Science & Technology audiobooks

All That Moves Us

By: Jay Wellons

Narrated by: Jay Wellons

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more

The Force of Nonviolence

By: Judith Butler

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst... Read more

Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships, to boosting creativity and motivating teams.Almost everything we do involves words. Words are how we persuade, communicate, and connect.... Read more

Sexing the Body

By: Anne Fausto-Sterling

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the... Read more

The Cat's Meow

By: Jonathan B. Losos

Narrated by: Jonathan B. Losos

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.

"Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Cat's Meow is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks within Fluffy." —The Washington Post

The domestic cat—your cat—has, from its evolutionary origins in... Read more

Flow

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic... Read more

Borderline

By: Alexander Kriss, PhD

Narrated by: Max Newland

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD

Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially... Read more

Change Your Brain Every Day

By: Daniel Amen

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

366 Days to a Better Brain, Mind & LifePsychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years’ clinical practice overseeing the treatment of tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen to help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel... Read more

Losing Earth

By: Nathaniel Rich

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is an important, infuriating, enlightening, engaging, and engrossing audiobook...Anyone wishing to learn how the world has gotten to the point of almost inevitable climate disaster will be well served by listening to Godfrey's measured but emphatic reading." — AudioFile Magazine

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today... Read more

The Collapse of Parenting

By: Leonard Sax

Narrated by: Leonard Sax

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face 

In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity,... Read more

Every Living Thing

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.

Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more

He's Not Lazy

By: Adam Price, PhD

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On the surface, capable teenage boys may look lazy. But dig a little deeper, writes child psychologist Adam Price in He's Not Lazy, and you'll often find conflicted boys who want to do well in middle and high school but are afraid to fail, and so do not try. This book can help you become an ally with your son, as he discovers greater... Read more

The True Believer

By: Eric Hoffer

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New YorkerThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer... Read more

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of... Read more

Reasons Not to Worry

By: Brigid Delaney

Narrated by: Blazey Best

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Guardian columnist spends a year exploring how to pursue a rich and meaningful life, turning to the wisdom of the Stoics for insights into the deepest questions of existence. Like many people today, Brigid Delaney was searching for answers to... Read more

Why The Dutch Are Different

By: Ben Coates

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.



In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one... Read more

Starstruck

By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance

Narrated by: Sarafina El-Badry Nance

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown.

As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance... Read more

Arthur

By: Mikael Lindnord

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic true story of an extreme athlete, a stray dog, and how they found each other—now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Mark Walhberg and Simu Liu.



When you're racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael... Read more

The Uses of Enchantment

By: Bruno Bettelheim

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.



Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little... Read more

Mindwise

By: Nicholas Epley

Narrated by: Nicholas Epley

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It’s a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and... Read more

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Amy Wallace & David Foster Wallace

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep... Read more

The Rebel

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the “essential dimensions” of human nature, manifested in man’s timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established... Read more

The Reindeer Chronicles

By: Judith D. Schwartz

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us first to China’s Loess Plateau, where a landmark project... Read more

Cringeworthy

By: Melissa Dahl

Narrated by: Melissa Dahl

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable?

Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a... Read more