Science & Technology audiobooks

The Big Year

By: Mark Obmascik

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.

In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more

The Anatomy of Hope

By: Jerome Groopman

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The... Read more

Visits from the Afterlife - Abridged

By: Sylvia Browne

Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne recounts her encounters with ghosts and explains this spiritual phenomena in the same way she explained the spirituality in dreams with SYLVIA BROWNE'S BOOK OF DREAMS. In VISITS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, she visits haunted homes, explains the meanings of visions and nightmares, considers why ghosts... Read more

The Flyers

By: Noah Adams

Narrated by: Noah Adams

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I’d entered the black-and-white photograph I’d been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there’s a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and... Read more

Out on a Leash

By: Shirley MacLaine

Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love.

Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of... Read more

A Book of Five Rings - Abridged

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Stanley Ralph Ross

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic book of strategy A Book of Five Rings is now available on CD.

Miyamoto Musashi was renowned in his own time as an invincible warrior, a master artisan, an author, and philosopher. Today, his philosophy is still revered by the Japanese and used as a guide for daily decision-making—and business strategy. He wrote A Book of Five Rings... Read more

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Abridged

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Ralph Blum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Joseph Cambell transformed forever the way we view mythology, as he wove traditional wisdom together with the modern struggle for identity and spiritual depth. This adaptation of his all-time bestseller gives new life to his brilliant poetic vision. The Adventure of the Hero, part one, describes the universal image of the hero and shows that... Read more

Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School - Abridged

By: Rachel Greenwald

Narrated by: Rachel Greenwald

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Harvard MBA shares her revolutionary program for using marketing tactics to find a husband after age 35.

This is “Marriage 911”! For many single women over the age of 35, the rules for finding the right mate have changed. There are fewer eligible men and fewer opportunities to meet them. Now successful dating coach Rachel Greenwald shares her... Read more

One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth

By: Corbin Harney

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Come and sit with this wise and gentle-spoken Western Shoshone elder and spiritual leader. You'll hear stories of his childhood in a white man's world, and teachings he learned from his grandmother. In the measured words of a wise man, he explains the hazards we face in a nuclear world, and how we can live respectfully on this one mother earth. Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Abridged

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

The Borderlands of Science

By: Michael Shermer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more

Global Spiritual Activism

By: Starhawk

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a society that seems unsure of what to do with a "witch," Starhawk has remarkably and quietly attained broad recognition as an authority on Goddess religion. She shares the excitement and hope she derives from the dedication of a new generation of activists who devote their lives to fostering global transformation. Read more

Throw the Rascals Out

By: Jim Hightower

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Like a modern day Thomas Paine, America's populist and rabble-rouser speaks out for the rest of us, as contrasted to the ruling elite.  Hightower rises up against assorted robber barons, profiteers, empire builders, supremacists, militants and the neo-cons in our midst, that have amassed domineering power and run roughshod over common folks and... Read more

The Soul of A Dolphin

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have an animal so advanced that being around them creates a kind of bliss in us, instead of enslaving that animal, why not just borrow their beautiful, free sounds? Brenda Peterson is a gifted nature writer who has spent her life observing and interacting with animals in profound ways. Read more

The Art of Happiness at Work

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler

Narrated by: Howard C. Cutler & BD Wong

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time since The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has teamed up with psychiatrist Howard Cutler to continue the discussion about what makes life meaningful.
In conversations with the Dalai Lama over the past several years, Howard Cutler has asked the questions we all want answered about how to find happiness in the... Read more

Creating True Peace - Abridged

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Creating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deep-rooted crisis of violence and our feelings of helplessness, victimization, and fear.

As a world-renowned writer, scholar, spiritual leader, and Zen Buddhist monk,... Read more

Exploring The Dark Night Of The Soul

By: Marabai Starr

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Starr gets personal, diving deep into her own journey, sharing her pain and passion of the dark night of the soul, and the refuge she found in exploring the wisdom of these ancient texts. “The dark night of the soul is about the spiritual value of suffering and the stripping away of everything we have ever believed and relied upon.” Starr shares... Read more

The Death of Right and Wrong - Abridged

By: Tammy Bruce

Narrated by: Tammy Bruce

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.

But if you’ve always... Read more

Soul Capital: Wealth to Live By

By: Danah Zohar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What would it take to shift our culture away from anger, fear and greed, and toward the higher motivations of exploration and cooperation? What if five or ten percent of people could commit their authentic selves to a life of higher service? Danah Zohar believes that's all it would take to save us from the violence and destruction that face the... Read more

Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek... Read more

Chinese-Americans: A History

By: Iris Chang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Chinese Americans have been an integral thread in the tapestry of American history since the California gold rush of 1848-49. The fascinating story of the Chinese in America is also one of the long struggle for civil liberties, an all too familiar refrain to virtually all the ethnic groups who have settled in this country over the centuries, and... Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

Coal

By: Barbara Freese

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of... Read more

The Path Between the Seas - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the... Read more