Science & Technology audiobooks

Perfiles de Coraje

By: John F. Kennedy

Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este es un libro acerca de la virtud más admirable de todas las virtudes humanas: el valor. Ernest Hemingway la definió como “gracia bajo presión”. Y estos son los relatos sobre las presiones que experimentaron ocho Senadores de Estados Unidos y la gracia con la cual las enfrentaron». —John F. Kennedy Durante los años 1954 y 1955, el entonces... Read more

Why South is epicenter of AIDS crisis in America

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current trends continue. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the... Read more

A Book About Love

By: Jonah Lehrer

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Number one bestselling science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the “only happiness that lasts”—love—in a book that “is interesting on nearly every page” (David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review).

Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary... Read more

The End of White Christian America

By: Robert P. Jones

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).

*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.... Read more

The Human Superorganism

By: Rodney Dietert, PhD

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.” 
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”
—Booklist (starred review)

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher... Read more

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in... Read more

Machiavelli

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tim Reynolds

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was... Read more

Frientimacy

By: Shasta Nelson

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With the constant connectivity of today’s world, it’s never been easier to meet people and make new friends—but it’s never been harder to form meaningful friendships. In Frientimacy, award-winning speaker Shasta Nelson shows how anyone can form stronger, more meaningful friendships, marked by a level of trust she calls “frientimacy.” Shasta... Read more

The Tree

By: Colin Tudge

Narrated by: Enn Reitel

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented... Read more

The Good Good Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later... Read more

Parallel Worlds

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Marc Vietor

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Is our universe dying?
Could there be other universes?
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku—an author who “has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth” (Wall Street Journal)—takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.

In... Read more

E. B. White on Dogs

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

E. B. White is best known for his children’s books, such as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. A columnist for the New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of The Elements of Style, White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his One Man’s Meat columns from his saltwater farm on... Read more

The Hospital Always Wins

By: Issa Ibrahim

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Issa Ibrahim’s memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years.Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom and dad cultivating his talent, Issa watches his family’s... Read more

Cyberspies

By: Gordon Corera

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The previously untold—and previously highly classified—story of the conflux of espionage and technology, a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the Internet ageAs the digital era becomes increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world;... Read more

TWA 800

By: Jack Cashill

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happened to TWA 800? On the twentieth anniversary of the crash, author Jack Cashill reveals shocking new evidence. TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 passengers on board. Although initial reports suggested a terrorist attack, FBI and NTSB investigators... Read more

Zika

By: Donald G. McNeil

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

A gripping narrative about the Zika virus from the New York Times science reporter covering the outbreak.

Until recently, Zika virus—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August of 2015, doctors in Brazil’s northeast region began to notice a trend: many mothers who had recently experienced Zika... Read more

Getting to Like

By: Jeremy Goldman & Ali B. Zagat

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last decade alone, the face and nature of the job market has evolved dramatically. It’s now a given that personal branding will have a significant impact on your professional opportunities. It’s not an exaggeration that your brand and reputation could make-or break-your career.

In order to connect with new employers and clients and... Read more

Bonded By Battle

By: Nancy Roe Pimm

Narrated by: Carrie Olsen

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dogs have faithfully followed humans into combat since the dawn of time. At first they simply provided emotional support. As soldiers found ways to use the canine’s remarkable senses of smell and hearing, their bond deepened. The military working dog team was born.Today dog teams are active across all branches of the military. Read more

Altenpflege mit Herz - Abridged

By: Sascha Sandhorst

Narrated by: Armin Dallapiccola

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Pflege von Menschen, die auf diese angewiesen sind, ist einer der wichtigsten Dienstleistungsbereiche in unserer Gesellschaft, da die Familien heutzutage kaum mehr in der Lage sind, dies für ihre betroffenen Angehörigen zu leisten. Umso wichtiger zu wissen, dass diejenigen, die sich um einen selbst oder die lieben Verwandten kümmern, dies... Read more

Mind of the Raven

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world.... Read more

Rise of the Machines

By: Thomas Rid

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. Thomas Rid delivers a portrait of our technology enraptured era.

Springing from mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a... Read more

Garbology

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century.



In Garbology, Edward Humes... Read more

Pathways to Possibility

By: Rosamund Stone Zander

Narrated by: Rosamund Stone Zander

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rosamund Zander is a miracle. Her generous voice will resonate with you, change you and help you create work that matters." —Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

The bestselling author of The Art of Possibility returns with a new vision for achieving true human fulfillment that's sure to appeal to fans of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and... Read more

Self-Reg

By: Dr. Stuart Shanker

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There’s no such thing as a bad kid. That’s what a lifetime of experience has taught Dr. Stuart Shanker. No matter how difficult, out of control, distracted, or exhausted a child might seem, there’s a way forward: self-regulation. Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, this radical new technique allows children and the adults who care for... Read more