Science & Technology audiobooks

All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.

Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.

All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more

Women Who Think Too Much - Abridged

By: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Narrated by: Sheryl Bernstein

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the nation's preeminent experts in the study of women and emotion, a breakthrough new book based on the author's award-winning research

It's not a surprise that our fast-paced, overly analytical culture is pushing people—especially women—to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned... Read more

Vote.com - Abridged

By: Dick Morris

Narrated by: Dick Morris

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As the print and broadcast media-commonly referred to as the Fourth Estate-falters and fails, a new social and political force is rising in power. The Fifth Estate, as Morris has dubbed it, is made up of the rapidly growing number of voters who use Internet technology. This army of younger citizens with easy access to information and a direct... Read more

Why People Believe Weird Things - Abridged

By: Michael Shermer

Narrated by: Michael Shermer

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

UFO abductions, television psychics, creationism, Holocaust denial. Faced with the rapid changes and anxieties of modern life, many people are turning to the alluring comforts of pseudoscience and the occult. In Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find these otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy... Read more

The Tao of Physics - Abridged

By: Fritjof Capra

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex... Read more

Complications - Abridged

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: William David Griffith

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized... Read more

Are You the One for Me? - Abridged

By: Barbara De Angelis

Narrated by: Barbara De Angelis

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The ultimate guide to understanding compatibility and getting the most out of your relationship. With the powerful advice and techniques that have helped thousands of people transform their lives, Dr. De Angelis helps you evaluate your past and present relationships, freeing you to love in a more healthy way. Whether you're single, married or... Read more

Discours sur la servitude volontaire

By: Étienne de La Boétie

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Étienne de la Boétie écrit le Discours sur la servitude volontaire en 1549 alors qu'il n'a que 18 ans. Si la question est politique, l'auteur ne se contente pas de critiquer les régimes tyranniques, il questionne aussi l'agent politique, celui qui est gouverné : comment peut-il se faire que « tant d'hommes, tant de bourgs, tant de villes, tant... Read more

What Should I Do With My Life? - Abridged

By: Po Bronson

Narrated by: Po Bronson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

What should I do with my life?
It's a question many of us have wondered with frequency. Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book - an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves.
Po traveled the country in search of... Read more

Fatal Deception - Abridged

By: Michael Bowker

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At first glance, the events in this audiobook may seem equal parts science fiction and legal thriller. Unfortunately, this is a true story of blinding greed, cruel deceit, unfortunate circumstance, and powerful human tragedy. It has villains and heroes, but it does not yet have a good ending.
Something's wrong in Libby, Montana. Residents are... Read more

Linked

By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks,... Read more

The Science of Superheroes

By: Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Science of Superheroes takes a lighthearted but clear-headed look at the real science that underlies some of the greatest superhero comic books of all time, including Spider-Man, Batman, Fantastic Four, and many more. Each chapter presents the story of the origin of one or more superheroes and asks intriguing questions that lead to... Read more

The Physics of Christmas

By: Roger Highfield

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Can reindeer fly? Why is Santa Claus fat? Could scientists clone the perfect Christmas tree? Was the Star of Bethlehem really a comet? Why is Rudolph’s nose red? How does Santa manage to deliver presents to an estimated 842 million households in a single night? What could we do to guarantee a white Christmas every year?

These are among the... Read more

Lost Discoveries

By: Dick Teresi

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy,... Read more

Seeing in the Dark

By: Timothy Ferris

Narrated by: Timothy Ferris

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a major revolution sweeping astronomy as amateur astronomers, linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. In Seeing in the Dark, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the eye and incites the mind. He reports... Read more

An Ethiopian Heroine's Story

By: Bogaletch Gebre

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more

The Demon in the Freezer - Abridged

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more

Finders Keepers

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Mark Bowden

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars?
Joey Coyle was down and out -- the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks... Read more

The Measure of All Things - Abridged

By: Ken Alder

Narrated by: Brian Jennings

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their... Read more

Entanglement

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them?  Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.

Entanglement tells the... Read more

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Abridged

By: Josh Smith & William Nothdurft

Narrated by: Michael C. Hall

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil... Read more

Last Train to Paradise - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-03: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity

By: Wade Davis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planet’s wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic

By: Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets & Lynn Margulis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant... Read more