Science & Technology audiobooks

Beyond Humans, Widening Our Circle Of Friends

By: Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuckey encourages us to be aware of our connection with all the life that surrounds us, even in cities. In response to the idea that the world is a community rather than a collection of objects, she poses the question: “How do we interact with the more than human world as equal members of community, rather than trying to treat the world around... Read more

Physics in Mind

By: Werner R. Loewenstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, at once utterly familiar and bewilderingly mysterious, that we call awareness or... Read more

The Problem is YOU

By: John Burke

Narrated by: Jason McCoy

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This book won’t help you with self-defeating behavior. It’s easier to spend your life procrastinating, sabotaging relationships, not finishing tasks, fearing failure and keeping other bad habits than it is to change. Just stay the way you are.This is how the voice of self-defeating behavior works on you. It works against your goals and interests... Read more

High Stakes Communications

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Larry Iverson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Knowing how to lead difficult people in crucial conversations to improved relationships is an essential skill. In this audio program, you will learn proven tactics and strategies to assist you in anticipating problem people, stopping tensions from boiling over, retaining the upper hand in a conflict, stopping power plays, and helping those with... Read more

Watering The Seeds Of Mindfulness

By: Zachiah Murray

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Murray inspires us to take our mindfulness practice into our garden, whether it be in pots on our patio or plots in our backyards. You’ll want to learn the language of the land, understand the wisdom of the weeds, and home in on the blessings of compost with this sweet conversation. Hear her tale of her blindfolded walkabout in the New Zealand... Read more

The Universe Within

By: Neil Shubin

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
 
In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin... Read more

The As If Principle

By: Richard Wiseman

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Victorian philosopher William James had a theory about emotion and behavior: It isn’t that our feelings guide our actions (feel happy and you will laugh). On the contrary, it is our actions that guide our emotions (laugh and you will feel happy). This led James to a remarkable conclusion: “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.”... Read more

Bomb

By: Steve Sheinkin

Narrated by: Roy Samuelson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon.

A Newbery Honor book
A... Read more

The Insurgents

By: Fred Kaplan

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on previously unavailable documents and interviews with more than one hundred key players, including General David Petraeus, The Insurgents unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one led at home by a new generation of officers—including Petraeus, John... Read more

Rescue Me

By: Melissa Wareham

Narrated by: Melissa Wareham

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised she'd have to start at the bottom, cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home.

From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk who've lost their favourite hound, it seemed that at some point everyone passes through Battersea's... Read more

The Globalist Papers

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The nation-state remains the political paradigm of the current era even as nuclear weaponry, global communications, climate change, and the global economy make it obsolete. The Globalist Papers shows the need now for unity among the nations of the world much the same way the Federalist Papers showed the need in the 1700’s for unity among the... Read more

The Myths of Happiness

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Kathy Keane

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky’s research-based lessons in how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest moments

In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (singlehood, divorce, financial ruin,... Read more

Make Your Brain Smarter

By: Sandra Bond Chapman

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve your brainpower—for life.The human brain is not a static organ; it's plastic, which means it can grow and change. But just like a muscle, you have to exercise it. In Make Your Brain... Read more

Cesar Millan’s Short Guide to a Happy Dog

By: Cesar Millan

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than nine seasons as television's Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan has a new mission: to use his unique insights about dog psychology to create stronger, happier relationships between humans and their canine companions.Both inspirational and practical, A Short Guide to a Happy Dog draws on thousands of training encounters around the world... Read more

The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: William Sigalis

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Birth of Tragedy stands alongside Aristotle’s Poetics as essential works for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life. In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as... Read more

Weber, l'esprit du capitalisme - Abridged

By: Weber

Narrated by: Rémi Pous

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

" L'éthique protestante et l'esprit du capitalisme " est une des œuvres fondatrices de la sociologie moderne. Max Weber propose de comprendre l'organisation capitaliste de l'économie. Il construit l'idéal type, qui consiste en une rationalisation de la production et du travail afin d'assurer le profit maximal. Cet idéal type trouve son origine... Read more

Jaurès, l'esprit du socialisme - Abridged

By: Jaurès

Narrated by: Rémi Pous

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jaurès est certainement l'un des plus grand orateurs du 20ème siècle. Homme politique, fervent défenseur de la République, socialiste convaincu, pacifiste actif, historien, philosophe et poète, Jean Jaurès est également, comme le soulignait à juste titre Léon Blum " un des plus hauts penseurs et un des plus grands écrivains dont la France ait pu... Read more

Tocqueville, éthique et politique - Abridged

By: Tocqueville

Narrated by: Rémi Pous

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexis de Tocqueville est célèbre pour ses analyses de la Révolution française, de la démocratie américaine et de l'évolution des démocraties occidentales en général. Il défend la liberté individuelle et l'égalité politique. Exprimant parfois des réserves sur l'évolution possible de la démocratie vers une dictature de la majorité au nom de... Read more

To Sell Is Human

By: Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Business Bestseller 
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
#1 Washington Post bestseller

From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works... Read more

The World Until Yesterday

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former... Read more

The Particle at the End of the Universe

By: Sean Carroll

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Caltech physicist and acclaimed author Sean Carroll offers listeners this eye-opening profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Here Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and... Read more

The Elephant Whisperer

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them.
 
In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years... Read more

In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Father Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor, and then built a modern pediatric medicine facility Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of our Agents for Change series on the constant challenges Frechette has faced. Read more

How to Think More About Sex

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE.

We don't think too... Read more