Science & Technology audiobooks

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By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most... Read more

Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K Rosa

Narrated by: Lily Lefkow

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heteronormative, we must have babies and buy a... Read more

Rooted

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.

In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected.... Read more

The Book of Why

By: Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world"Correlation does not imply causation." This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades, and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion... Read more

A Hacker's Mind

By: Bruce Schneier

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s not just computers—hacking is everywhere.

A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exploits “tax avoidance strategies.” And there is an entire industry of “black hat” hackers
intent on... Read more

Power and Progress

By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.

Throughout history, technological change — whether it... Read more

The 36-Hour Day

By: Nancy L. Mace & Peter V. Rabins

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard & John Chancer

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer's, and other dementias, the book is widely known for its authoritativeness and compassionate approach to care. Featuring everything from the... Read more

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.

When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to... Read more

Underland

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.



In... Read more

The Contrarian

By: Max Chafkin

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book 

A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics
 
“Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important... Read more

Night Magic

By: Leigh Ann Henion

Narrated by: Leigh Ann Henion

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. 

In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh... Read more

The Lucifer Effect

By: Philip Zimbardo

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?



Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark... Read more

Self-Care for People with ADHD

By: Sasha Hamdani

Narrated by: Sasha Hamdani

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with these 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD as a strength.

When you have ADHD, it can be hard to stay on top of your wellness. Self-Care for People with ADHD is here to help!

This book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical. You’ll find more... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 36 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearThe author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.Faced with the... Read more

Crisis Averted

By: Caitlin Rivers, PhD

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Readers should come away from Crisis Averted with a better comprehension of what public health does and why it is such a crucial endeavor.” —The Washington Post

"A master class in how we can pinpoint and prevent health crises before they spiral out of control."—Scott Gottlieb, MD, author of Uncontrolled Spread

A fascinating window into the secret... Read more

Bringing Nature Home

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. There is an unbreakable link between... Read more

The Cold Start Problem

By: Andrew Chen

Narrated by: Andrew Chen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded ""cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users.Although software has become... Read more

The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success

By: Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to... Read more

Permission to Come Home

By: Jenny Wang

Narrated by: Jenny Wang

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American... Read more

BoyMom

By: Ruth Whippman

Narrated by: Ruth Whippman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.

“Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner,... Read more

The Book of Eels

By: Patrik Svensson

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition.Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has... Read more

How Not to Kill Yourself

By: Clancy Martin

Narrated by: Clancy Martin

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.”

“If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say... Read more

Galileo's Error

By: Philip Goff

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychism

Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of... Read more

The Fun Habit

By: Mike Rucker

Narrated by: Mike Rucker

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life with “this well-researched and impressive guide” (BookPage).

Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?

There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can... Read more