Science & Technology audiobooks

Fatal Deception - Abridged

By: Michael Bowker

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At first glance, the events in this audiobook may seem equal parts science fiction and legal thriller. Unfortunately, this is a true story of blinding greed, cruel deceit, unfortunate circumstance, and powerful human tragedy. It has villains and heroes, but it does not yet have a good ending.
Something's wrong in Libby, Montana. Residents are... Read more

Linked

By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks,... Read more

Lost Discoveries

By: Dick Teresi

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy,... Read more

The Physics of Christmas

By: Roger Highfield

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Can reindeer fly? Why is Santa Claus fat? Could scientists clone the perfect Christmas tree? Was the Star of Bethlehem really a comet? Why is Rudolph’s nose red? How does Santa manage to deliver presents to an estimated 842 million households in a single night? What could we do to guarantee a white Christmas every year?

These are among the... Read more

The Science of Superheroes

By: Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Science of Superheroes takes a lighthearted but clear-headed look at the real science that underlies some of the greatest superhero comic books of all time, including Spider-Man, Batman, Fantastic Four, and many more. Each chapter presents the story of the origin of one or more superheroes and asks intriguing questions that lead to... Read more

Seeing in the Dark

By: Timothy Ferris

Narrated by: Timothy Ferris

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a major revolution sweeping astronomy as amateur astronomers, linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. In Seeing in the Dark, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the eye and incites the mind. He reports... Read more

An Ethiopian Heroine's Story

By: Bogaletch Gebre

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more

The Demon in the Freezer - Abridged

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more

Finders Keepers

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Mark Bowden

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars?
Joey Coyle was down and out -- the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks... Read more

The Measure of All Things - Abridged

By: Ken Alder

Narrated by: Brian Jennings

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their... Read more

Entanglement

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them?  Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.

Entanglement tells the... Read more

Last Train to Paradise - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Abridged

By: Josh Smith & William Nothdurft

Narrated by: Michael C. Hall

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-05: Soil And Soul the Future of Farming

By: Michael Ableman & Joel Salatin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical-dependent megafarms? Poor nutrition is one cost, and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media

By: Peter Montague, Mark Sommer & Elise Hoeg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Read more

Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more

Bioneers Series 3-08: Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved

By: Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson & Terri Swea...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct-action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-07: Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry

By: Diane Wilson & Jack Matson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on a Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-06: Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Elaine Ingham, Michael Pollan & Peter Montague

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-01: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry

By: Carolyn Raffensperger & Sharyle Patton

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-04: Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs

By: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy

By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected

By: Michael Lerner, Matthew Fox & Joanna Macy, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic

By: Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets & Lynn Margulis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant... Read more