Science & Technology audiobooks

Die Veränderungs-Formel

By: Ilja Grzeskowitz

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel & Sonngard Dressler

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Veränderung ist überall. In so gut wie jedem Lebensbereich sorgen massive Veränderungen für Unsicherheit und Angst vor der Zukunft. Wie gelingt es trotzdem, nicht schon an den kleinsten Herausforderungen zu scheitern, sondern Veränderung auch unter schweren Rahmenbedingungen mit Gewinn zu bewältigen? Ilja Grzeskowitz rüttelt auf, hält den... Read more

Click.ology

By: Graham Jones

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Online shopping continues to grow at an astounding rate: in 2012, more than $1 trillion was spent in online retailers alone. The nature of shopping is drastically changing, but with so little information on how best to interact with online customers, how are businesses to succeed?

With Click.ology, internet psychologist Graham Jones has filled... Read more

Thirty Million Words

By: Dana Suskind

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important—and astoundingly simple—thing you can do for your child’s future success in life is to to talk to them.

What nurtures the brain to optimum intelligence and stability?

It is a secret hiding in plain sight: the most important... Read more

The Diet Myth

By: Tim Spector

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Identically Different comes a new look at nutritional health, showing us that breakthrough research on microbiomes—the microbes in our stomachs—could hold the key to healthy, balanced diets.What should we eat? It’s a simple and fundamental question that still bewilders us, despite a seemingly infinite amount of available... Read more

The Power Brokers

By: Jeremiah D. Lambert

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to... Read more

Late-Talking Children

By: Stephen M. Camarata

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book,... Read more

The Technological Singularity

By: Murray Shanahan

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" -- that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both -- has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial... Read more

Why We Work

By: Barry Schwartz

Narrated by: Barry Schwartz

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.

Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.

We’ve long been taught that the... Read more

F*ck Feelings

By: Michael Bennett, M. D. & Sarah Bennett

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Although other self-help books claim to reveal the path to happiness, F*ck Feelings warns that convincing yourself that there is such a path will actually lead you to feel like a true failure. What the Bennetts can promise you is that you can manage any situation life throws at you if you can keep your sense of humor, bend your wishes to fit... Read more

Becoming Fluent

By: Richard Roberts & Roger Kreuz

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, students may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do?In Becoming... Read more

Rising Strong

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!

Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a... Read more

Machines of Loving Grace

By: John Markoff

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society—on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health—Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help us, or will they replace us?In the past decade alone,... Read more

Die Evolution (Teil 1+2)

By: Manfred Grasshoff

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Hoerbuch in zwei Teilen - rund um die Entstehung des Lebens! TEIL 1: DAS LEBEN ENTSTEHT Wie entsteht das Leben auf der Erde? Wie ist es möglich, dass aus einzelnen chemischen Bausteinen erste Lebewesen entstehen? Und wie ist es möglich, dass diese Lebewesen dauerhaft auf der Erde überleben können? Diese grundsätzlichen Fragen... Read more

The Superhuman Mind

By: Kristian Marlow & Berit Brogaard

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow study people with astonishing talents-memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge... Read more

NeuroTribes

By: Steve Silberman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Au nom du père, du fils et de la crème glacée - Abridged

By: Pierre Morency

Narrated by: Pierre Morency

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Après avoir secoué un certain nombre de nos croyances depuis la parution de son best-seller Demandez et vous recevrez, Pierre Morency s'attaque ici de plein fouet aux fondements des écrits religieux et à la relation des humains avec le Père. Son postulat ? Dieu est content lorsque nous sommes gros, pauvres, malades et misérables. Il ne veut pas... Read more

Beyond Informational Thinking To Connective Thinking

By: Glenn Aparicio Parry, PH.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Parry believes that the way to cure our planetary challenges begins with a return to original thinking. The way we think and interact with nature and each other, he says, affects everything. As long as we divide things up as animate and inanimate, as living and not living we will continue to destroy the earth. “If there’s one thing I would... Read more

The Genius of Opposites

By: Jennifer B. Kahnweiler PhD

Narrated by: Tiffany Williams

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Better Together

FDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. They demand wise nurturing.

The key, says bestselling author Jennifer Kahnweiler, is for... Read more

The Gift of Failure

By: Jessica Lahey

Narrated by: Jessica Lahey

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that... Read more

Intangiball

By: Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. It also draws liberally from such character-conscious clubs as the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Author,... Read more

A Healthy More Resilient Brain

By: Brant Cortright, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Brant Cortright, Ph.D. brings brain research into a new dimension by putting it into a holistic health context. Cortright’s lessons about brain health incorporate body, heart, mind, and spirit. He clarifies some common misconceptions, and shares how we can help our brains thrive and grow, including what we might be doing to unknowingly cause... Read more

Life's Greatest Secret

By: Matthew Cobb

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give... Read more

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

By: Felicia Day

Narrated by: Felicia Day

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller from “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a “relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational” (Forbes) memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world.

When Felicia Day was a girl, all... Read more

Collaborative Intelligence

By: Dawna Markova & Angie McArthur

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakthrough book on the transformative power of collaborative thinking.

Includes a PDF of charts and graphs to help determine your personality type as well as tips on how to work better with other personalities.
 
Collaborative intelligence, or CQ, is a measure of our ability to think with others on behalf of what matters to us all. It is... Read more