Science & Technology audiobooks

How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty - Abridged

By: Patti Breitman & Connie Hatch

Narrated by: Connie Hatch & Patti Breitman

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"To this book I say yes, yes, yes!"
—from the Foreword by Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Find more time and energy for the things you love to do—learn to say no without feeling guilty!

The simple word "no" is often the most difficult to say. Yet anyone can develop the skills to say no with confidence, kindness, and peace of... Read more

How to Raise Your Self-Esteem - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Branden

Narrated by: Nathaniel Branden

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Now, one of America's foremost psychologists and a pioneer in self-esteem development offers a step-by-step guide... Read more

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together - Abridged

By: Susan Page

Narrated by: Susan Page

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Susan Page's groundbreaking approach to relationships gives readers the tools and encouragement they need to bring positive changes to their relationship, even when their partners are unwilling to do the work. Based on the premise that what you do in a relationship makes changes faster than anything you discuss, Page introduces the concept of... Read more

Kenya: Taking it Personally

By: Wantari Maathai, James Orengo & Amina Bakari

Narrated by: Christina Fleming

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sitting in her Kenyan homestay as an exchange student, Christina Fleming set the intention to share the Kenyan peoples' stories in their own voice.  You will hear from several Kenyan leaders as well as a Nairobi family sitting in their living room. Read more

Microsoft First Generation

By: Cheryl Tsang

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the... Read more

A Beautiful Mind

By: Sylvia Nasar

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard.“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials... Read more

Heart Of A Heroine:  Saving The Last Redwoods

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Julia 'Butterfly' Hill's remarkable and triumphant 738 day tree-sit atop the 1,000 year old, 200 foot tall redwood tree she named "Luna", ended December 18, 1999, when she negotiated a deal to save the ancient tree with Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, who owns the land on which "Luna" stands.  Hill's exuberant and... Read more

Practice Makes Perfect

By: Bo Lozoff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following your bliss is not always easy.  In fact according to Bo Lozoff, there's only one thing more difficult:  not following your bliss.  Lozoff is following his at the Human Kindness Foundation he co-founded, where he gets to "see people in some of the most profound changes of their lives." Read more

Appreciating Your Originality

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As former monk Thomas Moore points out many of us are working overtime to "build and manufacture a self, just as we build and manufacture the world."  Moore explores how and why we cover up who we really are and offers a vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and creativity through following the lead of your authentic self. Read more

Spiritual Ecology

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet a man who has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools and communities for orphaned and blind children on five continents:  Thom Hartmann.  He describes scenes that may bring tears to your eyes, but will awaken your heart to matters that  cry out for our attention. Read more

King of Hearts

By: G. Wayne Miller

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the advent of open heart surgery, yet, until now, no one has brought to life all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph. G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed the amazing true story of how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt... Read more

Into The Circle

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A circle may be a dialogue group, prayer or meditation group, support or project group - whatever the agenda, its members can create "soul connections." Explore the potentials of circles, their history, their structure, their ultimate significance when members uncover "reciprocal revelations" that lead to "sacred dimensions" of their voices and... Read more

The Art of Living - Abridged

By: Epictetus & Sharon Lebell

Narrated by: Richard Bolles

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Epictetus, one of the greatest of the ancient thinkers, believed that the primary mission of philosophy is to help ordinary people meet the challenges of daily life and deal with losses, disappointments, and grief. His prescription for the good life: master desires, perform one's duties, and learn to think clearly about oneself and the larger... Read more

Great Minds of Science - Abridged

By: Unapix Entertainment

Narrated by: Paul Hoffmann

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LET THE WORLD'S GREATEST SCIENTISTS TAKE YOU TO THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE TODAY.

From Astronomy to Viruses, you'll find their narratives full of genius, personal insight and enlightenment. Great Minds of Science, hosted by Paul Hoffman, is a tribute to mankind's ingenuity and boundless curiosity. Read more

The Pleasure Zone - Abridged

By: Stella Resnick, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Stella Resnick

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We have the capacity for boundless pleasure, so why aren't we happier? Read more

Fire on the Mountain - Abridged

By: John N. Maclean

Narrated by: John N. Maclean

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous... Read more

And Never Let Her Go - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Melissa Leo

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful—but ultimately deadly—lover.

The author of fifteen New York Times national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 4

By: Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this the conclusion of the four part special series we join the participants for a private audience with... Read more

At the Center of Stillness

By: Anne Armstrong & Jim Armstrong

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspirational intuition is available to us all. Psychic extraordinaire Anne Armstrong says, “Most people who are successful in some activity are using their intuitive abilities…We don’t have to wait for it to ‘come to us’ either; we can invite it in.” Find out how to get intuition working in your life; the answers are closer than you think. Read more

China and the Global Economy

By: Chungliang Al Huang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Chungliang Al Huang brings his heartfelt wisdom, engaging style of communication, and ability to bridge Eastern and Western philosophies to the listener.  Here, China and the emerging global society serve as the focus of his remarkable world view. Read more

Igniting Your Soul Life

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Zukav is excited about the future - a future exploding with possibility and potential.  As we communicate more and more with the nonphysical world and comprehend the deep spiritual dynamics that underlie the surface appearances of our physical reality, we gain "authentic power." Read more

More Awareness/Less Neurosis

By: Mark Epstein, MD

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

As more and more Westerners become acquainted with Eastern thought, they mistakenly feel that it is only through a negation of the self that one can achieve enlightenment.  Mark Epstein, a Buddhist psychiatrist says, "It’s wrong to think that Buddhist insight wipes out the ego-self; it wipes out the identification of whatever is happening in the... Read more

Expanding Human Spirit

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Westerners look to science to explain the way things are. Yet science often overlooks something essential to life: the human spirit. Although spirit cannot possibly be seen through the lens of a microscope, captured on a video camera or explained through scientific experiments, few of us would deny that it exists. Huston Smith breathes new life... Read more

Essential Mystery

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of Huston Smith reads like an adventure novel.  One of the foremost religious scholars of our time, Smith lived in a missionary household in China, monasteries in Japan, and a sweat lodge in North America. Introduced to Vedanta through spiritual pioneers Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, he engaged many of the contemporary wisdom giants. Read more