Science & Technology audiobooks

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

The Internet Things

By: Samuel Greengard

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a "smart" supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already... Read more

The Anxiety Toolkit

By: Alice Boyes

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry about the worst that could happen? Do you take negative feedback very hard? Are you self-critical? Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?

If any of these issues resonate with you, you're probably suffering from some degree of... Read more

Black Hole

By: Marcia Bartusiak

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes—not even light—seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions... Read more

On the Move

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his... Read more

Hidden In Plain Sight

By: Andrew Thomas

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

You never knew that theoretical physics could be so simple! In this exciting and significant book, Andrew Thomas reveals how all unifications in physics have been based on incredibly simple ideas.




Using a logical approach, Thomas explains how the great twentieth-century theories of relativity and quantum mechanics share a common base and how they... Read more

The Knife Man

By: Wendy Moore

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.
 
From humble origins, John Hunter rose to become the most famous anatomist and surgeon of the... Read more

Periodic Tales

By: Hugh Aldersey Williams

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1775, the American colonies were a hotbed of political discord. Many of the British policies, specifically taxes, had caused American colonial leaders to consider the unthinkable: declaring independence from the British Empire and its King George. One such leader, Thomas Paine, wrote Common Sense: a pamphlet that explained the advantages of... Read more

A Neurosurgeon's Journey to the Afterlife

By: Eben Alexander

Narrated by: Eben Alexander

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Eben Alexander has been an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years. In 2008, his remarkable near-death experience radically transformed his understanding of consciousness and the brain, indeed, of all existence.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Does It Work?

By: Shane Atchison & Jason Burby

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new age of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and countless other digital platforms, it doesn’t matter how many views or followers or clicks you get. The only thing that matters is: Does it Work?

Written by POSSIBLE’s Global CEO Shane Atchison and President of the Americas Jason Burby, this revolutionary guide shows how to use the latest... Read more

Rain

By: Cynthia Barnett

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human dramaIt is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.Cynthia Barnett's... Read more

The Diet Trap Solution

By: Judith S. Beck & Deborah Beck Busis

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Beck Diet Solution teams up with her daughter and colleague at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior to teach readers how to think their way thin, offering practical, proven tools for escaping common diet traps for good.Most diet programs work at first. But then life happens—stress, bad habits,... Read more

The Good Gut

By: Justin Sonnenburg & Erica Sonnenburg

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking guide to the surprising source of good health
 
Genetics and lifestyle are thought to be the two most important determinants of good health. But that is not the whole story. We have a second genome, our gut bacteria, that sets the dial on our bodies. Unlike our DNA, we can influence the gut bacteria, or microbiota, to optimize... Read more

What Stands in a Storm

By: Kim Cross

Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

April 27, 2011 marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. But from the terrible... Read more

All the Wild That Remains

By: David Gessner

Narrated by: Brian O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it. Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists... Read more

The Quick Guide to WordPress and Pinterest: Surviving the Social Media Revolution

By: Gazella D.S. Pistorious

Narrated by: Rick Hoem

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The popularity of Pinterest has taken off, many WordPress theme designs are now becoming more image focused. This means it’s now possible to find themes that actually encourage people to view your images more often. Many of these themes feature a graphic above the content snippet. You have the ability to entice visitors to individual pages based... Read more

Awe And Wonder: Keys To Living A Passionate Life

By: Gregg Levoy

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This far-ranging dialogue is full of stories that will inspire and delight. Levoy speaks about a sense of wonder as being the active ingredient in a passionate life, and how even suffering and restlessness can be explored with curiosity. He tells us that wonder can offer us the adaptive benefit of free cognitive upgrades. You’ll be encouraged by... Read more

Secret Warriors

By: Taylor Downing

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling and vivid account of World War I, Secret Warriors uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research laid the foundation for many of the innovations of the twentieth century.World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the... Read more

Mind Power

By: John Waters

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Utilizing and effectively employing the power of your mind and your brain are essential prerequisites for achieving anything great in life. However, when it comes to the development of their own mind power or brain power many people are clueless. They are not even aware that they possess the means of changing their brain’s circuitry through... Read more

Thinking

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.




—Daniel Kahneman on the power (and pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking.




—Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and... Read more

Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat

By: Paul Halpern

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up... Read more

Awakening The Power of Our Social Potential

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Social evolution happens when we join rather than separate. Hubbard has been studying social evolution for over 40 years, and she tells us how important it is to realize our potential, both independently and as a whole. She says that the illusion of separation is dying, and we can all participate in the social synergy of creating a new... Read more

What Are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Kelly Rhodes

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the secrets behind genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in this comprehensive guide. From their creation through genetic engineering techniques to their widespread use in agriculture and scientific research, GMOs have revolutionized the production of food and beyond. This book demystifies the process of creating genetically modified... Read more