Science & Technology audiobooks

Game Theory and Strategy Explained

By: Can Akdeniz & Introbooks Team

Narrated by: David Willams

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Game Theory has evolved since its inception, but at its root, it is the modeling of strategic interactions between two or more players where there is a set of rules and outcomes! This basic definition gets to the heart of what Game Theory is. And this can be applied to almost any situation in your life and your business. Regardless of your... Read more

Lean Project Management Volume 1: Managing Business the Lean Way

By: Can Akdeniz

Narrated by: IntroBooks

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Research states that almost half of all improvement initiatives fail due to lack of effective leadership. If this is the case, then as business owners the time has never been more prudent to consider how we are managing our businesses and what kind of leadership strategies we have in place. Given that so many industries are littered with failed... Read more

Scary Close

By: Donald Miller

Narrated by: Webb Wilder

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to authenticity, is being fully yourself always worth the risk? From the author of Blue Like Jazz comes New York Times bestseller Scary Close, Donald Miller's journey of uncovering the keys to a healthy relationship and discovering that they're also at the heart of building a healthy family, a successful career, and a trusted... Read more

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

By: Rob Dunn

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart.

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart... Read more

The Mathematics of Love

By: Hannah Fry

Narrated by: Hannah Fry

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns—from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage—behind the rituals of love.

The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers might feel from a set of simple equations is... Read more

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of... Read more

The Teenage Brain

By: Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Frances E. Jensen

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerRenowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a... Read more

Bold

By: Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler

Narrated by: Steven Kotler

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton

A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the... Read more

The Art of Seduction (Unabridged)

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Powers

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power. Read more

Evergreen

By: Noah Fleming

Narrated by: Walter Dixon & Noah Fleming

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Loyal customers are the beating heart of every great business.

So why do so many companies act like adrenalin junkies, chasing after new customers at the expense of creating deeper, more profitable relationships with the ones they already have?

Evergreen exposes the mad pursuit for what it is: a brief spike in metrics and an ongoing revenue... Read more

The Age of Cryptocurrency

By: Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin?

In The Age of Cryptocurrency,... Read more

Team Dog

By: Mike Ritland

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland teaches you how to give your dog the exceptional training and loyalty of a combat dog. In Team Dog, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog's trust. He also offers... Read more

Touch

By: David J. Linden

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

David J. Linden, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and the bestselling author of The Compass of Pleasure, presents an engaging and fascinating examination of how the interface between our sense of touch and our emotional responses affects our social interactions as well as our general health and development. Accessible in its wit and clarity, Touch... Read more

Denn alles ist vergänglich - Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie (Ungekürzt)

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Alexander Bolte, Uwe Thoma & Kaja Sesterhenn

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fühlen Sie sich im verwirrenden Labyrinth des Lebens verloren? Quält Sie die erdrückende Einsamkeit? Haben Sie Angst vor der unerbittlichen Vergänglichkeit? Oder sorgt der schleichende Verlust Ihrer Jugend und Eleganz für Unbehagen? "Denn alles ist vergänglich: Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie" vom renommierten Therapeut Irvin D. Yalom ist... Read more

The Brain's Way of Healing

By: Norman Doidge, M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology  

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding... Read more

The Autoimmune Solution

By: Amy Myers

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with a cocktail of toxic treatments that fail to... Read more

Babylon's Ark

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals.




Working with members of the zoo staff and a few... Read more

Weaving The Fabric Of The World With Our Stories

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Solnit discusses how all of us are connected to one another as though we are threads woven into the fabric of the world. Storytelling is often our way of tracing these threads, starting with our personal stories and exploring outward. The effects of our stories can be subtle and powerful. Solnit explains how we make our stories and how... Read more

Unchain Your Brain

By: Daniel G. Amen & David E. Smith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill.Do you want to break free... Read more

The Sweet Spot

By: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.

Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by... Read more

How to Fly a Horse

By: Kevin Ashton

Narrated by: Kevin Ashton

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who... Read more

Worry

By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Worry consumes time and energy, too often isolates us from friends and family, and prevents us from solving the real problems that are behind the act of worrying. Dr. Edward M. Hallowell makes clear the crucial distinctions among the various forms of worry, showing which are protective and productive, which handicap achievement and pleasure, and... Read more

Discovering Your Creative Fire

By: Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Roger Housden

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a creativity coach, Dr. Maisel talks about the lineage of our creativity. There is a point in our lives when we fall in love with something — a book, a painting, a piece of music, a film — and we long to be part of the lineage of that creation. This longing emboldens us to enter the path of our own creative spirit. However in the hubbub of... Read more

Tasty

By: John McQuaid

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Taste is a whole-body experience, and breakthroughs in genetics and microbiology are casting light not just on the experience of french fries and foie gras but the mysterious interplay of body and... Read more