen can attest to the fact that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. If you are a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, here are the resources necessary to mount... Read more

Showing Up for Life

By: Bill Gates, Sr. & Mary Ann Mackin

Narrated by: Patrick Egan & Bill Gates, Sr.

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill... Read more

Destiny Disrupted

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world views the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world... Read more

Ishi in Two Worlds

By: Theodora Kroeber

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse... Read more

The Disuniting of America

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The promise of America has always been that of a fresh economic start on equal footing. This is linked to the classic image of the republic as a melting pot, where differences of class, race, and religion are submerged in the pursuit of democracy. But today, the idea of assimilation into the mainstream is giving ground to the cult of ethnicity.... Read more

Secrets, Plots, and Hidden Agendas

By: Paul T. Coughlin

Narrated by: Paul T. Coughlin

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Were the government actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco "planned executions?" Has the national debt been deliberately increased to give international bankers control over the country? Is there a secret organization of top political, economic, military, and religious leaders whose goal is to control the entire planet?The people who answer "yes" to... Read more

All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes

By: Kenneth A. Myers

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Where did popular culture come from? Why is it the way it is? How does it influence Americans in general and Christians in particular? Ken Myers offers fascinating answers. He sees pop culture as a culture of diversion, preventing people from asking questions about their origin and destiny and about the meaning of life. Two aspects stand out: a... Read more

Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The anti-white racism of the political left remains one of the few taboo subjects in America. In this book, David Horowitz, a former confidante of the Black Panthers, lays bare the liberal attack on “whiteness,” the latest battle in the war against American democracy.Horowitz acknowledges that America’s political culture is the creation of... Read more

Outcasts United

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Outcasts United - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg

By: Kathie Lee Gifford

Narrated by: Kathie Lee Gifford

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of America’s most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And that’s why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething (!) devoted mother and dedicated television personality yet to be revealed.

Just When I Thought I’d Dropped... Read more

Not For Sale

By: David Batstone

Narrated by: Michael McIlhonnie

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.” —Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics“David Batstone is a heroic character.” —BonoIn the revised and updated version of this harrowing yet deeply... Read more

High-Tech India Contrasts with Rural Ways

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

India has benefited from supplying other countries with outsourcing services from computer help to legal document analysis, while in other parts of the country poor farmers are struggling to make a living. NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks reports on the two Indias. Read more

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.”
—Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.”
— Los... Read more

Crowded Land of Liberty

By: Dirk Chase Eldredge

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The number of legal immigrants accelerated in the 1990s to an average of more than a million a year. That was up from just over 300,000 a year in the 1960s and 600,000 a year by the 1980s. When the number of illegal immigrants is added to this, the total inflow during the 1990s was approximately 12 million. That compares with 500,000 in the... Read more

The Mirror Effect

By: Drew Pinsky & S. Mark Young

Narrated by: Drew Pinsky

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Drew Pinsky takes a hard look at the profound changes blogging, tweeting, tabloids, and reality TV are having on the American way of life. An important wake up call for... Read more

The Yoga of Christianity

By: Russill Paul

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people bridge the spiritual traditions of East and West, of the yogi and the Christian, as Russill Paul does. He is a native of India raised as a Catholic, with deep ties to Hinduism and the yogic tradition, and studied as a Benedictine monk at an ashram near Madras. From his perspective, neither tradition is better than the other-only unique. Read more

Passing Strange

By: Martha A. Sandweiss

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent... Read more

A Saint on Death Row

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African... Read more

Snark

By: David Denby

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is snark? You recognize it when you see it—a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her... Read more

Stepping Out of Line

By: Nell Merlino

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When activist Nell Merlino decides something needs to change, she throws everything she has into changing it. Whether it is raising the visibility of girls or helping women build their businesses, her many campaigns have helped women make dreams come true. Now she marshals her life lessons – and those of other gutsy women – to help women have it... Read more

Why Sh*t Happens

By: Peter J. Bentley, Ph.D

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Your laptop mysteriously crashes. There’s a fresh red wine stain on the carpet. An overhead bird targets your windshield. Sh*t, as they say, happens – to all of us. But have you ever thought about why such accidents occur? It’s not just bad luck. . . What causes the mishaps that can ruin your day? In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed scientist Peter J.... Read more

Accountable

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tavis Smiley presents the successor to his two bestselling books, The Covenant of Black America and The Covenant in Action—Accountable will serve as a report card, holding the politicians accountable for what they have promised and holding the community responsible for its actions or inactions.

In Accountable, New York Times bestselling author... Read more