Science & Technology audiobooks

The Pet Show, Vol. 4

By: Warren Eckstein

Narrated by: Warren Eckstein

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Hosted by renowned pet psychologist and behaviorist Warren Eckstein, The Pet Show tackles America’s toughest pet problems. With topics like “what to expect from your pet when you’re expecting” and “pet body language,” listeners will learn how to better understand and care for their furry friends. Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child, Third Edition

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

Does your child exhibit...

Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory avoider," withdrawing... Read more

Mobilized

By: SC Moatti

Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

That person slumped over her cell phone is disengaged, isolated, lost in her own little world, right? Wrong, says SC Moatti. She's highly engaged—she's having a text conversation with a friend in Europe, playing a game with another, and looking for a good place to go to dinner with a third. Mobile technology has become such an integral part of... Read more

Mobilized

By: SC Moatti

Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Mobile has now become such an integral part of how we live that, for many people, losing a cell phone is like losing a limb. Everybody knows mobile is the future, and every business wants in, but what are the elements of mobile success?

SC Moatti, a Silicon Valley veteran who was an executive with Facebook, Trulia, and Nokia, gives businesses... Read more

The Dog Merchants

By: Kim Kavin

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin reveals the complex network behind the $11-billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-listen for the benefit of all dogs everywhere.In what promises to become an Omnivore’s Dilemma for dog lovers—breed devotees and adoption advocates alike—The Dog... Read more

On Anger, on Leisure, on Clemency

By: Seneca the Younger

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'On Anger' is one of Seneca's most important essays. At some length he investigates the nature of anger: how and why it emerges, the effect it has on the individual and those to whom it is directed, and how to manage it and prevent it even from arising. For, Seneca considers, anger simply serves no purpose - it does not bring courage in war,... Read more

Growing Up in Xin Jiang

By: Li Ju

Narrated by: Ming Lu

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing Up in Xin Jiang is a long epic from Xinjiang writer Ju Li that recounts stories from southern Xinjiang. It is a key literary project supported by the Aksu Regional Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The novel depicts the story of the "second generation of Xinjiang" born in the oases of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps... Read more

Cloud Computing

By: Nayan B. Ruparella

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particular. Nayan Ruparelia explains what the... Read more

The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!

In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the... Read more

The Cabaret of Plants

By: Richard Mabey

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and... Read more

String Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

String theory corresponds to a theoretical (As the name implies) framework introduced in physics. This framework share similarities with particle physics, as it presents point like particles (from particle physics) as one-dimensional objects, these objects are said to be string. They are stored in the framework described above. String theory... Read more

Quantum

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Hugh Kermode

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world.

Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is... Read more

It Didn't Start With You

By: Mark Wolynn

Narrated by: Mark Wolynn

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our... Read more

Mapping the Heavens

By: Priyamvada Natarajan

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter.... Read more

The Network

By: Scott Woolley

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of America’s airwaves, the two friends—one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor—who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.This is the origin story of the airwaves—the foundational technology of the communications age—as told through the forty-year friendship of an... Read more

Siddhartha's Brain

By: James Kingsland

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of the “science of enlightenment,” told through the lens of the journey of Siddhartha (better known as Buddha), by Guardian science editor James Kingsland.In a lush grove on the banks of the Neranjara in northern India—400 years before the birth of Christ, when the foundations of western science and philosophy were... Read more

Paws for Alarm

By: Marian Babson

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A whisker away from death …A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family—and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they’ve swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect … until someone tries... Read more

The Invention of Science

By: David Wootton

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our worldWe live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and... Read more

Tom Paine's Iron Bridge

By: Edward G. Gray

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was America's largest port. Unfortunately, the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city's continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania's backcountry farms and its port on the... Read more

Theory of Relativity

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Theory of relativity is a combination of two different theories or says two different combinations. First, one is Einstein’s special relativity theory and second one is general relativity theory. Concepts included in theory of relativity consider space-time as a single unified entity. According to concepts of theory of relativity, following are... Read more

Group Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

By many expert mathematicians, group theory is often addressed as a central part of mathematics. It finds its origins in geometry, since geometry describes groups in a detailed manner. The theory of polynomial equations also describes the procedure and principals of associating a finite group with any polynomial equation. This association is... Read more

Personality Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes people do behave in variety of ways? Are they aware of what they are doing completely? Is there any unconscious motives and hidden interests that are guiding their behavior? Is it the reason why some people are naturally evil while some are good? Alternatively, is there potential chance for anyone to be evil or good? Environmental... Read more

Learning Theories

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sitting inside a class, one student finds it easy to absorb information while another struggles with it. While one learner may excel in a particular subject another may do well in all the subjects. Trainees go through the same training to be graded differently according to the level of information they have absorbed and the understanding they... Read more

Dark Reality

By: Virginia Smith

Narrated by: Beverly Jane

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is packed with people who don’t have your best interests at heart and who never will. The skeezy ex who leeches your time, energy, and bank account… The coworker who will do anything to bring you down… The charismatic devil who will kiss your face and rob you blind behind your back… The self-absorbed acquaintance who mopes at your good... Read more