Science & Technology audiobooks

How to Read a Person Like a Book

By: Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero

Narrated by: Various

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Read a Person Like a Book teaches listeners how to understand the strangers, friends, work colleagues around them by reading their body language. Read more

Sun in a Bottle

By: Charles Seife

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the biggest source of energy in our solar system – the phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion seems a virtually unlimited source of power, but it has been at the center of a tragic and comic pursuit that has left scores of scientists battered and... Read more

Measuring Our Gross National Happiness

By: Anne Muller & Tashi Wangchuk

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Tashi Wangchuk and Anne Muller share how applying a few simple values-based principles, each of us can make Gross National Happiness a reality in our own lives and in our communities. Read more

Alex & Me

By: Irene Pepperberg

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerThe remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. ""You be good. I love you,"" were Alex's final words to... Read more

The Voice of Reason

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand’s life, they reflect a... Read more

Crazy Wisdom For A Crazy World

By: Wes “Scoop” Nisker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Nisker takes us on a funny, smart, and enlightening foray into physics, spirituality, and the oddities of life as we know it. You’ll hear a new spin on atomic theory, meditation, politics, evolution, and more. Beneath the humor, though, is the wisdom of a man who sees life for what it is, and celebrates it for all it can be. Read more

Reawakening the Spirituality of Men

By: Matthew Fox, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Fox, Ph.D. has had his finger on the pulse of Western Spirituality for decades. When he casts his keen eye on the state of spirituality among men in the twenty-first century, you can be sure he’ll discern the unspoken woundedness, yearning, and passion of the modern warrior. Read more

Against Medical Advice

By: James Patterson & Hal Friedman

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring true story, a child struggles with Tourette's syndrome-and overcomes extraordinary challenges with the help of his loving parents.
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary... Read more

Global Warming

By: Michael McElroy

Narrated by: Michael McElroy

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What exactly is global warming? This authoritative course dispels the mystery and confusion surrounding this looming threat, while tackling tough issues of accountability and responsibility. Read more

The Building Blocks of Human Life: Understanding Mature Cells and Stem Cells

By: John K. Young

Narrated by: John K. Young

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Every human is composed of an amazing assortment of cells and tissues that carry out myriad functions necessary for sus- taining life. In clear, concise language, Professor John K. Young of the Howard University College of Medicine takes audiences through the microscope on a fascinating journey of discovery into the world of cells and tissues,... Read more

The Ecological Planet

By: John Kricher

Narrated by: John Kricher

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned ornithologist John Kricher presents an absorbing analysis of the diverse ecosystems that exist on Planet Earth. He provides a factual study of the many fragile and threatened portions of our biosphere while giving a thorough description of the interaction between each system and the effect of man's presence in them. Professor Kricher... Read more

Heavens Above

By: James Kaler

Narrated by: James Kaler

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever gone outside at night to admire the stars? And wonder what they all are, and what stories they have to tell? Esteemed professor and astronomer James B. Kaler guides the listener through the sights of the naked eye sky, wherein we directly witness the effects of the turning and revolving of the Earth, the artistry painted by the... Read more

Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the ages, mankind has pursued questions of faith in something beyond the world of ordinary experience. Is there a God? How can we explain the presence of evil? Do humans, or human souls, live on after death? Is there a hell? The following lectures examine these eternal questions and present the most compelling arguments for and against... Read more

Ideas That Shaped Mankind

By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Narrated by: Felipe Arnesto

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ideas That Shaped Mankind flows from internationally respected historian Felipe FernAndez-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world. This ability, seen most profoundly in individual, startling moments of genius-or equally startling moments of chance-is what separates... Read more

Darwin, Darwinism, and the Modern World

By: Chandak Sengoopta

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Western civilization can be divided neatly into pre-Darwinian and post-Darwinian periods. Darwin's 1859 treatise, On the Origin of Species, was not the first work to propose that organisms had descended from other, earlier organisms, and the mechanism of evolution it proposed remained controversial for years. Nevertheless, no... Read more

Ethics: A History of Moral Thought

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments... Read more

Discovering the Philosopher in You

By: Colin McGinn

Narrated by: Colin McGinn

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has their own inner philosopher-a voice within that asks, oh so insistently, philosophical questions. Everyone wants to know what the ultimate nature of the world is, what the self is, whether we have free will, how our minds relate to our bodies, whether we can really know anything, where ethical truth comes from, what the meaning of... Read more

How to Have That Difficult Conversation - Abridged

By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Narrated by: Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Henry Cloud & Jo...

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important... Read more

Intern

By: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by: Sandeep Jauhar

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their... Read more

You Are Here

By: Thomas M. Kostigen

Narrated by: Thomas M. Kostigen

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“A passionate and heartfelt call to care.”
—Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America’s Prophet In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home... Read more

Puppies For Dummies - Abridged

By: Sarah Hodgson

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bringing home a puppy? This fun, friendly guide to puppyhood prepares you for this tough but terrific time. From the basics—housebreaking, feeding, training—to the latest on doggie day care, traveling with a puppy, and the new designer breeds, you get everything you need to help your puppy grow up to be a healthy, playful, well-mannered... Read more

Unser Körper

By: Gerold Baier, Simon Baron-Cohen & Cornelius Börner

Narrated by: Doris Wolters, Wolfgang Condrus & Hubertus Gertzen

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Spannender Wissensstoff! Diese Sammlung liefert eine grundlegende Darstellung, lässt verborgene physiologische Vorgänge plastisch werden und erörtert Fragen wie Körperdesign oder Sex. Besitzen und gestalten wir unseren Körper oder beherrscht er uns? Was in unserem Inneren vor sich geht, wie wir unseren Körper trainieren und verändern können und... Read more

Fixing Hell - Abridged

By: Colonel Larry C. James

Narrated by: Eric Kramer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again.

In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts, and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story... Read more

Ice Bound

By: Jerri Nielsen

Narrated by: Jerri Nielsen

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her... Read more