Science & Technology audiobooks

The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax

By: Michael N. McGregor

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Lax is one of the great experimental poets of the 20th century, a daring and original avant-garde writer who was sought out as a sage and a mentor. He was a circus performer, a clown and a juggler, and well known for being a close friend of Thomas Merton. McGregor knew and loved this man and wrote a biography to make this remarkable man’s... Read more

438 Days

By: Jonathan Franklin

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.

On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed... Read more

The Natural

By: Richard La Ruina

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s top pick-up artists, Richard La Ruina went from having no women to being a true master of seduction. Now he shows you how to do the same. So move over Mystery, and tell Neil Strauss that The Rules of the Game are about to be rewritten. Every element of the winning pickup is right here, from discovering confidence to exuding... Read more

The Rift

By: Alex Perry

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.

Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers,... Read more

The Power of Positive Dog Training

By: Pat Miller

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book, renowned dog trainer Pat Miller gives you the positive training tools you need to ensure that you and your dog share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect. By following her step-by-step, six-week basic training program, you'll learn how to develop a relationship with your dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement,... Read more

The Man Who Listens to Horses

By: Monty Roberts

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Monty Roberts has traveled the world working with difficult horses. He has trained Queen Elizabeth's yearlings, jittery stallions on movie sets, and million-dollar race horses. In each case, he controls the animal without using force or inflicting pain. Monty's father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order... Read more

The World According to Anna

By: Jostein Gaarder

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing.

Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged... Read more

Unstoppable

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: Bill Nye

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.

In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all... Read more

Bread, Wine, Chocolate

By: Simran Sethi

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our... Read more

Super Genes

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D. & Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled.  
    
 "You are not simply the sum total of the genes you were born with," writes Deepak Chopra and Rudy... Read more

Busy

By: Tony Crabbe

Narrated by: Tony Crabbe

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It's difficult to ask anybody 'How are you?' without hearing the word 'busy' somewhere in their response. We feel overwhelmed by busyness because of the demands on our time: our inbox and our to-do list are bulging, a huge amount of people expect things from us and our organisations are trying to do more with fewer people.

But it doesn't have to... Read more

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this completely revised and updated edition, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life.

“Perfection in combining leading-edge brain science technology with a proven, user-friendly, definitive, and actionable road map to safeguard and... Read more

The Death of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. & Elizabeth DeVita...

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has held just about every major position in the... Read more

Spooky Action at a Distance

By: George Musser

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What is space? It isn’t a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it’s where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. The phenomenon—the ability of one particle to affect another... Read more

The General and the Genius

By: James Kunetka

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Two ambitious men. One historic mission.With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history’s most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat... Read more

We Are All Stardust

By: Stefan Klein

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading & Se...

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein—shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discoverWhen acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize–winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, “First and foremost,... Read more

The Top 5 Ways To Make Money On Facebook

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Laurence Bush

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Social media has revolutionized the way we interact, becoming a vital part of modern life. Platforms like Facebook allow users to connect with friends anytime and anywhere, offering unparalleled opportunities for social engagement. More than just a social tool, Facebook can also be a powerful revenue generator. This book presents five proven... Read more

Fire in the Belly

By: Sam Keen

Narrated by: Sam Keen

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Written for both men and women, this groundbreaking book takes the reader on a journey to discover new routes to authentic manhood and create alternatives to definitions of masculinity that no longer work in today's world. Read more

Make It New

By: Barry Katz

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

California’s Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the interconnected network that is... Read more

Your Mind

By: Christopher Cortman & Harold Shinitzky

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

During their more than 80,000 hours facilitating psychotherapy, Drs. Cortman and Shinitzky realized that most people are unaware of 10 crucial psychological truths--truths imperative to maintaining mental health and well-being. As a result of this lack of awareness, they become anxious, depressed, and generally unhappy; if they learn the 10... Read more

Computing: A Concise History

By: Paul E. Ceruzzi

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi... Read more

Dark NLP

By: Michael Pace

Narrated by: Jennifer Howe

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic programming (NLP) are two of the most powerful forces available to mankind. For too long, these disciplines have been kept secret from the masses. Some of the most devastating insights into the human mind have been hidden away in the pages of psychology journals. Dark secrets which offer the promise of power and... Read more

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

By: Lisa Randall

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.Sixty-six million years ago, an... Read more

The Evolution of Everything

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street JournalThe New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for... Read more