Science & Technology audiobooks

The Identity Code

By: Larry Ackerman

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this life-transforming book, Larry Ackerman will introduce you to the person you were meant to be—and already are. The secret to uncovering your purpose, he explains, is built into you in the form of a code: the identity code. Much like your genetic code, your identity code provides a complete map of how you were designed to live.As you are... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, a president.When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that... Read more

Dave Henderson’s Dog Stories

By: Dave Henderson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he’s collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.If you have come across them before,... Read more

Nature Notes for 1906

By: Edith Holden

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.Besides noting the flora and fauna, she included poems and quaint folk sayings, saints' days, mottoes, and... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

The Consolations of Philosophy

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world’s most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.From the frustration of misplacing your keys to... Read more

Status Anxiety

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor's Lexus had better read Alain de Botton's irresistibly clear-headed book—immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort... Read more

The World of the Ancient Maya, Second Edition

By: John S. Henderson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient Maya were the only fully literate pre-Colombian people in the Americas. Superb scientists, they developed highly sophisticated mathematics and an intricate and accurate calendar system. Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture,... Read more

Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World

By: Wesley J. Smith

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial? What is its relationship to human cloning? Events are moving so fast—and biotechnology seems so complicated—that many of us don’t have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes.Now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the new... Read more

Dancing in the Streets

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

By: Christopher C. Horner

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Global warming: the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economyFor decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the... Read more

Where's My Jetpack?

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest—things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction and the advertisements in comic books, we are not living the future we were promised. By now, life was supposed to be a fully automated, atomic-powered, germ-free Utopia, a place where a grown man could wear a velvet spandex... Read more

Politics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“How can men best live together?” Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, Politics still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle’s thorough and carefully argued analysis covers a huge range of political issues in the effort to establish which types of constitution are best, both ideally and in... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a... Read more

The Meaning of It All

By: Richard P. Feynman

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him—how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day.In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his... Read more

One Nation Under Therapy

By: Christina Hoff Sommers & Sally Satel

Narrated by: Dianna Dorman

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life’s vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for... Read more

Deep Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic... Read more

Death by Black Hole, and Other Cosmic Quandaries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects…with great humor, humility, and—most important—humanity.” —Entertainment WeeklyNeil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History... Read more

Fatal Forecast

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were caught in a horrific surprise storm off of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive ninety-foot waves that battered the boats for hours and... Read more

Fishing the Sea to Death

By: Joshua S. Reichert

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Reichert's mission to raise our emotional awareness of the plight of the marine ecosystem, so that we will take steps to protect it before it's too late. Read more

A Brief History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking & Michael Jackson

Narrated by: Michael Jackson

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of the greatest minds of our time explores profound questions such as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?Told in language we all can... Read more

The Google Story

By: David A. Vise & Mark Malseed

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and... Read more

Fire

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... Read more