Science & Technology audiobooks

Touch

By: David J. Linden

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

David J. Linden, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and the bestselling author of The Compass of Pleasure, presents an engaging and fascinating examination of how the interface between our sense of touch and our emotional responses affects our social interactions as well as our general health and development. Accessible in its wit and clarity, Touch... Read more

Team Dog

By: Mike Ritland

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland teaches you how to give your dog the exceptional training and loyalty of a combat dog. In Team Dog, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog's trust. He also offers... Read more

Denn alles ist vergänglich - Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie (Ungekürzt)

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Alexander Bolte, Uwe Thoma & Kaja Sesterhenn

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fühlen Sie sich im verwirrenden Labyrinth des Lebens verloren? Quält Sie die erdrückende Einsamkeit? Haben Sie Angst vor der unerbittlichen Vergänglichkeit? Oder sorgt der schleichende Verlust Ihrer Jugend und Eleganz für Unbehagen? "Denn alles ist vergänglich: Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie" vom renommierten Therapeut Irvin D. Yalom ist... Read more

The Autoimmune Solution

By: Amy Myers

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with a cocktail of toxic treatments that fail to... Read more

The Brain's Way of Healing

By: Norman Doidge, M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology  

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding... Read more

Babylon's Ark

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals.




Working with members of the zoo staff and a few... Read more

Weaving The Fabric Of The World With Our Stories

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Solnit discusses how all of us are connected to one another as though we are threads woven into the fabric of the world. Storytelling is often our way of tracing these threads, starting with our personal stories and exploring outward. The effects of our stories can be subtle and powerful. Solnit explains how we make our stories and how... Read more

Unchain Your Brain

By: Daniel G. Amen & David E. Smith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill.Do you want to break free... Read more

Worry

By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Worry consumes time and energy, too often isolates us from friends and family, and prevents us from solving the real problems that are behind the act of worrying. Dr. Edward M. Hallowell makes clear the crucial distinctions among the various forms of worry, showing which are protective and productive, which handicap achievement and pleasure, and... Read more

How to Fly a Horse

By: Kevin Ashton

Narrated by: Kevin Ashton

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who... Read more

The Sweet Spot

By: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.

Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by... Read more

Discovering Your Creative Fire

By: Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Roger Housden

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a creativity coach, Dr. Maisel talks about the lineage of our creativity. There is a point in our lives when we fall in love with something — a book, a painting, a piece of music, a film — and we long to be part of the lineage of that creation. This longing emboldens us to enter the path of our own creative spirit. However in the hubbub of... Read more

Tasty

By: John McQuaid

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Taste is a whole-body experience, and breakthroughs in genetics and microbiology are casting light not just on the experience of french fries and foie gras but the mysterious interplay of body and... Read more

Letting Go Of Resistance: A Constant Rebirth

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Finley tells us that on a day to day basis our lives are a kind of “constant hopping from one identity to another.” He describes this as the location from which we are operating. He suggests we ask ourselves the question: Are we choosing the location of fear and anxiety, which supports knee-jerk reactions, or one of mindfulness and a tuning into... Read more

Resilience

By: Jessie Close & Pete Earley

Narrated by: Jessie Close & Glenn Close

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York,... Read more

Email Etiquette 101

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Matthew Castellucci

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this concise guide, I draw parallels between email communication and the traditional postal system in the United States. Exploring the significance of email etiquette across various contexts, from casual to professional interactions, I highlight the crucial role email plays in shaping individual and business reputations. With insights drawn... Read more

Cognitive And Dialectical Behavior Therapy Unleashed

By: James Ashley

Narrated by: Lauren McMahon

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people ideally want to live a fulfilling life which includes having a healthy relationship with themselves as well as others. However, what precludes a great deal of people from attaining this fulfillment in life is the inner turmoil that consumes them. This inner turmoil inevitably leads to distress which affects everything around them... Read more

The Science of Interstellar

By: Kip Thorne

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded... Read more

The Day My Brain Exploded

By: Ashok Rajamani

Narrated by: Ashok Rajamani

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societal prejudice inflicted on those with traumatic injury. With humor, spirit, and insight, he describes the... Read more

The Power of Visual Storytelling

By: Jessica Gioglio & Ekaterina Walter

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Attention is the new commodity. Visual Storytelling is the new currency.

Human brain processes visuals 60,000x faster than text.

Web posts with visuals drive up to 180% more engagement than those without.

Viewers spend 100% more time on web pages with videos.



Filled with full-color images and thought-provoking examples from leading companies,... Read more

Finding Zero

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how we got our numbers—told through one mathematician's journey to find zeroThe invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands... Read more

Speed Limits

By: Mark C. Taylor

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were supposed to free us by saving time and labor now trap us in a race we can never win. The faster we go, the less time we... Read more

The Patient Will See You Now

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a... Read more

Your Universe and You

By: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Narrated by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this profound recording, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon and the founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, challenges us to re-think our place in the universe and our role in its unfolding. Excerpt from recording: "The evidence is clear that we are an evolving, creating, self organizing, learning universe and…that... Read more