Science & Technology audiobooks
Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic
By: Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets & Lynn Margulis
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant... Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media
By: Peter Montague, Mark Sommer & Elise Hoeg
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-01: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry
By: Carolyn Raffensperger & Sharyle Patton
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy
By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-11: Nature As Healer: Restoring Life As Community
By: Anna Carter & T. Allan Comp Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Anna Marie Carter, the โSeed Ladyโ of Watts, shares heartful stories of community renewal that have grown from her work building free organic gardens for residents of south central Los Angeles. T. Allen Comp presents his extraordinary work with AMD&ART, a non-profit that has combined public art, environmental improvement and community... Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-03: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity
By: Wade Davis
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planetโs wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-04: Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs
By: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of... Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 3-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected
By: Michael Lerner, Matthew Fox & Joanna Macy, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. Read more
View audiobookAuthentic Happiness - Abridged
By: Martin E. P. Seligman
Narrated by: John Dossett
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychologyโand sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.
According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on... Read more
The Joy of Pi
By: David Blatner
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Hank Jacobs & Laura Dean
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Piโor ? as it is symbolically knownโis infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores... Read more
View audiobook21 Dog Years
By: Mike Daisey
Narrated by: Mike Daisey
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler is the stuff... Read more
View audiobookShark Trouble - Abridged
By: Peter Benchley
Narrated by: Peter Benchley
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author ofย Jawsย combines high adventure with practical information inย a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.
โShark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount... Read more
Bioneers Series 1-13: Overview: Bioneers-Creating New Solutions
By: Paul Hawken, Fritjof Capra, Amory Lovins, Ana E...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bioneers recognize that technical solutions to the ecological challenges we face must be accomplished by a change of heart. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-12: Wisdom at the End of a Hoe: Farming as if Biology Mattered
By: John Jeavons, Starhawk, Bob Cannard, Catherine ...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
What is it like living at a planet's pace? Is the gardener growing the garden or is the garden transforming the gardener? John Jeavons, Starhawk, Catherine Sneed, Bob Cannard and Penny Livingston point to genuine solutions for farming harmony with the earth. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-11: Environmental Health and the Politics of Cancer-
By: Kenny Ausubel & Samuel Epstein, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
While the medical establishment has been losing the celebrated war on cancer, it has conducted a very successful campaign against promising alternative approaches. Kenny Ausubel and Samuel Epstein, M.D. present one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century and call attention to the rising tide of alternative approaches. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-10: World Trade with a Human Face
By: Anita Roddick, David Korten & Kevin Danaher, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Alert to the human rights violations and ecological damage being sown by the "Economization of the Globe," Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-09: Biodynamic Growing: Sacred Cows and Cosmic Science
By: Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor & Fred Kirschenmann
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment. Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor and Fred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-08: Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette?
By: Kenny Ausubel, Andrew Kimbrell & Luke Anderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate, and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-07: Wise Women of the Earth: It's All Intelligent
By: Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Kirstin Wilson, Marta ...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides, and Kirstin Wilson. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-06: Bioremediation: In Nature, Everybody is Somebody's Lunch
By: Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets & John Todd
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Bioneers Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets, and John Todd show how cows, mushrooms, fungi and "living machines," are being used to restore Superfund sites, "eat" diesel spills and decontaminate soil and water. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-05: Quantum Jazz: It's All Connected
By: Mae Won Ho, Fritjof Capra & John Mohawk, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Biochemist Mae Won Ho, physicist Fritjof Capra, and John Mohawk discuss an organic revolution that is emerging in the field of science that spells good news for the Earth. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-04: The Original Instructions: It's All Related
By: Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Malcol...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What were the Original Instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions. Read more
View audiobookBioneers Series 1-03: Natural Capitalism and Green Design
By: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins & Will...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account? Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles. Read more
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