Science & Technology audiobooks

The Invention of Air

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers.

The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and... Read more

What Matters Most

By: James Hollis, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? We have all felt the looming presence of these questions, but it’s never easy to examine our life’s path and its meaning. To begin finding answers, we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Taking a fresh look at the concept... Read more

The Elegant Universe

By: Brian Greene

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review

In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the... Read more

Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind

By: Emily Anthes & Scientific American

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman & Helen Litchfield

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds).

Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturization required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think faster) to why being bad feels so good (yes, there's a... Read more

A License to Steal

By: Walter T. Shaw

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of... Read more

Emotional Awareness

By: Dalai Lama & Paul Ekman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Richard Gere & Paul Ekman, Ph.D.

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment

At their first meeting, a remarkable bond was sparked between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders, and the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose groundbreaking work helped to define the... Read more

A Woman's Worth - Abridged

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice--and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A Return to Love-- to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author illuminates her thought-provoking positions... Read more

Happiness for Dummies - Abridged

By: W. Doyle Gentry

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now, you can find the happiness you want and live ""the good life"" you deserve by applying the helpful information in Happiness For Dummies, the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! You'll discover proven techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and... Read more

Le psy-livre - Abridged

By: Yves Saint-Arnaud

Narrated by: Yves Saint-Arnaud

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En psychologie, favoriser le mieux-être individuel équivaut à faire œuvre de salut public, puisque les bienfaits d'une vie heureuse débordent la personne pour rejaillir sur la collectivité. Un éclairage psychologique simple peut contribuer à donner un sens à ce qu'on vit. Préconisant comme toujours une approche humaniste, l'auteur met en pleine... Read more

The Dragon Seekers

By: Christopher McGowan

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world—a world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.These nineteenth-century pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a working-class woman, an... Read more

Finding Hope and Beauty In The Dark Places

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Williams speaks out for some of the most disavowed individuals on the planet: prairie dogs, who are threatened with extinction, and Rwandan refugees. She deftly draws meaning out of moments of devastation with inspiring stories of rodents who pray at sunrise and sunset and a mother who, after losing her child to the ravages of war, creates a... Read more

Why Businessmen Need Philosophy and Other Essays

By: Ayn Rand, various authors, Leonard Peikoff, Har...

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth," wrote Ayn Rand.In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the... Read more

The Anteater of Death

By: Betty Webb

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If Lucy, the pregnant giant anteater from Belize, didn't kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did? California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real murderer before her furry friend is shipped off to another zoo in disgrace. Then another human bites the dust, the monkeys riot, and the wolves go nuts. Things get worse when the snooty... Read more

Introduction to Agile Modeling

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

During requirements gathering and solution design, one of the most common techniques used to create a shared vision is modeling. Over the years, many tools and techniques have emerged for modeling in different fields that take in to account the various complexities of the solutions involved; however, one drawback that most share in common is the... Read more

Save Time and Money with Agile Documentation

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tired of wasting time creating documents that no one will ever read? Spending hours fussing with documents to make them “perfect” only to find out that they didn’t include the right content? Spinning your wheels updating documents to keep them current?Modern agile management practices propose techniques to operate our businesses more... Read more

Visions of Utopia

By: Fred Baumann

Narrated by: Fred Baumann

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Since ancient times, philosophers have struggled with the concept of the ideal society, or utopia. Many have contributed to the widely varying possibilities for just what such a system might entail. Religious, economic, and political structures all help to shape the composition of these utopias, and as these visions are shared, they impact the... Read more

The Daily Coyote

By: Shreve Stockton

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York, she never imagined she would end up making a log cabin in Wyoming her home, falling in love with a trapper, and working as a ranch hand. She also could not have predicted adopting Charlie, an orphaned coyote pup. In a world where coyotes are hunted as... Read more

Das Geheimnis des Herzmagneten

By: Rüdiger Schache

Narrated by: Johannes Steck & Rüdiger Schache

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nichts in Ihrem Leben geschieht zufällig! Menschen und Ereignisse tauchen nicht ohne Grund in Ihrem Leben auf. Wie Ihre Beziehungen entstehen und sich entwickeln, hat nichts mit Glück oder Pech zu tun. Es geschieht, weil eine Kraft dies bewirkt. Diese Kraft verbindet uns alle. Sie ist die Ursache dafür, ob wir uns finden, oder nicht. Sie... Read more

The Voyage of the Beagle, with eBook

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Darwin was just twenty-two when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage. Fortunately, his father relented, and Darwin's journal is now considered by many to be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written.



Revised by the author in 1860,... Read more

Red Hot Lies

By: Christopher C. Horner

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Lies, threats, intimidation—these are the global warming alarmists' weapons, and they're only getting worse under President Barack Obama.From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an expos├® of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global... Read more

The Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world’s most formidable questions: What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish between right and wrong? How should human virtues be translated into a just society? Perhaps the greatest single treatise written on political philosophy,... Read more

YOU: Being Beautiful - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz bust the myths and stereotypes about the way we view ourselves -- and how we define beauty.

Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans -- all those things that we can see (and obsess over) in the mirror. But the fact is... Read more

Over the Edge

By: Robert Kull

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What would lead a person to choose to live alone for a year on a small, remote island on the coast of southern Chile? What is it like to truly notice how, as humans, we are constantly shifting from a sense of isolation into the experience of freedom and belonging? Robert Kull discusses these questions, and more. Read more

Izzy & Lenore

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Katz is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous nonfiction tales of man's best friend. Here he presents the story of two dogs that profoundly affected his life and work. Skittish border collie Izzy pushes him into rewarding work with Hospice. And black lab Lenore's gentle spirit helps remind him why he wanted to work with animals... Read more