Science & Technology audiobooks

Det globala imperiet

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hur ser nätokraternas världsbild ut och hur skiljer den sig från övriga ideologier genom historien? Vad är världsstaten och är det den utopi som den sägs vara? Under det sena 1990-talet började socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist arbeta fram en radikalt ny teori: Nätokratihypotesen. Men vad innebär det egentligen att vara en... Read more

Nätokraterna

By: Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

Narrated by: Emil Rehnström

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitaliseringen för med sig? Den digitala revolutionen är i många avseenden ett faktum som fört med sig oanade konsekvenser för det samhälle vi en gång kände till. I boken... Read more

The Telomere Effect

By: Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn & Dr. Elissa Epel

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life.

Have you wondered why some... Read more

The Drug Hunters

By: Donald R. Kirsch, Ph.D. & Ogi Ogas, Ph.D.

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity—by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found... Read more

Biopunk

By: Marcus Wohlsen

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Gates told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. “If you want to change the world in some big way,” he says, “that’s where you should start—biological molecules.”The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech companies and academic researchers are just beginning to unlock the potential of... Read more

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Klaus Schwab

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.

Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before.... Read more

Birds Art Life

By: Kyo Maclear

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant.

When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and... Read more

A Voyage for Madmen

By: Peter Nichols

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the... Read more

Dangerous Years

By: David W. Orr

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers the future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: Even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will... Read more

Releasing the Good Locked Within Ourselves

By: Manly Hall

Narrated by: Manly Hall

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more

Faith that Leads to Certainties

By: Manly Hall

Narrated by: Manly Hall

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more

The Magnetic Fields of the Human Body and Their Functions

By: Manly Hall

Narrated by: Manly Hall

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more

Is Each Individual Born With A Purpose?

By: Manly Hall

Narrated by: Manly Hall

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more

Having Archaic and Eating it Too

By: Terence McKenna

Narrated by: Terence McKenna

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeding back to the psychedelic community of Los Angeles, Terence McKenna delivers an hour of colorful and astounding visual transformations. He weaves a galactic tapestry of art-tickled articulations of the history and future of psychedelic alchemy, the government/ culture clash, and the surging general ordering of chaos from UFO's to archaic... Read more

Destiny By Design

By: Todd Pressman

Narrated by: Todd Pressman

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you burned out by the stress and monotony of your daily routine? Have you lost your sense of purpose, living only to survive? Do you want to know who you really are, what you were meant to do in this life?The secrets to true fulfillment can seem so far out of reach, buried under a mountain of anxieties and obligations which threatens to... Read more

Exploring Hermetic Traditions

By: Terence McKenna

Narrated by: Terence McKenna

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The term “Hermetic” comes from Hermes Trismegistus, who was originally an Egyptian god (Thoth) and was later incorporated into Greek culture, and associated with Hermes. The term “hermetic” can mean “pertaining to alchemy and magic”. About forty books are ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. These books were written between about 200 BC and 200 AD... Read more

The Return to Oneness

By: Todd Pressman

Narrated by: Todd Pressman

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this meditation, you will return to the moment just before the birth of creation. Hovering above the scene, we remember ourselves as high Witness, ready to move from Oneness into the human experience. With this, we stand at the moment of choice, either to birth a new world or rest in the realm of infinite possibilities. Ultimately, the two... Read more

100 citations de Gustave Flaubert

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gustave Flaubert a marqué la littérature universelle par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de réalisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des individus et de la société, et par la force de son style dans de grands romans comme Madame Bovary (1857), Salammbô (1862), L'Éducation sentimentale (1869), ou le recueil de... Read more

100 citations d'Euripide

By: Euripide

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Euripide est un des trois grands tragiques de l'Athènes classique, avec Eschyle et Sophocle. Certains auteurs antiques lui attribuent 95 pièces dont 18 conservées dans leur intégralité. Il reste d'Euripide plus de pièces que d'Eschyle et Sophocle réunis, parce que sa popularité augmentait tandis que la leur déclinait. Il connut un immense succès... Read more

100 citations de Diderot

By: Diderot

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Diderot est reconnu pour son érudition, son esprit critique et un certain génie. Il laisse son empreinte dans l'histoire de tous les genres littéraires auxquels il s'est essayé : il pose les bases du drame bourgeois au théâtre, révolutionne le roman avec Jacques le fataliste et son maître, invente la critique à travers ses Salons et supervise la... Read more

100 citations d'Aristote

By: Aristote

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristote est un philosophe grec de l'Antiquité. Avec Platon, dont il fut le disciple à l'Académie, il est l'un des penseurs les plus influents que le monde ait connus. Il est aussi l'un des rares à avoir abordé presque tous les domaines de connaissance de son temps : biologie, physique, métaphysique, logique, poétique, politique. Chez Aristote,... Read more

300 quotes of French Philosophy: Montaigne, Rousseau, Voltaire

By: Montaigne, Rousseau & Voltaire

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Pain can take a cruel toll on everyday life, be it chronic back pain, headaches, pain linked to fibromyalgy or arthritis, or acute pain from injury or disease. This series of exercices is designed to help you cope with pain in adequation with medical treatment if available, by providing you with proven techniques for pain management through... Read more

The Mystical Experience in Daily Living

By: Manly Hall

Narrated by: Manly Hall

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more

The Teacher of Righteousness

By: Manly P. Hall

Narrated by: Manly P. Hall

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

These never before released lectures are considered by the thousands who have heard them to be profound and illuminating. Originally released by the Philosophical Research Society, Better Listen! is pleased to make available to the wider public a series of very special edition audio recordings from Manly P. Hall.About the Author | Manly P. Hall... Read more