Science & Technology audiobooks
Medieval People
By: Eileen Power
Narrated by: Roe Kendall
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this classic of social history, the author describes the lives of five lesser-known men and women of the Middle Ages, as well as one famous one. She draws on account books, records, letters, diaries, and wills to make the life of those times as concrete and comprehensible as our own. There are full-length portraits of Bodo, a Frankish peasant... Read more
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Wild Justice
By: Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a... Read more
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Amazing Scientists - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Mark Smith
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing American Scientists - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Joseph Miller & Mark Smith
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Women in Medicine - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis & Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Marie Curie
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Furious Love
By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever toldโthe romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... Read more
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Amazing Inventors - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Markus Hayes
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Engineers - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Yorvik Kalachinsky-Chenovsky
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Engineering is crucial to so many aspects of our world and, in many ways, keeps the world going round. This inspirational story collection from The Amazing People Club focuses on some of the most influential engineers including Thomas Telford, Peter Henlein, Richard Pearse, Isambard Brunel and George Stephenson. Each played key roles in... Read more
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Meet Issac Newton
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Mark Smith
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Albert Einstein
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Dialogues of Plato
By: Plato
Narrated by: Pat Bottino
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 BC, rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues, among them art, beauty, virtue,... Read more
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A Wild and Crazy Time
By: Don Lattin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
As the 1950s came to a close, a new era of social, spiritual, sexual, political and psychological revolution was beginning. Here in this provocative dialogue, you will meet some of the wild characters who made the 1960s the most memorable decade of the 20th century. Lattin says, "[The] big question at the time was: are these experiences people... Read more
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The Price of Stones
By: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri & Susan Urbanek Linville
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An incredibly inspiring and thrilling book, this is the story of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, who grew up in rural southwestern Uganda, the son of an irascible small-time farmer and his loving wife. In spite of the family's poverty, Jackson succeeds and graduates from the national university with a calling to work in human rights that leads him to... Read more
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Pandora's Seed
By: Spencer Wells
Narrated by: Spencer Wells
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need... Read more
Being Wrong
By: Kathryn Schulz
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
โBoth wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.โ
โBill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and... Read more
Click
By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
You know the feeling. You meet someone newโat a party or at workโand you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
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In a word, you โclick.โ
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From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more
The Music Lesson
By: Victor L. Wooten
Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten, Chuck Rainey, Sam Hunter, Rad...
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kindโfrom the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shopโhas though that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew... Read more
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Colossus
By: Michael Hiltzik
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 18 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed.
The United States after Hoover... Read more
The Shallows
By: Nicholas Carr
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
โIs Google making us stupid?โ When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the internetโs bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?Now, Carr... Read more
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
By: William Rosen
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat lineโuntil the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen... Read more
The AdSense Code 2nd Edition
By: Joel Comm
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Hidden on the Internet, scattered among billions of Web pages, are the clues to an incredible secret. For those who know the secret, the result is untold wealth. Each month, a small group of people put their knowledge of Google AdSense to use and receive four and five-figure checks from Google. And untold numbers of additional site owners are... Read more
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The Upside of Irrationality
By: Dan Ariely
Narrated by: Simon Jones
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerโAriely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.โ โ James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely offers a... Read more
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The Bible of Unspeakable Truths
By: Greg Gutfeld
Narrated by: Greg Gutfeld
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Greg Gutfeld, the acclaimed host of the popular, nightly Fox News show Red Eye, has packed this book full of his most aggressive (and funny) diatribes -- each chapter exploring Unspeakable Truths that cut right to the core and go well beyond just politics. Greg deconstructs pop culture, media, kids, disease, race, food, sex, celebrity, current... Read more
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