Science & Technology audiobooks

Tubes

By: Andrew Blum

Narrated by: Andrew Blum

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of TrafficIn Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind... Read more

Warum glauben Menschen an Gott? - Abridged

By: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Narrated by: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Auch im 21. Jahrhundert glauben weltweit Menschen an Gott oder andere übernatürliche Phänomene, obwohl die modernen Naturwissenschaften erklären, dass es für den Glauben keine guten Gründe gibt. Warum ist das so? Durch die Aussicht auf ein Leben nach dem Tode lindert Religion die Angst vor der eigenen Sterblichkeit. Weiter hat der Glaube an... Read more

The Platonic Tradition

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This engaging course of lectures begins by providing a detailed and accurate overview of Plato's philosophy and it's central idea - the idea of a transcendent reality that has popularly become known as the theory of the Forms. Professor Kreeft then takes us on a concise journey through Western Philosophical history to show how that central idea... Read more

First Principles & Natural Law Part I

By: Hadley Arkes

Narrated by: Hadley Arkes

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course of lectures, Professor Hadley Arkes seeks to recall the classic connection between law and morality. Law works by replacing personal choice and private judgment with a public rule enforced on everyone, which raises the question of whether there are in fact rights grounded in the very nature of human beings. Seeking the principles... Read more

The Emperor’s New Drugs

By: Irving Kirsch

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Do they work, or are they no better than placebos? Like his colleagues, Kirsch spent years referring patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs. Eventually, however, he decided to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually... Read more

Intelligent Evolution

By: Nicki Scully

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Healer Nicki Scully tells us that it’s time for us to consciously evolve. We must continue to heal ourselves as we join with others to heal the planet. Read more

The Ragged Edge of the World

By: Eugene Linden

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization. Read more

True Transformation Is An Inside Job

By: Isha Judd

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We are often trapped in the matrix of our intellect telling ourselves that we are victims of circumstances: it’s the economy, it’s my upbringing, it’s my job, my co-workers. Judd says, “[T]his moment is the only moment you can change and this moment defines your future moments. So when I focus on praise, love, gratitude, and giving . . . you... Read more

Bunch of Amateurs

By: Jack Hitt

Narrated by: Peter Colburn

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS.

America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space... Read more

The Eskimo and The Oil Man

By: Bob Reiss

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the... Read more

Running with the Kenyans

By: Adharanand Finn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhino, and buffalo roam the plains on either side. But I haven’t come to Kenya to spot wildlife. I’ve come to run.”
 
Whether running is your recreation, your religion, or just a spectator sport, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite... Read more

Getting Past Your Past

By: Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to achieve real change.

Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement... Read more

What Einstein Kept Under His Hat

By: Marlene Parrish & Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered why onions make us cry? Do you believe bananas contain more calories as they ripen and get sweeter? This sequel to the bestselling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Robert L. Wolke's investigations into the science behind our foods. In response to ongoing questions from readers of his nationally syndicated Washington... Read more

Exploring Creation With Physics, 2nd Edition

By: Jay Wile

Narrated by: Kathleen Wile

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Apologia’s award-winning Physics curriculum is written to your student in a conversational tone and cultivates independent learning. Our Exploring Creation with Physics, 2nd Edition, course is designed to provide them with a foundational understanding of physics while also preparing them for college-level physics and the ACT. Some of the key... Read more

The Moral Molecule

By: Paul J. Zak

Narrated by: Paul J. Zak

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Human beings can be so compassionate—and yet they can also be shockingly cruel. What if there was a hidden master control for human behavior? Switch it on and people are loving and generous. Switch it off and they revert to violence and greed. Pioneering neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak has discovered just such a master switch, a molecule in the human... Read more

Cat Daddy

By: Joel Derfner & Jackson Galaxy

Narrated by: Jackson Galaxy

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat expert (as the New York Times noted, with his goatee and tattoos he "looks like a Hell's Angel"). Yet Galaxy's ability to connect with even the most troubled felines—not to mention the... Read more

Birdseye

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Jon Van Ness

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. Read more

Love, Life, and Elephants

By: Daphne Sheldrick

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless... Read more

Breasts

By: Florence Williams

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly,... Read more

The Transformative Power Of Bliss

By: Sean Meshorer

Narrated by: T. Glen Sebera

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sean Meshorer says, "Bliss is that abiding feeling deep within ourselves whose hallmarks are things like inner peace, contentment, unconditional love, and joy. It is something that is entirely inside ourselves. Whereas happiness is more of an external phenomenon and is often fleeting . . . Bliss requires no mediation whatsoever. Read more

Thought Revolution

By: William A. Donius

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Former banker and CEO Bill Donius drove his bank’s eightfold growth over twelve years. And the surprising secret to his success is something we all have access to, right in our own two hands. The methodology described in Thought Revolution is simple and revolutionary—so simple, it begins by moving your pen from one hand to the other. Whether... Read more

The Logic of Microspace

By: Rick Fleeter

Narrated by: Cindy Lucas

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Logic of Microspace is three books in one. The technologies underlying small space were the subject of Rick’s widely acclaimed first book, Micro Space Craft, which sold out its first printing by word of mouth. This highly understandable, entertaining book, called the only comedic page-turner ever written about aerospace engineering, has... Read more

Chasing Venus

By: Andrea Wulf

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system.
   On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the... Read more

Take Control of Your Cancer

By: James W. Forsythe

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive—sometimes ineffective—toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a... Read more