Science & Technology audiobooks

The Exceptions

By: Kate Zernike

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles.

“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity,... Read more

Vanishing Treasures

By: Katherine Rundell

Narrated by: Lenny Henry & Katherine Rundell

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub • From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and... Read more

Unshrunk

By: Laura Delano

Narrated by: Laura Delano

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Delano’s story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully.” —Casey Schwartz, The New York Times Book Review

“A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.” —Anna... Read more

Poets Square

By: Courtney Gustafson

Narrated by: Courtney Gustafson

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken—and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats.

When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn’t know that the property came with thirty feral... Read more

Immune

By: Philipp Dettmer

Narrated by: Steve Taylor

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell
 
“Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and... Read more

How the World Really Works

By: Vaclav Smil

Narrated by: Stephen Perring

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates
 
“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with... Read more

Getting Past Your Past

By: Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to achieve real change.

Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement... Read more

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.

In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author... Read more

The Wright Brothers

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history.... Read more

AI Snake Oil

By: Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Landon Woodson reveals what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products Comes with a bonus track featuring an illuminating discussion by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world?... Read more

Open When

By: Julie Smith

Narrated by: Julie Smith

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of “break in case of emergency” advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur.In this essential guide, Dr. Julie teaches her millions of readers and clients how to navigate life’s toughest... Read more

Secure Relating

By: Sue Marriott & Ann Kelley

Narrated by: Ann Kelley

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist Uncensored podcast offer a groundbreaking new clinical perspective that integrates modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and current cultural context to create a hopeful framework for deeper and more permanent change, growth and connection in all types of... Read more

The Mindful Body

By: Ellen J. Langer

Narrated by: Subhadra Newton

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.

“What matters more: mind or body? Filled with original research and thought-provoking insights, The Mindful Body shows that the two are not just connected but are actually one, opening us to vast... Read more

Playing Possum

By: Susana Monsó

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that... 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

Unfit Parent

By: Jessica Slice

Narrated by: Finlay Stevenson

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“A glorious, revelatory book.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of An Immense World

“A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness.”—Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New Yorker

A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting—the joys, stigma, and... Read more

A History of Western Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 38 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.

Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant... Read more

American Kingpin

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
 
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone... Read more

Dopamine Nation

By: Dr. Anna Lembke

Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,
as heard on Fresh Air

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is... Read more

The Soul of an Octopus

By: Sy Montgomery

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this astonishing book from the author of the best selling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Read more

The Gene

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what... Read more

Rage Becomes Her

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***
NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today

***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***
Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH

Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage.

As women, we’ve... Read more

Salt

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and... Read more

Raising Mentally Strong Kids

By: Daniel G. Amen & Charles Fay

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective….

In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like... Read more