Science & Technology audiobooks

Infinite Potential

By: Lothar Schafer

Narrated by: John H. Mayer & Shishir Kurup

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A hopeful and controversial view of the universe and ourselves based on the principles of quantum physics, offering a way of making our lives and the world better, with a foreword by Deepak Chopra

     In Infinite Potential, physical chemist Lothar Schäfer presents a stunning view of the universe as interconnected, nonmaterial, composed of a... Read more

Clean

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment... Read more

Fierce Medicine

By: Ana T. Forrest

Narrated by: Ana T. Forrest

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

As the creator of Forrest Yoga , Ana T. Forrest has been transforming people’s lives throughout the world for more than thirty-five years. Her unique blend of physical practice, Eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony takes her teachings literally off the mat and into daily life—to heal everything from addictive behaviors and... Read more

The Healing Cell

By: Dr. Robin L. Smith, Tomasz Trafny & Dr. Max Gomez

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Healing Cell is an easy to read, carefully researched, and clear-eyed view of medicine many decades in the making that is now paying off with treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns, and stop the march of such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig's... Read more

Gulp

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food... Read more

The Citizen Patient

By: Nortin M. Hadler

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy—these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care... Read more

Woodsman

By: Ben Law

Narrated by: Ben Law

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into the life and character of Prickly Nut Wood. Having travelled to Papua New Guinea and the... Read more

The Quakers, Forging America's Identity

By: Susan Sachs Goldman

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Quakers, also known as "the Society of Friends", have been part of American history for over 300 years. America's whole moral fabric has been affected by their commitment to peace and societal equality. Hear how they have inspired fundamental characteristics such as: democracy, egalitarianism, religious tolerance, and women's rights. Read more

Marketplace 3.0

By: Hiroshi Mikitani

Narrated by: Jun Naito

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Hiroshi Mikitani, founder of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has seen the next battleground in the fight for the future of the Internet. Today’s major e-commerce players are quietly building borderless platforms that are overturning the global brick-and-mortar model, and changing the way local businesses think about their customers. But is this good... Read more

50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True

By: Guy P Harrison

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you're trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a homeopathy cure. Or you met someone at a party who insisted the Holocaust never happened or that no one ever walked on the moon.
How do you find a... Read more

8 Keys to Stress Management

By: Elizabeth Anne Scott

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Quickly and easily find relief for your stress!Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising public health concern. Therapist, wellness coach, and stress management writer Elizabeth Scott presents easy strategies for dealing with life's stressors. According to many measures, people today are dealing with stress in greater... Read more

Blackett's War

By: Stephen Budiansky

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is... Read more

Seeing, Eye to I

By: Rolf Nelson

Narrated by: Rolf Nelson

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Rolf Nelson of Wheaton College has been widely published in the fields of psychology and visual perception. Seeing and Believing examines the human visual system, from basic processes like perceiving color and shape to recognizing and categorizing objects to self-awareness. Professor Nelson also demonstrates how the human brain constructs a... Read more

Venom

By: Marilyn Singer

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware! Poisonous things are all around you. In the spirt of What Stinks?, Marilyn Singer brings kids the coolest, newest info on creatures that can harm or even kill with a bite or sting. Read more

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: John Little

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars. From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets," here is a concise collection of the world's most significant knowledge. For... Read more

West with the Night

By: Beryl Markham

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic true story of a remarkable woman growing up in Africa in the 1920s: the excitement of big game hunting and horse training, and the first solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west. It’s named one of the ten greatest adventure books of all time, as selected by a panel assembled by National Geographic Adventure. Read more

Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You

By: Marc Schoen

Narrated by: Marc Schoen

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to technology, we live in a world that’s much more comfortable than ever before. But here’s the paradox: our tolerance for discomfort is at an all-time low. And as we wrestle with a sinking “discomfort threshold,” we increasingly find ourselves at the mercy of our primitive instincts and reactions that can perpetuate disease,... Read more

Race Rules - Abridged

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals who act not only as interpreters between black and white America but as bridges between the academy and the street. In this brave, bracing, and vastly readable book, he identifies the hidden rules that... Read more

Toms River

By: Dan Fagin

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award • “A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times

The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable... Read more

Pieces of Light

By: Charles Fernyhough

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it possible to have vivid memories of something that never happened?How can siblings remember the same event from their childhoods so differently?Do the selections and distortions of memory reveal a truth about the self?Why are certain memories tied to specific places?Does your memory really get worse as you get older?A new consensus is... Read more

The Men on My Couch

By: Dr. Brandy Engler & David Rensin

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes—and most of all, love.



Her patients were everyday guys from all walks of life. Among them were David, the Wall Street hotshot and... Read more

A Talk Based on "Present Shock"

By: Doug Rushkoff

Narrated by: Doug Rushkoff

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Rushko weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Guinea Pig Scientists

By: Leslie Dendy & Mel Boring

Narrated by: Jonathan Fried

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It's one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it's another thing entirely for them to use humans to test out a new vaccine or medical treatment-especially when the scientists are the subjects of their own experiments! Guinea Pig Scientists features brief but informative biographies of men and women who have changed the... Read more

Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Researchers in the San Francisco Bay area believe genetic tests will help them find the best ways to treat and potentially prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, breast and prostate cancers. Spencer Michels reports on a giant data bank that houses genetic information on 200,000 people as part of a groundbreaking study. Read more