Science & Technology audiobooks

Undeniable

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: Bill Nye

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."—Bill Nye

Sparked by a... Read more

Il racconto dell'Anticristo

By: Vladimir Solovev

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Quando Vladimir Sergeevic Soloviev (1853-1900) diede alle stampe «Il racconto dell'Anticristo» nel febbraio del 1899, solo un anno prima della sua morte, il pubblico rimase alquanto perplesso. Tuttavia, il grande pensatore russo descrive con perspicacia la raffigurazione dell'Anticristo: personaggio affascinante, convinto uomo di spirito,... Read more

Die Psychologie des Überzeugens

By: Robert B. Cialdini

Narrated by: Helmut Winkelmann & Karin Grüger

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert B. Cialdini, Professor für Psychologie an der Arizona State University, ist der international führende Experte zum Thema Überzeugen. Er ist ehemaliger Vorsitzender der amerikanischen Fachgesellschaft für Persönlichkeits- und Sozialpsychologie. Sein Interesse am komplexen Zusammenspiel der Faktoren, die Menschen dazu bringen, sich auf eine... Read more

Everyone's a Critic

By: Bill Tancer

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

How businesses can harness the power of online consumer reviews

More than seventy percent of consumers now consult online reviews before making purchases, and they take those picks and pans very seriously. A disgruntled but ignorant customer on Yelp might have more clout than any expert guidebook, magazine article, or newspaper critic. No wonder... Read more

Arrival the Fittest

By: Andreas Wagner

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate, its innovability.”

Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution... Read more

Mindfulness 25th anniversary edition

By: Ellen J. Langer

Narrated by: Ellen J. Langer & Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of... Read more

God Spelled Backwards

By: Sylva Kelegian

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award2015 Gold Medal winner at Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook AwardsWhen newlywed actress Sylva Kelegian shows up at a Manhattan veterinary clinic to walk a rescue dog, a strawberry-blonde puppy stumbles down the stairs and into her heart—opening it to the plight of hurt and abandoned dogs everywhere. After a... Read more

Top Dog

By: Maria Goodavage

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, moving story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated and highly skilled military working dog. An... Read more

Grace's Guide

By: Grace Helbig

Narrated by: Grace Helbig

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.

Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for... Read more

Mars Rover Curiosity

By: Rob Manning & William L. Simon

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.Here, Rob Manning, the... Read more

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

By: Lance Pettiford

Narrated by: Mysti Jording

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

If you suffer from anxiety, depression, addictions and other problematic disorders you can treat and overcome them with cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of... Read more

Faith Without Religion: Bowing to the Mystery of Life

By: Roger Housden

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Housden shares with us that keeping faith does not require a religious code or practice. “Faith is a wholehearted bodily knowing,” he says. Faith is an aliveness that doesn’t have an explanation. The purpose of life is revealed gradually. Simply by trusting the present moment as it opens up to the next, we are expressing faith, love, and... Read more

Winners Dream

By: Bill McDermott

Narrated by: Bill McDermott

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.

In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to... Read more

Me, Myself, and Us

By: Brian R. Little, Ph.D.

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature—and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies of the nineteen sixties, which gave rise to... Read more

The Quantum Moment

By: Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstreamThe discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an... Read more

The Invisible History of the Human Race

By: Christine Kenneally

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going.


While some books explore... Read more

The Soul of All Living Creatures

By: Vint Virga, DVM

Narrated by: Vint Virga, DVM

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired... Read more

Glass Jaw

By: Eric Dezenhall

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant -- Glass Jaw is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management.

In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets of controversy. Down the rabbit hole of scandal, the weak... Read more

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

By: Guy Consolmagno, SJ & Paul Mueller, SJ

Narrated by: Joe Ochman & Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet.

“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?” —Pope Francis, May, 2014
 
Pope Francis posed that question—without insisting... Read more

Saving Simon

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jon Katz got a call from an animal control officer about Simon, a neglected donkey who had been found on a failing farm in upstate New York, he wasn't expecting to add another animal to his already full life. But when he made the trek out to meet him, he couldn't help falling in love with the skinny, mangy donkey who had already suffered so... Read more

The Dogs Were Rescued (And So Was I)

By: Teresa J. Rhyne

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What would cause a cheese-loving, meat-eating lawyer to become a vegan? Her dog. Teresa Rhyme and Seamus the beagle both survived cancer once, so when Seamus develops yet another cancer, Teresa vows to fight again. Unsure of the best way to battle the unseen enemy, she embarks on some experiments to create a healthier life for her family. She... Read more

The Birds of Pandemonium

By: Michele Raffin

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Michele Raffin has made an important contribution to saving endangered birds, and her book is a fascinating and rarely seen glimpse behind the scenes. The joy she gets from her close relationships with these amazing animals and her outsized commitment to them comes through loud and clear in this engaging and joyful book.” —Dominick Dorsa,... Read more

The Innovators

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.

What were the talents that allowed... Read more

Deep Down Dark

By: Héctor Tobar

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more