Science & Technology audiobooks

Field Notes From a Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any... Read more

Der Prophet

By: Khalil Gibran

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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Evolutionary Spirituality: Bridging the Spectrum of Belief

By: Connie Barlow & Michael Dowd

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It's possible that evolution might not only be reconciled with religion, but in fact become the very foundation of a rich, new spiritual vision. Read more

You're Wearing That?

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that... Read more

You're Wearing That? - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Abridged

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Gail Sheehy

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

The Physics of Star Trek - Abridged

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A must for any serious Trekker or for anyone who wants an easy-to-understand introductionto the world of physics.
What exactly "warps" when you are traveling at warp speed? Whatis the difference between the holodeck and a hologram? What happens whenyou get beamed up? Are time loops really possible, and can I kill my grandmotherbefore I was... Read more

Adventures from the Technology Underground

By: William Gurstelle

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

Status Anxiety

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor's Lexus had better read Alain de Botton's irresistibly clear-headed book—immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort... Read more

The World of the Ancient Maya, Second Edition

By: John S. Henderson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient Maya were the only fully literate pre-Colombian people in the Americas. Superb scientists, they developed highly sophisticated mathematics and an intricate and accurate calendar system. Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture,... Read more

Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's"pens├®es" (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who had resolved the conflict between his scientific mind and his heart-felt faith.The book begins with an analysis of the difference between mathematical... Read more

The Meaning of It All

By: Richard P. Feynman

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him—how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day.In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his... Read more

The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud’s landmark work The Interpretation of Dreams forever changed the way we think about our dreams. It is here that Freud made many of his most important discoveries about the subconscious mind, as he explored why we dream, what we dream, and what our dreams mean. What does it symbolize when we fly in our dreams? When we fall?Freud’s... Read more

The Art of Being

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book, To Have or to Be? In The Art of Being, Fromm teaches us to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven world by learning to function as a whole person from a state of inner completeness or being. The transition from an identity... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a... Read more

The Identity Code

By: Larry Ackerman

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this life-transforming book, Larry Ackerman will introduce you to the person you were meant to be—and already are. The secret to uncovering your purpose, he explains, is built into you in the form of a code: the identity code. Much like your genetic code, your identity code provides a complete map of how you were designed to live.As you are... Read more

The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Named for Aristotle's son, Nicomachus, who was the first to edit this work, The Nicomachean Ethics plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. In the ten books of this work, Aristotle explains the good life for man: the life of happiness.For Aristotle, happiness exists when the soul is in accordance with virtue. Virtue exists in a... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more

Dancing in the Streets

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and... Read more

Nature Notes for 1906

By: Edith Holden

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.Besides noting the flora and fauna, she included poems and quaint folk sayings, saints' days, mottoes, and... Read more

Death by Black Hole, and Other Cosmic Quandaries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects…with great humor, humility, and—most important—humanity.” —Entertainment WeeklyNeil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History... Read more

Philosophy: Who Needs It

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand’s answer: Everyone.This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy but which one to have: a rational,... Read more