Science & Technology audiobooks

Homer's Odyssey

By: Gwen Cooper

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in nine lives,
something extraordinary happens...

The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first sight.

Everyone warned... Read more

Strength in What Remains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains... Read more

What's So Funny About Space?

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s so funny about space and science? Our season finale features the incomparable comedian Joan Rivers. In this episode, she provides color commentary for a Red Carpet parade of previous show topics, including space tourism, the anniversary of Apollo 11, and the search for alien life (both in space and in Hollywood).Guests:
Joan Rivers: comedian Read more

32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny

By: Phillip Done

Narrated by: Phillip Done

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Phillip Done fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung “Happy Birthday” 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires listeners with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized... Read more

Enemies

By: Bill Gertz

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the great untold story of the war on terror. Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the US government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. In his explosive... Read more

What's Exploration Worth

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What price do we put on knowledge? How does it profit a man if he learns about the universe, but goes to bed hungry? When the economy takes a downturn, should we still go up into space? NASA missions aren’t cheap—sending astronauts into low Earth orbit or to the Moon, sending robotic spacecraft to explore the planets, and launching telescopes... Read more

Every Patient Tells A Story

By: Lisa Sanders

Narrated by: Lisa Sanders

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.

"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as... Read more

A Universe of Inspiration

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Attempts by scientists and artists to reveal deep truths about the universe may take different forms, but they often end up agreeing with the poet John Keats that “truth is beauty.”Geometry, physics and the other sciences describe the world we live in, and artists often play with these properties in their own imaginative investigations. From the... Read more

Cosmic Quackery

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain said, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Pseudoscience adherents to this adage, but are their distortions deliberate, the result of scientific ignorance, or due to a deep desire for extraordinary possibilities? In our quest to understand the universe, how can we be sure our conclusions are correct? Human... Read more

The Anniversary of Apollo 11

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Terence T. Henricks

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty years ago, on the dusty plains known as the Sea of Tranquility, Neil Armstrong stepped off a lunar module and into the pages of history.That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong spoke these words after placing his foot down onto lunar soil, and throughout the course of the Apollo program eleven other... Read more

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

By: Sean B. Carroll

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler... Read more

The Agile PMO

By: Sanjiv Augustine & Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Sanjiv Augustine & Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

How should we scale Scrum beyond individual projects? How can PMOs avoid being process police and instead truly support Scrum teams, enable enterprise rollout of Scrum, and sustain long-term Scrum adoption?
Listen to this recording as agile project management expert Kevin Aguanno interviews agile guru Sanjiv Augustine. Learn how industry leaders... Read more

Archives of the Centuries

By: Roberto Trujillo

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to create a library-in particular, a research library worthy of Stanford University? Robert Trujillo has been developing special collections at Stanford for more than three decades. In this interview he shares the fascinating story of how the vast literary resources we rely on are generated. Read more

Brain Lock - Abridged

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Narrated by: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 20th anniversary edition of the definitive classic on defeating obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the author.

An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over.... Read more

The Basics of Genetics

By: Betsey Dexter Dyer

Narrated by: Betsey Dexter Dyer

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer examines the wideranging field of genetics, which is the study of the hereditary information of organisms, how it is used, and how it is transferred through generations. These fascinating lectures also address DNA sequences and how they apply to "genetic engineering," viruses, and genetic diseases such as cancers and... Read more

Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Stephen Van Doren

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecce Homo, which is Latin for “behold the man,” is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Stephen Van Doren

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one of the most important works written by Nietzsche and represents his attempt to sum up his philosophy. The great nineteenth-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in this work, a fascinating examination of human values and morality. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus... Read more

Ayn Rand Answers

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand turned to nonfiction writing and occasional lecturing. Her aim was to bring her philosophy to a wider audience and to apply it to current cultural and political issues. The taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed added not only an eloquent new dimension to Ayn... Read more

Exciting Times for Science

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Special guest Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report talks about the joys of being a science geek.Brilliant scientific discoveries and cutting edge technology have transformed our world, yet many people are turned off by science. Where has the excitement for science gone, and how can we get it back? Stephen Colbert developed an... Read more

The Science of Fear

By: Daniel Gardner

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when... Read more

The Age of Entanglement

By: Louisa Gilder

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

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A Healing Alliance With Animals & The Earth

By: Deena Metzger

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, storyteller, and healer Deena Metzger has lived for more than four decades in alliance with the earth and its creatures. She has learned how to listen to what they have to say, and to heed the signs and teachings they offer. Read more

The Accidental Billionaires

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic... Read more

Travels in Time

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you travel to the past and visit Julius Caesar? Could you travel to the year 4000 and see what the future is like? Find out about the possibilities and paradoxes of time travel.Time marches on except in astrophysics. Einstein taught us that time is a coordinate in space, and it’s all relative. Learn about the weird physics of our universe... Read more