Science & Technology audiobooks

Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local

By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more

Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more

Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance

By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design

By: Mark Hertsgaard & Francesca Vietor

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits. Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

Ethnic Diversity:  A Time of Change

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley for over two decades, reflects on the past and the future of America's expanding ethnic diversity and how this diversity will affect the way we relate as individuals and as a nation to the rest of the world. Read more

A Galactic Adventure

By: Ken Croswell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the first grade, Ken Croswell, an astronomer and Ph.D. from Harvard, has been totally fascinated by our solar system. Get caught up in his extraordinary enthusiasm as he discusses everything from Black Holes, brown dwarfs, the Milky Way, the red giant, quasars and collisions with floating matter. Read more

The Power of Intention

By: Marilyn Schlitz & Elisabeth Targ

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Elisabeth Targ, M.D. and Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. discuss how the research and study of consciousness has progressed steadily to a new era of human possibilities. Read more

The 10-Second Internet Manager

By: Mark Breier

Narrated by: Mark Breier

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

All managers today are Internet managers, whether they're ready to admit it or not.  It doesn't matter if their business is large or small, old economy or new. In a faster, electronic, and more direct economy, every manager needs help. And here it is. The 10-Second Internet Manager offers quick, no-nonsense tips, tactics, and strategies for... Read more

Nothing Like It In The World

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more

Nothing Like it In The World - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more

The Gift of Giving

By: Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from her grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kaballah, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., tells with wit and inspiration of her emergence from a socialistic, atheistic upbringing to a life and medical practice filled with grace, mystery and wonder. Read more

Balance Through Bodywork

By: Jon Schreiber, Angela Porter & Denise Berezonsky

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Schreiber, America’s foremost Breema specialist and director of The Breema Center in Oakland, CA, discusses this unique bodywork based on nine universal principles that nurture the mind and body, guiding one towards a unified and harmonious state of well being. Read more

His Bright Light

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Traci Godfrey

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.

“This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race... Read more

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

By: Stephen Hawking

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thirteen extraordinary essays shed new light on the mystery of the universe—and on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time.

“[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far reaches of the cosmos, but into the inner... Read more

Healing and the Mind

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to... Read more

The Courage to Be Rich

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Suze Orman

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and financial expert Suze Orman helped millions of Americans turn toward their money and embark on a true path to wealth with her #1 bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and her national bestseller You've Earned It, Don't Lose It.  Now she returns, with a book that goes beyond the fundamentals of her earlier work in... Read more

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba - Abridged

By: Jacki Lyden

Narrated by: Jacki Lyden

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world's most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing up in a small Midwestern town,... Read more

How to Raise Your Self-Esteem - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Branden

Narrated by: Nathaniel Branden

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Now, one of America's foremost psychologists and a pioneer in self-esteem development offers a step-by-step guide... Read more

How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty - Abridged

By: Patti Breitman & Connie Hatch

Narrated by: Connie Hatch & Patti Breitman

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"To this book I say yes, yes, yes!"
—from the Foreword by Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Find more time and energy for the things you love to do—learn to say no without feeling guilty!

The simple word "no" is often the most difficult to say. Yet anyone can develop the skills to say no with confidence, kindness, and peace of... Read more

A Walk in the Woods - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times 
 
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more

Awakening the Buddha Within - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.

Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment.  In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a... Read more

Instant Emotional Healing - Abridged

By: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou

Narrated by: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The revolutionary, highly effective technique that allows you to free yourself from emotional hang-ups—forever!

Does your fear of flying make travel with friends and family impossible? Are you having trouble coping with the loss of a loved one or forgiving yourself for a mistake you made long ago? For the millions of people who suffer from... Read more