Science & Technology audiobooks

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

The Man Woman Thing

By: Sam Keen

Narrated by: Sam Keen

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's way of life based on power, control, and the constant battle perpetuated between women and men. The patriarchy, although primarily engineered and executed by men, dishonors men and the positive masculine as much as it dishonors women and the positive feminine. Sam Keen, takes you on a journey to discover new routes to authentic manhood... Read more

Dem Habicht ins Nest geschaut

By: Carola Preuß & Klaus Ruge

Narrated by: Klaus Ruge

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

'Dem Habicht ins Nest geschaut' ist eine Adaption des Buches 'Unsere Nachbarn, Familie Habicht' von Klaus Ruge. In der Hörversion ist es Sophia, die Schwester von Finn, die mit dem Großvater dem Habicht auf der Spur und genauso fasziniert von ihm ist wie ihr Bruder im Buch. Neben der fast halbstündigen Geschichte um den Habicht, Sophia und den... Read more

The Sea Around Us

By: Rachel Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's ability to combine scientific insight with poetic prose catapulted her book to the top of The New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for more than a year and a half. Ultimately it sold well over a... Read more

Banned Methods Of Persuasion

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Jennifer Howe

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a question as old as man: how do I get others to do what I want? How do I bend the will of the people around me to the point where it is more in line with my deepest hopes and desires? And most importantly, how do I do it in such a way that no one is even aware I’ve done anything at all? Human psychology, empathy, perception, common sense,... Read more

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack

By: Ian Tattersall

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career—from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman—Tattersall offers an... Read more

Pig Tales

By: Barry Estabrook

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland, now explores the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on his personal experiences raising pigs as well as his sharp investigative instincts, he covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He embarks on nocturnal feral pig hunts in Texas. He visits farmers who... Read more

Life on the Edge

By: Johnjoe McFadden & Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim... Read more

El ladrón de cerebros - Abridged

By: Pere Estupinyà

Narrated by: Pere Estupinyà

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Escucha ahora esta excitante radiografía de los temas más candentes de la ciencia en la actualidad. La ciencia es la aventura más apasionante que puedas emprender. En El ladrón de cerebros, Pere Estupinyà se infiltra en los principales laboratorios y centros de investigación del mundo con el objetivo de robar el conocimiento de los verdaderos... Read more

S=EX2 - Abridged

By: Pere Estupinyà

Narrated by: Alba Sola & Pere Estupinyà

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Escucha esta aproximación al sexo innovadora y original que revolucionará nuestra mente y quizá también nuestro comportamiento. Estás a punto de escuchar el libro más riguroso, ameno, y completo jamás narrado sobre el fascinante estudio científico de la sexualidad humana. Por amor a la ciencia, Pere Estupinyà, el ladrón de cerebros, se sumerge... Read more

Just Add Water

By: Clay Marzo & Robert Yehling

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first moments underwater (he learned to swim at two months old) to his first ventures atop his father's surfboard as a toddler, it was obvious that Marzo's single-minded focus on all things surfing was unique. But not until late in his teens, when this surfing phenom was... Read more

The Reason for Flowers

By: Stephen Buchmann

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually.




Stephen Buchmann takes us along... Read more

The Flicker Men

By: Ted Kosmatka

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist.Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step... Read more

At the Coalface

By: Joan Hart

Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South... Read more

The Nurture Effect

By: Anthony Biglan

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this... Read more

Project Animal Farm

By: Sonia Faruqi

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Project Animal Farm provides a riveting and revealing look at what truly happens behind farm doors, as discovered by a fearless young woman.Sonia Faruqi, a twenty-five-year-old Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of an organic dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that... Read more

All Dogs Go to Kevin

By: Dr. Jessica Vogelsang

Narrated by: Dr. Jessica Vogelsang

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

All Dogs Go to Kevin is a humorous and touching memoir that will appeal to anyone who has ever loved an animal or lost hours in James Herriot's classic veterinary stories.

You can't always count on people, but you can always count on your dog. No one knows that better than veterinarian Jessica Vogelsang.

With the help of three dogs, Jessica is... Read more

A Beautiful Question

By: Frank Wilczek

Narrated by: Frank Wilczek

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?

Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his... Read more

All This Life

By: Joshua Mohr

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amid the river of metal and glass, a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son, Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the Internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face... Read more

Beyond Words

By: Carl Safina

Narrated by: Carl Safina

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling... Read more

Anxious

By: Joseph LeDoux

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic SelfCollectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to... Read more

China's Disruptors

By: Edward Tse

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and managers worldwide have pondered a fundamental question: What’s really going on with the new wave of China’s disruptors?

Alibaba wasn’t an outlier—it’s one of a rising tide of thriving... Read more

Faith Versus Fact

By: Jerry A. Coyne

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions.



Coyne is responding to a national climate... Read more