Science & Technology audiobooks

Wunder wirken Wunder

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Medizinisch. Magisch. Menschlich. Warum wirken Placebos, auch wenn man nicht an sie glaubt? Wann sind Klangschalen besser als Kortison? Wirkt Akupunktur sicherer mit Sicherheitsnadeln? Mit viel Humor entkrampft Hirschhausen den Streit zwischen Schul- und Alternativmedizin und zeigt, was jeder für sich tun, aber vor allem auch lassen kann. Eckart... Read more

The Sun Still Shines

By: Jodi Orgill Brown

Narrated by: Jodi Orgill Brown

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In her award-winning candid and witty memoir, Jodi Orgill Brown recounts how her life was transformed when, as a thirty-three-year-old wife and mother, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unwilling to accept her fate, Jodi's family searches for help to fight against the odds. But the very surgery that could save her life thrusts... Read more

The End of Ownership

By: Aaron Perzanowski & Jason Schultz

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don’t own those purchases, you merely license them. That... Read more

Thomas Aquinas: Understand the Universal Teacher's Greatest Ideas

By: Eleonore Stump

Narrated by: Eleonore Stump

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history''s most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem... Read more

X-15 Diary

By: Richard Tregaskis

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Built of titanium and a chrome-nickel alloy known as Inconel X, the X-15 was the fastest plane ever built, streaking through the lower reaches of outer space even before the first space capsules reached orbit. First tested in 1959, the X-15 proved to be a crucial testing ground for the astronauts and hardware in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and... Read more

Never Give Up

By: Jack Ma

Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since the Alibaba Group went public on September 19, 2014—with an initial public offering of a record-breaking $25 billion—Jack Ma, the founder and charismatic “spiritual leader” of the e-commerce behemoth, has been making headlines around the world. In 2014, the company’s online transactions totaled $248 billion—more than those of Amazon... Read more

A Double Dose of Dilaudid

By: Kerry Hamm

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a small-town Emergency Room in rural Ohio. While it's true our ER doesn't see the stabbing and gunshot action ERs see in inner cities, we have no shortage of the sad, the scary, the painful, and the just plain dumb.

With more than twenty stories, things ER workers want to say to patients, and Emergency Room bingo, A Double Dose of... Read more

Suggestible You

By: Erik Vance

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain,... Read more

The Left Brain Speaks and the Right Brain Laughs

By: Ransom Stephens

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Using understandable metaphors and easy to follow language, Stephens gives readers of any scientific level an introduction to neuroscience and shows them how things like creativity, skill, and even perception of self can grow and change by utilizing the body’s most important muscle. Fans of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson will love Stephens’... Read more

A Prescription for Change

By: Michael Kinch

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes—and indeed because of them—our ability to deliver new medicines may be quickly coming to an end. Moving from the twentieth century to... Read more

Your Mythic Journey

By: Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox

Narrated by: Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Keen, best selling author of Fire in the Belly and Anne Valley-Fox combine their talents to help today's men and women rediscover the mythic dimension in their own daily lives.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

The Wisdom of Life, Counsels and Maxims

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

'The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.'

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century because his humanistic, atheistic, if pessimistic views chimed with a new secularism that was emerging from a Western society dominated by religion. Despite his rather forbidding image (and a few... Read more

The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Manlius Boethius

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Consolation of Philosophy is one of the key works in the rich tradition of Western philosophy, partly because of the circumstances in which it was written.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c480-c524) was of aristocratic Roman birth and became consul and then master of offices at Ravenna, one of the highest posts under the Ostrogothic Roman... Read more

Tierisch gute Gespräche

By: Amelia Kinkade

Narrated by: Petra Nacke

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ich hoffe, dass die Auszüge und die Übungen aus meinem Buch "Tierisch gute Gespräche" Ihnen helfen werden, die Wünsche Ihrer geliebten Tiere zu hören und sie bei Bedarf zu heilen. Der Gott unseres Zeitalters - die Vernunft - hat uns die Intuition geraubt. Nurindem wir unseren Tieren mit Ehrfurcht begegnen, unseren Geist disziplinieren und uns... Read more

