Science & Technology audiobooks

The Science and Mysticism of Water

By: West Marrin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age where we see water as a commodity to be bought and sold, and we attempt to control it in the hope that it will serve our immediate needs, West Marrin invites us to reexamine our relationship to this substance, which the ancients viewed as a sentient being. Read more

Changes That Heal

By: Henry Cloud

Narrated by: Dick Fredricks

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A down-to-earth plan to help us recover from the wounds of the past and grow more and more into the image of God.Many of us struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy. We know that God created us in his image, but how can we be loving when we feel burned out? How can we be free when we struggle with addiction? Will we ever... Read more

Safe People

By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Narrated by: Dick Fredricks

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.Too many of us have invested in relationships that have gone wrong. Maybe you've been judged, manipulated, or controlled. Or... Read more

Safe People - Abridged

By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Narrated by: Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.Too many of us have invested in relationships that have gone wrong. Maybe you've been judged, manipulated, or controlled. Or... Read more

Gifted Hands - Abridged

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Ben Carson & Dion Graham

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

The Fabric of the Cosmos

By: Brian Greene

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 22 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without... Read more

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Olympia Dukakis

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated;... Read more

Cultural Nonviolence

By: Satish Kumar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus, Satish Kumar brings a gentle wisdom to the difficult questions that must be answered if we are to end the pattern of destruction that threatens our world today. His simple, yet comprehensive perspective addresses the violence that is pervasive in human society and, amazingly, offers... Read more

The Big Year

By: Mark Obmascik

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.

In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more

The Anatomy of Hope

By: Jerome Groopman

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The... Read more

Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.

Why... Read more

The Genome War

By: James Shreeve

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within... Read more

Visits from the Afterlife - Abridged

By: Sylvia Browne

Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne recounts her encounters with ghosts and explains this spiritual phenomena in the same way she explained the spirituality in dreams with SYLVIA BROWNE'S BOOK OF DREAMS. In VISITS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, she visits haunted homes, explains the meanings of visions and nightmares, considers why ghosts... Read more

The Flyers

By: Noah Adams

Narrated by: Noah Adams

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I’d entered the black-and-white photograph I’d been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there’s a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and... Read more

Out on a Leash

By: Shirley MacLaine

Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love.

Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of... Read more

A Book of Five Rings - Abridged

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Stanley Ralph Ross

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic book of strategy A Book of Five Rings is now available on CD.

Miyamoto Musashi was renowned in his own time as an invincible warrior, a master artisan, an author, and philosopher. Today, his philosophy is still revered by the Japanese and used as a guide for daily decision-making—and business strategy. He wrote A Book of Five Rings... Read more

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Abridged

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Ralph Blum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Joseph Cambell transformed forever the way we view mythology, as he wove traditional wisdom together with the modern struggle for identity and spiritual depth. This adaptation of his all-time bestseller gives new life to his brilliant poetic vision. The Adventure of the Hero, part one, describes the universal image of the hero and shows that... Read more

Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School - Abridged

By: Rachel Greenwald

Narrated by: Rachel Greenwald

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Harvard MBA shares her revolutionary program for using marketing tactics to find a husband after age 35.

This is “Marriage 911”! For many single women over the age of 35, the rules for finding the right mate have changed. There are fewer eligible men and fewer opportunities to meet them. Now successful dating coach Rachel Greenwald shares her... Read more

One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth

By: Corbin Harney

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Come and sit with this wise and gentle-spoken Western Shoshone elder and spiritual leader. You'll hear stories of his childhood in a white man's world, and teachings he learned from his grandmother. In the measured words of a wise man, he explains the hazards we face in a nuclear world, and how we can live respectfully on this one mother earth. Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Abridged

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

The Borderlands of Science

By: Michael Shermer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more

Global Spiritual Activism

By: Starhawk

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a society that seems unsure of what to do with a "witch," Starhawk has remarkably and quietly attained broad recognition as an authority on Goddess religion. She shares the excitement and hope she derives from the dedication of a new generation of activists who devote their lives to fostering global transformation. Read more

Throw the Rascals Out

By: Jim Hightower

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Like a modern day Thomas Paine, America's populist and rabble-rouser speaks out for the rest of us, as contrasted to the ruling elite.  Hightower rises up against assorted robber barons, profiteers, empire builders, supremacists, militants and the neo-cons in our midst, that have amassed domineering power and run roughshod over common folks and... Read more

The Soul of A Dolphin

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have an animal so advanced that being around them creates a kind of bliss in us, instead of enslaving that animal, why not just borrow their beautiful, free sounds? Brenda Peterson is a gifted nature writer who has spent her life observing and interacting with animals in profound ways. Read more