Science & Technology audiobooks

The Art of War - Abridged

By: Sun Tzu & B.D. Wong

Narrated by: Ron Silver

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, war was synchronic with life. Tzu viewed the world as a network of combat zones where the stakes were high, struggle was the primary mode of being, no one was to be trusted, and survival depended on nothing less than unconditional victory. This 2,500-year-old work of wisdom continues to guide and inspire... Read more

Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer - Abridged

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Michael Korda

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the autumn of 1994, Michael Korda was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. For several years, he had been examined, tested, and medicated, always with the assurance that everything was all right - until it wasn't.

But the discovery of the actual cancer was only the beginning of his ordeal. With uncommon frankness, he writes of overcoming... Read more

Putting Time On Your Side

By: Stephan Rechtschaffen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Not enough time is the mantra of an entire generation of Americans. Often we operate in a state of "hurry sickness," running headlong from one barely-experienced moment to the next. But there is a cure, says Rechtschaffen--we can learn to "expand the present moment" to hold all the awareness and fullness that we need to avoid stress and "time... Read more

The Physics of Star Trek

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the science behind one of television’s greatest series. Star Trek shaped and defined the science-fiction genre for generations of television viewers and writers, and now readers can learn more about the science presented on the show. What’s it like traveling at warp speed? What are the different types of dark matter and black holes?... Read more

Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect - Abridged

By: Bob Rotella

Narrated by: Bob Rotella

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Filled with insightful stories about golf, Dr. Bob Rotella’s delightful book will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.

Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player of the Year), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad... Read more

Light And Quantum Mind

By: Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Mark Walstrom

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Zajonc explores the history of light and attempts to unravel its mysteries. He has incorporated into his research the struggle to bridge the vital connection between the outer light of nature and our inner spiritual light, stressing the relationship between human experience and scientific exploration. Read more

Choosing A Sustainable Future

By: Duane Elgin

Narrated by: Mark Walstrom

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Faced with dwindling resources, mounting pollution and an exploding population, we are being challenged to come together as a whole family, a whole species, for the first time in human history.  At the same time, however, our technology is creating the very means to accomplish this monumental task.  This is just one of the vitally important... Read more

Alchemy of Love and Lust - Abridged

By: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Narrated by: Theresa L. Crenshaw

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Simon & Schuster, The Alchemy of Love and Lust is Theresa L. Crenshaw's guide to how our sex hormones influence our relationships.

The Alchemy of Love and Lust identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes and how hormones can determine the course of... Read more

Peacework

By: Ciaran McKeown

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Issues of peace around the world are a tangled weave, and extremely volatile. This conversation illuminates the complexities in Northern Ireland, and helps us to develop greater compassion and a deepening of our own thinking regarding ethnic factions within any nation. A respected political journalist in Northern Ireland, McKeown became an... Read more

Miracles in Permaculture

By: Bill Mollison

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We hate to be reminded of the dangerous degradation of our air, water and soil quality because it is so widespread and seems so hopeless. Mollison, one of the originators of permaculture, tells us how to make land and water healthy and supportive of human and countless other forms of life. Read more

The Cauldron of Wisdom

By: Nicki Scully

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Within each of us is a "cauldron" of knowledge and wisdom about ourselves and the world, which we can access through shamanic techniques. Scully describes how and why trance journeys into the world of deities, totems and archetypes work to give us courage, insight or healing. Read more

Dinosaur in a Haystack

By: Stephen Gould

Narrated by: Meredith MacRae & Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called “The View of Life” for Natural History magazine. More than thirty entries from that column comprise this collection, which covers topics from dinosaurs to baseball and nearly everything in between related to natural history and evolution. Among the essays... Read more

Colin Powell - Abridged

By: Colin Powell

Narrated by: Colin Powell

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin Powell became one of the most influential Americans of the last century. In this dramatic series of interviews, General Powell describes his ascent from the ROTC to four-star general and eventually to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and mastermind of Desert Storm. He discusses his assignments in... Read more

The Moral Compass - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.

Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more

Decoding Your Dreams

By: Gayle Delaney

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are dreams important? How can we remember more of our dreams, or use the dreams we remember to inform our waking life? Through years of research and dream analysis, Dr. Delaney has developed a "dream interview" technique that truly gives us the keys to decoding our own dreams. Read more

Hope for the Universal Human

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Exciting developments are taking place in human evolution. Past, present and future point toward tremendous leaps in our awareness and co-creative capacity. And Barbara Marx Hubbard is a scout on the edge of evolution, pointing the way and cheering us on. Read more

Visions for the 21st Century - Abridged

By: Carl Sagan

Narrated by: Carl Sagan

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, non-governmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century. The... Read more

Roping the Sacred Cows: Learning to Question Authority

By: Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This moment in history, says Joel Kramer, is a historical crossroads when "the moral order, the glue that has held civilizations together, begins to unravel"--a time to escape authoritarian constraints and move into self-trust and creativity. Read more

A Native American Dream

By: Russell Means

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Means recalls memories of his grandfather and his extended Native American family as well as the recovery of personal identity and pride. He shares what he has learned about history, oppression, and freedom, and gives insights into the current political story, how history is repeating itself in modern America and what still needs to happen. Read more

Everyday Enlightenment

By: Richard Moss & Ariel Moss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

These dedicated explorers of human consciousness offer a stimulating view of what could be possible if we learned to use our everyday situations, our body awareness, and our family relationships to live toward a new definition of enlightenment. They describe how to use sensation and intuition as guides to spiritual growth. Read more

An Offering of Native Wisdom

By: Anne Wilson Schaef

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This "recovering psychotherapist" discovered her own Native American heritage when she was well into adulthood. Her journeys into many indigenous cultures revealed how her "white mind" could begin to learn the truths that they have practiced for millennia. Read more

The Melatonin Miracle - Abridged

By: Walter Pierpaoli

Narrated by: William Regelson & Walter Pierpaoli

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A revolutionary medical breakthrough suggests that aging is actually a preventable disease, and two key scientists at the center of this groundbreaking research are now going public for the first time.
For centuries scientists have labored to identify and reverse the cause of aging, and now that effort has converged on one gland, one hormone, and... Read more

Dark Sun - Abridged

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Richard Rhodes

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet... Read more

The New Approach to Medicine

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Our modern medical system, based on high technology tests and treatments, is beginning to topple under its own weight and expense. But there is another approach to medicine that is less expensive and often more effective, especially for chronic conditions. Read more