Science & Technology audiobooks

Helmut Schmidt: Abschiedsrede Im Bundestag am 10.09.1986 - Abridged

By: Helmut Schmidt

Narrated by: Helmut Schmidt

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine Ära geht zu Ende: Am 10. September 1986 betritt Helmut Schmdit zum letzten Mal das Rednerpult des Bonner Bundestages. In einer zweistündigen Rede läßt er Vergangenes Revue passieren, kommentiert die Gegenwart und wirft den Blick auf die Zukunft. Wohl kaum ein Politiker konnte so nachhaltig mit Freund und Feind ins Gericht gehen wie der... Read more

Evolution

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the GalApagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and... Read more

The Final Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Atherton & Donal Donnelly

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial and condemnation of Socrates (469-399 B.C.) is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline. Plato, Socrates' most devoted disciple, has preserved for us the essence of the teaching and logical system of question-and-answer of western civilization's purest intellect in this sequence of four works: Euthyphro, The... Read more

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

By: David Shields

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an... Read more

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound... Read more

Staring at the Sun

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Gregory Gorton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those... Read more

The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus

By: Jacques Cousteau & Susan Schiefelbein

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.



Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous... Read more

The Histories

By: Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in AD 69 and ending with the... Read more

Why Mars and Venus Collide

By: John Gray

Narrated by: John Gray

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the increasing tension, most men and women are also completely unaware that they are actually... Read more

Your Inner Fish

By: Neil Shubin

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today’s most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.

Neil... Read more

The Medusa and the Snail

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis Thomas has been said to be a philosopher who uses the language of biology. His fascinating observations on the quirkiness of the world's infinite creations causes listeners to ponder the workings of the cosmos through the most microscopic of life forms.The medusa, a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in... Read more

Group Genius

By: Keith Sawyer

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty,... Read more

El Profeta - Abridged

By: Khalil Gilbran

Narrated by: Hernando Ivan Cano

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El Profeta, un repositorio rico en sabiduria y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de personas. Con poesia frugal y bellamente resonante, El Profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida. Read more

The End of Faith

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith. This important and timely work delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

By: Jonathan Wells

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Darwinism—like Marxism and Freudianism before it—is headed for extinctionIn the 1925 Scopes trial, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to allow the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. Seventy-five years later, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU sued to prevent the teaching of an alternative to Darwin's theory known... Read more

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Abridged

By: Paul Reps

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this collection of inspirational writings, novice and experienced practitioners are treated to four key works that rank high in the Zen canon: 101 Zen Stories recounts actual experiences with Zen that span five centuries. The Gateless Gate is a 13th-century collection of mind problems used in the practice of Zen. Ten Bulls is a 12th-century... Read more

The How of Happiness - Abridged

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more

The Memory Doctor

By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more

After the Affair - Abridged

By: Janis A. Spring

Narrated by: Janis A. Spring

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.”
—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger“It is ‘must’ reading for any couple who has experienced the violation of trust as a result of an affair.”
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.  A staggering... Read more

Last Child in the Woods

By: Richard Louv

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times and Washington Post contributor Richard Louv is the widely respected author of seven previous books. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv illustrates how the alienation of today's children from nature can lead to a host of childhood disorders-and he offers effective methods for healing this rift. "This book is an absolute must-read... Read more

The Transformative Power Of Beauty

By: J. Ruth Gendler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty is a quality that defies definition. You know it when you see it, but may not know why one object looks beautiful while another does not. J. Ruth Gendler looks beyond definitions to explore the feeling of beauty, and the wisdom that makes it possible to transform the world to a place that’s more beautiful than we imagined it could be. Read more

The Spiritual Brain

By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more