Science & Technology audiobooks

Entretiens du maître avec ses disciples

By: Confucius Confucius

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Confucius, dit-on, vit le jour en 551 avant notre ère, non loin de la ville de Qufu, dans la province de Shandong. Après la mort de sa mère en -527, il enseigna sa connaissance des textes anciens au petit groupe de disciples qui le suivait. Bien qu'il n'ait jamais développé sa pensée de façon théorique, on peut dessiner à grand traits ce... Read more

She Comes First: Introduction - Abridged

By: Ian Kerner

Narrated by: Ian Kerner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Every man’s must-read. Tell your guy to put down the remote and pick up She Comes First.”
—Cosmopolitan Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First—an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest—You’re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner’s “cool sense of humor and an... Read more

Shopportunity!

By: Kate Newlin

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie—and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisition of the okay, available, and cheap. Why are we willing to pay $3.50 for a latte at Starbucks, but bristle at a... Read more

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

By: D. T. Max

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter.... Read more

The Passion Test

By: Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood

Narrated by: Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You create the life you choose to live. There are no victims. Take the Passion Test and start moving your life in the direction of your dreams. Learn what will make you happy and what will make your life fulfilled, as you look forward to what comes next.
Chris and Janet Attwood wrap fascinating stories of the ups, downs, twists, and turns of... Read more

Even God Believes In Evolution

By: Martinez Hewlett & Ted Peters

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters explore the facts and the ideology that surround questions of good versus evil, competition versus cooperation, nature versus nurture. The coming together of science and theology may be at the core of a new model of cooperation. Peters puts it this way: "The grandeur and the magnificence of the universe is... Read more

From Exploitation to Friendship: Creating Eco-Tourism

By: Doug Thompson, Robin Kobaly & Diana Hart

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As Robin Kobaly explains, "When we come back from wilderness, that's when we seem to bring our best inspirations to help humankind, and our own selves, too. If we don't have that wilderness to go to, that refuge and that wellspring, we will not be as good a people, a society, or a race." Read more

Refreshing and Deepening Relationship

By: Sidra Stone & Hal Stone

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sidra & Hal Stone remind us that relationships are an energetic event.  The Stones are the creators of Voice Dialogue and have been teaching thousands of people for several decades how to keep that glow in your partnerships as you mature into fullness and head into the stormy complexities of life. Read more

Organizations Organizing Themselves

By: Saul Eisen

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Saul Eisen is a brilliant innovator with the unassuming demeanor of a gentle mentor. He travels the world empowering employees to recreate the institutions they work for. This man, who bridges divergent traits in his own character and work, is himself a bridge between the often disparate viewpoints of psychology and business, and is a conduit to... Read more

Professors' Guide (TM) to Getting Good Grades in College - Abridged

By: Lynn F. Jacobs & Jeremy S. Hyman

Narrated by: Lynn F. Jacobs & Jeremy S. Hyman

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five ""grade-bearing"" moments of the semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper and (5) The Last Month of... Read more

Italian in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Italian language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

The Art of Raising a Puppy - Abridged

By: The Monks of New Skete

Narrated by: Michael Wager

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been involved in every facet of dog care: breeding and raising German Shepherds, training dogs of all breeds, and counseling dog owners on the many aspects of life with their dogs. What sets their program apart is the monks' compassion, respect, affection, and understanding of canine... Read more

Creating Your Afterlife

By: Carter Phipps

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happens after you die? Will you walk through a tunnel toward a white light? Will you be joined by Jesus? Or Krishna? Will you be reincarnated? Everyone has an opinion about the afterlife, but most conclude we'll never really know for sure. Or will we? Recent studies have produced some hard data that reveal some intriguing clues about... Read more

The Language of God

By: Francis S. Collins

Narrated by: Francis S. Collins

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.

It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational, while science restricts us to a life with no meaning... Read more

Of Animal Grace And A Spa For A Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the wonders of the animal world, and rediscover your own. Sy Montgomery is in love with animals, but more than that, she is in awe of who they are and what they have to teach us. Read more

Crazy

By: Pete Earley

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over thirty years, and the author of several award-winning—even bestselling—nonfiction books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd always been on the outside looking in. He had no idea what it was like to be on the inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared mentally ill,... Read more

God Is Alive And Well In The Cosmos

By: Bernard Haisch, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientist and former priest Haisch says, “I see God as a macro-designer, one whose ideas become the laws of physics.” He presents a theory of how the gap between science and religion is thinner than one might believe. Read more

The First Human

By: Ann Gibbons

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.



The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most... Read more

A Brief History of God

By: Richard Smoley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Smoley is one of the world's most distinguished authorities on the mystical and esoteric teachings of Western civilization. He's at home with intriguing and complex questions about the history and evolution of Christianity, and how it reflects teachings of the other great wisdom traditions. Read more

Weaving the Web - Abridged

By: Tim Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Tim Berners-Lee

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of... Read more

A Deep Ecology of the Heart

By: John Seed

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, he’s noticed that “we speak of ‘the environment,’ which makes it sound as though this is something that’s far away from us. But if we hold our breath for a few minutes while we consider the matter, we quickly realize that ‘the environment’ is... Read more

The Good Fight - Abridged

By: Peter Beinart

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11,... Read more

Dispatches from the Edge

By: Anderson Cooper

Narrated by: Anderson Cooper

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly... Read more

Deep Medicine, Deep Healing

By: William Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

William Stewart says, "Everything we think, everything we say, everything we do is either health-creating or health-negating. When we begin to look at health and healing that way, we can enter the realm of health creation from anywhere - nutrition, exercise, contemplative practice, relationship." Read more