Science & Technology audiobooks

NeuroTribes

By: Steve Silberman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

The Superhuman Mind

By: Kristian Marlow & Berit Brogaard

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow study people with astonishing talents-memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge... Read more

Au nom du père, du fils et de la crème glacée - Abridged

By: Pierre Morency

Narrated by: Pierre Morency

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Après avoir secoué un certain nombre de nos croyances depuis la parution de son best-seller Demandez et vous recevrez, Pierre Morency s'attaque ici de plein fouet aux fondements des écrits religieux et à la relation des humains avec le Père. Son postulat ? Dieu est content lorsque nous sommes gros, pauvres, malades et misérables. Il ne veut pas... Read more

Beyond Informational Thinking To Connective Thinking

By: Glenn Aparicio Parry, PH.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Parry believes that the way to cure our planetary challenges begins with a return to original thinking. The way we think and interact with nature and each other, he says, affects everything. As long as we divide things up as animate and inanimate, as living and not living we will continue to destroy the earth. “If there’s one thing I would... Read more

The Genius of Opposites

By: Jennifer B. Kahnweiler PhD

Narrated by: Tiffany Williams

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Better Together

FDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. They demand wise nurturing.

The key, says bestselling author Jennifer Kahnweiler, is for... Read more

Collaborative Intelligence

By: Dawna Markova & Angie McArthur

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakthrough book on the transformative power of collaborative thinking.

Includes a PDF of charts and graphs to help determine your personality type as well as tips on how to work better with other personalities.
 
Collaborative intelligence, or CQ, is a measure of our ability to think with others on behalf of what matters to us all. It is... Read more

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

By: Felicia Day

Narrated by: Felicia Day

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller from “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a “relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational” (Forbes) memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world.

When Felicia Day was a girl, all... Read more

Life's Greatest Secret

By: Matthew Cobb

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give... Read more

The Gift of Failure

By: Jessica Lahey

Narrated by: Jessica Lahey

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that... Read more

Intangiball

By: Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. It also draws liberally from such character-conscious clubs as the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Author,... Read more

A Healthy More Resilient Brain

By: Brant Cortright, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Brant Cortright, Ph.D. brings brain research into a new dimension by putting it into a holistic health context. Cortright’s lessons about brain health incorporate body, heart, mind, and spirit. He clarifies some common misconceptions, and shares how we can help our brains thrive and grow, including what we might be doing to unknowingly cause... Read more

Words and Rules

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Deliciously erudite.” —William Safire, New York Times Magazine“A riveting detective story.” —Chicago TribuneSteven Pinker, author of the landmark bestsellers The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate—and one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists—offers an eye-opening explanation of how human beings learn and use... Read more

Global Brain

By: Howard Bloom

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom—one of today’s preeminent thinkers—offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as... Read more

Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality

By: Pope Francis

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Linda Korn

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community”

In the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor. In a stirring, clarion call that is not merely aimed at... Read more

The Man Who Wasn't There

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

*Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award*
*An NBC News Notable Science Book of 2015*
*Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015*
*A Book of the Month for Brain HQ/Posit Science*
*Selected by Forbes as a Must Read Brain Book of 2015*
*On Life Changes Network’s list of the Top 10 Books That Could Change Your Life... Read more

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

By: Steven M. Druker

Narrated by: Steven M. Druker, Christopher Lane & Laural Mer...

Length: 21 hours

Abridged: No

This audiobook uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of... Read more

Voices in the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth, a breathtaking journey through the extraordinary world of dolphins
 
Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seem like an aquatic mirror... Read more

The Sex Myth

By: Rachel Hills

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us—woman or man, straight... Read more

Walking with Abel

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands—as they embark on their annual migration across the savannah. It's a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly... Read more

Menschen verstehen und lenken - Abridged

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wüssten wir nicht alle gerne, was andere Menschen wirklich denken, fühlen oder planen? Wie wir sie zu etwas überreden oder beeinflussen können? Wie wir sofort erkennen können, ob sie besorgt oder zufrieden sind? Und wünschen wir uns nicht auch, dass sie uns als jemanden wahrnehmen, der Selbstsicherheit, Autorität und Empathie ausstrahlt?... Read more

Applied Minds

By: Guru Madhavan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey inside the minds that build our world.

Dubai's Burj Khalifa-the world’s tallest building-looks nothing like Microsoft’s Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn’t work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common.

Applied Minds explores the unique visions and mental tools of engineers to... Read more

The Brain Sell

By: Dr. David Lewis

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Science has made the leap from the lab to come to a store near you—and the effects on us are phenomenal. Corporations in hyper-competition are now using the new mind sciences to analyze how and when we shop, and the hidden triggers that persuade us to consume.

From bargains in the Big Apple to the bustling bazaars of Istanbul, from in-store to... Read more

The Biology of Desire

By: Marc Lewis, PhD

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the “disease model” of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.

The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease, based on evidence that brains... Read more

Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On

By: Mark A. Reinecke

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

First featured on a British poster produced during World War II, "Keep calm and carry on" has become the mantra of millions — but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us. The next time you are stressed by pressures of work, overwhelmed by life's challenges, or panicked by problems that seem unsolvable, reach for this... Read more