Science & Technology audiobooks

The Innovators - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

The Meaning of Human Existence

By: Edward O. Wilson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticized for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls here his most expansive and advanced theories... Read more

The Hardest Peace

By: Kara Tippetts

Narrated by: Patty Fogarty

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding grace in the everyday…Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer.In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace... Read more

How We Got to Now

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Look out for Johnson’s new book, Wonderland, on sale November 15, 2016.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.
 
In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of... Read more

The Glass Cage

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Tim Wu

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What kind of world are we building for ourselves? That’s the question bestselling author Nicholas Carr tackles in his urgent new book, The Glass Cage, about the human consequences of automation.

Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of... Read more

Elephant Company

By: Vicki Constantine Croke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant BillIn 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a “forest man” for a British... Read more

The Upside of Your Dark Side

By: Todd Kashdan & Robert Biswas-Diener

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Upside of Your Dark Side, two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far, they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions like anger, anxiety, or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly... Read more

The Tiny House Movement - Living Small

By: Jay Shafer

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shafer shares virtues of the tiny house and why the movement is getting so much attention. Living simply, meaningfully, and efficiently are among the many advantages. The movement is inspiring a sense of community that urban sprawl has left behind. Innovation in technology, changing economic conditions, and environmental concerns are propelling... Read more

The Universe

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Antony Ferguson & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, including the cutting-edge research and discoveries that are shaping our knowledge.


Lee Smolin reveals how math and cosmology are helping us create a theory of the whole universe.

Neil Turok... Read more

Secret Sexual Desires Of 100 Million People: Seduction Recipes For Men And Women

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you are a man or a woman, gorgeous or ugly, rich or poor, young or not so young - you can use the practical information provided in this book! It reveals proven recipes of seduction. Once you apply them and indulge in immediate results, you will become happier and healthier automatically. Why? Because you will get what you want and... Read more

The Edge of the Sky

By: Roberto Trotta

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology—with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, even excluding... Read more

A Deadly Wandering

By: Matt Richtel

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology’s vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic “texting-while-driving” car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In this ambitious, compelling, and beautifully... Read more

No-Drama Discipline

By: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
 
“A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—Parents

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior,... Read more

How Google Works

By: Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

Narrated by: Holter Graham & Jonathan Rosenberg

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields.... Read more

The Marshmallow Test

By: Walter Mischel

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life?The world's leading expert on... Read more

A World Gone Social

By: Mark S. Babbitt & Ted Coine

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Just like the meteor that likely precipitated the end of the dinosaurs, social media is having a monumental impact on the world's economy; a change so dramatic that it has created a new business era. Welcome... to the Social Age.

What does the Social Age mean for your business? Containing stories, analysis of real-world scenarios, and... Read more

The Human Age

By: Diane Ackerman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Our finest literary interpreter of science and nature, Diane Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our... Read more

Dataclysm

By: Christian Rudder

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
 
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.
 
For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or... Read more

How We Learn

By: Benedict Carey

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives.

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re... Read more

The Copernicus Complex

By: Caleb Scharf

Narrated by: Caleb Scharf

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014
An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014
A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick

In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its... Read more

The Narcissist Next Door

By: Jeffrey Kluger

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kluger

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning senior writer at Time, an eye-opening exploration of narcissism, how to recognize it, and how to handle it. 

The odds are good that you know a narcissist—probably a lot of them. The odds are also good that they are intelligent, confident, and articulate—the center of attention. They make you laugh and they make you think.... Read more

Virtually Human

By: Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness—simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology—becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of... Read more

Waking Up

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Sam Harris

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who... Read more

The Big Ratchet

By: Ruth DeFries

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.

Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000... Read more