Science & Technology audiobooks

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Thomas More's Utopia has spurred debate, reflection, and critical thinking since its original publication in the sixteenth century. More's fictional island of Utopia provides an exploration of issues that shook him and his contemporaries and that continue to be problematic in the modern day. The details of More's utopian society, such as the... Read more

High Noon

By: Karen Southwick

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, a little upstart named Sun was making waves in the high-tech industry with its groundbreaking workstation technology, even as early competitors dismissed the company as not worth losing sleep over. Since then, Sun Microsystems has become a formidable presence in the industry, making its own rules and taking no prisoners, and is... Read more

Moonwalking with Einstein

By: Joshua Foer

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory

“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

“Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe

An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking... Read more

The Information

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
 
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our... Read more

Breaking Addiction

By: Lance M. Dodes

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’—a mes­sage that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts’ life predicaments! Many psychiatrists recognize that this is where we must head, but Dr. Dodes is one with the guts to shine a beacon in the right... Read more

The Most Human Human

By: Brian Christian

Narrated by: Brian Christian

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing,... Read more

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women

By: Barbara Seaman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For over 40 years Barbara Seaman has been a leading women's health advocate. Now she blows the lid off the estrogen industry in this fascinating book that holds the power to improve-possibly even save-women's lives. In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In... Read more

A Talk Based on "Life Inc."

By: Doug Rushkoff

Narrated by: Doug Rushkoff

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Talks based on his book Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back -- a book that challenges us to think completely differently about how we see the economics, the world of business, and money itself.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Quirk

By: Hannah Holmes

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents, our children, our co-workers, our neighbors.... Read more

The Science of Liberty

By: Timothy Ferris

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair." —The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called "the best popular science writer in the English language today" by the Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his... Read more

Never Say Die

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Susan Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity—pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of aging. She separates wishful hype from... Read more

Ever By My Side

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated audiences with his books that take us behind the scenes into the heartwarming—and sometimes heartrending—world of veterinary medicine. In a perfect follow-up to his first two books, he turns his lens inward and offers a funny, moving, and thoughtful, memoir about the animals he's had... Read more

Chaos

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible, and... Read more

Genius

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Dick Estell

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his... Read more

Faster - Abridged

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: James Gleick

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.

Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers,... Read more

Standing By Trees, Women, And Girls

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Trees are our essential partners in life on this planet. Not only are they indispensable to our wellbeing, they are sacred. Bolen's thwarted efforts to save a magnificent Monterey Pine tree in her yard from those who wanted to have a better view moved her to look at the anatomy and physiology of trees as well as the archetypal and sacred symbols... Read more

The Tell-Tale Brain

By: V. S. Ramachandran

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain... Read more

Scorecasting

By: Tobias Moskowitz & L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz's... Read more

The Hidden Reality

By: Brian Greene

Narrated by: Brian Greene

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different “multiverse” proposals emerges from... Read more

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of all Maladies

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease.Rather than being a rare exception in our otherwise healthy lives, “quite possibly, cancer is our normalcy,” Mukherjee writes. “We are inherently destined to slouch towards a malignant end,”... Read more

The Panic Virus

By: Seth Mnookin

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused... Read more

The Emotional Calendar

By: John R. Sharp, MD

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In two decades of psychiatry practice, John R. Sharp has worked with many people who experienced the same emotional distresses at specific times of the year—a young woman who became depressed before Thanksgiving, a middle-aged man who felt anxious about making his summer travel plans, people who made uncharacteristically extreme decisions as... Read more

The Red Queen

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from... Read more

The Quiet World

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic... Read more