Science & Technology audiobooks

50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True

By: Guy P Harrison

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

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

Genetic Analysis of Breast Cancer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Research published by Nature shows there are four distinct types of breast cancer and that genetic changes occurring as cancer cells spread are vastly different for each type. Judy Woodruff talks to National Cancer Institute's Dr. Harold Varmus for more on what the research could mean for treatment in the future. Read more

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life is surely the most approachable and enjoyable of all his works. By turning the spotlight of his ideas about the nature and function of the unconscious mind onto simple and easily understandable incidents that we have all experienced, such as slips of the tongue, sudden inexplicable clumsy actions,... Read more

Intuitive Eating, 3rd Edition

By: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller about rejecting diet mentality and finding the natural weight that’s right for you, now fully updated and revised for the intuitive eaters of todayFirst published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We’ve all been there—angry with ourselves for... Read more

A Dog Named Boo

By: Lisa Edwards

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The last thing Lisa Edwards needed was a new dog. But when she came across an abandoned litter on Halloween, her heart went out to the runt who walked into walls and couldn't steady his feet. Lisa—healing from past abuse and battling constant pain from a chronic medical condition—saw a bit of herself in little Boo. And when he snuggled,... Read more

The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging - Abridged

By: Mike Moreno

Narrated by: Mike Moreno

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the #1 bestselling The 17 Day Diet, the inspiring and easy-to-follow plan for staying young and healthy, based on the same 17 day model that made the diet the bestselling diet book of 2011.

Every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute that you are alive, you are getting older. No matter how old you are, your... Read more

Dr. Mary's Monkey

By: Edward T. Haslam

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage
for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert
government operations over the course of three decades. Following a
trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical
journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical... Read more

A Man and His Ship

By: Steven Ujifusa

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the S.S. United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time... Read more

This Machine Kills Secrets

By: Andy Greenberg

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum, investigative... Read more

L'invisible qui guérit

By: Gérard Gervais

Narrated by: Gérard Gervais

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

« L’invisible qui guérit » est un saut dans la médecine quantique, médecine du futur où il n’est plus question de médication chimique, mais de guérison autonome dont nous sommes tous capables. Ce CD offre la possibilité de se libérer du stress, de l’anxiété, de l’insomnie, de la dépression et autres malaises générateurs de maladie, en permettant... Read more

The Last Lost World

By: Stephen J. Pyne & Lydia V. Pyne

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time—and as a cultural idea

The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions—of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. It’s the world that... Read more

The Victory Lab

By: Sasha Issenberg

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and... Read more

Automate This

By: Christopher Steiner

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it.

It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days,... Read more

Science Set Free

By: Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Daniel Drasin

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

British biologist Rupert Sheldrake asks questions that most scientists haven't thought of or have been discouraged from asking. He is best known for his morphic field theory, which explores aspects of reality that are unexplained in terms of current physics. In this talk, he proposes setting science free from its most constricting dogmas and... Read more

Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well... Read more

On a Farther Shore

By: William Souder

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement.She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that... Read more

Science Set Free

By: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.

In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... Read more

Critical Decisions

By: Peter A. Ubel

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with the right balance of humor and compassion) and his topic is... Read more

Rooftop Revolution

By: Danny Kennedy

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of their power grid on clean, local energy, yet the U.S is still under 1%. Solar pioneer Danny Kennedy has written this rallying cry for the solar industry and policy makers--the only obstacle to solar power is our ignorance. Read more

David Attenborough In His Own Words

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews: Parkinson (broadcast on BBC One, 2th December 1975, featuring Michael Parkinson), Profile (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1st July 1976, featuring Kathleen Cheesmond), Desert Island Discs (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1th March 1979, featuring Roy... Read more

Wallace

By: Jim Gorant

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be... Read more

The Ocean of Life

By: Callum Roberts

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)

Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s... Read more

The Ravenous Brain

By: Daniel Bor

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be... Read more

Energy for Future Presidents

By: Richard A. Muller

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The near-meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil rig explosion, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply of and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more than any other... Read more