Science & Technology audiobooks

Games People Play

By: Eric Berne

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Over forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne's classic is as astonishing and revealing as it was on the day it was first published.



We play games all the time—sexual games, marital games, power games... Read more

Online Business Promotion

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Liv Montgomery

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Worldwide, there are over six million online searches every month for “eCommerce” with over thirty-three million search results. In other words, there are a whole lot of people and businesses looking to make money through online business promotion—eCommerce. At no other time in history has it been easier for anyone and everyone to market to the... Read more

The Wild Rover

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds... Read more

The Bond

By: Wayne Pacelle

Narrated by: Walter Dixon & Wayne Pacelle

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“If the animals knew about this book they would, without doubt, confer on Wayne Pacelle, their highest honor.”
—Jane Goodall“The Bond is the best overall book on animals I have ever read. Brilliant and moving.”
—John Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Whole Foods Market“The Bond is at once heart-breaking and heart-warming. No animal escapes Wayne... Read more

Stealing the General

By: Russell S. Bonds

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 12, 1862—one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War—a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infiltrated Georgia and stole a steam engine called the General. Racing northward at speeds near sixty miles an hour, cutting... Read more

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

By: Howard Gardner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates, humankind has explored these virtues in an attempt to describe and categorize them. Our definitions of these concepts, moreover, have unceasingly changed over the ages and across continents. Every known civilization... Read more

The Big Thirst

By: Charles Fishman

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic.



As Charles... Read more

Crime Scene Investigation: Philosophy, Practice, and Science Part 1

By: Robert C. Shaler

Narrated by: Robert C. Shaler

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The director of the Forensic Science Program at Pennsylvania State University, Professor Robert C. Shaler leads a comprehensive study of the intricacies of an intriguing, and always topical, science. In these lectures, Shaler imparts a clear understanding of crime scene investigation, from archiving the scene to the presentation of evidence in... Read more

Confessions of a Knife

By: Richard Selzer

Narrated by: Sam Gray

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A professor of surgery and writing at Yale, Selzer opens windows on the world of medical oddities in this collection of candid, introspective essays. His subjects are sometimes grisly but always offer tantalizing insights. Selections including Sarcophagus, Pages from a Wound-Dresser's Diary, and Love Sick reveal Selzer's boundless curiosity... Read more

Flourish

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews).

With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic... Read more

Infinite Reality

By: Jim Blascovich & Jeremy Bailenson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.”
—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be ProgrammedCan our brains recognize where ""reality"" ends and... Read more

Das Rätsel des Lebens bleibt ein Geheimnis - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es gehört zu den festen Ansichten über die Naturwissenschaften, dass sie in der Lage sind, Rätsel endgültig zu lösen. Als die Struktur des Erbmaterials in Form der berühmten Doppelhelix entdeckt wurde, teilten die zuständigen Forscher mit, sie hätten das Rätsel des Lebens gelöst. In dem Vortrag wird gezeigt, weshalb das Rätsel des Lebens stets... Read more

Oceana

By: Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe—the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the... Read more

Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, said to be dedicated to Aristotle's son Nicomachus, is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy. Addressing the question of how men should best live, Aristotle's treatise is not a mere philosophical meditation on the subject, but a practical examination that aims to... Read more

Selections from the Writings of Cicero

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Greek philosophy to moral duty to friendship. Though he considered philosophy secondary to politics and often used his writings for explicit political ends, his work has nevertheless been widely read for over two thousand years and has influenced... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, presents a scathing critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. As an alternative to what he viewed as the illogical and irrelevant philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche argues for the... Read more

The Lucifer Effect

By: Philip Zimbardo

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?



Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark... Read more

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely debated since its publication in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Presenting an analytical approach to the problems of capitalism and the resulting class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the text lays out the rationale and goals of communism as conceived by... Read more

When Gadgets Betray Us

By: Robert Vamosi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our BlackBerry devices, tablets, and digital capabilities become more and more complex we understand less and less about how they work. we no longer read the instruction manual before powering on, and we demand intuitive interfaces that get us up and running right away. But how many of us actually... Read more

The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?

First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives. Delving into theories of... Read more

L'art d'avoir toujours raison

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

L'art d'avoir toujours raison est un précis à usage des disputeurs, des contradicteurs et de toute personne ayant pour but de faire éclater la grande vérité (réelle ou fantasmée) de ses propres thèses. Ces techniques applicables en tout lieu et en toute époque peuvent être utilisées pour faire tomber les arguments falacieux d'adversaires. Très... Read more

Munindra: A Teacher's Teacher

By: Mirka Knaster, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mirka Knaster wrote Living This Life Fully: Stories and Teachings of Munindra, in collaboration with Robert Pryor. She interviewed some 200 people around the world, including such prominent teachers and writers as Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Daniel Goleman, and a host of others. In sharing this venerable teacher... Read more

Physics of the Future

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.

In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists who are already inventing the future in... Read more

Beyond Boundaries

By: Miguel Nicolelis

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.

Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis... Read more