Science & Technology audiobooks

How to Love a Forest

By: Ethan Tapper

Narrated by: Evan Sibley

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert MacfarlaneOnly those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth.... Read more

The Perfect Storm

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Man's struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world's most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best-seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating... Read more

Pests

By: Bethany Brookshire

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our... Read more

Silent Spring Revolution

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of... Read more

The Tools

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most... Read more

The Tao of Pooh

By: Benjamin Hoff

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism through Pooh, and Pooh through Taoism,... Read more

Bitch

By: Lucy Cooke

Narrated by: Lucy Cooke

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom  Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser.  Since Charles... Read more

Sentient

By: Jackie Higgins

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this “revelatory book” (Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author) explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, revealing that we are not limited to merely five senses.

There is a scientific... Read more

The Defining Decade

By: Meg Jay

Narrated by: Meg Jay

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling psychologist Dr. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss.

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call... Read more

A Quantum Life

By: Hakeem Oluseyi & Joshua Horwitz

Narrated by: Hakeem Oluseyi

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “You’ll encounter one extraordinary turn of events after another, as the extraordinary chess... Read more

Turning to Stone

By: Marcia Bjornerud

Narrated by: Rebecca Stern

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.

Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround... Read more

The WEIRDest People in the World

By: Joseph Henrich

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar.Unlike much of the world today, and most... Read more

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have... Read more

The Wise Hours

By: Miriam Darlington

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness, celebrated British nature writer Miriam Darlington finds herself struck by all she doesn't know about... Read more

Tenacious Beasts

By: Christopher J. Preston

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These... Read more

Unruly Therapeutic

By: Foluke Taylor

Narrated by: Foluke Taylor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Centering the experiences of Black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.“Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection―of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air―and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice.”Part... Read more

Free to Learn

By: Peter Gray

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn.

"All kids love learning. Most don't love school. That's a disconnect we've avoided discussing—until this lightning bolt of a book. If you've ever wondered why your curious kid is turning into a sullen... Read more

Hardwiring Happiness

By: Rick Hanson, PhD

Narrated by: Rick Hanson, PhD

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. 

Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad... Read more

Being Mortal

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable... Read more

Call the Midwife

By: Jennifer Worth

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can’t speak English to... Read more

How To

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try... Read more

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

By: Dale Carnegie & Associates

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the original landmark bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, comes an up-to-the-minute adaptation of Carnegie’s timeless prescriptions for the digital age.

Dale Carnegie’s principles have endured for nearly a century. Since its original publication in 1936, his timeless classic How to Win... Read more

Becoming Cliterate

By: Laurie Mintz

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm—clitoral stimulation—from how we... Read more

Self-Compassion

By: Kristin Neff

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life.More and... Read more