Social Sciences Audio Books

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

For centuries, a hidden current has run through the world’s wisdom traditions—a dark, positive, feminine energy represented by such striking symbolic figures as the Tibetan Buddhist Tara, the Black Madonna of Catholicism, and the Hindu Kali.

Is IQ destiny? Not nearly as much as we think. This fascinating and persuasive program argues that our view of human intelligence...

Attention deficit disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years.

Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives; how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing.

A spellbinding report from the front line of the gender wars, "Self-Made Man" is one woman's account of her undercover year as a man.

To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

It's time to evolve beyond the macho jerk ideal, all spine and no heart, teaches David Deida. "It is also time to evolve beyond the sensitive and caring wimp ideal, all heart and no spine."

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity.