Science & Technology audiobooks

The Global Wisdom Society

By: Winston Franklin & Chris Bache

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The power of the individual, standing together with others of like mind in community and working for creative change, serves as the focal point of this spirited dialogue about the rise of a global wisdom society. Read more

Emotional Alchemy

By: Tara Bennett-Goleman & Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have coping strategies that let us adapt to adversity. Yet as we grow older these thought patterns are no longer needed and we can even pay a price if we continue to use them. Learn about these patterns, called schemas, that hide our mental habits and shatter our peace of mind. Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

Engaging Creativity / Riding Change

By: David La Chapelle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more

The Wonder of Mysticism

By: Wilson Van Dusen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style.  His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchell—the acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Ching—has produced a... Read more

World War 3.0 - Abridged

By: Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are considered healthy emotions, corporate violence... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You Be Relaxed & Awake During Medical Procedures

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio is a soothing, calming guided meditation for medical procedures, designed at the request of Kaiser Permanente to help patients undergoing cardiac catheterization feel more relaxed and confident during their procedure. It then was adapted for use for a whole range of potentially uncomfortable or unpleasant procedures where it is... Read more

Sei du selbst und verändere die Welt

By: Dain Heer

Narrated by: Christian Trabert

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

SEI DU SELBST UND VERÄNDERE DIE WELT
Dieses Buch ist eine wahre Schatzkiste voller neuartiger Werkzeuge für die Träumer dieser Welt – die Menschen, die wissen, dass etwas anderes möglich ist, aber bisher nie das Werkzeug dazu hatten, das zu kreieren, wonach sie sich wirklich sehnten. Du!
Durch die einzigartige Betrachtungsweise von Dr. Dain Heer... Read more

Escritos Y Proclamas: Simon Bolivar

By: Simon Bolivar

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El pensamiento vivo del Libertador. Simon Bolivar, el Libertador de America por antonomasia es justamente admirado, pero hay que decir que mucha gente lo considera un gran guerrero, un habil militar, pero olvidan las ideas que inspiraron a Bolivar, para convertirse en estadista guia de nuestro continente. Su prosa lucida y sus ideas se reflejan... Read more

The Power of Apology - Abridged

By: Beverly Engel

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thorough and lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to ask forgiveness and to forgive."
-Publishers Weekly

A finalist in the Books for a Better Life Awards competition!

Discover the healing power of apology and put its magic to work in your life

Do you have a difficult time... Read more

Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean - Abridged

By: Linda Cobb

Narrated by: Linda Cobb

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Talking Dirty
with the
Queen of Clean
LET HER ROYAL HIGHNESS OF HOUSEKEEPING SHOW YOU HOW TO TURN YOUR HOME INTO A SPARKLING PALACE -- IN NO TIME AT ALL!
Step aside, Martha...Here comes the Queen of Clean, and her down-to-earth housekeeping tips for those of us who live in the real world.
The Queen loves to talk housework. But she hates to do... Read more

God's Equation

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?

In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.

In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that... Read more

Earth Wisdom

By: Brooke Medicine Eagle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient, yet new and practical ways of living in harmony with Earth's rhythms provide the focus here with Brooke Medicine Eagle, an American native Earthkeeper, teacher, healer, songwriter, ceremonial leader and sacred ecologist. Read more

Deep To The Bone

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Woodman shares her story of "dying into life" through cancer. These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her "bones" and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. "I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame...their game is power and my... Read more

How Digital is Your Business?

By: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Narrated by: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison are back with another brilliant and practical book dealing with the big issues that keep the managers of every company awake at night: How do I keep my company from being "Amazoned," and how do I "anticipate my competitors, launch a preemptive digital strike, and completely change the landscape of my... Read more

Awakening the Buddhist Heart - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Life is about relationship-the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet imminent in each of us. When our relationships are good, we feel good; when they are bad, we feel awful. Let's accept it: We need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to... Read more

Mean Genes

By: Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Narrated by: Pat Woodruff

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local

By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more

Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more

Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance

By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more