Science & Technology audiobooks
Quantum
By: Jim Al-Khalili
Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world.
Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is... Read more
The Network
By: Scott Woolley
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The astonishing story of America’s airwaves, the two friends—one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor—who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.This is the origin story of the airwaves—the foundational technology of the communications age—as told through the forty-year friendship of an... Read more
View audiobookSiddhartha's Brain
By: James Kingsland
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking exploration of the “science of enlightenment,” told through the lens of the journey of Siddhartha (better known as Buddha), by Guardian science editor James Kingsland.In a lush grove on the banks of the Neranjara in northern India—400 years before the birth of Christ, when the foundations of western science and philosophy were... Read more
View audiobookPaws for Alarm
By: Marian Babson
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A whisker away from death …A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family—and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they’ve swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect … until someone tries... Read more
View audiobookMapping the Heavens
By: Priyamvada Natarajan
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter.... Read more
View audiobookThe Invention of Science
By: David Wootton
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our worldWe live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and... Read more
View audiobookTom Paine's Iron Bridge
By: Edward G. Gray
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was America's largest port. Unfortunately, the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city's continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania's backcountry farms and its port on the... Read more
View audiobookPersonality Theory
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
What makes people do behave in variety of ways? Are they aware of what they are doing completely? Is there any unconscious motives and hidden interests that are guiding their behavior? Is it the reason why some people are naturally evil while some are good? Alternatively, is there potential chance for anyone to be evil or good? Environmental... Read more
View audiobookTheory of Relativity
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Theory of relativity is a combination of two different theories or says two different combinations. First, one is Einstein’s special relativity theory and second one is general relativity theory. Concepts included in theory of relativity consider space-time as a single unified entity. According to concepts of theory of relativity, following are... Read more
View audiobookGroup Theory
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
By many expert mathematicians, group theory is often addressed as a central part of mathematics. It finds its origins in geometry, since geometry describes groups in a detailed manner. The theory of polynomial equations also describes the procedure and principals of associating a finite group with any polynomial equation. This association is... Read more
View audiobookLearning Theories
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Sitting inside a class, one student finds it easy to absorb information while another struggles with it. While one learner may excel in a particular subject another may do well in all the subjects. Trainees go through the same training to be graded differently according to the level of information they have absorbed and the understanding they... Read more
View audiobookDark Reality
By: Virginia Smith
Narrated by: Beverly Jane
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The world is packed with people who don’t have your best interests at heart and who never will. The skeezy ex who leeches your time, energy, and bank account… The coworker who will do anything to bring you down… The charismatic devil who will kiss your face and rob you blind behind your back… The self-absorbed acquaintance who mopes at your good... Read more
View audiobookNikola Tesla
By: Michael W. Simmons
Narrated by: Alan Munro
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Nikola Tesla: inventor or magician? Tesla was one of the most famous inventors who ever lived, but after his death, he was nearly forgotten. He was a celebrity during the height of America’s Gilded Age. In this book, you will read about his friendship with Mark Twain, his furious competition with his former employer Thomas Edison, his uneasy... Read more
View audiobookThe Nurses
By: Alexandra Robbins
Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Nursing is more than a career; it's a calling, and one of the most important fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.
In The Nurses, New York Times bestselling... Read more
Trespassing across America
By: Ken Ilgunas
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves—both physically and mentally.It started as a far-fetched idea—to hike the... Read more
View audiobookOnline Marketing for Busy Authors
By: Fauzia Burke
Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
By now most authors know they need to market their book online, but many of them have no idea where or how to start. This concise expert's guide to marketing books online-by a woman whose company has been doing it since 1995-helps authors focus their efforts on what really matters.
Authors know they need to market their book online these days,... Read more
Into the Black
By: Rowland White
Narrated by: Eric Meyers
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (Clive Cussler, #1 bestselling author), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
Using interviews,... Read more
The Universe in Your Hand
By: Christophe Galfard
Narrated by: Ray Chase
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Hawking’s protégé and cowriter lifts the veil on the mysteries of our universe in a style that is wonderfully direct. Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the big bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes: even if we are interested in these fundamental concepts of our world, their language is the language of math. Which... Read more
View audiobookNegotiating the Nonnegotiable
By: Daniel Shapiro
Narrated by: Daniel Shapiro
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
** Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award **
Are you struggling to deal with conflict in your life? In Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro introduces a groundbreaking method to bridge the toughest divides—whether with family members, colleagues, or in the polarized world of politics. He reveals the... Read more
Online Marketing for Busy Authors
By: Fauzia Burke
Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
If You Want People to Read Your Book,
Writing It Is Only the Beginning
There has truly never been a better time to be an author. For the first time, authors have direct access to the public via the Internet—and can create a community eagerly awaiting their book. But where do new authors start? How do they sort through the dizzying range of online... Read more
Chaos Theory
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Mathematics contains an important study field under the name Chaos theory. Chaos theory studies the concept and behavior of highly insensitive dynamical systems. It also studies behavior of dynamic systems in initial conditions, which often turns out to be super sensitive at a very high level. In Chaos theory, this concept is referred as... Read more
View audiobookHistory of Engineering
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Tracy Tupman
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The idea of engineering has been present since prehistoric times when humans started shaping important creations like lever, wheel and pulley. Every invention is reliable with the contemporary explanation of engineering manipulating basic principles of mechanics to develop useful tools and objects.The word engineering has been derived from the... Read more
View audiobookProbability Theory
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Analysis theory of any random phenomena is known as probability. Main resource for concept of probability is probability theory. Probability theory is said to be one of many most important concepts or branches of mathematics. Following objects are known as main concepts or central objects:
Random variables
Stochastic processes
Random... Read more
Darwin and Theory of Evolution
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In a recent study in 2015 the scientists found remains of biotic life in a few historic rocks, Western Australia, which dated back to 4.1 billion years ago and on July, 2016 the scientists confirmed about 355 genes which were from LUCA of all the living organisms on Earth.Formation, change and loss of species through the evolutionary antiquity... Read more
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