Science & Technology audiobooks

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

Devotion

By: Adam Makos

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.

“In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press • “Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson

Devotion tells the... Read more

Strong and Kind

By: Korie Robertson

Narrated by: Korie Robertson

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you instill godly virtues in kids who live in a "me-first" world? Encouraging you to model positive behavior for your kids, Korie Robertson identifies nine specific traits and provides biblical insights to help you train up your children in the way they should go.As stars of the hit reality show "Duck Dynasty", Korie and Willie Robertson... 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

Ugly: My Memoir

By: Robert Hoge

Narrated by: Robert Hoge

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness.

Home for the Hoges was a bayside suburb of... Read more

Me 'n Jess

By: Patricia A. White

Narrated by: Patricia A. White

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jesse....get over here!" I must have said that a gazillion times... as she trotted away. Why? Because I made a crucial mistake when I trained her. She became a character who provided many funny stories, so that even my friends with dogs would tell Jesse stories! Written in 2001, this is a story about best friends. I thought she was a dog. She... Read more

An Integral View of Spiritual Experience

By: Steve McIntosh, J.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A spiritual experience has been described by some as an encounter with the presence of the infinite within our finite universe of time and space. It takes on many forms and can be conceived of in a wide variety of ways.Here Steve McIntosh addresses such questions as: How do we gain a deeper understanding of such a spiritual experience and why is... Read more

All the Things We Never Knew

By: Sheila Hamilton

Narrated by: Sheila Hamilton

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David’s mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant, intense, and hilarious partner was dead within six weeks of a formal diagnosis of bipolar disorder, leaving his nine-year-old daughter and wife... Read more

Exploring Creation with Zoology 3

By: Jeannie K. Fulbright

Narrated by: Jeannie K. Fulbright

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. Each lesson is written in a conversational tone, and created using vivid graphics, engaging lessons and hands-on projects that will help your student understand animals and their ecosystems in a whole new way! Curriculum... Read more

The Brain Electric

By: Malcolm Gay

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machinesLeading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic... Read more

Lights and Sirens

By: Kevin Grange

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks—that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense... Read more

CRACK99

By: David Locke Hall

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the US Department of JusticeA former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish:... Read more

Find Me Unafraid

By: Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner

Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried & P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, the largest slum in... Read more

Slow Dancing with a Stranger

By: Meryl Comer

Narrated by: Meryl Comer

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s... Read more

The Laws of Medicine

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Santino Fontana

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young,... Read more

Our Robots, Ourselves

By: David A. Mindell

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From drones to Mars rovers-an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a provocative argument for the crucial role of humans in our increasingly technological future In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and... Read more

Zwischen Triumph und Tragödie

By: Harald Lesch

Narrated by: Harald Lesch

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Astrophysiker von heute hat die normale Erfahrungswirklichkeit längst hinter sich gelassen. Er denkt nach über schwarze Löcher und schwarze Energie, über die Zustände vor dem Urknall, über Paralleluniversen und die Stringtheorie. Oft genug gerät er ins Spekulieren und verlässt den Boden seriöser naturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Der... Read more

Persephone Rising

By: Carol S. Pearson

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Our era of professional and familial pressures, constant connection, and a renewed debate on "having it all" presents unprecedented challenges to contemporary women. In Persephone Rising, celebrated scholar of depth psychology and archetypes Carol S. Pearson brings a fresh vision for meeting those challenges and rising above them, as only she... Read more

Nonsense

By: Jamie Holmes

Narrated by: Jamie Holmes

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, even empathy
 
Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it’s a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear medical diagnosis, we face constant uncertainty. And we’re... Read more

I Ching

By: David Hinton

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting... Read more

100 Deadly Skills

By: Clint Emerson

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson—adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations—to eluding pursuers, evading capture, and surviving any dangerous situation.

In today’s increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety are everywhere. From acts of terror to mass shootings, and from... Read more

Surviving Ireland

By: Colm Tobin

Narrated by: Colm Tobin

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast.
Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world?
In Surviving Ireland,... Read more

The Smarter Screen

By: Shlomo Benartzi

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading behavioral economist shows how businesses can improve consumer thinking and decision-making on screens.

The typical American office worker now spends the majority of his or her waking hours staring at a screen. In the 21st century, every business is a digital business, which is why it’s so critical to understand how we think and behave... Read more

Bouncing Forward

By: Michaela Haas

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book of its kind in the new science of posttraumatic growth: a cutting-edge look at how trauma survivors find healing and new resilienceThe uplifting science of posttraumatic growth presents groundbreaking research and proven methods to survive and thrive in the face of challenges. Twelve inspiring role models share their profound... Read more