Science & Technology audiobooks

The Songs of Trees

By: David George Haskell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & David George Haskell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees 

"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world.... Read more

Emotional Intelligence

By: Ryan James

Narrated by: Miguel Rodriguez

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get all the good things life offers while others stand on the sidelines and wonder why me? Some people will tell you it's ambition, IQ, and position that determines life's outcomes. What if I told you there was something within each of us that promises greater happiness and success? It's called... Read more

Pandora’s Lab

By: Paul A. Offit

Narrated by: Greg Tremblay

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps.Pandora’s Lab takes us from opium’s heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the... Read more

The Driver in the Driverless Car

By: Vivek Wadhwa & Alex Salkever

Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This book teaches readers to evaluate the potential impact of any new technology by asking three simple questions. According to Vivek Wadhwa, it is up to everyone to choose how technology moves forward. Will our future be Star Wars or Mad Max? If we simply let change happen, we may give our vote to the dark side, which will steal our privacy and... Read more

The Driver in the Driverless Car

By: Vivek Wadhwa & Alex Salkever

Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.

Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in... Read more

All About ADHD

By: Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

For the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely updated with the latest research and treatment information, All About ADHD is a comprehensive guide to... Read more

From Alzheimer’s with Love

By: Marc Swift

Narrated by: Marc Swift

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc’s family was devastated by his father’s third year of Alzheimer’s disease. From Alzheimer’s, with Love is the true life story of a 6-month journey from deterioration to restoration from this disease. Discover how Marc developed a system to help his father escape the prison of his isolation and reconnect with his loved ones.Outsmart the... Read more

Social Selling Mastery

By: Jamie Shanks

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A concrete framework for engaging today's buyer and building relationships
Social Selling Mastery provides a key resource for sales and marketing professionals seeking a better way to connect with today's customer. Author Jamie Shanks has personally built Social Selling solutions in nearly every industry, and in this book, he shows you how to... Read more

Personality Decoder

By: K.W. Williams

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wished that you could read minds? Have you ever struggled with reading people? Have you run into communication breakdowns that seem unresolvable? Well, here it is, your very own personality decoder. This book will show you how to read people like open books.
Say good-bye to personality conflicts and communication issues. Say hello... Read more

Experiencing Dementia

By: H. Norman Wright

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you grieve for someone who is physically still with you? How do you love them in the right way through that grief and sometimes frustration? Experiencing Dementia is written for the person who is in the wake of despair that the diagnosis of Dementia brings. This brief but powerful book will help lead readers through the needed grieving... Read more

Body of Water

By: Chris Dombrowski

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions—poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami.

Thus began a journey that would lead to the Bahamas... Read more

The Dark Net

By: Jamie Bartlett

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political... Read more

Chandra's Cosmos

By: Wallace H. Tucker

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected... Read more

What Algorithms Want

By: Ed Finn

Narrated by: Scott Merriman

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely... Read more

Exoplanets

By: Michael Summers

Narrated by: Jon Bennett

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, remarkable in their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars,... Read more

The Crowdsourceress

By: Alex Daly

Narrated by: Alex Daly

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Neil Young's Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a success." -- Phil Baker, COO, Pono

"Owning The Crowdsourceress is like having Alex Daly's 'special sauce'... Read more

Universal

By: Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In Universal, their third book together, professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw demonstrate how asking questions about the world around us teaches us wonderful things about the universe in which we live. The authors explain the basics of physics, from Kepler to the Large Hadron Collider, in a way that reaches an even broader audience than their... Read more

Higher, Steeper, Faster

By: Lawrence Goldstone

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history.

Aviator Lincoln Beachey broke countless records: he looped-the-loop, flew upside down and in corkscrews, and was the first to pull his aircraft out of what was a typically fatal tailspin. As Beachey and other aviators... Read more

The Inner Life of Cats

By: Thomas McNamee

Narrated by: Bob Reed

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind.

As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta... Read more

Indian Creek Chronicles

By: Pete Fromm

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this... Read more

The Sting of the Wild

By: Justin O. Schmidt

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge.



In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects, seeing the world... Read more

Notes on Olivia Fox Cabane's & et al The Net and the Butterfly by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Susan Murphy

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Olivia Fox Cabane’s & et al The Net and the Butterfly and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Net and the Butterfly (2017) by executive leadership experts Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack is a nonfiction book that demystifies the concept of breakthroughs, or specific times when a person is able to... Read more

Notes on Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Prince (1532) is a guide to success in statecraft for heads of state, whom author Niccolò Machiavelli refers to as “princes” throughout the text. Machiavelli argues that princes should cultivate the appearance of virtue, but that they... Read more

Wildness in a Modern Age – The Reintroduction of Wolves to the Landscape

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There are some successful programs to reintroduce wild wolves into their natural habitat in the U.S. This keystone species recovery activity is a long game and there remains much opposition to this movement, at least some of which stems from our mythological view of wolves as standing for all that is vicious, dangerous, and savage. Peterson... Read more