Science & Technology audiobooks
The Infinity Puzzle
By: Frank Close
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a scientific gold rush as physicists raced to chart the inner workings of the atom. The stakes were high: the questions were big, and there were Nobel Prizes and everlasting glory to be won. Many mysteries of the atom came unraveled, but one remained intractable—what Frank Close calls the... Read more
View audiobookiDisorder
By: author
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology, resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and... Read more
View audiobookEin Plädoyer fürs Loben, Hymnen und Preisen - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)
By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht & Joseph Vogl
Narrated by: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht & Joseph Vogl
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Deutsche Intellektuelle haben sich so leidenschaftlich darauf verpflichtet, "kritisch" zu sein, dass man sich manchmal versucht fühlt, das Wort mit zwei "t" zu schreiben. So ist mit der rhetorischen Tradition des Lobs auch die Preisrede verloren gegangen. Ist es an der Zeit, diesen Verlust auszugleichen? Wie können die verschwundenen Traditionen... Read more
View audiobookThe Finest Hours
By: Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer,... Read more
View audiobookGossip
By: Beth Gutcheon
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.”
—Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book ReviewThe critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things... Read more
Taming Your Alpha Bitch
By: Rebecca Grado & Christy Whitman
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In many areas, we, as women, have earned the equality we've been fighting for. We've broken through glass ceilings and achieved great success. We've shown that we can prosper by our own means. And we've become influential, respected leaders. Yet many of us find ourselves unhappy, anxious, and overwhelmed. Where's the pot of gold at the end of... Read more
View audiobookThe Creative Destruction of Medicine
By: Eric Topol, MD
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Animal Orchestra
By: Bernie Krause
Narrated by: Bernie Krause
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged... Read more
View audiobookThe Monkey Wrench Gang
By: Edward Abbey
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the... Read more
View audiobookI Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
By: Lori B. Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; participate in crowd-sourced scientific research; and become investigators, helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have even helped to bring... Read more
View audiobookSoldier Dogs
By: Maria Goodavage
Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs’ extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impact they have on those who work with them.People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. A... Read more
View audiobookCancer Is Not a Disease!
By: Andreas Moritz
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In Cancer Is Not a Disease!, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed health expert Andreas Moritz argues that cancer is the physical symptom of the body’s final attempt to eliminate specific life-destructive causes. He claims that removing such causes sets the precondition for complete healing of the body, mind, and emotions. This book... Read more
View audiobookBetter Than Normal
By: Dale Archer, MD
Narrated by: Marc Cashman
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior—long perceived as liabilities—can be important hidden strengths.
What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future as an entrepreneur? What if the shyness in groups that you... Read more
What's Going on in There?
By: Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
As a research neuroscientist, Lise Eliot has made the study of the human brain her life's work. But it wasn't until she was pregnant with her first child that she became intrigued with the study of brain development. She wanted to know precisely how the baby's brain is formed, and when and how each sense, skill, and cognitive ability is... Read more
View audiobookUrknall, Weltall und das Leben - Abridged
By: Harald Lesch & Josef M. Gaßner
Narrated by: Harald Lesch & Josef M. Gaßner
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Das Universum verstehen? Vielleicht ist das zu hoch gegriffen - aber eines können Harald Lesch und Josef M. Gaßner versprechen: Sie erklären die Geheimnisse des Kosmos so verständlich wie nur möglich, ziehen dabei alle Register bis an die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Vorstellungskraft. Von Hefeteig und Honig wird ebenso die Rede sein wie von... Read more
View audiobookTuring's Cathedral
By: George Dyson
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first... Read more
View audiobookFree Will
By: Sam Harris
Narrated by: Sam Harris
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion.
A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy,... Read more
Immortal Bird
By: Doron Weber
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Doron Weber delivers an affecting, unforgettable account of his struggle to protect his remarkable son. Born with a congenital heart defect, Damon Weber proves a source of constant inspiration to his parents even as his father Doron searches relentlessly for a breakthrough to resolve a condition that seems destined to claim Damon's life. Living... Read more
View audiobookSuperSense
By: Bruce M. Hood
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol, Bruce M. Hood has been a research fellow at Cambridge, a visiting scientist at MIT and a professor at Harvard. SuperSense is a fascinating exploration of the forces that shape people's beliefs in the irrational-and also a compelling look at how these beliefs bind... Read more
View audiobookLe prince
By: Nicolas Machiavel
Narrated by: Michel Galabru
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
C'est pour entrer en grâce auprès des Médicis, que Machiavel écrit en 1513 Le Prince, traité politique où il est question de l'art de prendre possession du pouvoir et de le maintenir. Bien que les références utilisées par l'auteur remontent à Platon et Plutarque, l'action politique n'est jamais subordonnée à la morale, et la seule exigence... Read more
View audiobookThe Emotional Life of Your Brain
By: Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while others put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down?In this hotly anticipated audiobook, award-winning, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J.... Read more
View audiobookThe Noonday Demon
By: Andrew Solomon
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more
View audiobookI'm Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship
By: Wade Rouse
Narrated by: Emily Durante & Johnny Heller
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Critically acclaimed memoirist Wade Rouse has gathered some of America's best known humorists—authors, comedians, and actors—to offer biting commentary on what it means to share a life, and a heart, with a dog. From battling for bed space to trying to transform a pampered NYC pup into a Texas rawhide, and from helping a shelter rescue navigate... Read more
View audiobookUnleash Your Brain Power as You Age
By: Michael Gelb, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Unlike our knees and hips, our brains improve with age. This dialogue includes: neuroplasticity, how improving our brain power can prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, why optimism is good for the brain and enhances resilience, the benefits of challenging the brain to do something new, the benefits of meditation on the brain. Read more
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