Science & Technology audiobooks

The Confident Mind

By: Dr. Nate Zinsser

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Believe and be unshakable.The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.“Studying confidence with Dr. Zinsser helped me win two Super Bowls. I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors... Read more

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

By: David A. Treleaven

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to twenty percent of us will develop posttraumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being... Read more

Beyond Addiction

By: Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Carrie Wilkens, Ph.D., Nico...

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical... Read more

Hold Me Tight

By: Dr. Sue Johnson

Narrated by: Helen Keeley

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Strengthen and deepen your relationships with this "much-needed" (Harville Hendrix, PhD) guide that has sold over one million copies, through revelatory practical exercises, seven profound conversations, and sage advice from “the best couple’s therapist in the world” (John Gottman, PhD, bestselling author)

Are you looking to enrich a healthy... Read more

Reinventing Your Life

By: Jeffrey E. Young & Janet S. Klosko

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.

Do you...
• Put the needs of others above your own?
• Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?
• Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing all your money, or getting seriously ill?
• Find that no matter... Read more

The Book of Hope

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams

Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.

Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

In this urgent... Read more

The Planets

By: Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

Narrated by: Samuel West

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian ‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a... Read more

The Political Determinants of Health

By: Daniel E. Dawes

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options—these are now realities for most Americans. However, in a country of more than 325 million people, addressing everyone's issues is challenging. How can we effect beneficial change for everyone so we all can thrive? What is the great... Read more

Shape

By: Jordan Ellenberg

Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything

How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to... Read more

Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dr. Martha Stout’s influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what we actually can do about it.

“Mandatory reading on how to effectively deal with sociopaths before you get hurt.”—Joe Navarro, former FBI special agent and the author of Dangerous Personalities

While the best way to deal... Read more

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

By: Susan Jeffers, PhD

Narrated by: Susan Jeffers, PhD

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Living is taking chances, and Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway has helped so many people-both men and women-to achieve success."-Louise Hay, the best-selling author of You Can Heal Your Life Are you afraid of making decisions . . . asking your boss for a raise . . . committing to a relationship . . . going on an interview . . . public speaking .... Read more

Black Faces, White Spaces

By: Carolyn Finney

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and... Read more

The Evolution of Beauty

By: Richard O. Prum

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL

A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.

In the great... Read more

Transcending Trauma

By: Frank G. Anderson

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma. The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative audiobook, Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully... Read more

The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for... Read more

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

By: Rheeda Walker & Na'im Akbar

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis—and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can’t deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and... Read more

To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

By: Lawrence Levy

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success.

“Hi, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.”

After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he... Read more

Interpretation of Cats

By: Claude Béata

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fount of practical tips for cat owners.” —The New York Times

From a leading veterinary psychiatrist, a groundbreaking look into the minds of our feline companions and “a guide to being the best humans we can be for our cats” (Focus Vif).

Cats are mysterious creatures, and the relationship between humans and cats has never been simple. They are... Read more

The Art of Noticing

By: Rob Walker

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.

Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to... Read more

The Power of Eight

By: Lynne McTaggart

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to tap into your extraordinary human capacity for connection and healing using astonishing new findings about the miraculous power of group intention in this new book by the author of the international bestsellers The Intention Experiment and The Field.

In The Power of Eight, Lynne McTaggart—whose “work has had an unprecedented... Read more

Against the Gods

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Mike Fraser

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Best Seller In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual... Read more

A History of the World in Six Plagues

By: Edna Bonhomme

Narrated by: Veronique Olin

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.

Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.

... Read more

The No Asshole Rule - Abridged

By: Robert I. Sutton

Narrated by: Robert I. Sutton

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work.

"What an asshole!"

How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford... Read more

What the Chicken Knows

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times).

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of... Read more