Social Science audiobooks

An Ethiopian Heroine's Story

By: Bogaletch Gebre

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more

Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros tells the story of the Reyes family who has members and memories on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. In this interview, Cisneros discusses the context of her novel, her personal connection to the characters, learning her family history, and more. Read more

Psyche and Soul: Walking The Transformational Path

By: Jacquelyn Small

Narrated by: Jacquelyn Small

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

According to psychotherapist and author, Jacquelyn Small, Psyche was the only goddess willing to become a human girl to travel through life in order to teach us that we are both human and divine. In this insightful dialogue, Small invites us to walk the two worlds of Psyche. Read more

Henry Louis Gates: The Bondwoman's Narrative

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses The Bondwoman's Narrative, which is described as an autobiographical novel written in the 1850s by a female slave who called herself and her main character Hannah Crafts. The manuscript was found at an auction of African American artifacts by Gates, Jr., who is credited as editor of the book. Read more

Crepúsculo de la cultura americana

By: Morris Berman

Narrated by: Jerónimo Hernández

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde las entrañas mismas del imperio yanqui surge una voz que arremete sin piedad contra la autocomplacencia y la estupidez que, día a día, se apoderan inexorablemente de los ciudadanos estadounidenses. Morris Berman es quien profiere esta devastadora crítica. Sin embargo, El crepúsculo de la cultura americana representa también un lamento por... Read more

The Men's Health Playbook - Abridged

By: Men's Health Magazine

Narrated by: Hank Jacobs & Nicole Fonarow

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Witty and insightful, Men's Health writers Joe Kita, Lisa Jones, Hugh O'Neill, Ron Geraci and others share their personal and often comical experiences as they tackle the universal topics of love, life, and exactly how to find and keep that special someone. The Men's Health Playbook features selected articles from Men's Health including:

• 50... Read more

The Next Fifty Years - Abridged

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie, Oliver Wyman & S...

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.

Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a... Read more

Celebrating Partnership: A Formula for Survival

By: Riane Eisler

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally known scholar, author, futurist and activist Riane Eisler cogently states that if we are to survive as a species we must release the "Domination" model, which has shaped our present day civilization, and move to  a new paradigm.  According to her, the shift from the "Domination" model to the "Partnership" model has never been... Read more

Over the Edge - Abridged

By: Greg Child

Narrated by: Aramand Schultz

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more

The Sacred Feminine

By: Mary Ford Grabowski

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995 Mary Ford-Grabowsky was packing to move.  As she peeled from her walls the sacred quotes that had been nurturing her for decades, she began to read them and became fascinated, and then appalled, because every single one of the hundreds of quotes  was written by a man.  Thus her journey to discover the voice of the sacred feminine began. Read more

Being American in a Changing World

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence…belongs to all of us…as members of humanity." Read more

The Broken Hearth

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Eric Park

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author William Bennett addresses the central social issue of our time—the deline of the family—in a book as intellectually provocative and politically controversial as his landmark The Death of Outrage.

Our recent economic prosperity has masked the devastation of the American family, which is now under seige as never before. From the... Read more

The New Joys of Yiddish - Abridged

By: Leo Rosten

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin, Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, Michael G...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students,... Read more

A Trial by Jury

By: D. Graham Burnett

Narrated by: D. Graham Burnett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of his life.

Burnett begins with the story of... Read more

Ava's Man - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.

This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible... Read more

Once and Future Myths

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this masterwork, Phil Cousineau examines the connection of mythology to contemporary life and what that means for self-improvement. Drawing on his extensive work with Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth), this is Cousineau's grand opus—revealing mythic insights for everyday life. Cousineau retells classic myths such as Eros and Psyche—with new... Read more

Guns, Germs and Steel - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age... Read more

Bones of Contention: Kennewick Man

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kennewick Man hearings resume as eight scientists sue the government to study 9,000-year-old bones that Native American tribes claim as an ancestor. Read more

Birth And Consciousness

By: Barbara Findeisen, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Marsh...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Science is uncovering extraordinary data on how pre- and perinatal experiences have a profound impact on health and human behavior. All the participants were speakers at the 9th International Congress of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health held in San Francisco. Read more

Neil Henry: Pearl's Secret

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Henry discusses Pearl's Secret, his book about black man's search for his white family. Read more

Close to Shore - Abridged

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more

The Global Wisdom Society

By: Winston Franklin & Chris Bache

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The power of the individual, standing together with others of like mind in community and working for creative change, serves as the focal point of this spirited dialogue about the rise of a global wisdom society. Read more

Peter Mayle's Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle & Patrick Macnee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a... Read more

With My Face to the Enemy - Abridged

By: Robert Cowley

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of powerful, insightful essays about the Civil War by some of the most renowned historians in their field. Read more