Science & Technology audiobooks
Make a Choice
By: Jeff Benedict
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
Extraordinary stories of people who have survived life’s most heart-wrenching tragedies and whose Christian faith has remained unshakable.New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live... Read more
View audiobookThe Enchiridion & Discourses
By: Epictetus
Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The Enchiridion is the famous manual of ethical advice given in the second century by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.
Born to a Greek slave, Epictetus grew up in the environment of the Roman Empire and, having been released from bonds of slavery, became a Stoic in the tradition of its originators, Zeno (third Century BCE) and Seneca (first... Read more
Seven Secrets of Mindfulness
By: Kate Carne
Narrated by: Becky Moult
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
'Wonderful...full of skilful guidance...a lifeline' Prof Mark Williams
Mindfulness remains as popular as ever. Yet those who are drawn to it may face challenges such as lack of time, physical pain, anxiety, depression or uncertainty. In this ground-breaking book, Kate Carne shows how to deal with the many problems that can arise, and offers... Read more
Fluke
By: Joseph Mazur
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln’s dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically, the odds are a lot better than any of us... Read more
View audiobookThe Jazz of Physics
By: Stephon Alexander
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics’ most vexing... Read more
View audiobookStandard Deviations
By: Gary Smith
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A very entertaining book about a very serious problem. We deceive ourselves all the time with statistics, and it is time we wised up.” –Robert J. Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter “D” are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to... Read more
Us versus Us
By: Andrew Marin
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Would you believe that 86 percent of LGBT people—from the proud marcher at the Pride Parade to the quiet, closeted teen—spent their childhood in church? More than half of them left those religious communities as adults; three out of four would be happy to come back.
For decades now we have found ourselves caught up in a culture war: us versus... Read more
Unforbidden Pleasures
By: Adam Phillips
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures?
Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and... Read more
Reason: Books I & II
By: Bo Bennett, PhD
Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is based on the first five years of The Dr. Bo Show, where Bo takes a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter with the goal of educating and entertaining.
Every chapter in the book explores a different aspect of reason by using a real-world issue or example.
Part one is about how science works even... Read more
The First Signs
By: Genevieve von Petzinger
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey’s Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.Imagine yourself as a caveman or cavewoman. The place: Europe. The... Read more
View audiobookThe Awakened Family
By: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." —Oprah Winfrey
As seen on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves, from the New York Times bestselling author of The... Read more
scientific experiments that could have destroyed the world
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Science informs the public policies, the social, and the personal decisions to conserve energy, farming, leisure, health, transport, defense, and so forth. Whether there are fair chances for failure or not, conducting experiments on merits basis, is usual amidst the world wide scientists today. If there are ample negatives then it is good to... Read more
View audiobookLolita in the Lion's Den
By: Justin Forest
Narrated by: Steve Carlson
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A young man must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons in Justin Forest’s shocking new cross-genre novel, Lolita in the Lion’s Den. Glen has fought for years to escape a brutal home life, one in which he acts as his mother’s only friend and to accept that his father has been molesting his sister for over a decade. But... Read more
View audiobookEl origen de las especies
By: Charles Darwin
Narrated by: Lluis Grau
Length: 23 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
El origen de las especies —título original en inglés: On the Origin of Species— es un libro de Charles Darwin publicado el 24 de noviembre de 1859, considerado uno de los trabajos precursores de la literatura científica y el fundamento de la teoría de la biología evolutiva. El título completo de la primera edición fue On the Origin of Species by... Read more
View audiobookLos innovadores
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Edson Matus
Length: 19 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
En una era que busca fomentar la innovación, la creatividad y el trabajo en equipo, Los innovadores es la obra que mejor muestra cómo se producen. Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, el nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascinante historia de las personas que inventaron el ordenador e internet; Los innovadores está destinado a... Read more
View audiobookThe Dragon Behind the Glass
By: Emily Voigt
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator... Read more
View audiobookKreativität. Ein Problem? - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)
By: Wolfgang Ullrich
Narrated by: Wolfgang Ullrich & Christian Schärf
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Niemals war mehr von Kreativität die Rede als heute. Sie ist nicht mehr Privileg einiger weniger, sondern gilt als menschliches Grundvermögen. Irgendwo zwischen Lyrik und Ausdruckstanz, Bildermalen und Musikauflegen sollte kreativ tätig werden, wer auf der Höhe der Zeit sein will. Aber dieser Kreativitätsimperativ ist für viele eine... Read more
View audiobookTheory of Computation
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Theory of computation is seen as a branch of both theoretical computer science and modern mathematics (however, it also contains some concepts from pure mathematics). Theory of computation shows how one can effectively solve a problem using a computational model. A number of computational models are described in theory of computation. Algorithm... Read more
View audiobookHuman Universe
By: Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
Narrated by: Samuel West
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to... Read more
View audiobookThe Beekeeper’s Lament
By: Hannah Nordhaus
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honey bee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role that honey bees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of... Read more
View audiobookThe Seventh Sense
By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?
The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us... Read more
The Soul of A New Machine
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined... Read more
The Underdogs
By: Melissa Fay Greene
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four... Read more
View audiobookThe Boys in the Bunkhouse
By: Dan Barry
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of... Read more
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