Science & Technology audiobooks

Bargaining with the Devil - Abridged

By: Robert Mnookin

Narrated by: Robert Mnookin

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The art of negotiation—from one of the country’s most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.

One of the country’s most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflicts—when you are facing an adversary you don’t trust, who may... Read more

The Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Live each day as if it were your last."



Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.... Read more

Enterprise 2.0

By: Andrew McAfee

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

HARNESS NEW COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMPETITIVE GAIN Most organizations realize that to succeed in today’s turbulent world, they need to perform as an integrated whole to tap into innovations and good ideas. Yet many still find it difficult to capture the collective intelligence of their employees and customers. Companies don’t know what... Read more

Manufacturing Depression

By: Gary Greenberg

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured—not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at... Read more

Making Rounds with Oscar

By: David Dosa

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An otherwise ordinary cat—he’d sooner give you his back or a sideways glance than curl up on your lap—Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old tabby has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five nursing home... Read more

Agile is NOT Just for Software

By: William Krebs

Narrated by: William Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The software development community has used Agile, Scrum, XP, and Lean for software development projects for many years now. But if these practices are good for software, why aren’t they great for other projects? And if so, which agile practices might apply? Which may need modification? And which just don’t make sense when we are not deep... Read more

Introduction to User Stories

By: William Krebs

Narrated by: William Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Agile teams use Use Case and User Stories to define requirements, but what other… Wait a minute... What’s a User Story?
Not everyone has heard of them but even those who have may benefit from complimentary tools that highlight patterns in the roles of stakeholders, putting a face on the users with personas.
This 60 minute MP3 recording of a live... Read more

Eternity Soup

By: Greg Critser

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires—the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the... Read more

Slouching towards Gomorrah

By: Robert H. Bork

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to America, 1996. The “rough beast” that visionary poet Yeats foresaw in 1919 is now a full-grown monster of decadence several generations deep. As a nation, we are pursuing a path toward Gomorrah, the biblical city burned to the ground for the sinfulness of its people.In Slouching towards Gomorrah, one of our nation's most distinguished... Read more

Six Great Scientists

By: J. G. Crowther

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Curie, Einstein: all of these geniuses had one thing in common. They had not only the imagination to conceive great ideas but also the integrity and determination to pursue and defend their science whatever the obstacles.In spite of resistance and sometimes persecution by societies reluctant to let go of old... Read more

Virus Ground Zero

By: Ed Regis

Narrated by: Rob McQuay

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic - but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the... Read more

The Unnamed

By: Joshua Ferris

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.

He was going to lose the house and everything in it.

The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took... Read more

Telecosm

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The computer age is over. After a global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm—the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to bandwidth. Bandwidth is... Read more

Consciousness On the Job

By: Jeff Klein

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Klein's work is one of his greatest sources of joy, and he's made it his vocation to help others find ways to bring real consciousness to the jobs they do every day. He tells fascinating stories of successful entrepreneurs, who bring a rare brand of connection to their businesses, and suggestions for how you can deepen the mindfulness you... Read more

You Are Not a Gadget

By: Jaron Lanier

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for... Read more

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsell­ing authors of Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
 
Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love - Abridged

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsell­ing authors of Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
 
Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more

An Unquiet Mind - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more

The Language of Life

By: Francis S. Collins

Narrated by: Greg Itzin

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

""His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The... Read more

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Japanese Edition)

By: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

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「（ダイアネティックスは）人間の... Read more

Männer

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Gerald Hüther

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie wird ein Mann ein Mann? Oder etwas präziser: Wie wird aus dem, was ein Mann werden könnte, schließlich das, wofür sich der Betreffende aufgrund seines Geschlechts hält? Diese Frage beschäftigt den Biologen, Hirnforscher und Bestsellerautor Gerald Hüther in seinem neuen Buch. Die wichtigste Erkenntnis der Hirnforschung lautet: Das menschliche... Read more

Reflections on the Mind of Plato

By: Joseph N. Uemura

Narrated by: Joseph N. Uemura

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated scholarly mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic, puritan. In a word, Plato was an... Read more

Reality and the Arts

By: Albert A. Anderson

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the... Read more

On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty was first published in 1859. In the 21st century this text confirms Socrates’ claim that “it is only the life of true philosophy that scorns the life of political ambition” (Plato’s Republic, 521). Mill’s thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative,... Read more