Science & Technology audiobooks

Denial

By: Ajit Varki & Danny Brower

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans... Read more

The Possibility Dogs

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Scent of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return.For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search and rescue. In The... Read more

Managing Your Emotions

By: Omar Johnson

Narrated by: Larry Anderson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Emotions play a big part in impacting our daily lives for better or for worse. Since how we effectively manage and control our emotions will determine in most cases how successful we are at work, in business, in our relationships etc., we need to critically assess our emotional makeup and wellbeing to ensure that our emotions are not hindering... Read more

Animal Healing Workshop

By: Holly Davis

Narrated by: Holly Davis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Holly Davis, professional animal communicator and healer, presents a groundbreaking workshop that helps open your senses to the animal kingdom and teaches you how to communicate with the animals you share your life with. Animal Healing Workshop is relaxing and includes various guided meditations and practical applications. It is ideal for... Read more

Coping With Alzheimer's

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, professional artist Mary Wyant slowly lost her ability to paint and the ability to take care of herself. Ray Suarez examines the story of Mary and her daughter Rebecca, who is now her mother's legal guardian and primary caretaker, and the daily struggles of long-term care. Read more

50 Philosophy Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING SEEING - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books will be the sixth in the bestselling 50s series, and a lively entry point into the study.
Butler-Bowdon explores the works of 50 of the most significant philosophers; including those that show us How to think (Descartes, Foucault... Read more

50 Philosophy Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works by Descartes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Heidegger, and Nietzsche also show how philosophy helped shape the thinking and events of the last 150 years. The list also includes 20th century greats including de... Read more

Ungifted

By: Scott Kaufman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right?

In Ungifted, cognitive... Read more

Straight Flush

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21— comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica.One... Read more

The Divinity of Dogs

By: Jennifer Skiff

Narrated by: Danny Campbell & Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face. I am among the ranks of millions of people who appreciate the souls of dogs and know they are a gift of pure love and an example of all that is good." —Jennifer Skiff



The Divinity of Dogs is about the moments you learn something profound about life... Read more

Into the Abyss

By: Carol Shaben

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).

On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the... Read more

Do It! MARKETING

By: David Newman

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As a small-business owner or solopreneur, you wear many hats--perhaps the most important of which is marketer.



But these days, with so many new ways to reach customers and clients -- and only so much time in the day -- it's hard to know where to start. Should you be using social media? Email? Blogs? Video? SEO?



Small business marketing... Read more

Brotherhood

By: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and... Read more

Updated Mental Health 'Bible'

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses the changes and implications for both patients and professionals with Dr. Michael First of Columbia University and Dr. Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute. Read more

True Refuge

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss? If you're like most people, chances are you react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger, self-judgment, and addictive behaviors. Though these old,... Read more

Wild Ones

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Field notes from an age of extinction, tracking the ever-shifting meaning of America’s animals throughout history to understand the current moment

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals—butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction.... Read more

Selbst-Coaching

By: Michael Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Vermehrter Streß und die Angst, bzw. Sorge um die Erhaltung der gewonnenen Standards lassen den Menschen oftmals Wege gehen, welche es ihm im Grunde nur erschweren einen erfüllenden Mehrwert in seinem Leben zu schaffen. Anstatt zu agieren wird häufig nur reagiert. Dies führt nicht selten zu einer folgenreichen Verkettung von Denkprozessen und... Read more

Selbst-Coaching

By: Michael Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Vermehrter Streß und die Angst, bzw. Sorge um die Erhaltung der gewonnenen Standards lassen den Menschen oftmals Wege gehen, welche es ihm im Grunde nur erschweren einen erfüllenden Mehrwert in seinem Leben zu schaffen. Anstatt zu agieren wird häufig nur reagiert. Dies führt nicht selten zu einer folgenreichen Verkettung von Denkprozessen und... Read more

The Art of Thinking Clearly

By: Rolf Dobelli

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed the wrong horse? These are examples of what the author... Read more

The Philadelphia Chromosome

By: Jessica Wapner

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity... Read more

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?

As a species, Homo... Read more

Breaking Out

By: John Butman

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Breaking Out, idea developer and adviser John Butman shows how the methods of today’s most popular “idea entrepreneurs”—including dog psychologist Cesar Millan, French lifestyle guru Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don’t Get Fat), TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie, and many others—can help you take an idea public and build influence for it.

It isn’t... Read more

Permanent Present Tense

By: Suzanne Corkin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent a dangerous “psychosurgical” procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store... Read more

Robert Oppenheimer

By: Ray Monk

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 35 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his... Read more