Science & Technology audiobooks

Kit Kat and Lucy*

By: Lonnie Hull DuPont

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The True Story of How Two Quirky Stray Cats Changed Their Adopted Human Forever After years of loving the vibrant city life in San Francisco, Lonnie Hull DuPont reluctantly trades her three-room apartment on foggy, lively Telegraph Hill for a farmhouse on a quiet plain in Michigan. She immediately misses the rhythm and the pace of the city, and... Read more

When the Air Hits Your Brain

By: Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients... Read more

Could California drought make residents sick?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As California's five-year drought continues, the community of East Porterville has become an epicenter for the state's water shortage. Of the 1,800 homes located in the town, nearly 500 have lost wells that provided water for bathing and washing food. Officials worry the predicament will take a toll on the health of the community’s 7,000... Read more

Goodbye, Hurt and Pain

By: Deborah Sandella, PhD RN

Narrated by: Virginia Wolf

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Goodbye, Hurt & Pain, Deborah Sandella, PhD, RN, uses cutting-edge neuroscience research and her revolutionary Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM) technique to show how blocked feelings prevent us from getting what we want, and she introduces a process that bypasses logic and thinking to activate our own emotional "self-cleaning oven."... Read more

How To Be Your Dog's Superhero

By: Dominic Hodgson

Narrated by: Dominic Hodgson

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Warning! Do not read this book if you want to be a dog whisperer…Does your dog really love you? Or, like many owners, is your dog only your best friend when you are cuddling on the couch?When you step outside your front door, is he more interested in every passing dog, bird or half-eaten bag of chips that you come across?Does the mere thought of... Read more

Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back

By: author

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Presented together for the first time, here are all-time favorite Car Talk calls that run happily off road, veering into the amazing world of science, where Tom and Ray actually wield some authority. MIT may want its diplomas back, but the world's most knowledgeable garage scientists are undeterred in seeking greater knowledge — and laughter. Read more

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony... Read more

Our Country Nurse

By: Sarah Beeson

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

All seems tranquil as newly qualified Health Visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She’s barely out of the car when she’s called to assist the midwife with a bride who’s gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin… As a health visitor... Read more

Helping Teenagers to Find Their Inner Guide

By: Tom Shelstad & Kelly Shelstad

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Adolescence is a time of great ferment and change. When messages abound that tell a young person they are not enough, they tend to concentrate their energies on being prettier, smarter, or more popular. What does this leave out? Kelly and Tom Shelstad offer wilderness programs and other activities that have proven to be of help to young people... Read more

How Can I Forgive You?

By: Janis A. Spring, PhD & Michael Spring

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Until now, we have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Spring, a gifted therapist and the award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives—without forgiving. She also offers a powerful... Read more

Love Is All You Need

By: author

Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dogs are the most social animals on the planet, second only to humans in their ability to read and understand emotion. Even chimps and bonobos, our closest genetic relatives, are no match for dogs when it comes to social cognition. Jennifer Arnold understands this better than anyone, having spent the past 25 years training service dogs for... Read more

The Cyber Effect

By: Mary Aiken

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave

“A must-read for this moment in time.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics • One of the best books of the year—Nature
       
Mary Aiken, the world’s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology, offers a starting point for all future conversations... Read more

Pets on the Couch

By: Nicholas Dodman

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The pioneering veterinarian and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dog Who Loved Too Much recounts his uniquely entertaining—and poignant—stories of treating animals for all-too-human problems as he reveals his amazing breakthroughs with the new science of One Medicine. The Oliver Sacks of animal brains, Dr. Nicholas Dodman is an... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, and during that time, he kept several collections of journals that contained personal notes, militaristic strategy, and ideas on Stoic philosophy. While unlikely that he ever intended to publicly publish these journals, there is no real official title, so most often Meditations is used... Read more

Die neue Biografie des Merkur

By: Matthias Matting

Narrated by: Matthias Matting

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Dürfen wir vorstellen: Merkur, der sonnennächste Planet, eine Welt der Extreme. Besucher müssen sich auf Temperaturen von 427 bis -137 Grad Celsius einstellen. Und trotzdem beherbergt der Planet mehr Wasser als der Bodensee. Merkur hat etwa ein Drittel der Größe der Erde, und auch innerlich ähnelt er unserem Heimatplaneten mehr als dem Erdmond,... Read more

The Swamp

By: Michael Grunwald

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book, Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps... Read more

*Hope Prevails

By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Neuropsychologist Offers Hope to Those Struggling with Depression As a board-certified neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson sees the devastation of depression. Early on, she practiced the most effective treatments and prescribed them for her clients. But when she experienced depression herself, she found that the treatments she had... Read more

Seven Skeletons

By: Lydia Pyne

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous... Read more

Ocean clean-up

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year -- enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a method that researchers are testing in the North Sea. The NewsHour Weekend’s Saskia de Melker has the story. Read more

Boost Your Joy with the Help of Technology, Gadgets, and Cognitive Enhancers

By: Jonathan Robinson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology can enhance our lives or it can detract from our good health and well-being. The wise use of the tools of technology, gadgets, cognitive enhancers and supplements, may help us to have more peace, love and joy in our lives, supporting us to create a better and more sustainable world. Or, technology can become “gadgets of mass... Read more

Venomous

By: Christie Wilcox

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry

In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today.

Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the... Read more

The Four-Dimensional Human

By: Laurence Scott

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

You are a four-dimensional human.Each of us exists in three-dimensional physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global... Read more

The Consious Design of Happiness

By: Emily Fletcher

Narrated by: Emily Fletcher

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Before starting a meditation practice, we're often stuck in the trap of thinking that our happiness lies on the other side of a relationship, or a beautiful house, or another zero in our bank account. But once we start meditating, we realize that our happiness lies inside us, and we stop looking towards outside things to fulfill us.Instead, we... Read more

Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates

By: Gary Kurz

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of your beloved pet can be one of the most heartbreaking losses you'll ever endure. But recovery isn't only about closure. You also want to know where your best friend has gone.



After the intense, unexpected grief he experienced following the loss of his own companions, animal lover and biblical scholar Gary Kurz set out to prove that... Read more