Science & Technology audiobooks

Bonk

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred... Read more

This Is What It Sounds Like

By: Ogi Ogas & Susan Rogers

Narrated by: Susan Rogers

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become... Read more

Emotional Inheritance

By: Galit Atlas

Narrated by: Galit Atlas

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experiences—to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness). The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience... Read more

Looking After Your Autistic Self

By: Niamh Garvey

Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'

Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands... Read more

We Are the Weather

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the... Read more

The Grieving Brain

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NPR SciFri Book Club PickNext Big Idea Club's ""Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022""Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.In The Grieving Brain,... Read more

Into the Magic Shop

By: James R. Doty, MD

Narrated by: James R. Doty, MD

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart
 
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for... 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 Self-Driven Child

By: William Stixrud, PhD & Ned Johnson

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR

“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

Why We Remember

By: Charan Ranganath, PhD

Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Charan Ranganath, PhD

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and... Read more

The Climate Book

By: Greta Thunberg

Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas K...

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more

Courage Is Calling

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
 
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more

The Scout Mindset

By: Julia Galef

Narrated by: Julia Galef

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal
 
A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making.

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls... Read more

Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

By: Robyn Gobbel

Narrated by: Robyn Gobbel

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"All behavior makes sense"
'"It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction.

Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's going on inside.

Robyn decodes the latest brain science... Read more

Gulp

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food... Read more

Memento Mori

By: Joanna Ebenstein

Narrated by: Joanna Ebenstein

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life

Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.

This life-changing book will give... Read more

The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

By: Steph Jones

Narrated by: Collette Byrne

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy

"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental... Read more

Celebrating Birds

By: Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon & Laura...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.

Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international... Read more

Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

Stop People Pleasing

By: Hailey Magee

Narrated by: Hailey Magee

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, and physical and psychic health.

For most of Hailey Magee’s life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn’t even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from her—even a... 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

Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

Length: 30 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to... Read more