Social Science audiobooks

Finding Your Inner Compass

By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you get past the chatter in your mind to find the wisdom that comes from a deeper place, your truest inner guidance? Is there a way to filter out the false sense of knowing that comes only from the ego? In this beautiful and inspiring conversation, Joan Borysenko sheds light on the mystery of finding connection with your highest truth. Read more

A Prison Diary Volume I - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with... Read more

Microtrends

By: Mark Penn

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and President Bill Clinton proves that small is big by identifying 75 hidden-in-plain-sight trends that are moving America, revealing that the nation is no longer a melting pot but a collection of communities with many individual tastes and lifestyles.

"The ideas in his book will help you see... Read more

All the Money in the World

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Giving

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out... Read more

Screamfree Parenting, 10th Anniversary Revised Edition

By: Hal Runkel, LMFT

Narrated by: Hal Runkel, LMFT

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A new recording for the 10th anniversary of this parenting staple, on how parents can control their own behavior instead of unsuccessfully attempting to control their kids. Now with new information on keeping your cool in the digital age, examining the new wave of calm parenting, and dealing with defiant teens.

WANT A PEACEFUL HOME?
 
If you’re... Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

It's Not About the Truth

By: Mike Pressler & Don Yaeger

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Pressler walked into the bottom-floor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.



It was 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's... Read more

Heaven Is Real

By: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Narrated by: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

So how should we spend our time on Earth? Don Piper, the Minister of Hope who spent 90 minutes in Heaven, brings us God's message.

Hope for the here and now from the multimillion-selling author of 90 Minutes in Heaven.

Millions believe in Heaven. Don Piper's been there. He was pronounced dead after a car accident on January 18, 1989. Ninety... Read more

Once Upon a Quinceanera

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Daphne Rubin-Vega

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era. Read more

Sam Quinones: Antonio's Gun and Defino's Dream

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A book conversation about the lives and dreams of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in the 1920s and the current day with Sam Quinones, author of Antonio’s Gun and Defino’s Dream. Read more

The World Is Flat 3.0

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 27 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become... Read more

The Secret of The Secret

By: Karen Kelly

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Secret has taken the book world by storm, giving people the power to live happier, more prosperous lives through the law of attraction.

In the same vein as Breaking the Da Vinci Code, The Secret of "The Secret" takes an independent look at the people and the ideas behind the bestseller and examines what made The Secret so successful.

Some... Read more

The World Is Flat 3.0 - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become... Read more

The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and... Read more

Humanity's Potential to Consciously Evolve

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hubbard's research through history she realized that when a culture lost an image of its own future, which was positive to that culture, and they didn't believe in themselves anymore, the culture declined. Read more

Her Way - Abridged

By: Don Van Natta Jr. & Jeff Gerth

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The truth about the most important woman in America

In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary.

Never-before-revealed information about Hillary's... Read more

To Catch a Predator

By: Chris Hansen

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline NBC's ongoing "To Catch a Predator" series, with an average of 11 million viewers per episode. So far, the Dateline series has led to the arrest of over 200 men and has shown that child predators can be anyone—even those who are the most trusted in the community, including rabbis and teachers.



In his... Read more

The Feminine Mistake - Abridged

By: Leslie Bennetts

Narrated by: Leslie Bennetts

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really ""have to"" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the... Read more

How to Be a Wild, Wise, and Witty Woman

By: Loretta Laroche

Narrated by: Loretta Laroche

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and speaker Loretta LaRoche has helped millions of people lighten up, overcome anxiety, and truly enjoy their everyday lives. Here in this fun-filled yet deeply insightful live presentation, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce stress and gloom, but fill your days with laughter, passion, and delight.Instead of... Read more

Opening Day

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for... Read more

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

By: James Wolcott

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. Read more

The Male Change of Life: It's No Joke

By: Jed Diamond

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Jed Diamond, a licensed psychotherapist who has worked with men's health issues for thirty-five years, is concerned about the decline in men's health. He began to recognize constellations of symptoms in his male clients that led him to suspect this pattern of physical, behavioral and emotional disorders might be hormonally related. Later... Read more