Science & Technology audiobooks

Smokejumper

By: Jason A. Ramos & Julian Smith

Narrated by: Ned Vaughn

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER"A fascinating look" (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and... Read more

Banned NLP Secrets

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Jennifer Howe

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and it encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. Over the years NLP has been both misunderstood and misused especially in regards to the application of the various techniques that are associated with it.
In his booked... Read more

Intelligent Disobedience

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When It's Smart to Say No

Nearly every week we read about a tragedy or scandal that could have been prevented if individuals had said no to ill-advised or illegitimate orders. In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

The... Read more

The Lucifer Principle

By: Howard Bloom

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by... Read more

Bald is Better With Earrings

By: Andrea Hutton

Narrated by: Andrea Hutton

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For the one in eight women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, a warm, practical, relatable handbook that dispels the terror and takes you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.
When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to know everything. She read books voraciously, devoured... Read more

How We'll Live on Mars

By: Stephen Petranek

Narrated by: Stephen Petranek

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.

It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes... Read more

Forensics

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Sarah Barron

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of listeners worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels, McDermid has become familiar with ever branch of forensics, and now she... Read more

Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

Big Science

By: Michael Hiltzik

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big, built the bombs that helped World War II, and became dependent on government and industry and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.



Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially.... Read more

Rethinking Narcissism

By: Dr. Craig Malkin

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing."What is narcissism?" is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the... Read more

The House of Owls

By: Tony Angell

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author recorded his observations, along with the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this... Read more

Childhood Disrupted

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health and overall well-being. Scientists now know on a biochemical level exactly how parents' chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill... Read more

The Conscious Mind

By: Zoltan Torey

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the... Read more

Creativity

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be... Read more

Creativity

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be... Read more

Healing Developmental Trauma

By: Laurence Heller & Aline Lapierre

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the... Read more

The Upanishads

By: Thomas Egenes & Vernon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while others convey its poetry at the cost of literal meaning.



This new translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes fills the need for an Upanishads that is clear,... Read more

Der kleine Lügendetektor - Abridged

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Ex-FBI-Agent und Experte für Körpersprache Joe Navarro hat Zigtausende Leser mit seinen Bestsellern "Menschen lesen" und "Menschen verstehen und lenken" begeistert, in denen er alle Aspekte der nonverbalen Kommunikation ausführlich erklärt. Immer wieder wurde er nach einem kleinen, schnellen Nachschlagewerk gefragt, das in kompakter Form die... Read more

Banned Body Language Secrets

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you struggle to get your point across to people? Do you ever feel like you are somehow weak and ineffectual in the way you communicate? Perhaps others just don't take you seriously. There is no easy fix for all of your problems. However, whatever those problems are, if social interaction is involved then a firm grip on the tenets of... Read more

The Direct Route to Abiding Peace

By: Gail Brenner, Ph.D

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we limited, damaged, and inadequate? Gail Brenner says we are not. She understands that the self-help movement can be useful, but believes that we possess the capacity to spontaneously find inner peace. She shares ideas for shedding the stories and thought patterns that bring about negative feelings. “The end of suffering is possible in any... Read more

Running On Empty

By: Jonice Webb, Ph.D & Christine Musello, PsyD

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you sometimes feel as if you're just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you're fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them. Who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no... Read more

Population Control

By: Jim Marrs

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police tactics. All a coincidence? Think again. In Population... Read more

Geek Heresy

By: Kentaro Toyama

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling,... Read more

Die Körpersprache des Datings - Abridged

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es ist ein kurzer Blick, ein Blinzeln nur – doch er macht deutlicher als tausend Worte, welche unüberwindlichen Hindernisse sich zwischen einem Paar aufgebaut haben. Und nur eine kleine Handbewegung, eine spontane Drehung des Körpers, die Stellung der Füße sind glaubwürdigere Liebesbezeugungen, als Schwüre es jemals sein könnten. In zahlreichen... Read more