Science & Technology audiobooks

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

Resilience

By: Jessie Close & Pete Earley

Narrated by: Jessie Close & Glenn Close

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York,... Read more

Letting Go Of Resistance: A Constant Rebirth

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Finley tells us that on a day to day basis our lives are a kind of “constant hopping from one identity to another.” He describes this as the location from which we are operating. He suggests we ask ourselves the question: Are we choosing the location of fear and anxiety, which supports knee-jerk reactions, or one of mindfulness and a tuning into... Read more

Cognitive And Dialectical Behavior Therapy Unleashed

By: James Ashley

Narrated by: Lauren McMahon

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people ideally want to live a fulfilling life which includes having a healthy relationship with themselves as well as others. However, what precludes a great deal of people from attaining this fulfillment in life is the inner turmoil that consumes them. This inner turmoil inevitably leads to distress which affects everything around them... Read more

The Day My Brain Exploded

By: Ashok Rajamani

Narrated by: Ashok Rajamani

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societal prejudice inflicted on those with traumatic injury. With humor, spirit, and insight, he describes the... Read more

The Science of Interstellar

By: Kip Thorne

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded... Read more

The Power of Visual Storytelling

By: Jessica Gioglio & Ekaterina Walter

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Attention is the new commodity. Visual Storytelling is the new currency.

Human brain processes visuals 60,000x faster than text.

Web posts with visuals drive up to 180% more engagement than those without.

Viewers spend 100% more time on web pages with videos.



Filled with full-color images and thought-provoking examples from leading companies,... Read more

The Patient Will See You Now

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a... Read more

Speed Limits

By: Mark C. Taylor

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were supposed to free us by saving time and labor now trap us in a race we can never win. The faster we go, the less time we... Read more

Finding Zero

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how we got our numbers—told through one mathematician's journey to find zeroThe invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands... Read more

Your Universe and You

By: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Narrated by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this profound recording, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon and the founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, challenges us to re-think our place in the universe and our role in its unfolding. Excerpt from recording: "The evidence is clear that we are an evolving, creating, self organizing, learning universe and…that... Read more

Science and the Inner Experience

By: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Narrated by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic recording, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon and the founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, explores the nature of consciousness. Dr. Mitchell explains Quantum Science and it’s relationship to the external material world and internal experience. Putting modern times in the broad context of science,... Read more

Clearing Sadness

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Guided Imagery helps let go of sadness and depression.Everyone goes through periods of sadness now and then. But when we get stuck in ongoing sadness or depression for more than a week or two, it’s time to do something to break the spell.Guided imagery offers a safe, natural way to let go of sadness, and open to new possibilities. It can help us... Read more

Self Esteem

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Let go of the past and build high self esteem.Use this program to let go of the past, and develop high self esteem!Self esteem is all about the way you value, appreciate and treat yourself. If you truly believe, without a doubt, that you’re a good, worthy, and deserving person, then you’ll tend to attract people who will value and appreciate... Read more

Die Macht der inneren Bilder

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Jan Reinartz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Macht der inneren Bilder Innere Bilder – das sind all die Vorstellungen, die wir in uns tragen und die unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln bestimmen. Es sind Ideen und Visionen von dem, was wir sind, was wir erstrebenswert finden und was wir vielleicht einmal erreichen wollen. Es sind im Gehirn abgespeicherte Muster, die wir benutzen, um uns... Read more

100 Quotes for Meditation with Lao Tzu

By: Lao Tzu

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and is part of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. He was also a novelist and a dramatist, and furthered the cause of Romanticism, this exalted artistic... Read more

100 Quotes about Science

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Stuart Walker

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It involves a boy who is considered foolish and good for nothing, so much so that he assumes (after hearing people talking about shuddering) that the shudders are an action or... Read more

Global Mind Change

By: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Narrated by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Mitchell explores humanity, science, and fulfillment in this recording on what it means to be a human and our place in the universe. Part of a three-lecture series recorded in the 1990s, the messages Dr. Mitchell brings us are perhaps more relevant today than ever. Read more

Say Goodbye to Worry – Hot Air Balloon

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Unload your worries, and send them away for good. Then re-envision your life, worry free.Worry much? Worry casts a dark shadow over everything in our lives. And it’s often a pattern so deep in our unconscious mind that we hardly notice doing it. We all know that worry does absolutely nothing to help us. But what it does do is keep us from... Read more

War Dogs

By: Rebecca Frankel

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In War Dogs, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs' special abilities—from their amazing noses and powerful jaws to their enormous sensitivity to the emotions of their human companions. The history of dogs in the U.S.... Read more

How We Are

By: Vincent Deary

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in a major trilogy—one that will help readers everywhere live fuller, more satisfying lives.We live in small worlds.How We Are is an astonishing and ambitious work that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are, how we break, and how we mend.Deary first explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. We... Read more

Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole

By: Dr. Allan H. Ropper & Brian David Burrell

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Allan H. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound:




— A figure skater whose body has become... Read more

Secrets of a Creativity Coach

By: Eric Maisel

Narrated by: Stephen Vernon

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside look at the creativity coaching process with twenty-five real-life examples of the correspondence between one of the world’s most renowned creativity coaches and his clientsHaving worked with all types of artists from every corner of the world, Eric Maisel is acutely aware of the issues that creative folks face: resistance and... Read more

Bitcoin: All You Need to Know

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Freddie Feldman

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the intriguing realm of Bitcoin! Delving into the intricate world of currency exchange, I, as a business enthusiast, have embarked on a personal journey of extensive research into this enigmatic digital currency. Through my findings, I aim to shed light on Bitcoin's potential to revolutionize the concept of universal currency,... Read more