Science & Technology audiobooks

Super Brain

By: Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. & Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth.

Two pioneers, bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of... Read more

How to Have Great Sex

By: Jo Hemmings

Narrated by: Andrea Powell

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When you want to buy or rent your dream home, you go to an estate agent. When you want to learn to cook, you buy a recipe book from TV's latest celebrity chef. But who is there for you when you want to learn about having great sex? Or when you want to revive a flagging sex life?

How to Have Great Sex is the answer. This step-by-step guide takes... Read more

Machen Sie doch, was Sie wollen!

By: Maja Storch

Narrated by: Gundi Eberhard

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Machen Sie eigentlich das, was Sie wollen? Wissen Sie überhaupt, was Sie wollen? Falls nicht, sind Sie damit nicht allein. Viele Menschen wissen nicht, was sie wollen. Und es ist auch gar nicht so einfach herauszufinden, was man wirklich will. Oft werden unsere Entscheidungen oder sogar ganze Lebensstile von dem bestimmt, was die Eltern, die... Read more

Apple and Google Compete

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels takes a look at the way digital maps have evolved online as multiple companies each try their own spin on letting users explore the world through computers, tablets, and even phones. Read more

Assholes

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.

What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no... Read more

Crossing The Murky Moral Terrain Of Ethics

By: Mark Matousek

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we moving toward a more ethical future? Here Matousek discusses universal human ethics He points out that ethics may be a minefield of opposing ideologies, special interest and temperamental proclivities. The good news is that humans are hardwired to care for one another, have a sense of justice and fairness, and share a sense of group... Read more

Island Practice

By: Pam Belluck

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he fashioned himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose—"creeping eruption" perhaps—he can identify what it is and treat it. A baby with hair tourniquet syndrome, a human leg that's washed ashore, a horse with Lyme disease, a narcoleptic falling face-first in the street, a... Read more

Proof of Heaven

By: Eben Alexander

Narrated by: Eben Alexander

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real,... Read more

The Wisdom of Psychopaths

By: Kevin Dutton

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has... Read more

The One World Schoolhouse

By: Salman Khan

Narrated by: Salman Khan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education... Read more

The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Written for both the layman and the professional scientist, The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness opens an astounding world and points out that further progress of science depends upon a transcendence of the material world.

Samuel Avery opens a ‘Pandora’s box’… and presents a ‘through the looking glass’ glimpse of the structure of... Read more

The Problems With Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Problems of Philosophy' discusses Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy and the problems that arise in the field. Russell's views focus on knowledge rather than the metaphysical realm of philosophy. 'The Problems with Philosophy' revolves around the central question that Russell asks in his opening line of Chapter 1 - Is there any... Read more

In Search of Cleo

By: Gina Gershon

Narrated by: Gina Gershon

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Film and television icon Gina Gershon may be best known for her movie roles in Bound and Showgirls and television appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and How to Make It in America, but deep down she is a self-described cat lady. In Search of Cleo follows Gina's desperation and despair when her assistant loses her beloved cat, Cleo. Gina spends... Read more

Darwin

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of more than 40 books, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson also writes for Forbes and theSpectator. With Darwin, Johnson sheds new light on a man many regard as the most influential scientist in history. Darwin's theories of evolution transformed the world's view of biology. Here, in meticulous detail, Johnson describes Darwin's... Read more

First Principles & Natural Law Part II

By: Hadley Arkes

Narrated by: Hadley Arkes

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Part II of First Principles and Natural Law, Professor Hadley Arkes delves further into the classic connection between morality and law. Indeed, this link between the basis of law and the principles that form the groundwork of moral judgment is very much at play in today's world, as evidenced in everything from Supreme Court decisions to... Read more

Transcendence of the Western Mind

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What is consciousness? This audiobook presents an understanding of life that transcends matter. More importantly, it transcends the difference between what you are and what I am. Despite its reliance on what is known through Western Science, it is a transcendence of the Western understanding of reality. It does not begin with a world and then... Read more

A World without Cancer

By: Margaret I. Cuomo

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and surprising investigation into the ways that profit, personalities, and politics obstruct real progress in the war on cancer—and one doctor's passionate call to actionAs a diagnostic radiologist who has watched patients, friends, and family suffer with and die from cancer—and who was deeply affected by the enraged husband of... Read more

The Launch Pad

By: Randall Stross

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.
 ... Read more

Makers

By: Chris Anderson

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. 

In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage... Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 1

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hillman's A Blue Fire Part I burns through the entire range of his life's work in this lecture. Recorded during a seminar weekend in Rowe, Massachusetts, this talk is a conflagration of ideas. The result is Hillman revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology.
Hillman reads from and reflects on his life's work. Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 2

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hillman's A Blue Fire burns through the entire range of his life's work in this lecture. Recorded during a seminar weekend in Rowe, Massachusetts, this talk is a conflagration of ideas. The result is Hillman revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology. Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 3

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

We are extremely proud to offer this third and final part of the audio series A Blue Fire from a timeless workshop recorded years ago with the late, great James Hillman. You can also get the complete series which includes all three parts here at a discount.
James Hillman's A Blue Fire burns through the entire range of his life's work in this... Read more

The Half-Life of Facts

By: Samuel Arbesman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New insights from the science of science

Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.

But... Read more

The Signal and the Noise

By: Nate Silver

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of... Read more