Science & Technology audiobooks

The Courage to Create

By: Rollo May

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Extraordinary, wise, and hopeful... nearly poetic meditations."—Boston Globe
What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find... Read more

Invisibility Toolkit

By: Lance Henderson

Narrated by: James C. Lewis

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Your sovereignty is under attack. We all see it. It's all around you and your rights are being stripped away at warp speed by those who wish to take what you earned. But sometimes you have to cut your losses. Kickstart a backup plan. Start over. Move abroad. Or just hunker down and survive. Within this book lies top secrets known only to the FBI... Read more

Obfuscation

By: Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and... Read more

Media Moms & Digital Dads

By: Yalda T. Uhls

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? Are you curious about what research says about how media and technology are impacting childhood? Supported by academic research focused on technology, Media Moms & Digital Dads breaks down complex... Read more

First Bite

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?In First Bite, the beloved food writer Bee Wilson draws on the... Read more

Ágilmente

By: Estanislao Bachrach

Narrated by: Estanislao Bachrach

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Estanislao Bachrach es Doctor en biología molecular y explica el funcionamiento del cerebro. A través de ello, da consejos y herramientas para ser más creativos y felices en el trabajo y en la vida.
La neurociencia es clara: el cerebro aprende hasta el último día de vida. La creatividad puede expandirse. Tu mente, mediante la aplicación ... Read more

A Numerate Life

By: John Allen Paulos

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the... Read more

Finding Flow

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Sean Pratt

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce... Read more

Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

By: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Narrated by: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, was the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie traveled tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless,... Read more

What is the substance of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is the substance of thought? - 25 July 1975 • What is the basic reason for thought to be fragmented? • What is the substance of thought? Is it a material process, a chemical process? • There is a total perception, which is truth. That perception acts in the field of reality. That action is not the product of thought. • Thought has no place... Read more

Knowledge and Learning are two Different things

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Public Talks 1. A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968 Duration: 80 minutes • To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious. • We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical... Read more

The ground of being, and the mind of man

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can insight bring about a mutation of the brain cells? - 15 April 1980 • Can insight change the brain cells? • In the brain is there an activity which is not touched by consciousness? • Insight is not dependent on the material process, which is thought. • Where there is violence, peace cannot exist. Where there is peace, is there violence? • As... Read more

Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes • Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? • To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? • Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? •... Read more

If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? - 18 July 1975 • How does science investigate the mysterious? • If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? • Can consciousness, which is filled with the things of thought, empty itself? • Thought cannot possibly apprehend, comprehend or be aware of the whole. • Time. • Krishnamurti's early... Read more

Senility and the brain cells

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Senility and the brain cells - 1 June 1980 • Is the human brain deteriorating? • The human brain is not a particular brain, it doesn't belong to me or to anyone else, it is the human brain which has evolved for millions of years. • Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all... Read more

One sees or understands only when the mind is quiet.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

1. To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967 Duration: 88 minutes • Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East; it is part of the human structure, psychologically. • Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psyche itself, not through time? •... Read more

Perceiving without the perceiver

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perceiving without the perceiver - 28 June 1975 • Can thought naturally cease? • Perceiving without the perceiver • Facing the truth of death • Krishnamurti's 'process' and early years. • Kundalini • If you can understand suffering, face it and not escape from it, that has quite a different energy. • Truth is a pathless land. • There is... Read more

Attention implies that there is no centre

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975 • Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought. • Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement? • Attention implies that there is no centre. • Is there a... Read more

How does Desire Arise From Perception ?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has desire become such an extraordinarily important thing in life? - How does desire arise from perception? - Can I desire truth? - Is the energy of nothingness different from the energy of things? - Is that nothingness a hypothesis, a theory, a verbal structure, or truth? - In dying to the reality only then there is nothingness. Read more

Interview by Frank Waters

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What brings about receptivity? Speaking to the unconscious. The little self and the big self. How the teachings work. Myth. Destruction of the planet. Sleep. Kundalini. Read more

Can the mind observe without comparison?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970 Duration: 91 minutes • What does it mean to be serious? • Becoming • Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else? • Do I look at people through images? 2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970 Duration: 92 minutes • Is there self-progress? •... Read more

Can Thought Be Silent?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Can the mind be free? - 3 February 1969 Duration: 99 minutes • The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. • Where there is fear there is aggression. • For most of us, freedom is something that we don't want. • Inaction is total action. • What is the machinery that builds images? Questions from the audience followed... Read more

Is there a movement other than the movement of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. What is the operation of thought? - 14 July 1974 Duration: 84 minutes • In the world around us and inside us, is there a relationship between the inner and the outer? • Are you free to listen or do you listen with interpretation and prejudices? • Do I observe the content of my consciousness as an outsider? Can one observe the... Read more

There Is insight when thought is absent

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972 Duration: 71 minutes • Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment? • Does change demand immediate attention and action? • Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action. • Can one who is conditioned by the past... Read more