Science & Technology audiobooks

Shifting Into a New Era of Conscious Evolution

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Hubbard inspires us with a vision of the possibility as we move into a new era of conscious evolution. She says we are at a choice point, and describes a tipping point of people who are collectively becoming excited by the changes. Read more

Wait

By: Frank Partnoy

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate polemic in favor of pausing to think, not blinkWhat do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author... Read more

What Einstein Told His Barber

By: Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would they want to. . . ?

Do you often find yourself pondering life's little conundrums? Have you ever wondered why the ocean is blue? Or why birds don't get electrocuted when perching on... Read more

Peace: The Real Game Changer

By: James O’Dea

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

O’Dea has been on the front line of peace building and shares with us practical, insightful, and inspiring messages of peace. He tells us that peace is not passive; it is a dynamic force moving across the planet. This conversation includes the spiritual and scientific dimensions of peace building. Read more

The Story of Earth

By: Robert M Hazen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and... Read more

The Hour between Dog and Wolf

By: John Coates

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior—or stress and depressionIn this eye-opening book, Coates—a former Wall Street trader and now a world-class neuroscientist—describes the role our biology plays in our risk-taking behavior. Coates brings his research to life by telling a story of... Read more

Freud

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud’s life bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his reputation and influence have endured, even intensified, in the twenty-first. Often referred to as “the father of psychoanalysis,” Freud did, in fact, conceive of many of its defining characteristics: he was the original advocate of the “talking cure,” and... Read more

El Arte de la Guerra

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Gary Dikeos

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

El Arte de la Guerra es el mejor libro de estrategia de todos los tiempos. Inspiró a Napoleón, Maquiavelo, Mao Tse Tung, y muchas más figuras históricas. Este libro de dos mil quinientos años de antigüedad es uno de los más importantes textos clásicos Chinos, en el que, a pesar del tiempo transcurrido, ninguna de sus máximas ha quedado... Read more

Dark Pools

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them.

In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of... Read more

Cinderella Ate My Daughter

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood... Read more

Darwin's Ghosts

By: Rebecca Stott

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the... Read more

Taking Back Our Democracy

By: Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bhaerman discloses the current political landscape and how to move beyond our polarized positions. He believes it’s not about bringing opposites together in their differences, but jumping over those differences and gathering the virtues and values that 95% of Americans have in common. Read more

Zoobiquity

By: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human... Read more

Gifts of the Crow

By: Tony Angell & John Marzluff

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he... Read more

We Are Anonymous

By: Parmy Olson

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling, exclusive exposè of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.

We Are Anonymous is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds -- and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson... Read more

Elemental Matters:An Introduction to Chemistry

By: Deborah G. Sauder

Narrated by: Deborah G. Sauder

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Elemental Matters, Professor Deborah Sauder leads a comprehensive overview of chemistry, a subject that influences every aspect of daily life. Kicking off the lecture series with a revealing look at one of the planet's most vital chemicals-water-Sauder then delves into the basics of molecular structure and chemical reactions. The course... Read more

Espresso Lessons

By: Arno Ilgner

Narrated by: Arno Ilgner

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers, first published in 2003, outlines the foundation of The Warrior’s Way ® material. Espresso Lessons takes the material into practical climbing situations. It is the “how to” application of The Rock Warrior’s Way, intended to build upon and complement it.Mental fitness training is simply... Read more

Humanizing Medicine

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanizing Medicine: Extending the Scope of Medicine Beyond the Scientific
In this lecture, Thomas Moore — internationally known theologian and author of New York Times best-seller “Care of The Soul", “Soul Mates” and “A Life At Work,” among other titles — talks about his views on extending the scope of medicine beyond the scientific to include... Read more

Soul and Everyday Life

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This timeless recording by Thomas Moore centers on his best-selling book Care of the Soul. While discussing the relationships between the soul and work, and money and creativity, Moore says: “The soul is greater than the smallness of our problems and our pasts. It is a part of our whole experience of the universe, and caring for the soul is not... Read more

The Educated Heart

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

During this talk, Iron John author Robert Bly gives a delicate and lively view of the fantastic flowering of feeling in 12th Century Provence. The feeling thought, developed from Arabic, Gnostic, and Albigensian sources, blossoms as love poetry famous at that time. In this recording, Bly distinguishes between the literal mode, the psychological... Read more

A Magical Life

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his New York Times best-seller Care of the Soul, internationally known theologian Thomas Moore recommends a radical shift in priorities: slowing down, living with our human imperfections and designing an intimate life. Moore illuminates this important lesson in this recording by focusing on old-time magicians – masters of illusion who created... Read more

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Read more

How to Think Seriously about the Planet

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the overexploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects... Read more

The Tools

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most... Read more