Science & Technology audiobooks

Agile Database Development

By: Scott Ambler

Narrated by: Scott Ambler

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Data is clearly an important aspect of software-based systems; yet, many agile development teams are struggling to involve data professionals within their projects. The Agile Data (AD) methodology defines a philosophical framework for data-oriented activities within agile projects, defining ways that application developers and data professionals... Read more

Extreme Scrum

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Think you've heard it all? How about this one: a high-risk application development and systems integration project where the team is being asked to pull off something that has never been done before -- anywhere. The team is made up of over 200 people in 17 cities in four countries. With only five months to complete the seemingly impossible task,... Read more

Tao Te King

By: Lao Tseu

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Tao Te King, traduit souvent pas Livre de la joie et de la vertu, fut considéré comme le texte fondateur de l'école, puis de la religion taoiste. Son auteur, Lao Tseu, serait né au VIème siècle avant J-C, mais rien n'établit clairement son existence. Il aurait été contemporain de Confucius et c'est en réponse aux principes de ce maître qu'il... Read more

What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage

By: Amy Sutherland

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life?The next time her husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin... Read more

In Suspect Terrain

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others—a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern... Read more

A Good Dog

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collie-intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. From the moment Katz and Orson meet, when the dog springs from his traveling crate at Newark airport and panics the baggage claim area, their relationship is deep,... Read more

Model of Dinosaur Exhibit

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh renovated its dinosaur exhibit to provide a more realistic picture of how dinosaurs lived and interacted with one another more than 100 million years ago. Read more

Raus aus der Zwangsfalle - Hörbuch

By: Katarina Stengler

Narrated by: Christina Lederhaas, Karl Menrad & Alexander Ts...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Gesundheit zum Hören! In rund 73 Minuten lernen Sie von der führenden Expertin alles Wichtige zum Thema Zwangserkrankungen. Informiert umfassend, spannend aufbereitet, sofort umsetzbar: Selbsthilfe zum Hören. GRUNDLAGEN 01 Einführung 2:21 02 Wenn Zwänge das Leben bestimmen 5:23 03 Beispiel eines Patienten mit Zwangserkrankung ... Read more

The Faith

By: Charles W. Colson & Harold Fickett III

Narrated by: Charles W. Colson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Rightly understood and rightly communicated, the Christian faith is one of great joy. It is an invitation to God's kingdom, where tears are replaced by laughter and longing hearts find their purpose and their home.This is the heart of the gospel: God's search to reclaim us and love us as his own. But have we truly grasped this? Those of us who... Read more

Second Lives

By: Tim Guest

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Second Lives takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking-glass as Tim Guest investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the twenty-first century: virtual lives.Each week, thirty-five to fifty million people worldwide abandon reality for virtual worlds. They create a virtual body, work virtual jobs, and make virtual... Read more

A Short History of Medicine

By: F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank GonzAlez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive healthcare practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today. As with all Modern Library Chronicles, A Short History of Medicine is a wonderful primer for anyone... Read more

Living Authentically And Simply

By: David Wann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing to consume excessively as a way of life is neither desirable nor possible, if we care about future generations. It seems clear that we need to alter our patterns of consumption in order to preserve and sustain our precious natural resources. David Wann suggests that if we change a few key priorities, many of our material wants will... Read more

Helmut Schmidt: Abschiedsrede Im Bundestag am 10.09.1986 - Abridged

By: Helmut Schmidt

Narrated by: Helmut Schmidt

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine Ära geht zu Ende: Am 10. September 1986 betritt Helmut Schmdit zum letzten Mal das Rednerpult des Bonner Bundestages. In einer zweistündigen Rede läßt er Vergangenes Revue passieren, kommentiert die Gegenwart und wirft den Blick auf die Zukunft. Wohl kaum ein Politiker konnte so nachhaltig mit Freund und Feind ins Gericht gehen wie der... Read more

The Final Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly & Ray Atherton

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial and condemnation of Socrates (469-399 B.C.) is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline. Plato, Socrates' most devoted disciple, has preserved for us the essence of the teaching and logical system of question-and-answer of western civilization's purest intellect in this sequence of four works: Euthyphro, The... Read more

Evolution

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the GalApagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and... Read more

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound... Read more

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

By: David Shields

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an... Read more

Staring at the Sun

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Gregory Gorton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those... Read more

The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus

By: Jacques Cousteau & Susan Schiefelbein

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.



Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous... Read more

The Histories

By: Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in AD 69 and ending with the... Read more

Your Inner Fish

By: Neil Shubin

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today’s most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.

Neil... Read more

The Medusa and the Snail

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis Thomas has been said to be a philosopher who uses the language of biology. His fascinating observations on the quirkiness of the world's infinite creations causes listeners to ponder the workings of the cosmos through the most microscopic of life forms.The medusa, a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in... Read more

Group Genius

By: Keith Sawyer

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong?
In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of... Read more