Social Science audiobooks

Fast Food Nation - Abridged

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more

The Vagina Monologues

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark in women’s empowerment—as relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented political protest—that honors female sexuality in all its complexity.

"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their... Read more

Juicy Crones: Wonderful Older Women

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the help of goddess archetypes that every woman can cultivate within herself – older women can revolutionize the way they live and the way they are seen by society. Bolen suggests specific goddess archetypes that embody compassion, fierceness, humor and wisdom in older women. She points out, “in all cultures the divinity of wisdom is... Read more

Flu - Abridged

By: Gina Kolata

Narrated by: Gina Kolata

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.

When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty... Read more

I SAID NO!

By: Yu'wrian Rise

Narrated by: Books with Voices

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Domestic violence and sexual assault is heartless and mean for anyone that commits such vile act on people. This book is a sad reality of the men that hurt women violently, and encouragement for women not to stay with men that hurt them and learn from their men behaviors that transform them into abusers. Read more

Deep To The Bone

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Woodman shares her story of "dying into life" through cancer. These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her "bones" and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. "I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame...their game is power and my... Read more

Bobos in Paradise

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: David Brooks

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.... Read more

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - Abridged

By: Sarah Ban Breathnach

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves. Read more

The Coalwood Way - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.

The strains can be felt within the... Read more

Ethnic Diversity:  A Time of Change

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley for over two decades, reflects on the past and the future of America's expanding ethnic diversity and how this diversity will affect the way we relate as individuals and as a nation to the rest of the world. Read more

The Fortune Tellers - Abridged

By: Howard Kurtz

Narrated by: Howard Kurtz

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks has produced an insatiable demand for financial intelligence. On television and the Internet, commentators and analysts are not merely reporting the news, they are making news in ways that provide huge... Read more

You Go Girl! Winning the Woman's Way

By: Kim Doren & Charlie Jones

Narrated by: Matilda Novak

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of first-person insights, thoughts, and stories from successful women in the world of sports, including Mia Hamm; Gabrielle Reece; Marion Jones; Kerri Strug; Chris Evert; Nancy Lopez; Picabo Street and more. Read more

Ranting Again - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage.  This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.

Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more

Actual Innocence - Abridged

By: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your... Read more

The Future of Success - Abridged

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his... Read more

The End of the Road - Abridged

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Culled from Bodett's syndicated radio show, these interconnected stories captures the essence of life in America--especially Homer, Alaska, the sort of place where the keys are left in the snowplow in case someone gets stuck after hours. Read more

The Rants - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's good news for those that rage at the  evening news, shake their heads at Washington's  business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from  social crisis to political crisis to economic  crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the  nation by its lapels.

Miller respects no  boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more

The Other Side of the River - Abridged

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by... Read more

Reviving Ophelia - Abridged

By: Mary Pipher, PhD

Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating... Read more

Mythic Wisdom from Africa

By: Clyde Ford

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Clyde Ford brings to light the unmapped territory of African mythology, drawing upon sacred stories from the wisdom treasury of this ancient land. Read more

Life Stories

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Amy Irving, Philip Bosco & Alton Fitzgerald White

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the... Read more

Squandering Aimlessly - Abridged

By: David Brancaccio

Narrated by: David Brancaccio

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would you do if you received a sudden financial windfall? David Brancaccio, whose ability to clarify economic matters has made public radio's Marketplace a hit, set out to discover where, why, and how people are spending their riches -- whether it's proceeds from stock options, profits from the sale of a house, or an unexpected inheritance... Read more

Music, Magic & Mirrors

By: Ysaye Barnwell & Christina Fleming

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A dream came true for 23-year-old Christina Fleming, when she got the opportunity to interview Ysaye Barnwell, a member of the Grammy award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.  Experience her excitement as she and Barnwell discuss a myriad of topics, from the group’s African roots to the magic behind the... Read more

Making Love Sacred

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-listen for anyone seeking to find or deepen that mysterious, mystical, magical thing called love. Whether you are in a relationship or searching for one, Williamson shows you how to do both better by getting "involved in a deep and sacred grand romantic adventure." Read more