Science & Technology audiobooks

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

By: Martín Prechtel

Narrated by: Martín Prechtel

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to... Read more

Liftoff

By: Eric Berger

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. 

In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the... Read more

A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Rob McQuay

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more

Hallucinations

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more

No Bad Kids

By: Janet Lansbury

Narrated by: Janet Lansbury

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern classic on the gentle art of discipline for toddlers, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of Elevating Child Care

“No Bad Kids provides practical ways to respond to the challenges of toddlerhood while nurturing a respectful relationship with your child.”—Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, co-author of The... Read more

Lay Them to Rest

By: Laurah Norton

Narrated by: Laurah Norton

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases. Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to “getting the bad... Read more

The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series whose message about myth, ritual, and spiritual potentialities exhilarated millions of people.

Contents:
Program 1: The Hero's Adventure
Program 2: The Message of the Myth
Program 3: The First Storytellers
Program 4: Sacrifice and Bliss
Program 5: Love and the Goddess
Program 6: Masks... Read more

The Willpower Instinct

By: Kelly McGonigal

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from... Read more

The Tao of Fully Feeling

By: Pete Walker

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The price of emotional renunciation is a constant, wasteful expenditure of energy that leaves us depressed and taciturn, imprisoned in the apathy and ennui of the "Seen-that-Been-there-Done-that" syndrome. When we surrender and soften to our feelings, we reconnect with our inborn vitality, and with the invaluable instinct and intuition that our... Read more

Whole Again

By: Jackson MacKenzie

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Erin Spencer

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again--in order to truly heal and move on.

Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of readers in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and... Read more

How to Be Old

By: Lyn Slater

Narrated by: Lyn Slater

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.

When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon,... Read more

The Song of the Dodo

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 24 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon

A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the... Read more

Been There, Done That

By: Rachel Feltman

Narrated by: Rachel Feltman

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way.

Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical... Read more

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

Narrated by: James Acaster

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.

When James quit all forms of social media in 2019 he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f*cking... Read more

The Idea Factory

By: Jon Gertner

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1,200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell... Read more

Traction

By: Gino Wickman

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.The... Read more

White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

Narrated by: Harry Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time

Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space... Read more

Atlantic

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon... Read more

The Wisdom of Anxiety

By: Sheryl Paul

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Work anxiety. Relationship anxiety. Social anxiety. World anxiety. Money anxiety. Health anxiety.



How does reading those words make you feel?



All too often, when we experience the things that give us anxiety, our first instinct is to try to run away or numb out from feeling them. But what if the unpleasant feelings you want to turn away from are... Read more

Night Vision

By: Mariana Alessandri

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Gisela Chípe shares a philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can... Read more

Merchants of Doubt

By: Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

Narrated by: Liza Seneca

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.

Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth Kolbert

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world,... Read more

All That Moves Us

By: Jay Wellons

Narrated by: Jay Wellons

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more

The Force of Nonviolence

By: Judith Butler

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst... Read more

Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships, to boosting creativity and motivating teams.Almost everything we do involves words. Words are how we persuade, communicate, and connect.... Read more