Science & Technology audiobooks

What the Luck?

By: Gary Smith

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The newest book by the acclaimed author of Standard Deviations takes on luck, and all the mischief the idea of luck can cause in our lives.

In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent... Read more

Utopia Is Creepy

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is... Read more

Men Chase, Women Choose

By: Dawn Maslar

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is one of our strongest biological drives, but it can be frustratingly elusive and misunderstood. Music, literature, and movies are filled with common folklore about love and millions of TV viewers tune in to shows like The Bachelor and read the latest relationship tome with one simple hope: to uncover some nugget of mystic wisdom that will... Read more

The Ramayana

By: Linda Egenes & Kumuda Reddy

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader or listener.
Here is one of the world's most hallowed works of sacred... Read more

The Crash Detectives

By: Christine Negroni

Narrated by: Christine Negroni

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson

A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from... Read more

The Trainable Cat

By: John Bradshaw

Narrated by: Paul Ansdell

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Dog owners know that dogs can be trained, but the idea of training rarely crosses cat owners' minds. But as bestselling anthrozoologist John Bradshaw and cat expert Sarah Ellis show, not only can cats be trained, but they absolutely should be to ensure a happy and healthy relationship between pet and owner. Once we comprehend cats' emotions and... Read more

Defeat Manipulation 101

By: H.T. Wyatt

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Manipulators are people who use you for their own ends. They do not care about your feelings or your boundaries. They just view you as an object that they can exploit to get what they want. When they are done with you, they cast you aside like trash. Manipulation undermines your human rights and robs you of the power you deserve to have over... Read more

The Late Bloomer

By: Ken Baker

Narrated by: Ken Baker

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone.

On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for... Read more

Breaking Point

By: Suzy Spencer

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea Yates filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the... Read more

Wild Things, Wild Places

By: Jane Alexander

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned... Read more

Time Travel

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions
“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post
“A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston Globe

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and... Read more

A Life Everlasting

By: Sarah Gray

Narrated by: Sarah Gray

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research.When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she... Read more

Finding a God that is Real

By: Nancy Ellen Abrams

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this deep dialogue we look at a new theory of God based on science. Our guest suggests that we need a God that can connect us spiritually to the “real” universe and can guide our now globally conscious species toward a long-term and honorable civilization. Abrams says, “God, as I see it, is our bridge to the universe. God did not create the... Read more

Healing Oneself, Healing the World - Abridged

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Thich Nhat Hanh

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dharma talks only from the 6-day retreat at Magnolia Grove Monastery in 2013 with the theme Healing Ourselves, Healing the World by Thich Nhat Hanh.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

The Gamekeeper at Home

By: Richard Jefferies

Narrated by: Stanley Green

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gamekeeper at Home is a collection of sketches of natural history and rural life in 19th century England. The book was written by English writer John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) and it was first published in 1878. Jefferies is best known for his prolific and sensitive writing on natural history, rural life and agriculture in the late... Read more

Labrador Retriever Dog Raising & Training 101

By: HowExpert & Amy Brannan

Narrated by: Eva Marienchild

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Labrador Retriever Dog Raising & Training 101 is the ULTIMATE QUICK "HOW TO" GUIDE on how to raise and live with labrador retriever type of dogs!Labrador Retriever Dog Raising & Training 101 is your comprehensive guide to bringing home a Labrador retriever! Whether you bring home a new puppy or an adult Labrador, this guide covers... Read more

Nigel

By: Monty Don

Narrated by: Monty Don

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel became the surprise star of BBC Gardeners' World inspiring huge interest, fan mail and even his own social media accounts, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so deeply.
In many respects Nigel is a very ordinary dog; charming, handsome and obedient, as so many are. He is... Read more

Madness and Civilization

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Dave Gillies

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might... Read more

How to Make a Spaceship

By: Julian Guthrie

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! 

The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight

A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
 
Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot... Read more

A Truck Full of Money

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg

Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.

Tracy Kidder, the “master of the... Read more

The Tide

By: Hugh Aldersey Williams

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the epic story of the centuries-long search to understand the tide: from Aristotle, said to have drowned himself when he failed to figure out the Greek tides, to the pioneering investigations into the role of the moon by Galileo and Newton, to supercomputing in our own time. Celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams whisks the... Read more

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Beginners

By: Madison Taylor

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have been suffering from addiction, depression, anxiety, phobias, or anger management issues for a long time, you are probably ready for some relief. But it may seem like nothing works to relieve your pain. You may have tried psychotherapy, group therapy, medication, and even vitamins and home remedies for your symptoms, all in vain.... Read more

Now

By: Richard A Muller

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Now” is a simple yet elusive concept.
You are reading the word “now” right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment “now” so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time is affected by both velocity... Read more

Take Pride

By: Jessica Tracy

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading psychologist reveals how our most misunderstood emotion—pride—has shaped our minds and our culture, and shows how we can harness its power.Why did Paul Gauguin abandon middle-class life to follow the path of a starving artist? What inspired Bill Gates to give away so much of his hard-won fortune? How has Donald Trump succeeded so... Read more