Science & Technology audiobooks

Other People's Children

By: Lisa Delpit

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new... Read more

All the Rage

By: Martin Moran

Narrated by: Martin Moran

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and surprisingly funny memoir about finding the right balance between anger and compassion

“Why aren’t you angry?” people often asked Martin Moran after he told his story of how he came to forgive the man who sexually abused him as a boy. At first, the question pissed him off. Then, it began to haunt him. Why didn’t he have more anger?... Read more

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

By: Robert Penn

Narrated by: Robert Penn

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge... Read more

Die Wise

By: Stephen Jenkinson

Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us... Read more

Dark Winter

By: John L. Casey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next thirty years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the... Read more

How South Africa plans to end AIDS

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly one in five people infected with HIV globally lives in South Africa, and only half of those individuals are on treatment. But the nation has made major strides against the virus in recent years and now is aggressively moving to implement a plan to "end" the epidemic. William Brangham reports in the final installment of our series The End... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map; don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living; can't say how many calories are in a Big Mac or how many candles are on a menorah. How important it is to know things, anyway?... Read more

Dog Medicine

By: Julie Barton

Narrated by: Julie Barton

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman’s battle with depression and how her dog saved her life

A New York Times Bestseller

“Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read.” —Cheryl Strayed 

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed.... Read more

Why the Jews?

By: Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this seminal work that has spent more than thirty years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world’s preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs to confront anti-Jewish sentiment.Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information... Read more

Feeling Loved

By: Jeanne Segal

Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Do your connections with friends, family, or romantic partners leave you feeling dissatisfied or disconnected? In this book, emotional intelligence pioneer Jeanne Segal, PhD, doesn't just talk about love and connection; she shows you how to get and give loving experiences that are nurturing and fulfilling. Feeling Loved explores what we... Read more

The Winning Mindset

By: Damian Hughes

Narrated by: Damian Hughes

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is skilfully and inspiringly read by the author, Damian Hughes.

In The Winning Mindset, Professor Damian Hughes, the acclaimed author of Liquid Thinking and How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, draws on both his lifetime experience and academic background within sport, organization and change psychology to reveal the best ways to... Read more

How Rwanda became a global anti-AIDS leader

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Rwanda emerged from its genocide in 1994 to build one of the most successful AIDS responses in Africa and is now working mightily to halt mother-to-child HIV transmissions. They’re doing it with a creative mix of science, technology and “aggressive neighborliness.” William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis... Read more

Ending AIDS in NY

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly one in 10 Americans living with HIV live in New York, where an ambitious plan aims to cut new infections and HIV-related deaths. But the state has serious challenges, including keeping people on their meds, and preventing the spread among IV drug users. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in... Read more

The End of White Christian America

By: Robert P. Jones

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).

*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.... Read more

Machiavelli

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tim Reynolds

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was... Read more

Perfiles de Coraje

By: John F. Kennedy

Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este es un libro acerca de la virtud más admirable de todas las virtudes humanas: el valor. Ernest Hemingway la definió como “gracia bajo presión”. Y estos son los relatos sobre las presiones que experimentaron ocho Senadores de Estados Unidos y la gracia con la cual las enfrentaron». —John F. Kennedy Durante los años 1954 y 1955, el entonces... Read more

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in... Read more

Why South is epicenter of AIDS crisis in America

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current trends continue. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the... Read more

A Book About Love

By: Jonah Lehrer

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Number one bestselling science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the “only happiness that lasts”—love—in a book that “is interesting on nearly every page” (David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review).

Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary... Read more

The Human Superorganism

By: Rodney Dietert, PhD

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.” 
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”
—Booklist (starred review)

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher... Read more

Frientimacy

By: Shasta Nelson

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With the constant connectivity of today’s world, it’s never been easier to meet people and make new friends—but it’s never been harder to form meaningful friendships. In Frientimacy, award-winning speaker Shasta Nelson shows how anyone can form stronger, more meaningful friendships, marked by a level of trust she calls “frientimacy.” Shasta... Read more

The Tree

By: Colin Tudge

Narrated by: Enn Reitel

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented... Read more

E. B. White on Dogs

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

E. B. White is best known for his children’s books, such as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. A columnist for the New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of The Elements of Style, White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his One Man’s Meat columns from his saltwater farm on... Read more