Social Science audiobooks

The Myths We Live By

By: Mary Midgley

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful audiobook, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, is a today a potent force. Far... Read more

The Fourth Age

By: Byron Reese

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species. “If you only read just one book about the AI revolution, make it this one” (John Mackey, cofounder and CEO, Whole Foods... Read more

There Are No Grown-ups

By: Pamela Druckerman

Narrated by: Pamela Druckerman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.

When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever.
 
Yet... Read more

Ghostbuster's Daughter

By: Violet Ramis Stiel

Narrated by: Violet Ramis Stiel & Seth Rogen

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the daughter of comedy legend Harold Ramis (and featuring a Foreword by Seth Rogen) comes a hilarious and heartwarming account of his life, work, and legacy.

Most of us know Harold Ramis as the writer, director, and actor who brought warmth and humor to the big screen in classics like Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, National... Read more

Frenemies

By: Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled

Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible fuel powering almost all media. Complain about it... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

By: Dawn Raffel

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great Reads

What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal... Read more

Trauma Stewardship

By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... Read more

Born on Third Base

By: Chuck Collins

Narrated by: Chuck Collins

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more

Street Farm

By: Michael Ableman

Narrated by: Michael L. Caanan

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of the worst urban slums in North America—who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of... Read more

Miraculous Abundance

By: Perrine Hervé-Gruyer & Charles Hervé-Gruyer

Narrated by: Tim Bruce

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been... Read more

Rules for Revolutionaries

By: Becky Bond & Zack Exley

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A... Read more

Woman on Fire

By: Amy Jo Goddard

Narrated by: Amy Jo Goddard & Kate Turnball

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Based on her sought-after sexuality workshops, the coauthor of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men shows women how to master the 9 elements of sexual empowerment to reclaim their desire and live the sexually fulfilling lives they want. The prevalence of low sexual desire ranges from 26.7% among premenopausal women to 52.4% among naturally menopausal... Read more

Then Comes Marriage

By: Roberta Kaplan & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberta Kaplan's gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court. Attorney Roberta Kaplan knew it was the perfect case. Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had stayed together for better or worse, for forty-four years-battling through society's homophobia and Spyer's paralysis from MS. The couple married in... Read more

Labor of Love

By: Moira Weigel

Narrated by: Kyra Miller

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: That's not the way to find... Read more

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching

By: Mychal Denzel Smith

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle,... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information... Read more

The Fire This Time

By: Jesmyn Ward

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, K...

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The... Read more

El Color de la Justicia

By: Michelle Alexander, Carmen Valle & Ethel Odriozola

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The "Bible of a social movement" (San Francisco Chronicle) to end mass incarceration in the United States--now available in a Spanish language edition En este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por mas de dos anos en la lista de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que "no hemos erradicado las castas... Read more

A Colony in a Nation

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely... Read more

Everything All at Once

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: Bill Nye

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Nye has been the public face of science for more than 20 years. In Everything All at Once, the New York Times bestselling author urges readers to become activists and agents of change. Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all. Nye believes we'll never be able to... Read more

Make Someone Happy

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be... Read more

Uneasy Street

By: Rachel Sherman

Narrated by: Liz Thompson

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society From TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare... Read more

Sex Matters

By: Mona Charen

Narrated by: Mona Charen

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country

In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in... Read more

Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

By: Cornel West

Narrated by: Cornel West & JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive essays on... Read more