Science & Technology audiobooks

Les hasards nécessaires - Abridged

By: Jean-François Vézina

Narrated by: Jean-François Vézina

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inspiré par le concept de synchronicité du psychiatre suisse Carl Gustav Jung, et à la lumière de métaphores tirées de la théorie du chaos, ce livre audio parcourt, en toute liberté, de nouvelles voies de compréhension reliées à la passionnante question de la synchronicité relationnelle. Read more

Getting Dirty: The Joy Of Growing Food In Your Own Backyard

By: Rachel Kaplan

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Kaplan describes the Urban Homesteading Movement as “…not only a food movement but also a movement of people who are about conservation of energy, water, and waste. It is a movement of learning to live with less impact on the earth, with a greater sense of what it means to be part of the place where we live, and to be thinking ecologically.” Read more

Gifted Hands

By: Ben Carson, M.D. & Cecil Murphey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

Nerve

By: Taylor Clark

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular author Taylor Clark draws on cutting-edge research in this enlightening exploration of stress-and how to tackle it constructively. Using such divergent examples as Russian sub commanders and game show contestants, Clark shows that most people experience stress the same way. Those who understand how to accept it without freezing can... Read more

Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, she experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions.

Ten Days in a Mad-House is... Read more

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume's distillation of his mature philosophy. Addressing themes including the limits of human understanding, the compatibility of free will with determinism, weaknesses in the foundations of religion, and the appeal of skepticism, An Enquiry... Read more

How the Hippies Saved Physics

By: David Kaiser

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physicsIn the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the... Read more

An Empire of Ice

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others... Read more

Moral Choices

By: Scott Rae

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding the basis of making moral choices is crucial as society becomes increasingly complex. Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics gives college students a solid grounding in both theory of ethics and its applications to the social issues of today. Avoiding undue dogmatism, Professor Scott B. Rae outlines the distinctive elements of... Read more

The Age of Wonder

By: Sir Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 21 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the romantic age of science.When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through... Read more

Bug Out

By: Scott B. Williams

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Warning sirens are blaring. You have fifteen minutes to evacuate. What will you do?



Cataclysmic events strike sleepy towns and major cities every year. Residents face escaping quickly or perishing in rising waters, raging fires, or other life-threatening conditions. By the time the evacuation starts, it's already too late. Being prepared makes... Read more

Wicked Plants

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly.



A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, bestselling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an... Read more

The Optimism Bias

By: Tali Sharot

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.
 
Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, optimism may... Read more

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends - Abridged

By: Don Gabor

Narrated by: Don Gabor

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than twenty-five years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of conversation with necessary skills for communicating in the... Read more

Angoisse et anxiété

By: Michelle Larvey

Narrated by: Martine Mignot

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

L'angoisse et l'anxiété sont les équivalents psychiques de la douleur : des signes de notre organisme pour nous avertir d'un problème négligé. Il est relativement facile d'y trouver des solutions si on comprend bien ce qui se passe et si on connaît les moyens d'en tenir compte. Mais si on ignore ce précieux signal, nous glissons vers des... Read more

The Dumbest Generation

By: Mark Bauerlein

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college enrollments have never been higher); more money ($100 a week in disposable income); more leisure time (five hours a day); and more news and information (Internet, The Daily Show, RSS feeds).



What do they do with all that time and... Read more

Coming Into Our Fullness

By: Azarm Ghareman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghareman describes the dilemma of women today who are especially culturally rewarded to say yes to most every request made of them. Most of us have dozens of stories about how we self-sabotage ourselves instead of building a more balanced life.. How can we say a soft but effective no? What are some skillful ways for us to move from stress to... Read more

The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices

By: Frank Moss

Narrated by: Bruce Turk

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

If you've ever read a book on an e-reader, unleashed your inner rock star playing Guitar Hero, built a robot with LEGO Mindstorms, or ridden in a vehicle with child-safe air bags, then you've experienced first hand just a few of the astounding innovations that have come out of the Media Lab over the past 25 years. But that’s old hat for today’s... Read more

L'amitié - Éthique à Nicomaque, livres VIII et IX

By: Aristote

Narrated by: Pierre Tissot

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

L'Éthique à Nicomaque d'Aristote est composée de neuf livres qui traitent des moyens d'atteindre le bonheur en développant la vertu. Les deux derniers livres sont consacrés à définir l'amitié, telle qu'elle existe et telle qu'elle doit être vécue par l'homme vertueux. La méthode aristotélicienne permet de distinguer les différentes causes et les... Read more

Elixir

By: Brian M. Fagan

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today. It is a story of human endeavor: our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every human culture has been shaped by its relationship to water.



For the earliest hunter-gatherers,... Read more

Physics for Future Presidents

By: Richard A. Muller

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential world, we need to know—truly understand, not just rely on television's talking heads—if Iran's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West, if biochemical weapons are... Read more

Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1930, Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the most influential works of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud. Focusing on the tension between the primitive drives of the individual and the demands of civilization for order and conformity, Freud draws upon his psychoanalytic theories to explain the fundamental... Read more

Buddha and the Quantum

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Samuel Avery

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddha and the Quantum is about the connection between meditation and physics. Many books show parallels between consciousness and physics; a few of these attempt to explain consciousness in terms of the physics of everyday experience. This is the only book on the market that explains physics and the everyday world in terms of consciousness... Read more

Incognito

By: David Eagleman

Narrated by: David Eagleman

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
 
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you... Read more