Science & Technology audiobooks

100 quotes by Sigmund Freud, creator of psychoanalysis

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Francis Bacon had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy during the scientific revolution in XVIIth-century England. He was the first to argue for a skeptical and methodical approach in science, based on careful observation of events in nature, and founded on induction. His work, firmly grounded in empiricism to prevent projection of... Read more

100 quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, and adventure. Park was the first European to ever reach the river Niger and the legendary city of Timbuctoo, thus resolving, once and for all, a century-old geographic... Read more

100 citations de Marc Aurèle

By: Marc-Aurèle

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc-Aurèle est le dernier des "Cinq bons empereurs" de Rome ; son règne marque l'apogée de l'empire romain, qui ne sera jamais plus riche et pacifié qu'alors. Il partage avec l'esclave Epictète une place majeure dans la philosophie stoïcienne, et ses enseignements n'ont rien perdu de leur utilité aujourd'hui. Ses Méditations sont une série de... Read more

100 citations de Kierkegaard

By: Kierkegaard

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophe , chrétien et séducteur, Soren Kierkegaard fut une influence majeure sur la théologie en même temps que sur la philosophie occidentale. Poète, mystique et mélancolique, Kierkegaard s'attache à penser ce que signifie être sujet de sa propre existence, les sentiments entraînés par nos choix de vie, et la relation que la foi donne avec... Read more

100 quotes by Socrates: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Socrates

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is as great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body. The Astorg Audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon. We have selected for... Read more

Etwas mehr Hirn, bitte

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Gerald Hüther

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nur wir Menschen sind in der Lage, unsere Lebenswelt immer besser nach unseren eigenen Vorstellungen zu gestalten. Indem wir uns aber immer perfekter an die so gestaltete Lebenswelt anpassen, verlieren wir allzu leicht auch unsere Fähigkeit, immer wieder nach neuen Wegen zu suchen und dabei aus den eigenen Fehlern zu lernen.Doch: Wir sind frei,... Read more

100 citations d'Emmanuel Kant

By: Emmanuel Kant

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmanuel Kant est une figure incontournable de la philosophie allemande. On lui doit une compréhension absolument nouvelle de la façon dont l'esprit façonne l'expérience. Kant constate qu'on ne peut jamais percevoir que des phénomènes, c'est-à-dire des perceptions déterminées par nos sens et nos structures mentales, et jamais la chose objective,... Read more

100 citations de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

L'homme est naturellement bon ; c'est la société qui le pervertit. On doit cette idée fondamentale à Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosophe, initiateur du genre autobiographique avec les Confessions, penseur politique, écrivain romantique, et même compositeur d'opéra ; une figure majeure de l'âge des Lumières. Ces 100 citations ont été sélectionnées... Read more

100 citations de Sun Tzu

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sun Tzu : un nom qui a traversé les siècles. Général, stratège, et philosophe, on lui doit le plus célèbre traité militaire de tous les temps : l'Art de la Guerre. Sa pensée a inspiré les plus grandes figures militaires, du général au dictateur, mais aussi de nombreux domaines comme l'entreprenariat, la stratégie commerciale, le contrôle des... Read more

100 citations de Voltaire

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Voltaire est un maître de l'ironie et du mot d'esprit. Voilà les armes principales dont ce philosophe des Lumières, dramaturge, scientifique et poète se sert sans relâche dans ses attaques au vitriol contre l'institution catholique, les adversaires de la liberté de culte et d'expression, et de la séparation de l'Eglise et de l'Etat.... Read more

100 citations de Francis Bacon

By: Francis Bacon

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Pas de méthode scientifique moderne sans Sir Francis Bacon. Son oeuvre s'inscrit dans le cadre de la révolution scientifique, qui prit son essor au XVIIe siècle en Angleterre et décida de toute l'évolution de la pensée philosophique et scientifique. C'est à lui que l'on doit l'idée d'une approche méthodique, fondée sur l'observation prudente des... Read more

100 citations de Bouddha

By: Bouddha

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cent citations de Bouddha pour vous familiariser avec la pensée bouddhiste, inspirer votre vie quotidienne, et vous approcher de l'éveil. Siddharta Gautama était né prince ; dégoûté des illusions matérielles, il parcourut un temps le chemin de l'ascétisme, avant de se rendre compte que la négation du corps n'était qu'une autre des illusions de... Read more

Wounded Heart

By: Dan B. Allender

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse. Dr. Allender explores the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual abuse and lays hold of the hope buried there by the One whose unstained image we all bear. Includes information about false memory issues. Read more

Reclaim Your Brain

By: Joseph A. Annibali, MD

Narrated by: Joseph A. Annibali, MD & Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A prescriptive guide to restoring cognitive calm, based on Amen Clinics chief psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Annibali’s three decades of treating patients who suffer from overloaded, overstimulated brains.
 
Dr. Joseph Annibali has treated thousands of people with overloaded, overstimulated brains. Some people describe their brain as being “in chaos”;... Read more

The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer

By: Unni Turrettini

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring Breivik was apprehended by the police at Utoya Island. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers and young... Read more

The Forgotten Village

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE is unique among them in that... Read more

Iterating Grace

By: Koons Crooks & Anonymous

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks?

With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the... Read more

Giving Your Fullness Will Take You Where You Need To Go

By: Justine Willis Toms

Narrated by: Molly Rowan Leach

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Justine Willis Toms shares principles that lead to a more useful and fulfilling life. She asks the question: is worry fruitful and will it lead to an effective outcome? She also encourages us to create circles of friends who support us in our fullness. She shares the lessons of the caterpillar and the butterfly as she exhorts us to get out into... Read more

The Emperor of All Maladies

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Now updated with three chapters illuminating the new... Read more

The Last Volcano

By: John Dvorak

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Volcanoes have fascinated—and terrified—people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. In this book, John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father," Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in... Read more

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Christopher Oxford

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of the most extraordinary - and important - texts in Western philosophy. It was written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. He cast it in the form of a novel in the hope that his urgent message of the 'death of God' and the rise of the superman (Ubermensch) would have greater emotional as well as... Read more

Too Much of a Good Thing

By: Lee Goldman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.

Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease,... Read more

A Brief History of Creation

By: Bill Mesler & H. James Cleaves

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

How did life begin?It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science’s most revolutionary advances, including van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, Darwin’s theory of evolution, and Crick and Watson’s unveiling of DNA. Now, in an age of genetic... Read more

Tap Into Your Inner Knowing Through The Body

By: John J. Prendergast, PH.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Many spiritual practices guide us in what is known as “waking up.” Even though this process gives us a great sense of freedom and spaciousness, John J. Prendergast suggests that the path to “waking up” is by “waking down.” As we tune into our bodies, we receive messages where our life is incongruent and “out of sorts.” He encourages us to rest... Read more