Science & Technology audiobooks

Engaging Creativity / Riding Change

By: David La Chapelle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more

The Wonder of Mysticism

By: Wilson Van Dusen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style.  His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchell—the acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Ching—has produced a... Read more

World War 3.0 - Abridged

By: Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are considered healthy emotions, corporate violence... Read more

Sei du selbst und verändere die Welt

By: Dain Heer

Narrated by: Christian Trabert

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

SEI DU SELBST UND VERÄNDERE DIE WELT
Dieses Buch ist eine wahre Schatzkiste voller neuartiger Werkzeuge für die Träumer dieser Welt – die Menschen, die wissen, dass etwas anderes möglich ist, aber bisher nie das Werkzeug dazu hatten, das zu kreieren, wonach sie sich wirklich sehnten. Du!
Durch die einzigartige Betrachtungsweise von Dr. Dain Heer... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You Be Relaxed & Awake During Medical Procedures

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio is a soothing, calming guided meditation for medical procedures, designed at the request of Kaiser Permanente to help patients undergoing cardiac catheterization feel more relaxed and confident during their procedure. It then was adapted for use for a whole range of potentially uncomfortable or unpleasant procedures where it is... Read more

Escritos Y Proclamas: Simon Bolivar

By: Simon Bolivar

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El pensamiento vivo del Libertador. Simon Bolivar, el Libertador de America por antonomasia es justamente admirado, pero hay que decir que mucha gente lo considera un gran guerrero, un habil militar, pero olvidan las ideas que inspiraron a Bolivar, para convertirse en estadista guia de nuestro continente. Su prosa lucida y sus ideas se reflejan... Read more

The Power of Apology - Abridged

By: Beverly Engel

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thorough and lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to ask forgiveness and to forgive."
-Publishers Weekly

A finalist in the Books for a Better Life Awards competition!

Discover the healing power of apology and put its magic to work in your life

Do you have a difficult time... Read more

Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean - Abridged

By: Linda Cobb

Narrated by: Linda Cobb

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Talking Dirty
with the
Queen of Clean
LET HER ROYAL HIGHNESS OF HOUSEKEEPING SHOW YOU HOW TO TURN YOUR HOME INTO A SPARKLING PALACE -- IN NO TIME AT ALL!
Step aside, Martha...Here comes the Queen of Clean, and her down-to-earth housekeeping tips for those of us who live in the real world.
The Queen loves to talk housework. But she hates to do... Read more

God's Equation

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?

In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.

In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that... Read more

Earth Wisdom

By: Brooke Medicine Eagle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient, yet new and practical ways of living in harmony with Earth's rhythms provide the focus here with Brooke Medicine Eagle, an American native Earthkeeper, teacher, healer, songwriter, ceremonial leader and sacred ecologist. Read more

Deep To The Bone

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Woodman shares her story of "dying into life" through cancer. These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her "bones" and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. "I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame...their game is power and my... Read more

How Digital is Your Business?

By: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Narrated by: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison are back with another brilliant and practical book dealing with the big issues that keep the managers of every company awake at night: How do I keep my company from being "Amazoned," and how do I "anticipate my competitors, launch a preemptive digital strike, and completely change the landscape of my... Read more

Awakening the Buddhist Heart - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Life is about relationship-the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet imminent in each of us. When our relationships are good, we feel good; when they are bad, we feel awful. Let's accept it: We need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to... Read more

Mean Genes

By: Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Narrated by: Pat Woodruff

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

By: Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann & Wes Jackson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-09: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land

By: J.L. Chestnut

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-08: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine

By: Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Susan Griffin, Guji Co...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-06: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life

By: Dave Foreman & Dennis Martinez

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-10: First Nations and the Future of the Earth

By: Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D. & John...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers" who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship -- giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement

By: Michael Lerner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who doesn't know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. Read more