Social Science audiobooks

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

Planet Simpson - Abridged

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Read more

Learning as if People Really Mattered

By: Debora Hammond, Francisco Vazquez & Tony Mountain

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is facing more problems than we can count, and it's often difficult to see how we'll find the solutions. Many fear our education system is not producing the creative thinkers we'll need in the times ahead. But an innovative approach to education goes beyond traditional courses and classrooms to emphasize creativity and inspiration, so... Read more

Navigating Nature Naturally

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brenda Peterson finds her spirituality in the soulfulness, humility, and forgiveness of the natural world. With a voice as gentle as her heart, she shares her first mystical encounter with the spirit of a river, and points the way to a sacredness grounded in the natural world, the wisdom of women, and the love of family. Read more

Persecution - Abridged

By: David Limbaugh

Narrated by: David Limbaugh

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Limbaugh’s meticulously researched book is a devastating indictment of liberal intolerance-and a call to arms for all true believers of religious liberty to reclaim their rightful place in the public square.”—Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of InvasionThis New York Times bestseller is that rare phenomenon, a book... Read more

Nickel and Dimed

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers... Read more

Joseph Campbell: A Hero For All Seasons

By: Jonathan Young & David Kudler

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Campbell had a unique gift for helping us see deep meaning in our everyday struggles. Through his passion and wisdom we can see our lives as part of a vast continuum that connects us with all of humanity. As David Kudler puts it, Campbell taught us "to look up and say, 'This is part of something larger. I'm doing this for something that... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Warren St. John

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

The Bitch in the House - Abridged

By: Cathi Hanauer

Narrated by: Cathi Hanauer

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry -- that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made -- about sex, children, love and work -- and explore what's working and what is not. Their... Read more

Psychosomatic Wellness

By: Candace Pert & Michael Ruff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Candace Pert and Mike Ruff are researchers at the forefront of immunology, and their work has led them to explore the measurable relationship between our emotions and the way our bodies heal. They've even discovered a link between the chakras and the presence of chemicals vital to the functioning of the immune system. The implications are exciting. Read more

The Odyssey of Sport

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Cousineau has found that as early as 1400 B.C. - and probably much earlier - competitive games anchored communities, created a diversion from violence, and even contributed to the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul. "This desire to shine brightly," says Cousineau, "at least in one moment in your life, either on the battlefield or... Read more

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken
 
H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more

Founding Mothers

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a ""custodian of time-honored values."" Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now... Read more

Brothers in Arms - Abridged

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
 
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Abridged

By: Helen Morrison

Narrated by: Helen Morrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life... Read more

The Outlaw Sea

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: William Langewiesche

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it

Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Tender and Tough: Being a Man in the 21St Century

By: Rebecca Walker

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Each of us has a role to play. We're black, we're white, we're Jewish. We're male or we're female. If we decide to step outside the boundaries of the role society has prescribed for us, we often pay a price. Rebecca Walker has confronted those boundaries from the inside, as the Jewish child of a biracial marriage. She also faces them from the... Read more

Loud and Clear - Abridged

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.

“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more

Creativity as a Path to Enlightenment

By: Nina Wise

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Wise is a dancer, a singer, and a performer of improvisational theater. She's also a spiritual seeker and teacher with an eclectic practice that embraces both Buddhism and her Jewish heritage. She sees absolutely no difference between her creative arts and her spirituality - in fact, they are one and the same. Read more

The Essential Questions

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2001, Phillips released the book Socrates' Café and started a movement that shares its title, spawning gatherings where, like the sages of old, modern-day thinkers - citizens like you and me - gather in dialogue to make sense of the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Now, he shares the insights he's gleaned from participating in... Read more

Activists for Freedom, Equity and Justice

By: Medea Benjamin & Kevin Danaher

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As Medea Benjamin says, "Patriotism is holding your nation to the highest standards possible. But we also have to evolve as human beings to a global consciousness." When we see the world from the point of view of these two visions, our own evolution becomes more attainable. Read more