Science & Technology audiobooks

Life at the Speed of Light

By: J. Craig Venter

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create "synthetic life"—putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The... Read more

Transform

By: Christopher Morace & Sara Gaviser Leslie

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform . . . or Be Left Behind Create unprecedented business value with social technologies



Chief Strategy Officer at Jive Software, Christopher Morace was one of the first people to arrive at the intersection of social technology and business strategy. He has overseen more than 800 deployments of social technology in major corporations. A... Read more

The Everything Store

By: Brad Stone

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless... Read more

50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know

By: Tom Chatfield

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We are in the throes of a technological and cultural revolution, yet the rapid pace of change makes it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know provides a clear path through the misinformation surrounding the technologies that are transforming the world.

Leading technology writer Tom Chatfield provides a... Read more

My Son and the Afterlife

By: Elisa Medhus, MD

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Elisa Medhus never believed in life after death. As an accomplished physi­cian, she placed her faith in science. All of that changed after her son Erik took his own life and then reached out from the other side.



Intimate, heartbreaking, and illuminating, this book takes listeners on an incredible journey from grief and skepticism to healing... Read more

Humanity Moving From Adolescence To Maturity

By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith takes us on a historical journey and moves us into the present era. She has hope for the future and points out that there is an under-reported grassroots movement taking place today, but warns, “We need to be careful not to judge it as a system that doesn’t work just because it’s young… we have to move through the chaos and find a new... Read more

Churchill’s Bomb

By: Graham Farmelo

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of... Read more

Perv

By: Jesse Bering

Narrated by: Jesse Bering

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless—and peerless." —Dan Savage

"You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through." We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv, there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether it's voyeurism, exhibitionism, or your... Read more

Hardwiring Happiness

By: Rick Hanson, PhD

Narrated by: Rick Hanson, PhD

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. 

Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad... Read more

Focus

By: Daniel Goleman

Narrated by: Daniel Goleman

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all... Read more

The Last Rhinos

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts his attempts to save these remarkable... Read more

A Street Cat Named Bob

By: James Bowen

Narrated by: Kristopher Milnes

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant New York Times bestseller!A Street Cat Named Bob is now a major motion picture, the film’s all-star cast includes Luke Treadway (Unbroken, Clash of the Titans), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), and Ruta Gedmintas (The Borgias).James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to... Read more

Five Billion Years of Solitude

By: Lee Billings

Narrated by: Lee Billings

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. Now Earth's isolation is coming to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of "exoplanets" orbiting other stars, including some that could be similar to our own world. Studying those distant... Read more

Silk Road

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike other online commerce businesses, Silk Road offered sales of illegal drugs, fake IDs and even hitmen. How were buyers and sellers able to remain anonymous? Ray Suarez talks to Glenn Chapman of Agence France-Presse about how this widely known online drug market was able to evade law enforcement for so long. Read more

Trekking the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Gail Storey & Porter Storey, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

She was a talker, he, the silent type. How did they bridge their differences in temperaments and skills as they thirsted through deserts, forded icy rapids, stumbled through snow, and met up with a mountain lion? Hear the amazing highs and intense lows as every part of their physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual bodies were challenged. Read more

The Story of the Human Body

By: Daniel Lieberman

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our... Read more

What the Dog Knows

By: Cat Warren

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of “working dogs”—pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead—as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls “a fascinating, deeply reported journey into... Read more

Without Their Permission

By: Alexis Ohanian

Narrated by: Alexis Ohanian

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning.

In this book,... Read more

The Rational Animal

By: Vladas Griskevicius & Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard—only to give their hard-earned money away?

When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence... Read more

Songs of Western Birds

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted ornithologist's outstanding field recordings of songs and calls. This set covers 60 birds with several recordings for each. Read more

Devoted

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlikely Friendships meets Marley and Me. In this heartwarming book, author Rebecca Ascher-Walsh presents a collection of inspiring dog stories—dogs who comfort veterans, dogs who learn to surf, dogs who detect cancer, and dogs who save the day: each one is devoted. These thirty-eight uplifting dog stories showcase the most amazing dog rescues,... Read more

Bird Song and Behavior

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work examining bird song as both a means of identification and study of behavior, and citing 72 species and 51 songs. Read more

Common Bird Songs

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The songs and calls of 60 different, widely distributed birds of the United States and Canada reproduced in a 50-minute recording. Read more

Songs of Eastern Birds

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Outstanding field recordings of songs and calls of 60 species most common to the eastern U.S.: Warblers, Woodpeckers, Flycatchers, Thrushes, Larks, many more. Read more