Science & Technology audiobooks

Tomorrow-Land

By: Joseph Tirella

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture,... Read more

My Age of Anxiety

By: Scott Stossel

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition
 
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness.... Read more

Our Mathematical Universe

By: Max Tegmark

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and... Read more

Brainstorm

By: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times–bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children’s lives into one of the most rewarding.Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number... Read more

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

By: John Naughton

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said of his writing, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities it will offer to future generations," and Cory Doctorow raved that... Read more

A Short Guide to a Long Life

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: David B. Agus

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.

In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from his work as a pioneering cancer doctor, revealing the... Read more

Left Brain, Right Stuff

By: Phil Rosenzweig

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig shows, for many of the most important, more... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."

In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

Think Like Zuck

By: Ekaterina Walter

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Make Your Mark in the World with the Five Success Principles of the World-Changing Social Media Site

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world.

Facebook accounts for one of every seven minutes spent online.

More than one billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook.

There’s no doubt... Read more

Mastery of Life

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life - they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson's ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities. Reading and... Read more

Gérard Philipe lit Karl Marx et Engels

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Gérard Philipe

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Pages De Karl Marx Qu'il Faut Connaître - Manifeste Du Parti Communiste (Fragments) & Lettre De Marx à J. Weydemayer (6 Mars 1852), Fragments. Comédien reconnu, tant sur le plan national qu'international, Gérard Philipe débute très jeune sa carrière au théâtre en 1942, dans 'Une grande fille toute simple' d'André Roussin au casino de... Read more

The Power of Virtualization: How it Affects Memory, Servers, and Storage

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Virtualization can take on many different forms: virtual memory, virtual servers, and virtualized storage. In each of these cases, we've been able to move beyond the underlying physical components that make up the system and through the use of clever virtualization techniques we've been able to get more out of the system. This is what we're... Read more

L'art d'avoir toujours raison

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

L'Art d'avoir toujours raison (titre d'origine : " La Dialectique éristique " ) est un petit traité pratique et humoristique de mauvaise foi : de façon à la fois sarcastique et pragmatique, Schopenhauer y expose une série de stratagèmes permettant de l'emporter lors de controverses, indépendamment de la vérité du point de vue que l'on soutient.... Read more

Freud : la sexualité féminine

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Freud n'a abordé que très tard, dans ses élaborations théoriques, la sexualité féminine. Au début il se référait surtout à celle du garçon et de l'homme à travers sa conception du complexe d'Œdipe. Freud envisage en effet la sexualité infantile comme ayant le même tronc commun masculin. La théorie freudienne peut bien être contestable d'un point... Read more

Power Distribution Unit (PDU) Secrets

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Power Distribution Units (PDUs) – you mean power strips, right? That's what I thought when I was first introduced to this product. Boy oh boy was I wrong! Yes, the PDUs that are manufactured to be sold to the owners and operators of data centers do bear some similarities to the simple power strips that we all use at home. But we are really... Read more

The Function of Reason

By: Alfred North Whitehead

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of... Read more

The Introduction to Metaphysics

By: Henri Bergson

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson’s... Read more

Essai sur les femmes, de Schopenhauer

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophe allemand, Arthur Schopenhauer expose sa philosophie, très tôt élaborée, dans son ouvrage majeur Le Monde comme volonté et représentation (1819) où il énonce que : "La volonté singulière d'un individu n'a qu'une existence illusoire, elle est de toutes parts immergée dans le jeu infini et absurde d'une réalité qui la dépasse et finit... Read more

Love Infusion: Tropical Healing Meditation

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Colds and flu are kind to no one. They make us feel wretched, limit our ability to function, and make it hard to enjoy life. Worst of all, they can seem to drag on forever. Yuck!If you’re sick, follow your doctor’s orders and be sure to get plenty of rest, so your body has all the energy it needs to recover. To give your immune system a boost... Read more

Freedom From Toxic Relationships

By: Avril Carruthers

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind—both at home and at work

Toxic relationships often come disguised as seemingly normal ones. These subtly destructive relationships are characterized by the slow erosion of self-esteem, a loss of personal identity, or a growing desire to please friends, partners, and family members who... Read more

La désobéissance civile

By: Henry Thoreau

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La résistance et la désobéissance civile ? Un sujet toujours d'actualité. De nos jours, les Indignés, les Anonymous, les Zadistes et tant d'autres citoyens engagés et parfois révoltés veulent exprimer leurs convictions citoyennes en s'affranchissant des traditionnels relais politiques, dans un désir de démocratie directe engagée. Tous ces... Read more

L'art d'être heureux

By: Epicure

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épicure et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur, en même temps qu'elle en précise les conditions. Avec la Lettre à Hérodote et la Lettre à Pythoclès, la Lettre à Ménécée fait partie des rares textes d'Épicure... Read more

Le diable et le bon Dieu - Abridged

By: Jean Paul Sartre

Narrated by: Pierre Brasseur, Jean Vilar, Henri Nassiet, Jea...

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Le Diable et le Bon Dieu est un drame en trois actes de Jean-Paul Sartre paru et représenté la première fois à Paris au Théâtre Antoine (direction Simone Berriau) le 7 juin 1951, dans une mise en scène de Louis Jouvet. Cette pièce, comme le laisse prévoir le titre, traite de la nature humaine, de Dieu et du Diable, et de la question " Le Bien... Read more