Science & Technology audiobooks

The Magic of Reality

By: Richard Dawkins

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins & Lalla Ward

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything.

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory... Read more

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

By: Dale Carnegie & Associates

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the original landmark bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, comes an up-to-the-minute adaptation of Carnegie’s timeless prescriptions for the digital age.

Dale Carnegie’s principles have endured for nearly a century. Since its original publication in 1936, his timeless classic How to Win... Read more

War of the Worldviews

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D. & Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D. & Leonard Mlodinow

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist.  This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—but respectful—clash of worldviews that grew along with their friendship. 

In War of the... Read more

DarkMarket

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s... Read more

No Buddy Left Behind

By: Terri Crisp

Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes bonus photographs!The love of a dog or cat helps heal soldiers’ emotional trauma. One very special woman and program reunites them after the war.“I have sacrificed a lot to serve my country. All that I ask is to be allowed to bring home the incredible dog that wandered into my life here in Iraq and prevented me from becoming terribly... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 36 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearThe author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.Faced with the... Read more

Blizzard!

By: Jim Murphy

Narrated by: Taylor Mali

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path. Through the eyes and words of survivors and victims alike, as well as the careful research for which Newbery Honor... Read more

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 23 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do.The Origin of Species was... Read more

About Time

By: Adam Frank

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.

In About... Read more

Tomatoland

By: Barry Estabrook

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award–winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of... Read more

Children of the Self-Absorbed

By: Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asserting their own instead, demanding attention and reassurance from even very young children. This may especially be the case when a parent has... Read more

Ethics

By: Benedict de Spinoza

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics, first published in 1677, constitutes a major systematic critique of the traditional and religious foundations of philosophical thought. In it, Spinoza follows a logical step-by-step format consisting of definitions, axioms, propositions, proofs, and corollaries to create a comprehensive inquiry into the truth about... Read more

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

By: George Berkeley

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1710, George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a seminal contribution to Empiricist philosophy. Making the bold assertion that the physical world consists only of ideas and thus does not exist outside the mind, this work establishes Berkeley as the founder of the immaterialist school of... Read more

America the Vulnerable

By: Joel Brenner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available in a new edition entitled GLASS HOUSES: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World.

A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the... Read more

Healing at the Speed of Sound

By: Don Campbell & Alex Doman

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

At this very moment, you are surrounded by sound. Pause for a minute and try to listen to it all: the chatter of a passing conversation, the gentle whoosh of air vents, noise from a nearby street, someone turning the pages of a book, birds chirping in the trees.We rarely pay attention to everything we hear, but every noise in our environment has... Read more

Going Home

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In his many New York Times best-sellers, author Jon Katz has illustrated the cherished bond between humans and animals-especially the intense connection to pets. Now, in this moving and thoughtful book, Katz addresses the difficult but necessary process of saying goodbye to a devoted companion, and offers comfort, wisdom, and a way forward from... Read more

Public Parts

By: Jeff Jarvis

Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

International bestselling author and optimistic internet thinker Jeff Jarvis examines the way the Internet has changed the way we form communities, create identities, engage in commerce, and live our lives.

A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create... Read more

Powering the Future

By: Robert B. Laughlin

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations will have taken place. Six generations from now, there will still be soccer moms, shopping malls, and business trips. Firesides will... Read more

Knocking on Heaven's Door

By: Lisa Randall

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.



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The House of God

By: Samuel Shem, M.D.

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative journey that takes us into the lives of Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. Young Dr. Basch and his irreverant confident, known only as the Fat Man, will learn not only how to be fine... Read more

Maphead

By: Ken Jennings

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.



Jennings takes listeners on a world tour of geogeeks... Read more

Rin Tin Tin

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal).

He believed the dog was immortal.

So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from... Read more

Following Atticus

By: Tom Ryan

Narrated by: Tom Ryan

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Following Atticus is the remarkable true story of a man and a dog embarking on the challenge of a lifetime. This is author Tom Ryan’s inspiring tale of how he and his miniature schnauzer companion, the “Little Buddha” Atticus M. Finch, attempted to scale all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four thousand foot White Mountains twice in the dead of... Read more

The Mismeasure of Man

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.



Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively... Read more