Science & Technology audiobooks

How to Be a Good Creature

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more

Spying on Whales

By: Nick Pyenson

Narrated by: Nick Pyenson

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
 
Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.


Whales are... Read more

What the Eyes Don't See

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.

“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times

“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The... Read more

The Bright Hour

By: Nina Riggs

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” —Nora Krug, The Washington Post

“Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY

“Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —People (Book of the Week)

“Vivid, immediate.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe

Starred... Read more

The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

By: Paula Poundstone

Narrated by: Paula Poundstone

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed with her unique brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, in each chapter Paula tries out a... Read more

Move Fast and Break Things

By: Jonathan Taplin

Narrated by: Jonathan Taplin

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that started the Techlash.

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.

Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs... Read more

Mozart's Starling

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Linda Henning

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart,... Read more

Life's Work

By: Dr. Willie Parker

Narrated by: Caz Harleaux

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “vivid and companionable memoir of a remarkable life” (The New Yorker), an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider reveals his personal and professional journeys in an effort to seize the moral high ground on the question of choice and reproductive justice.

Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South,... Read more

No One Cares About Crazy People

By: Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron Powers

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more

The Geography of Genius

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.

In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more

The Sixth Extinction

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass... Read more

Born to Run

By: Christopher McDougall

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more

Sexo, Poder y Dinero en AA

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Indiscutiblemente es maravilloso obtener muchos logros, ya sea académicos, económicos, sociales, sexuales pero no para fortalecer una personalidad falsa que solo sea para demostrarle a alguien lo que somos. Todo lo anterior es para disfrutarlo ampliamente, pero la calidad humana , la esencia , lo que realmente somos no se mide con ello.... Read more

Los Problemas Del Ego

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Los problemas de ego se han definido como disfunciones o trastornos psicológicos que afectan a la percepción y la interacción de una persona consigo misma y con las personas de su entorno. El ego, en su forma más básica, es la parte de la psique que media entre los impulsos internos y las demandas sociales, pero cuando este equilibrio se ve... Read more

Los 10 mejores psicólogos de la historia

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ya van varias décadas de investigación en psicología y el número de investigaciones acerca de nuestra manera de pensar, sentir y comportarnos ha crecido en número y en complejidad. Oleadas de experimentos, publicaciones y papers científicos han ido sedimentándose hasta crear una mole de teorías y conocimientos acerca de la psicología y la... Read more

Sounds Natural

By: Derek Jones

Narrated by: Derek Jones, Brian Blessed, Bill Oddie, Spike M...

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Derek Jones meets celebrities with a love of wildlife in these 38 episodes from the classic nature-themed interview showBetween 1970 and 1980, broadcaster Derek Jones invited a host of famous names to chat about their enthusiasm for nature and their encounters with animals. Delving into the BBC Sound Archive to select some of their favourite... Read more

Human Hacked

By: Len Noe

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Discover the future of cybersecurity through the eyes of the world's first augmented ethical hacker



In Human Hacked by Len Noe, a pioneering cyborg with ten microchips implanted in his body, you'll find a startlingly insightful take on the fusion of biology and technology. The author provides a groundbreaking discussion of bio-implants,... Read more

River Notes

By: Wade Davis

Narrated by: Wade Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From bestselling author, long-time former National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist Wade Davis comes the story of America's Nile: how it once flowed freely and how human intervention has left it near exhaustion, altering the water temperature, volume, local species, and shoreline of the river Theodore Roosevelt once urged us to "leave it... Read more

Black Man in a White Coat

By: Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Narrated by: Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hearing Dr. Tweedy speak was less of a lecture and more of an open invitation to engage in a meaningful conversation with a passionate caregiver. Dr. Tweedy’s personal stories prompted a ton of reflection on compassion, mental health, patient-centered care, and our own identity-related biases. These insights are invaluable as we return to our... Read more

Caligula and Three Other Plays

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Alyssa Bresnahan, John Skell...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus’s final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that... Read more

How The Light Gets In

By: Ashok Alexander

Narrated by: Ashok Alexander

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his memoir of an improbable start-up in public health, Ashok Alaxander writes about an organization with the audacious goal of ending needless deaths and sickness at scale, amongst India's poorest mothers and children. It is a great leap emboldened by an unshakable faith in the 'idea that cannot be denied'. It is a tale of adventure filled... Read more

Now Is the Time to Collect

By: Paul D. Brinkman

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections



After the extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet and the collapse of the American bison population, naturalists expected many more vulnerable species to die out with spread of... Read more

5° Promesa De AA: Ayudando Te Ayudas

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

No importa cuán bajo hayamos caído en nuestra carrera alcohólica de ayer, podemos beneficiar con nuestra experiencia a otras personas. No importa quién seas; no importa lo bajo que hayas caído. no importa lo graves que sean tus complicaciones emocionales - ni incluso tus crímenes - no podemos impedirte que seas miembro de A.A. No queremos... Read more

Teoría De Carl Jung: Entre Lo Simbólico y La Imaginación

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

La teoría de Carl Jung sobre lo simbólico y la imaginación se centra en la psicología analítica, que estudia los procesos inconscientes y la relación entre la psique y sus manifestaciones culturales: Inconsciente colectivo- Jung postuló la existencia de un inconsciente colectivo, que contiene la memoria biológica de la especie, y que es anterior... Read more