Science & Technology audiobooks

All This Life

By: Joshua Mohr

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amid the river of metal and glass, a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son, Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the Internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face... Read more

China's Disruptors

By: Edward Tse

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and managers worldwide have pondered a fundamental question: What’s really going on with the new wave of China’s disruptors?

Alibaba wasn’t an outlier—it’s one of a rising tide of thriving... Read more

Beyond Words

By: Carl Safina

Narrated by: Carl Safina

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling... Read more

A Beautiful Question

By: Frank Wilczek

Narrated by: Frank Wilczek

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?

Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his... Read more

Faith Versus Fact

By: Jerry A. Coyne

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions.



Coyne is responding to a national climate... Read more

All Dogs Go to Kevin

By: Dr. Jessica Vogelsang

Narrated by: Dr. Jessica Vogelsang

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

All Dogs Go to Kevin is a humorous and touching memoir that will appeal to anyone who has ever loved an animal or lost hours in James Herriot's classic veterinary stories.

You can't always count on people, but you can always count on your dog. No one knows that better than veterinarian Jessica Vogelsang.

With the help of three dogs, Jessica is... Read more

Smokejumper

By: Jason A. Ramos & Julian Smith

Narrated by: Ned Vaughn

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER"A fascinating look" (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and... Read more

Anxious

By: Joseph LeDoux

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic SelfCollectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to... Read more

Banned NLP Secrets

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Jennifer Howe

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and it encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. Over the years NLP has been both misunderstood and misused especially in regards to the application of the various techniques that are associated with it.
In his booked... Read more

Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

Big Science

By: Michael Hiltzik

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big, built the bombs that helped World War II, and became dependent on government and industry and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.



Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially.... Read more

Forensics

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Sarah Barron

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of listeners worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels, McDermid has become familiar with ever branch of forensics, and now she... Read more

Bald is Better With Earrings

By: Andrea Hutton

Narrated by: Andrea Hutton

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For the one in eight women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, a warm, practical, relatable handbook that dispels the terror and takes you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.
When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to know everything. She read books voraciously, devoured... Read more

Childhood Disrupted

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health and overall well-being. Scientists now know on a biochemical level exactly how parents' chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill... Read more

Rethinking Narcissism

By: Dr. Craig Malkin

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing."What is narcissism?" is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the... Read more

The House of Owls

By: Tony Angell

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author recorded his observations, along with the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this... Read more

The Lucifer Principle

By: Howard Bloom

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by... Read more

How We'll Live on Mars

By: Stephen Petranek

Narrated by: Stephen Petranek

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.

It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes... Read more

Intelligent Disobedience

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When It's Smart to Say No

Nearly every week we read about a tragedy or scandal that could have been prevented if individuals had said no to ill-advised or illegitimate orders. In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

The... Read more

The Conscious Mind

By: Zoltan Torey

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the... Read more

Creativity

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be... Read more

Creativity

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be... Read more

The Upanishads

By: Thomas Egenes & Vernon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while others convey its poetry at the cost of literal meaning.



This new translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes fills the need for an Upanishads that is clear,... Read more

Healing Developmental Trauma

By: Laurence Heller & Aline Lapierre

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the... Read more