Science & Technology audiobooks

Den inneren Kompass finden - Abridged

By: Matthias Wengenroth

Narrated by: Christian Bergmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Innere Zufriedenheit, Wohlbefinden, einfach ein glückliches Leben – danach streben die meisten Menschen. Nicht selten aber versperren schwierige Gedanken und Gefühle den Weg dorthin und führen in die genau entgegengesetzte Richtung: zu Unzufriedenheit, Leid und Hoffnungslosigkeit. Matthias Wengenroth zeigt, wie Sie auf den für Sie persönlich... Read more

Frei von Zwängen - Abridged

By: Sigrun Schmidt-Traub

Narrated by: Markus Hoffmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Sei es übertriebenes Händewaschen oder Aufräumen, sei es die ständige Kontrolle, ob Türen verschlossen oder Wasserhähne zugedreht sind – zwanghafte Verhaltensweisen und Rituale sind für die betroffenen Personen unangenehm, anstrengend und belasten das tägliche Leben. Mit Kognitiver Verhaltenstherapie lassen sich Zwänge gut behandeln. Die... Read more

Ängste loslassen - Abridged

By: Sigrun Schmidt-Traub

Narrated by: Ulrike Hübschmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Angststörungen, die für die Betroffenen sehr belastend sind, gehören zu den häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen, etwa 15% aller Menschen sind im Laufe ihres Lebens einmal betroffen. Dabei zählen sowohl die Panikstörung und Agoraphobie als auch die Soziale Phobie und spezifische Phobien zu den behandlungsbedürftigen Ängsten. Die Autorin... Read more

Frustkiller und Schweinehundbesieger - Abridged

By: Harlich H. Stavemann

Narrated by: Markus Hoffmann

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im Bereich »Geringe Frustrationstoleranz und Aufschieberitis« geht es um Menschen, die darunter leiden, dass sie sich andauernd und heftig über andere, über Ereignisse oder das Schicksal ärgern, weil sie Realitäten nicht akzeptieren können (»Geringe Frustrationstoleranz«) oder weil sie sich nicht dazu aufraffen können, das zu tun, was sie... Read more

Andere Wege gehen. - Abridged

By: Laura Seebauer & Gitta Jacob

Narrated by: Dominik Jäckel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Immer wieder macht man dieselben Fehler, tappt in dieselben Fallen – denn bestimmte Lebensmuster sind hartnäckig und schwer zu verändern. Die Schematherapie hilft, solche Muster zu erkennen und sie so zu verändern, dass man sich besser fühlt und besser für sich und seine Bedürfnisse sorgen kann. In der Audio-Fassung behandeln Laura Seebauer und... Read more

Communist Daze

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, a home to a large, collective farm and to the most oddball and endearing cast of characters possible.For three years in the 1960s, Vladimir Tsesis―inestimable Soviet doctor and irrepressible jester―was stationed in a village where racing tractor drivers tossed... Read more

Hot Lights, Cold Steel

By: Michael J. Collins, MD

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins's success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow... Read more

Isaac the Alchemist

By: Mary Losure

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied... Read more

Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

 A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author’s viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year’s Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the... Read more

Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children

By: Roberta Michnick Golink, PhD; Kathy Hirsh-Pase...

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller!

Bronze medal winner of the Living Now Book Awards for Parenting!

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck... Read more

Animal Wisdom

By: Linda Bender

Narrated by: Ellen Jaffe

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming long before the world's best seismologists?
In... Read more

Trust Factor

By: Paul J. Zak

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, alarms have sounded about declining engagement. Yet companies continue to struggle with toxic cultures, and the low productivity and unhappiness that go with them.Why is “culture” so difficult to improve? What makes so many good employees check out? Neuroscientist Paul Zak shows that innate brain functions hold the answers. It all... Read more

The Unnatural World

By: David Biello

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward... Read more

Lay Down Your Guns

By: Greg R. Taylor

Narrated by: Zilah Mendoza

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Honduras’ “wild west” mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When Amanda’s father rejects her dream to be a doctor, eighteen-year-old Amanda strikes out alone and enters medical school in Tegucigalpa.Her work as a medical officer, public health consultant, and director of an international... Read more

Tides

By: Jonathan White

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a... Read more

The Art of Invisibility

By: Kevin Mitnick

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.

In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses true-life stories to show exactly what... Read more

The Hungry Brain

By: Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Aaron Abano

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it?

No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and... Read more

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of... Read more

All Fishermen Are Liars

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For John Gierach, “the master of fly-fishing” (Sacramento Bee), fishing is always the answer—even when it’s not clear what the question is. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels around North America seeking out quintessential fishing experiences, whether it’s at a busy stream or a secluded lake hidden amid snow-capped mountains. He talks... Read more

Verbal Judo, Updated Edition

By: George J. Thompson & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control.Verbal Judo is the classic guide to the martial art of the mind and mouth that can help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation, whether you’re talking to a boss, a spouse, or even a teenager. For more than a generation, Dr. George J. Thompson’s essential... Read more

You Are the Universe

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D. & Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world. 

"A riveting and absolutely fascinating adventure that will blow your mind wide open!" —Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi
 
What happens when modern science reaches a crucial... Read more

Culinary Reactions

By: Simon Quellen Field

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful microbes. And unlike in a... Read more

Can't Just Stop

By: Sharon Begley

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Using in-depth case studies, Can’t Just Stop examines the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—“a fascinating read about human behavior and how it can go haywire” (The Charlotte Observer).

Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most of us have witnessed in daily... Read more

The Vaccine Race

By: Meredith Wadman

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times

“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—Nature 

The... Read more