Science & Technology audiobooks

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special.
An American Moment with Charles Kuralt -- a timeless series of television essays about uniquely American people, places, and ideas --... Read more

Lost Boys - Abridged

By: James Garbarino

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the first book to help parents truly understand youth violence and stop it before it explodes, national expert Dr. James Garbarino reveals how to identify children who are at risk and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior.
After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urban war zones of large cities, violence by young... Read more

Living the Wild Life

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At a meeting in 1962, a young woman turned the scientific community upside down with the announcement that chimpanzees make tools in the wild.  Jane Goodall’s discovery was  the beginning of thirty years of patient and intimate primate observation in the wilds of Kenya; years that redefined what it is to be a human being. Read more

Eco World:  What Price Fun?

By: Mark Hertsgaard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, Mark Hertsgaard began an odyssey that lasted six years and spanned nineteen countries.  His was a journey into the gripping truth about the escalating environmental crisis.   Here, in his remarkable account of his travels, he faces the hard realities of nuclear technology, overpopulation, excessive consumerism and greed, with heart and... Read more

Noble Thoughts / Noble Life

By: Satish Kumar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Satish Kumar, whose inner journeys proved deep as his travels were long, tells you stories about love, courage, and the triumph of the human spirit in his unpretentious yet compelling style. Read more

Rocks of Ages

By: Stephen Gould

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the Renaissance, people have been plagued by the tense battle between science and religion. Revered evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould suggests instead of choosing between the two, why not opt for a golden mean that accords dignity and distinction to each realm? With intelligence and clarity, Gould renders the complex simple and sheds new... Read more

Great Questions, The:  Mind, Consciousness and Meaning

By: Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, internationally-renowned philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and his son Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, spent ten days in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu discussing the most fundamental questions of human existence. Read more

Biology and Destiny

By: Kenny Ausubel & Nina Simons

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the molecular world of biology, where mushrooms have built a communication network that rivals the Internet and "everything is somebody's lunch."  In this dialogue you'll meet two brilliant "bioneers," Kenny Ausubel and his partner, Nina Simons, who are using nature to heal nature in the battle to restore the Earth from "suicide genes" and... Read more

Chanting:  The Sound of Spirit

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic of chanting has a calming, awakening and sometimes even consciousness-altering mystery about it.  From singing hymns together in church to learning nursery songs in kindergarten, we’ve all experienced the joy and resonance chanting can bring.  In his early days as a rock musician, Robert Gass tapped into "the tribal music of the... Read more

Hyperwars - Abridged

By: Bruce Judson

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The effects of the online revolution are being felt far beyond Silicon Valley as consumers and businesses shift buying patterns to take advantage of the convenience and cost savings that are available over the Web. The term "HyperWars" describes the constant battle for survival of the fittest that reflects the reality of business today. Managers... Read more

Sustaining Earth Through Natural Capitalism

By: Paul Hawken

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With every living system on Earth in danger, is it possible to create profitable businesses that do not destroy the natural world around us?  Paul Hawken says not only are business and government reasonable agents for such change, but the only vehicles that can make this happen. Read more

Y2K, the Problem and the Promise

By: Jay Earley & Tom Atlee

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At midnight on December 31 of 1999, you might have been thinking about something besides New Year’s resolutions as you entered a new century.  You might have been wondering whether the world as you knew it would cease to exist.  Would travel arrangements become an impossibility?  Would your toaster, microwave, car or pacemaker suddenly be out of... Read more

Ustaca Sevmek - İlişki Sanatına Dair Pratik Bir Rehber

By: Don Miguel Ruiz & Janet Mills

Narrated by: Alişan Özkan

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times çok satan "Dört Anlaşma" kitabının yazarından! Spiritüel rehber, guru ve şaman Don Miguel Ruiz, Toltek atalarının kadim bilgeliğini paylaşmaya devam ettiği "Ustaca Sevmek" adlı ikinci kitabı sunmaktadır. Toltekler, atalarının kutsal bilgeliğini kimsenin kötüye kullanmaması için binlerce yıl boyunca bilgilerini dış dünyadan gizli... Read more

The Fast Forward MBA in Technology Management - Abridged

By: Daniel Petrozzo, Richard McGonagle & Richard Cox

Narrated by: Meredith MacRae

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get instant access to cutting-edge ideas and the hard-won wisdom of one of today's leading experts on information technology (IT). Using real-world examples, this audio guide delivers the facts you need to navigate complex IT issues, including:
Which technologies are most important in running a business today
How to manage the use of and direction... Read more

The Age of Spiritual Machines - Abridged

By: Ray Kurzweil

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a... Read more

The Spiritual Art of Speaking

By: Lee Glickstein

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Glickstein believes you may fear speaking because you were not properly listened to as a child--perhaps you were even ridiculed--causing you to lock away your inner speaker; the voice that longs to come out and express your God-self. Read more

Unleashing The Soul

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Woodman believes that facing the intense power of your own heart is the only way to truly connect with other living things. She says we must not be "afraid of the intensity of opening ourselves to our real personhood." Her insight in analyzing ancient folk tales and applying them to current events is intriguing. She will inspire you to get out... Read more

Rocket Boys - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives....And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a... Read more

Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. For more than thirty-five years, he delighted us with his On the Road reports, as an anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, and with bestselling books that include On the Road with Charles Kuralt and Charles Kuralt's America. As... Read more

Tuning Into the Land

By: Diana James, Lee Brade & Leah Brady

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Indigenous people have a powerful remembering for us, because they pull us right back to the land, out of our disembodied heads.  They make us sit on the ground, get our feet dirty again, dance in time to the rhythm of the Earth.  We need to take this back to our own world.  Our task is not to grab knowledge like some kind of trophy, but to... Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 7: From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence

By: Jerry Mander & Helena Norberg-Hodge

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To what extent is the global economy destroying the environment that supports us all? Listen as activist Jerry Mander and Swedish philosopher Helena Norberg-Hodge provide detail on the realities of global commerce, and how to counter its hold on our society. Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 9: The Bioregional Perspective: Discovering Your Natural Community

By: Kirkpatrick Sale, Stephanie Mills, Dick Roy, Je...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How much do we know about the natural bioregion in which we live, and why does it matter? Listen to Jeanne and Dick Roy, Jerry Mander and others as they talk about the challenge of waking up to the realities of the place where we live, to more fully appreciate the world that keeps us alive. Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 3: Deep Questioning: The Eight Principles of Deep Ecology

By: Arne Naess, George Sessions, Doug Tompkins, Fri...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we begin to look at the deeper social, economic and spiritual questions behind the environmental crisis? In this program, Fritjof Capra, Arne Naess, and other environmentalists expand on the radical nature of Deep Ecology. Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 10: Metaphysics of the Treeline

By: Arne Naess

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Arne Naess, known as "the father of Deep Ecology," lived above the tree line near the Arctic Circle in Norway. Well into his eighties, he still carried his own firewood and water to a simple stone cabin that he built himself. Here he describes the joy and richness of his satisfying, simple lifestyle. Read more