Science & Technology audiobooks

Digital Gold

By: Nathaniel Popper

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter... Read more

Irrationally Yours

By: Dan Ariely

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, “Ask Ariely”.Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized the way we think about ourselves, our minds, and our... Read more

Kolb's Learning Model Example

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Bill Georato

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

I utilized Kolb's learning model to assess a significant incident from my life—a car crash—analyzing it through the lens of Psychology 300 coursework. This research delves into my personal development following the tragic event, reflecting on the lessons learned. With a background in Business Management Technology and a Bachelor's in Business... Read more

Curiosity

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading was an international bestseller translated into thirty-four languages and for which Manguel earned the MEdicis Prize. Fourteen years later, Manguel anchors his new book in the primal connection between reading and curiosity. Tracing twenty-five centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the... Read more

Economic Crisis: World Food System - The Battle against Poverty, Pollution and Corruption

By: Amanda Eliza Bertha

Narrated by: Glenn Koster Jr

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The world food system is in serious danger. People are starving to death because their food is being hoarded, sold to other countries or is just not being produced.This book takes a look at the economic crisis with special attention to the world food system. Read more

Aus dem Tagebuch eines Hundes 2. Teil

By: Peter Eckhart Reichel

Narrated by: Andreas Mannkopff

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hörbuch ist weder ein schlauer Ratgeber über moderne Hundeerziehung noch eine wissenschaftliche Abhandlung zum Thema artgerechte Haustierhaltung. Es soll vielmehr zu einer angenehm "hündischen" Familienunterhaltung beitragen. Daher ist es für alle Hundefreunde und Freizeit-Kynologen, oder solche, die es werden wollen, gedacht. Für alle... Read more

Die Psychologie der Erbtante

By: Erich Mühsam

Narrated by: Gerd Wameling

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Weder die Problematik noch der Begriff des Erbschleichens ist gesetzlich definiert oder gesellschaftlich klar eingeteilt. Zu diesem Thema gibt es keinen umfangreichen Katalog an gesetzlichen Vorschriften, noch eine Fülle von Literatur oder Beiträgen, die Betroffenen eine dringend erforderliche Hilfestellung geben könnten. Einzig Erich Mühsams... Read more

Aus dem Tagebuch eines Hundes 1. Teil

By: Peter Eckhart Reichel

Narrated by: Andreas Mannkopff

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hörbuch ist weder ein schlauer Ratgeber über moderne Hundeerziehung noch eine wissenschaftliche Abhandlung zum Thema artgerechte Haustierhaltung. Es soll vielmehr zu einer angenehm "hündischen" Familienunterhaltung beitragen. Daher ist es für alle Hundefreunde und Freizeit-Kynologen, oder solche, die es werden wollen, gedacht. Für alle... Read more

Bad Faith

By: Paul A. Offit, MD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio’s Amish country—despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people disregard modern medicine in favor of using their... Read more

Sonnets & Sunspots

By: Eric Niderost

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Sonnets & Sunspots tells the story of one of the most beloved popular science series of all time and the charismatic educator who became an icon to several generations of students. The book is also a fascinating history of popular science programming in television and film, from its primitive beginnings to the twenty-first century. Along the... Read more

The Worm at the Core

By: Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James wrote that the knowledge that we must die is "the worm at the core" of the human condition—a universally shared fear that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage.




Using data collected from human subjects, Sheldon... Read more

The Mercy of the Sky

By: Holly Bailey

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mercy of the Sky is the harrowing inside account of Oklahoma’s deadliest tornado, penned by a local writer who became a national correspondent.Oklahomans have long been known for their fatalism and grit, but even old-timers are troubled by the twisters that are devastating the state with increasing frequency. On May 20, 2013, the worst... Read more

Alibaba’s World

By: Porter Erisman

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history—bigger than Google, Facebook, and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's and handling the bulk of... Read more

The Wall-Less Rooms Of Nature That Inspire Imagination

By: Patrice Vecchione

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Nature and art share the quality of perseverance and optimism. Vecchione illustrates this when she says, “Art is optimistic. No matter what emotions a piece of art may convey, art-making itself is a refusal to be plowed under by doubt, political systems, poverty or any number of other things.” She goes on to point out that nature shares those... Read more

Tomorrowland

By: Steven Kotler

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how... Read more

On the Burning Edge

By: Kyle Dickman

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, which killed nineteen elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and also inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.
 
“A tear-jerking classic.”—Outside • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Men’s Journal
 
On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of... Read more

Farm Sanctuary: The Happiest Place On Earth

By: Gene Baur

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gene Baur is someone who not only pleads for good treatment of farm animals; he’s doing something about it. He encourages us to engage in loving relationships beyond our cats and dogs to include farm animals as well. In doing so, he says that we can help ourselves and the planet. Imagine having a flock of turkeys following you as you wander the... Read more

What the **** is Normal?!

By: Francesca Martinez

Narrated by: Francesca Martinez

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?
Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal... Read more

The Upright Thinkers

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Leonard Mlodinow

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us.
 
Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. In the... Read more

How Champions Think

By: Bob Rotella

Narrated by: Bob Rotella

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking guide to success from America’s preeminent sports psychologist is “so good that this reviewer has recommended it to all, golfers and non-golfers alike” (Library Journal, starred review).

Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to... Read more

The Wright Brothers

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history.... Read more

The Upside of Stress

By: Kelly McGonigal

Narrated by: Kelly McGonigal

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress.
 
More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.,... Read more

Content

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics.Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its... Read more

Rise of the Robots

By: Martin Ford

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive,... Read more