Science & Technology audiobooks

Impacts of Global Climate Change

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Shishmaref, Alaska -- a 600-person village 20 miles south of the Arctic Circle -- residents are feeling the effects of climate change: earlier sea ice melts and increasing storm surges. Tom Bearden reports on how the residents are coping. Read more

The Black Hole War

By: Leonard Susskind

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inside account of the battle over the true nature of black holes—with nothing less than our understanding of the entire universe at stake.What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did—and in doing so, put at risk everything we... Read more

Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction - Abridged

By: Roy Chester

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over the past few years, devastating tsunamis off the coast of the Indian Ocean have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Even more alarmingly, scientists predict that these tsunamis, as well as a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, may eventually threaten Hawaii, California, and Oregon. The cause of this trinity of natural... Read more

My Stroke of Insight

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not... Read more

Prisoners of Our Thoughts

By: Alex Pattakos

Narrated by: Alex Pattakos

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl's personal story of finding a reason to live in the most horrendous of circumstances, Nazi concentration camps, has inspired millions. Now, Prisoners of Our Thoughts applies Frankl's philosophy to the workplace,... Read more

The Romantic Manifesto

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of... Read more

Young Men & Fire - Abridged

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: John Maclean

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later, all but three were dead or fatally burned in a "blowup," an explosive 2,000 degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall. Winner of a... Read more

Can't Remember What I Forgot

By: Sue Halpern

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so "hot" that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time that Halpern had her head examined... Read more

Kluge

By: Gary Marcus

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind—think duct tape,... Read more

Warum lachen die Menschen? - Abridged

By: Helmut Bachmaier

Narrated by: Helmut Bachmaier

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Man kann ohne Grund lachen. Aber niemand lacht gerne unter seinem Niveau. Deshalb ist es gut zu wissen, warum wir lachen oder was an einem Witz das Komische ist. Anhand klassischer Zeugnisse aus Philosophie und Psychologie werden die Theorien über das Lachen als Ausdruckshandlung und Perspektivenwechsel vorgetragen. Read more

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel

By: Julia Keller

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging 200 shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in... Read more

The Fruit Hunters

By: Adam Leith Gollner

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal—fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired foods.



Listeners will discover why it is that although countless exotic fruits exist in nature,... Read more

The Uncertain Art

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years. Among the fascinating and probing questions that Nuland investigates are:



—What does the first Hippocratic Oath really mean?



—What happens when knowledge comes before we're ready for... Read more

The Snake Charmer

By: Jamie James

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most brilliant biologists of our time and a charismatic daredevil, Dr. Joe Slowinski had been obsessed with venomous snakes since his youth. In 2001, Slowinski led a team of young scientists deep into the wilds of Burma on a final tragic expedition. Immediately after being bitten by the many-banded krait, the deadliest serpent in... Read more

Me of Little Faith

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours

From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Times– bestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith. Read more

Hospital

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, bestselling author Julie Salamon spent one year tracking the progess of the center and getting to... Read more

Agile Adoption Made Easy

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Are you trying to adopt agile methods into your organization? Are you facing significant resistance from your teams or business management? Don't try to find your own way -- learn from those who have gone before you and take the easy road to agile adoption.In this live recording of a one-hour seminar on agile adoption, agile project management... Read more

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's... Read more

Snoop

By: Sam Gosling

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place,... Read more

Panic in Level 4

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never... Read more

An Inconvenient Truth - Abridged

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly -- and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to... Read more

Your Child's Strengths

By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more

The Woman Who Can't Forget

By: Jill Price & Bart Davis

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world... Read more

Wiser in Battle - Abridged

By: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Narrated by: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent . . . until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle, LTG (Ret) Ricardo S. Sanchez, former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global War on Terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling... Read more