Tierkommunikation: Heilung und Therapien

By: Penelope Smith

Narrated by: Petra Nacke

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In meiner Arbeit geht es um die sogenannte Interspezies-Kommunikation, die telepathische Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Tier. Hier möchte ich erklären, wie Sie mit einfachen Techniken Ihren tierischen Freunden helfen können. 1. Heilung und Therapie von Tieren (30:32) 2. Techniken zur Wiederherstellung des Orientierungssinns (16:19) 3.... Read more

Heilsame Klänge für Tiere

By: Ingrid Rose Fröhling & Lucien Majrich

Narrated by: Ingrid Rose Fröhling & Lucien Majrich

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Heilsame Klänge für Tiere sind zwei einzigartige Klangschalen-Kompositionen, die bei kleinen und großen Tieren tief entspannend wirken: In Stresssituationen, bei Ängsten und Krankheit werden sie ebenso eingesetzt, wie bei Autofahrten, bei Konflikten in Tierheimen und Ställen, aber auch bei der Therapie in Tierpraxen und Kliniken. Die... Read more

Gespräche mit Delfinen

By: Penelope Smith

Narrated by: Petra Nacke

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Penelope Smith, die weltweit bekannte Tierkommunikatorin und -Therapeutin, berichtet über ihre Heilung durch wilde Delfine, die ihr halfen, ihre lebenslange Angst vor tiefem Wasser zu überwinden. Sie lernte, mit ihnen zu schwimmen und das Meer zu lieben. Lassen Sie sich verzaubern durch die Verschmelzung des menschlichen Bewusstseins mit dem... Read more

Bruder Hengst und Schwester Katze

By: Hugh-Friedrich Lorenz

Narrated by: Petra Nacke, Chris Lang & Hugh-Friedrich Lorenz

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum jemand, der täglich mit Tieren zu tun hat, bezweifelt deren außergewöhnliche Fähigkeiten, die oftmals geradezu unheimlich "menschlich" wirken: Mitgefühl, Zuwendung, Zärtlichkeit, Intuition, Klugheit, Treue und Mut - all diese Eigenschaften zeichnet auch die Tiere aus! Das Hörbuch lässt zahlreiche Stimmen mit authentischen Erfahrungen zu... Read more

Grundkurs: Tierkommunikation

By: Penelope Smith

Narrated by: Johannes Lubig

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie Sie mit Ihren Haustieren und wild lebenden Tieren sprechen können, zeigt Ihnen Penelope Smith einfach und klar. Die Schritte dahin - 1. sich entspannen und öffnen, 2. dem Tier eine Mitteilung senden, 3. eine Antwort empfangen - werden exakt erklärt und mit einfachen Übungen vertieft. Teil 2 gibt tiefe Einblicke in Herz, Seele und Hirn... Read more

Heilsame Klänge für Tiere II

By: Ingrid Rose Fröhling & Lucien Majrich

Narrated by: Ingrid Rose Fröhling & Lucien Majrich

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Heilsame Klänge für Tiere II - Vollendung, Loslassen, Neubeginn sind einzigartige Klangschalen-Kompositionen, die nervösen, kranken, älteren und alten Tieren helfen loszulassen, wenn sie in die Vollendungsphase ihres Lebens gehen. Die Tiere nennen dieses Ereignis nie Sterben oder Tod, sondern sie sprechen von Vollendung und von der "anderen... Read more

Tierkommunikation: Die Tierseele verstehen

By: Penelope Smith

Narrated by: Petra Nacke

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In meiner Arbeit geht es um die sogenannte Interspezies-Kommunikation, d.h. die telepathische Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Tier. Dabei liegt mir besonders die Einheit allen Lebens, die Verbundenheit aller Wesen am Herzen, unabhängig davon um welche Lebensform es sich handelt. Und so will ich Sie mit auf eine Reise nehmen. Es ist eine Reise... Read more

System

By: Clifford Siskin

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre -- a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment... Read more

To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

By: Lawrence Levy

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success.

“Hi, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.”

After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he... Read more

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. Read more