Science & Technology audiobooks

The Geography of Bliss

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty,... Read more

El Profeta - Abridged

By: Khalil Gilbran

Narrated by: Hernando Ivan Cano

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El Profeta, un repositorio rico en sabiduria y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de personas. Con poesia frugal y bellamente resonante, El Profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida. Read more

The End of Faith

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith. This important and timely work delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

By: Jonathan Wells

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Darwinism—like Marxism and Freudianism before it—is headed for extinctionIn the 1925 Scopes trial, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to allow the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. Seventy-five years later, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU sued to prevent the teaching of an alternative to Darwin's theory known... Read more

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Abridged

By: Paul Reps

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this collection of inspirational writings, novice and experienced practitioners are treated to four key works that rank high in the Zen canon: 101 Zen Stories recounts actual experiences with Zen that span five centuries. The Gateless Gate is a 13th-century collection of mind problems used in the practice of Zen. Ten Bulls is a 12th-century... Read more

The How of Happiness - Abridged

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more

The Memory Doctor

By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more

Last Child in the Woods

By: Richard Louv

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times and Washington Post contributor Richard Louv is the widely respected author of seven previous books. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv illustrates how the alienation of today's children from nature can lead to a host of childhood disorders-and he offers effective methods for healing this rift. "This book is an absolute must-read... Read more

The Transformative Power Of Beauty

By: J. Ruth Gendler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty is a quality that defies definition. You know it when you see it, but may not know why one object looks beautiful while another does not. J. Ruth Gendler looks beyond definitions to explore the feeling of beauty, and the wisdom that makes it possible to transform the world to a place that’s more beautiful than we imagined it could be. Read more

The Spiritual Brain

By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more

The Head Trip

By: Jeff Warren

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more

The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up

By: Rich Blake

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping hand, Donny fell into a vegetative state... Read more

Weihnachten ... und es ward wieder Licht - Abridged

By: Harald Lesch & Thomas Schwarz

Narrated by: Harald Lesch & Thomas Schwarz

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Irgendwie geschah es wirklich: Jesus Christus wurde geboren. Ein Gespräch zwischen Theologie und Physik Thomas Schwartz und Harald Lesch nehmen die Weihnachtsgeschichte auseinander - theologisch - historisch - naturwissenschaftlich. Am Ende bleibt die Botschaft des Kindes in der Krippe: " Fürchtet Euch nicht!" Read more

A Life Decoded

By: J. Craig Venter

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing... Read more

Good Dog. Stay.

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed."

So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by... Read more

A Contract with the Earth

By: Newt Gingrich & Terry L. Maple

Narrated by: Callista Gingrich

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth. They declare a need for bipartisan environmentalism—a new era of environmental stewardship with principles that they believe most Americans will... Read more

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.



Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.



With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively... Read more

Marketing for Dummies 2nd Ed. - Abridged

By: Alexander Hiam

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you want to introduce a new product or jumpstart your existing marketing plans, this friendly guide can help. Packed with expert tips, from identifying customers to using online resources to size up competitors, this updated edition of Marketing For Dummies leads you step by step through the four P's of marketing—product, pricing,... Read more

A Practical and Accessible Strategy On Global Warming

By: David Gershon

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate scientists tell us that we have less than ten years to dramatically cut our carbon emissions before we reach a point of no return. Yet most of the large-scale solutions on the table will take far longer than that to implement. Fortunately, necessity is the mother of invention, and among the climate change pioneers there are those who... Read more

The Man Who Knew Infinity

By: Robert Kanigel

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk named Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most remarkable collaborations... Read more

You: Staying Young - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Personal Development

Now substantially updated with a groundbreaking new introduction on telomeres, bioidentical hormones, and more, Drs. Oz and Roizen—the bestselling coauthors of the blockbuster YOU series—present a new edition of their #1 New York Times bestselling indispensable guide to maintaining vibrant... Read more

Soul to Soul

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Gary Zukav

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

In Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.

Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights... Read more

Musicophilia

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more