Science & Technology audiobooks

Creative Conflict-Cultural Transformation

By: Aftab Omer, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Tarra Christoff

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Omer is a truly a global citizen. He was born in Pakistan and has lived in Turkey, India, Hawaii and now lives in Northern California. His research and life experience has led him to study how we need to move from dysfunctional conflicts to creative conflicts. Read more

Candy Girl

By: Diablo Cody

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper.

At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from... Read more

Liberal Fascism

By: Jonah Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fascists," "Brownshirts," "jackbooted stormtroopers"—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective... Read more

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - Abridged

By: George Johnson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.

Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious... Read more

Mama Rock's Rules - Abridged

By: Rose Rock & Valerie Graham

Narrated by: Rose Rock

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""To be a parent is and should be a calling. There is absolutely nothing as great, challenging, or rewarding as raising a child."" So says Über-mom Rose Rock, who has raised 10 children in addition to caring for 17 foster children in her 40-plus years as a mother.As a mother who does not shy away from the hard conversations, Rose isn't afraid to... Read more

The Practice of Settlement, Finding a Sense of Place

By: John Lane

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lane drew a circle on a map that represented a one-mile radius from his home, and explored every facet of the place including the topography, history, ancient and current citizenry, and industry. This exploration sharpened his sense of place and serves as a model for how we might look at our own homes, terrain, and communities. Read more

Finding Grace in the Everyday Stories of our Lives

By: Dawna Markova, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dawna Markova believes that each of us is a “spot of grace,” and she beautifully inspires us as she reads many stories of everyday life that uncover the wisdom each of us carries within. She says, “What I know about grace is that we can create the conditions in which grace can happen…And often times a story will do it. “ Read more

Panama Fever

By: Matthew Parker

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. A tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine, Panama Fever charts the challenges that marked the long, labyrinthine road to the building of the canal. Drawing on a wealth of new materials and sources, Matthew Parker brings to life the... Read more

Was ist Leben? - Vielfalt und Innovation - Abridged

By: Bertold Hock

Narrated by: Bertold Hock

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ENTSTEHUNG UND ENTFALTUNG DER LEBEWESEN Einfachste Lebensformen sind als Mikrofossilien aus einer Zeit vor fast 3,5 Milliarden Jahren erhalten. Über die Entstehung von Leben lässt sich aber nur spekulieren. Dagegen gibt es gesicherte Erkenntnisse zur Entwicklung der Lebewesen. ARTENVIELFALT UND ÖKOLOGIE Die ungeheure Vielfalt der... Read more

Was ist Leben? - Bauplan und Evolution - Abridged

By: Bertold Hock

Narrated by: Bertold Hock

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WAS IST LEBEN? Die Biologie als die Lehre vom Leben gibt Antwort auf die Fragen "Was sind Lebewesen?" und "Wie unterscheidet sich belebte von unbelebter Materie?" SPEICHERUNG UND WEITERGABE DER GENETISCHEN INFORMATION Der Bauplan der Lebewesen liegt in der DNA verschlüsselt. Diese wird von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben. Der... Read more

The Second John McPhee Reader, Part One

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, and Assembling California punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice. Whether he's working for a... Read more

Rising from the Plains

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year journey. During that time, John McPhee, author of 25 books and noted writer for the New Yorker, crisscrossed the United States, roughly following the 40th parallel. The geological insights and wonderful descriptions McPhee packed into his accounts of these trips earned his remarkable book a... Read more

The Republic: Book VII

By: Plato

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With that statement, Plato - one of the greatest thinkers in the history of mankind - introduces one of his of most important philosophical constructs: the... Read more

To See Every Bird on Earth

By: Dan Koeppel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Koeppel's obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal.... Read more

Stealing God's Thunder

By: Philip Dray

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning... Read more

Tell Me Where It Hurts

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It all begins at 2:47 a.m. Then over one twenty-four-hour period, Dr. Trout fights for the life of a ten-year-old German shepherd, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along... Read more

Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1831, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York convinced that the democratic spirit America had embraced would eventually spread across Europe. Democracy in America, a treatise on democratic government written from his fresh perspective as an outsider, is now a classic document of political history. Read more

Physics of the Impossible

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.

One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical... Read more

The Second John McPhee Reader, Part Two

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice. Whether he's profiling a northern Maine game warden... Read more

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track

By: Richard P. Feynman & Timothy Ferris

Narrated by: Johanna Parker & Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber--Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track-collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters-offers an unprecedented look... Read more

The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

During the five-year voyage of the Beagle, the young naturalist Darwin collected some of the scientific evidence that led to his ideas on volution and natural selection. Read more

The Weather Makers

By: Tim Flannery

Narrated by: Drew De Carvalho

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world's foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a "powerful and persuasive" work that is "sure to provoke strong reaction," The Weather Makers is among the finest examinations of climate change ever written. Originally skeptical of global... Read more

On Truth

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and... Read more

The Philosophical Dictionary

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

-A collection of Voltaire's ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development-wise and witty entries on subjects as diverse as atheism and kissing. Read more