Science & Technology audiobooks

Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged

By: Saira Shah

Narrated by: Saira Shah

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more

Preserving Life On Earth

By: Thomas Lovejoy

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovejoy encourages us to stay optimistic with a grounding in global, environmental facts."This really should be about opportunity for American industry, new technologies, new energy, and American ingenuity.  [It's a time] to find the solutions rather than being viewed as a problem for the American economy.  It is a fact that it is a problem for... Read more

YOU: The Owner's Manual - Abridged

By: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works... Read more

The Dance of Connection - Abridged

By: Harriet Lerner

Narrated by: Harriet Lerner

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Harriet Lerner focuses on the challenge and the importance of being able to express one's ""authentic voice"" in intimate relationships.The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice. Despite decades of assertiveness training and lots of good advice about communicating with... Read more

The Lady and the Panda - Abridged

By: Vicki Croke

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine... Read more

Lost Triumph

By: Tom Carhart

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war.



The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's... Read more

The Murderer Next Door

By: David M. Buss

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are... Read more

The Genius Factory

By: David Plotz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more

Treachery

By: Bill Gertz

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this explosive book, New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uncovers the most significant threat to US national security today: America's enemies—including radical terrorist groups—are arming themselves with the world's most dangerous weapons. And they're doing it with the help of America's supposed allies. Worst of all, the United... Read more

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Hugh Mann

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis, slavery, and education. Through a series of essays, Sowell presents an in-depth look at key... Read more

West with the Night

By: Beryl Markham

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which... Read more

The Great Hurricane

By: Cherie Burns

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of September 20, 1938, the news on the radio was full of Hitler’s pending invasion of Czechoslovakia. In a matter of hours, however, a hurricane of unprecedented force would tear through one of the wealthiest and most populated stretches of coastline in America, obliterating communities from Long Island to Providence, destroying... Read more

Back in Action

By: David Rozelle

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more

In the Shadow of Fame

By: Sue Erikson Bloland

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, this is the intimate story of a daughter’s struggle to develop a sense of self in a family—and a world—in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being.Sue Erikson Bloland struggled from an early age to reconcile the public view of her father as a... Read more

The Denial of Death

By: Ernest Becker

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing... Read more

Wolves and Honey

By: Susan Brind Morrow

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Our complex relationship to the natural world is revealed through the unusual lives and deaths of a trapper and a beekeeper.Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world.Prompted by the emotional loss... Read more

The Secret Language of Dolphins

By: Patricia St.John

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St.John broke new ground in opening little-known worlds, all in pursuit of what she fiercely believed in: learning the languages of those who have been unreachable. Using what she has discovered from her years of work with dolphins, St.John was able to break through to autistic children. Her... Read more

Heidegger in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was Wittgenstein's linguistic analysis. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and his fundamental question: "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question was beyond the reach of reason and was the primary "given" of every individual life. To... Read more

Plato in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but... Read more

Pointing from the Grave

By: Samantha Weinberg

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the remarkable and gripping true story of a murderer and his victim, and of the tiny molecule that linked their fates. It is both the history of a science overlaid with human drama and a human tragedy inextricably entwined with science. It is about two lives made and destroyed by DNA—and by each other.In 1984, Helena Greenwood, a young... Read more

Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished.Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else—metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself—was... Read more

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and... Read more

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided... Read more

Scourge

By: Jonathan B. Tucker

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this... Read more