Science & Technology audiobooks

Einstein - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

The Wild Trees - Abridged

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: Richard Preston

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained -- the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed... Read more

The High Road to Love and Light

By: Sandra Ingerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you like to radiate positive thoughts and shield yourself from those that are destructive? Shamanic teacher and author, Sandra Ingerman, beautifully delves into how our thoughts create our lives and impact others. She works with the ancient principle of alchemy, turning heavy-leaded consciousness into light-hearted golden... Read more

Better

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we... Read more

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that natural selection among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity. Twenty-one years passed between that epiphany and publication of On the Origin of Species. The human drama and scientific basis of that time constitute a... Read more

Darwin's Origin of Species

By: Janet Browne

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, award-winning biographer Janet Browne delves into... Read more

Dog Years

By: Mark Doty

Narrated by: Mark Doty

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become... Read more

Too Far From Home

By: Chris Jones

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer space

For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine fourteen-week... Read more

Too Far From Home - Abridged

By: Chris Jones

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all too... Read more

Rediscover Your Center, Reclaim Your Joy

By: Richard Moss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how you can move through your days with greater peace and joy. Dr. Moss has developed a map of the ways we lose our awareness and let suffering take hold of our lives. He helps us find the way back to our center and the ability to be in the present, so that pain is transformed and we rediscover our compassion-for ourselves, for others, and... Read more

How We Die - Abridged

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the state of health care and... Read more

The Qur'an

By: Bruce Lawrence

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Few books in history have been as important or as poorly understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an is the unmediated word of Allah: a ritual, political, and legal authority, an ethical and spiritual guide, and a literary masterpiece. It is revered by Muslims throughout the world, in whom... Read more

The No Asshole Rule - Abridged

By: Robert I. Sutton

Narrated by: Robert I. Sutton

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work.

"What an asshole!"

How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford... Read more

Survival of the Sickest

By: Sharon Moalem & Jonathan Prince

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on—or off?Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to... Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the... Read more

The Making of the Fittest

By: Sean B. Carroll

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.



DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed—it... Read more

Healing Your Body Through Inner Peace

By: Deb Shapiro

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Deb Shapiro has found that by looking at physical ailments you can discover clues to unresolved emotions and old memories that you have yet to release. She takes you on an exploration of the ways you can heal your body by exploring your mind. Read more

Discovering Your Greatest Opportunities

By: James B. Swartz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Swartz discovered many common traits in the world's most successful people that you'll find encouraging. For example, you're never too old, dismal failure is often followed by extraordinary achievement, and taking time off might turn on your greatest inspiration. Best of all, achieving your greatest success may be easier than you expect. He... Read more

How to Improve Your Memory

By: Harry Lorayne

Narrated by: Harry Lorayne

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Increase your powers of recall and retention with Harry Lorayne's famous Memory Development Program

How to Improve Your Memory teaches you proved techniques to help remember phone numbers, prices, appointments, speeches, lists, and much more. By applying the Lorayne link and peg system of memory development you will be able to:

* Better your... Read more

Objectivism

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliantly conceived and well-organized book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976, prepared with the help of Ayn Rand and entitled “The Philosophy of Objectivism.” Ayn Rand said of these lectures: “Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my philosophy, Dr. Peikoff’s course is the only authorized... Read more

For the New Intellectual

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn RandOne of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a... Read more

Capitalism

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the... Read more

Final Exam

By: Pauline Chen

Narrated by: Pauline W. Chen

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's... Read more

iWoz

By: Gina Smith & Steve Wozniak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.



Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a... Read more