Social Science audiobooks

Whatever It Takes

By: Congressman J. D. Hayworth & Joseph J. Eule

Narrated by: J. D. Hayworth

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What should we do to solve America's border crisis? Whatever it takes! That's the no-nonsense approach of Arizona congressman J. D. Hayworth, one of America's most outspoken and eloquent conservative spokesmen. J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans. He's read the... Read more

West of Kabul, East of New York

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions.Born to an Afghan father and American mother, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life. When he emigrated to San Francisco, he... Read more

Laurel Canyon

By: Michael Walker

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. Starting with The Byrds in 1965, these musicians... Read more

Class Action

By: Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one found the courage to file the first sexual harassment class action suit in America, permanently changing the legal landscape.When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn’t... Read more

Sufferings in Africa

By: Captain James Riley

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.This dramatic account of Captain... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism

By: Carrie L. Lukas

Narrated by: Dianna Dorman

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve been duped. We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren’t necessary. Pop culture told us that career, not family, came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet, are we happier than our mothers or grandmothers, who grew up before women were “liberated” by the sexual... Read more

Dancing in the Streets

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and... Read more

The Age of Chivalry

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Chivalry, Thomas Bulfinch’s masterpiece of history and fable, recounts the legend of Arthur and the Round Table. A timeless tale retold by Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and writers before and since, the Arthurian legend has metamorphosed from medieval Welsh texts to the French vernacular romances of Chrétien de Troyes, from obscure... Read more

The West’s Last Chance

By: Tony Blankley

Narrated by: Mark Warner

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The West, says author Tony Blankley in this shocking book, is down to its last chance. Within our lifetimes, Europe could become Eurabia, a continent overwhelmed by militant Islam that poses a greater threat to the United States than even Nazi Germany did. In The West’s Last Chance, Blankley shows how that could happen and how we can prevent... Read more

God’s Harvard

By: Hanna Rosin

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the... Read more

The Jihad Next Door

By: Dina Temple-Raston

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Dina Temple-Raston uncovers a strange corner of the war on terror in Lackawanna, New York, home of the first homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist cell in America. Or was it?The “Lackawanna Six” were young men, born of Yemeni families long settled in upstate New York, who took a trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent time in an al-Qaeda training... Read more

Sabotage

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking new book, bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage. Using first-rate sources in all levels of national security, from field officers to high ranking analysts to former intelligence heads,... Read more

The N Word

By: Jabari Asim

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the use and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the... Read more

Kabul Beauty School

By: Deborah Rodriguez

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside the wall of a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives life smack in the middle of Kabul. Now, Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who were her students there.When Rodriguez opened the... Read more

America Alone

By: Mark Steyn

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do.Liberals tell us that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation of church... Read more

Escape from Alcatraz

By: J. Campbell Bruce

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone; "Machine Gun" Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope.This gripping true-crime classic was originally... Read more

Feminist Fantasies

By: Phyllis Schlafly

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Phyllis Schlafly was one of the first to recognize that radical feminism, like other destructive ideologies, is at odds with human nature. As the rest of the intellectual elite fell compliantly into line, Schlafly courageously took up the fight for the right to be a woman. Feminist Fantasies is the inspiring story of that fight. In these... Read more

The World of the Ancient Maya, Second Edition

By: John S. Henderson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient Maya were the only fully literate pre-Colombian people in the Americas. Superb scientists, they developed highly sophisticated mathematics and an intricate and accurate calendar system. Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture,... Read more

Objection!

By: Nancy Grace

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As host of Closing Arguments on Court TV and Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News, Nancy Grace has won legions of devoted fans with her intelligent, plainspoken approach to the law. A passionate advocate of victims’ rights and outspoken critic of the often circus-like atmosphere surrounding high-profile cases, Grace addresses the critical issues at... Read more

Fishing the Sea to Death

By: Joshua S. Reichert

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Reichert's mission to raise our emotional awareness of the plight of the marine ecosystem, so that we will take steps to protect it before it's too late. Read more

Red Star Rogue

By: Kenneth Sewell

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.We now know that... Read more

Don't Know Much About Mythology

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing the popular Don't Know Much About® style, with its familiar question-and-answer format, DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MYTHOLOGY will explore the myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. It will offer listeners a wide-ranging, comprehensive, entertaining and listenable survey of the great myths of... Read more

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

By: Neil Cavuto

Narrated by: Neil Cavuto

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential newsmakers, from CEOs to politicians -- getting behind the story by connecting with the men and women who made it. And he ends each show with his own personal commentaries -- sometimes witty, often inspiring, and... Read more

Don't Know Much About Mythology - Abridged

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: John Lee & Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Employing the popular Don't Know Much About® style, with its familiar question-and-answer format, DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MYTHOLOGY will explore the myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. It will offer listeners a wide-ranging, comprehensive, entertaining and listenable survey of the great myths of... Read more