Top Politics & Social Sciences Audiobooks

Early on a May morning in 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz set off for school on his own for the first time. He vanished, and for three decades his case both frustrated and exhausted police....

The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of informal lectures by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus written down by his pupil Arrian around 108 AD. Four books out of an original eight are still extant. The philosophy of Epictetus is intensely practical.

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last....

With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes....

En medio del caos y de la guerra, el emperador romano Marco Aurelio escribe a diario sus meditaciones. Es su forma de hallar la paz interior, concentrar fuerzas y no olvidar lo aprendido. «Ser igual a la roca sobre la que rompen incesantemente las olas», escribe....

Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history’s most colorful events....

The underlying concern of these essays is about what these very different kinds of cases say about the general direction of American society....

Criminology professor Dr. Scott Bonn explores our powerful appetite for the macabre, while also providing new and unique insights into the world of the serial killer....

Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls....

Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York’s crime family organizations....

An innovative work of research, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous communities, generations, and regions....

This classic samurai-era text fused Japanese swordsmanship with Zen and influenced the direction that the art has taken ever since....

As children, we dreamt of the wonderful things we were going to do when we were grown-ups. Now that we’re grown-ups, why aren’t we out there, living the lives of our dreams? This fun and original guide will teach you how to bypass your self-doubt and take action....

Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even "suicidal" tendencies....

The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist’s caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States....

Sharma explains how to spot political, economic, and social changes in real time....

A genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language....

Nobody is better at achieving spectacular success than Donald Trump. Here, Trump shows how America can do the same....

A leading thinker of the Stoic school of philosophy, Epictetus (A.D. 55-135) was a renowned teacher whose students transcribed and compiled his teachings; this collection presents the work of Arrian, a Greek philosopher and historian who was a disciple of Epictetus.

Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era....