Science & Technology audiobooks

Plan B für das Klima

By: Gerd Ganteför

Narrated by: Thomas Höricht

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Es wird wärmer und die Ursache ist das Kohlendioxid aus der Verbrennung von Kohle, Gas und Öl. Ein globaler Umstieg auf erneuerbaren Energien ist aber weder technisch noch finanziell rechtzeitig zu schaffen. Wir brauchen einen Plan B um Zeit zu gewinnen. Eine Chance bieten die Ozeane und Landpflanzen, die jedes Jahr rund die Hälfte der CO2... Read more

Quantenlicht

By: Thomas de Padova

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Vier Forscher und ein unablässiges Hin und Her der Ideen – vor hundert Jahren entstand eine neue Wissenschaft, die die Grenzen der Vorstellungskraft sprengte: die Quantenphysik. Ihre Protagonisten: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr und Werner Heisenberg. Sie ergründeten das Innere der Atome und rangen mit einer scheinbar einfachen Frage:... Read more

Entiende la tecnología

By: Nate Gentile

Narrated by: Carlos Calvo

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

DESCUBRE LOS SECRETOS DE LA TECNOLOGÍA CON EL PRIMER LIBRO DEL DIVULGADOR DE INFORMÁTICA MÁS FAMOSO DE HISPANOAMÉRICA. DE NIÑO ME OBSESIONABAN DOS COSAS: LOS SUPERPODERES Y LA TECNOLOGÍA. AHORA SÉ QUE ENTENDER LA TECNOLOGIA ES TENER SUPERPODERES. Piénsalo: gracias a los avances tecnológicos podemos hablar con alguien que esté a miles de... Read more

L'art de choisir ses erreurs

By: Amy Edmondson

Narrated by: Caroline Roussel

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Nous sommes prisonniers de deux injonctions contradictoires : la culture de l'essai-erreur et la politique du zéro échec. Comment appréhender l'échec intelligemment ? Grâce à une nouvelle grille de lecture qui vous apprendra à trier le bon grain de l'ivraie. Accordez-vous le droit à des échecs contrôlés pour mieux relever les défis qui vous... Read more

Cómo hacer grandes cosas

By: Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Los secretos para planificar y llevar a cabo con éxito proyectos de cualquier envergadura, por el mayor experto munidal en megaproyectos. Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin... Read more

El arte de vivir

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva traducción del manual de vida de Epicteto, un texto que destila los principios del estoicismo en consejos prácticos y directos para cultivar la resiliencia, la paz interna y la libertad personal. Epicteto, maestro de la Antigüedad y uno de los más grandes filósofos estoicos, promulgaba que la felicidad se logra al aceptar lo que no... Read more

A Defence of Detective Stories

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While some may argue that the detective story is an example of cheap, dispensable popular fiction, G. K. Chesterton begs to differ. He is, after all, the author of the Father Brown mysteries! Where else but in detective novels do we appreciate the romance of the city?This essay is from a series titled The Defendant, first published as a... Read more

On Time

By: Jan Zaanen

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This text revolves around a new and unusual view on the most fundamental puzzle of physics. It focusses on the key aspect that makes the role of the time dimension fundamentally different: causality. The implicit and intuitive way by which causality is usually taken for granted is just made explicit and less self-evident, shedding a new light on... Read more

Hispanic Market Power

By: Isaac Mizrahi

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States Hispanic segment represents the most prominent demographic growth in the country, and a huge and untapped business opportunity for companies willing to move away from preconceived notions and market effectively to Hispanic customers. This book shows you how.



Now more than ever, corporations operating in the United States should... Read more

What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light?... Read more

Making Embedded Systems

By: Elecia White

Narrated by: April Doty

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Interested in developing embedded systems? Since they don't tolerate inefficiency, these systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This accessible guide helps you cultivate good development practices based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming.



Written by an expert who has created systems... Read more

Defensive Security Handbook

By: Amanda Berlin, Lee Brotherston & William F. Rey...

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Despite the increase of high-profile hacks, record-breaking data leaks, and ransomware attacks, many organizations don't have the budget for an information security (InfoSec) program. If you're forced to protect yourself by improvising on the job, this pragmatic guide provides a security-101 handbook with steps, tools, processes, and ideas to... Read more

Everyday Leadership

By: Ahron Friedberg, M.D.

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions.



The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises... Read more

A Defence of Nonsense

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Nonsense, argues G. K. Chesterton, deserves more serious attention than we may initially assume. It is in nonsense that we regain a sense of wonder at the world – by appreciating the pure serendipitousness of the beauty that fills our lives.This essay is one in a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the... Read more

A Defence of Humility

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Humility gets a bad rap these days, especially when contrasted with philosophies of egoism and self-assertion. But can we see the world as it really is without losing ourselves for a moment to take up the perspective of another?Such is the argument of G. K. Chesterton in this delightful essay, “A Defence of Humility.”This essay is one in a... Read more

The Unshaming Way

By: David Bedrick

Narrated by: A'rese Emokpae

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”
—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

An empowering, stigma-free approach to dismantling... Read more

2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: John C. Lennox

Narrated by: John C. Lennox

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Read by the author. Will technology change what it means to be human??You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily impact on our lives, and many of us see good reasons... Read more

Living Disability

By: Emily Macrae

Narrated by: Seema Doad

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. A musician and snow removal expert, a queer curator, a public pool aficionado, and a journalist turned city councillor — these are just some of the disabled writers exploring disability justice, analyzing... Read more

La Resiliencia

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de “doce pasos” de Alcohólicos Anónimos (1970: 61) en su décimo paso, dice: “Entonces, nos vemos enfrentados con la prueba decisiva: ¿podemos mantenernos sobrios, mantener nuestro equilibrio emocional y vivir una vida útil y fructífera, sean cuales sean nuestras circunstancias?”. La experiencia de evitar una recaída es formadora de... Read more

Dark Sun

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Terrible Beauty

By: Auden Schendler

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their... Read more

Las Mascaras Del Ego

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El ego es una disposición errónea del pensamiento que intenta presentarte como a ti te gustaría ser, en lugar de como eres en realidad. En esencia, es la idea de uno mismo, la máscara, el papel que estamos desempeñando; supone una forma distorsionada de afirmar y vivir la existencia. A esta máscara social (el ego) le gusta la aprobación, quiere... Read more

Babywise Sleep Solutions

By: Gary Ezzo & Anne Marie Ezzo

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

 A loving routine. A flexible schedule. Mom always knows best!  Your precious newborn comes into the world like a bud on the verge of blooming, eager to grasp the rhythm of life. As the developing brain embarks on its journey outside the womb, it instinctively seeks to organize and make sense of this new world, yet it is unable to sculpt the... Read more

Chemistry

By: Jeron Iris

Narrated by: Mary Glober

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Chemistry is the branch of science that focuses on the study of matter and its interactions with other matter and energy. It is often called the central science because it bridges other natural sciences, such as physics, biology, and environmental science, helping to explain the properties and behavior of substances that make up the world around... Read more