Science & Technology audiobooks

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

By: Julie A. Fast & John D. Preston, Psy.D.

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behavior and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to bipolar individuals may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety and a constant uncertainty about the bipolar individual's mood.


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The Hoarder in You

By: Dr. Robin Zasio

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have treasured possessions—a favorite pair of shoes, a
much-beloved chair, an ever-expanding record collection. But sometimes,
this emotional attachment to our belongings can spiral out of control
and culminate into a condition called compulsive hoarding. From
hobbyists and collectors to pack rats and compulsive shoppers—it is
close to... Read more

What Every BODY is Saying

By: Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to ""speed-read"" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.... Read more

The Third Industrial Revolution

By: Jeremy Rifkin

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy,... Read more

The Big Roads

By: Earl Swift

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the space of a single lifetime.

Earl Swift brings to light the visionaries who... Read more

Triple Cross

By: Peter Lance

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 17 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California—even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda... Read more

You Are Not So Smart

By: David McRaney

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise.

You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK- delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's... Read more

Choosing Civility

By: P. M. Forni

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people would agree that thoughtful behavior and common decency are
in short supply, or simply forgotten in hurried lives of emails,
cellphones, and multi-tasking. In Choosing Civility, P. M. Forni
identifies the twenty-five rules that are most essential in connecting
effectively and happily with others. In clear, witty, and,... Read more

Healing at the End of the Century

By: Elizabeth Kubbler Ross

Narrated by: Elizabeth Kubbler Ross

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The late Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a pioneer in the field of death and dying and she established the five stages of grief, now widely acknowledged, accepted, and utilized in day-to-day practice. Kubler-Ross's curiosity about death and dying led her witness and hear about extraordinary events.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Hedy's Folly

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted... Read more

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child

By: Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.

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Wind

By: Jan DeBlieu

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of insightful investigations like Lewis Thomas' Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony and Sue Hubbell's A Country Year, widely respected nature writer Jan DeBlieu offers a compelling look at a natural force that touches our lives every day. With a scientist's eye for detail and a poet's ear for language,... Read more

Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony

By: Keith Russell Ablow, MD

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial of twenty-five year old Casey Anthony for the death of her daughter Caylee was the most sensational case in America since O.J. Simpson's—with a verdict every bit as stunning. After being acquitted in July 2011, Ms. Anthony instantly became one of the most infamous women in the world.

Dr. Keith Ablow distills tens of thousands of pages... Read more

Paradigm Shift: Consciousness, Meditation and Quantum Physics

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Samuel Avery

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engaging conversation, Samuel Avery explores the compelling ideas in his new audiobook Buddha and the Quantum. He takes us on a brief journey through the 100 year history of quantum physics and the 3,000 year history of Buddhist meditation to show us that the discoveries of the Buddha and physicist Max Planck were one and the same.

Avery... Read more

The Mind and the Brain

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Sharon Begley

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now... Read more

Waiting for the Weekend

By: Witold Rybczynski

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“We work,” Aristotle wrote, “in order to have leisure.” Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of—the freedom to do nothing—the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work—taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days—we couldn’t survive without... Read more

Welcome to Your Child's Brain

By: Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D. & Sam Wang, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries—and
difficulties—encountered by parents. In an effort to raise our children smarter, happier, stronger, and better, parents will try almost
anything, from vitamins to toys to DVDs. But how can we tell marketing from real science? And what really goes through your kid's growing mind—as an... Read more

How the Mind Works

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the... Read more

Galileo

By: James Reston

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For the last four hundred years, Galileo has fascinated and inspired writers, theologians, playwrights, historians, and scientists. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., presents a lively, dramatic portrait of... Read more

The Innovator's Cookbook

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Johnson, an acknowledged bestselling leader on the subject of innovation, gathers—for a foundational text on the subject of innovation—essays, interviews, and cutting-edge insights by such exciting field leaders as Peter Drucker, Richard Florida, Eric Von Hippel, Dean Keith Simonton, Arthur Koestler, John Seely Brown, and Marshall Berman.... Read more

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of 24 essays is a perfect introduction to the world of Lewis Thomas. Topics ranging from the riddle of smelling to nuclear proliferation carry the gentle, unassuming persuasiveness that characterizes the author's work. Here we are also introduced to the concerns that have distinguished Thomas' literary career: the natural... Read more

From Monastery to Marketplace

By: Jan Phillips

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A friend put Phillips in pursuit of her spiritual practice which involves deep listening and resulted in a flood of creative outpouring that fueled her imagination. This deep dialogue covers such topics as quantum physics to fear, from "erosphere" to "infosynthesis." Read more

The Untouchable

By: Gerald Seymour

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Called "the finest thriller writer in the world today" by the Daily Telegraph, Gerald Seymour is the author of several acclaimed best-sellers. A novel of riveting suspense, The Untouchable is the tale of Mister, the supreme crimelord of London, and his scheme to expand his illicit enterprises into the Balkans. Only one man stands in his... Read more

Ensuring Your Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In working with people in the helping professions who are most in danger of burnout or traumatic stress, Wicks has made many discoveries on how we can live our fleeting days with meaning, peace, compassion, and contentment. His reflections include many unforgettable stories that will live in your heart for years to come. Read more