Science & Technology audiobooks
An Affair with Africa
By: Alzada Carlisle Kistner
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the... Read more
View audiobookEdison
By: Paul Israel
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 22 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention—from the preeminent Edison scholarThe conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds to become one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from... Read more
View audiobookEast to the Dawn
By: Susan Butler
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928—and her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery.The image we have of Amelia Earhart today—a tousle-haired, androgynous flier clad in shirt, silk scarf, leather jacket, and goggles—is only one... Read more
View audiobookWho Stole Feminism?
By: Christina Hoff Sommers
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Philosophy professor Christina Sommers exposes a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments... Read more
View audiobookConnecting Body, Spirit and Creativity
By: Gay Hendricks
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A pioneer in the field of mind-body-spirit integration, Gay Hendricks has developed techniques that can help each of us discover where our thoughts, our emotions, and even our beliefs can actually be detected in our bodies. Read more
View audiobookCent éléphants sur un brin d'herbe - Abridged
By: Le Dalaï-Lama
Narrated by: Jean Leclerc
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sur le ton chaleureux et confidentiel qui lui est naturel même en présence de nombreux interlocuteurs, le Dalaï-lama livre le fruit de ses réflexions sur l'homme, l'environnement, sur la société, les institutions, la politique, les religions. Que propose-t-il ? "Quel est votre secret ?", lui demande-t-on partout où il est invité. "Sagesse,... Read more
View audiobookThe Genius Factory - Abridged
By: David Plotz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more
The Sociopath Next Door
By: Martha Stout
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He's a sociopath. And your... Read more
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
""These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Theseare the men who took the cliffs. These are thechampions who helped free a continent. Theseare the heroes who helped end a war.""—Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984,Normandy, FranceAcclaimed historian and author of the ""New York Times"" bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the riveting account of... Read more
View audiobookThe Hardness Factor - Abridged
By: Steven Lamm
Narrated by: Steven Lamm
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A diet, exercise, and supplement regimen to help men achieve optimal sexual fitnessSexual fitness goes hand in hand with overall health: Good sex means a man is most probably in good condition. The Hardness Factor is a comprehensive guide to sexual fitness for men, pointing the way to an enhanced self image, better sex, and improved health, and... Read more
View audiobookConduct Under Fire
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
Conduct Under Fire - Abridged
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
Galileo's Daughter
By: Dava Sobel
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition,... Read more
View audiobook109 East Palace - Abridged
By: Jennet Conant
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.
In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more
L'apologie de Socrate
By: Platon
Narrated by: Denis Podalydes
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
L'Apologie de Socrate rapporte le procès qui a vu condamner Socrate. Le citoyen philosophe, accusé de ne pas croire aux dieux de la cité et de pervertir les jeunes, fait preuve, face à ses juges comme auprès des Athéniens, du même don pour révéler tant l'incohérence que l'immoralité de leur discours. Read more
View audiobookIsaac Newton
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more
View audiobookI Need Your Love - Is That True? - Abridged
By: Byron Katie
Narrated by: Byron Katie
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more
View audiobookL'abondance dans la simplicité - Abridged
By: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Narrated by: Tania Kontoyani
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jusqu'à maintenant, spiritualité et mode de vie ont constitué, pour les femmes, des domaines distincts. Cet ouvrage inspirant démontre comment la vie quotidienne, dans les plus menus détails, peut devenir la voie d'expression du moi authentique... Au fil des jours, ce titre-audio vous conduira, à travers six principes spirituels - gratitude,... Read more
View audiobookPourquoi les hommes marcent-ils à la gauche des femmes ? - Abridged
By: Philippe Turchet
Narrated by: Philippe Turchet
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Le Syndrome d'amour. Le couple n'a jamais autant suscité l'attention qu'aujourd'hui. Les psychologues de tous horizons s'entendent sur le fait que les hommes et les femmes vivent un malaise amoureux sans précédent. Dans un essai percutant tiré de l'observation de près de 20 000 couples, Philippe Turchet fait la démonstration que les êtres... Read more
View audiobookThey Made America - Abridged
By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland & David Lefer
Narrated by: Harold Evans
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century. Read more
View audiobookI Need Your Love - Is That True?
By: Byron Katie
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more
View audiobookAppel à l'amour - Abridged
By: Anthonu De Mello
Narrated by: Gérard Poirier
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Les dix méditations originales contenues dans ce titre audio sont aussi les mémoires d'un mystique qui a osé voir la réalité. Avec les années, leur auteur est devenu homme de compassion et d'amour, et ces réflexions jalonnent le chemin difficile qu'il a dû parcourir à la fin de sa vie pour se dépouiller de tout système de croyances, de toute... Read more
View audiobookControlling Your Genetic Blueprint
By: Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruce Lipton and other cellular biologists have discovered that our genetic blueprint is not static. While our genes do not change, the way they are expressed may be very much within our control. He tells us, “Cells need the brain to interpret the world and feed back to them what they should be doing to keep this whole system alive and floating.” Read more
View audiobookCourage, Conversation and Changing the World
By: Margaret Wheatley
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Never before in human history have we been exposed to so much data from so many sources, a veritable deluge. According to Wheatley, "We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life and it is... Read more
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