Science & Technology audiobooks

Countdown to Zero Day

By: Kim Zetter

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. 

“Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an... Read more

@War

By: Shane Harris

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought todayThe United States military currently views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare—alongside land, sea, air, and space—and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and CIA all field teams of hackers who can—and do—launch computer virus... Read more

A Friend Like Henry

By: Nuala Gardner

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Dale Gardner was still a baby when his parents realized that something wasn't right. Worried, his mother Nuala took him to see several doctors before finally hearing the word autism for the first time. Dale's autism was severe and violent, and family life was a daily battleground.




But the Gardners' lives were transformed when they welcomed a... Read more

What Your Body Knows about God

By: Rob Moll

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever had an experience where you felt particularly aware of God? If God is real and we are created in God's image, then it makes sense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive ability to sense and experience God.Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies are designed to connect with God. Research shows... Read more

The Invention of Surgery

By: David Schneider, M.D.

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 23 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider’s in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing “implant revolution” of the twentieth century. The Invention of... Read more

Inside the Criminal Mind (Newly Revised Edition)

By: Stanton Samenow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.
 
“Utterly compelling reading, full of raw insight into the dark mind of the criminal.”—John... Read more

Undeniable

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: Bill Nye

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."—Bill Nye

Sparked by a... Read more

Waking the Buddha

By: Clark Strand

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there more to Buddhism than sitting in silent meditation? Is modern Buddhism relevant to the problems of daily life? Does it empower individuals to transform their lives? Or has Buddhism become too detached, so still and quiet that the Buddha has fallen asleep?




Waking the Buddha tells the story of the Soka Gakkai International, the largest,... Read more

Die Psychologie des Überzeugens

By: Robert B. Cialdini

Narrated by: Helmut Winkelmann & Karin Grüger

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert B. Cialdini, Professor für Psychologie an der Arizona State University, ist der international führende Experte zum Thema Überzeugen. Er ist ehemaliger Vorsitzender der amerikanischen Fachgesellschaft für Persönlichkeits- und Sozialpsychologie. Sein Interesse am komplexen Zusammenspiel der Faktoren, die Menschen dazu bringen, sich auf eine... Read more

Il racconto dell'Anticristo

By: Vladimir Solovev

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Quando Vladimir Sergeevic Soloviev (1853-1900) diede alle stampe «Il racconto dell'Anticristo» nel febbraio del 1899, solo un anno prima della sua morte, il pubblico rimase alquanto perplesso. Tuttavia, il grande pensatore russo descrive con perspicacia la raffigurazione dell'Anticristo: personaggio affascinante, convinto uomo di spirito,... Read more

Mindfulness 25th anniversary edition

By: Ellen J. Langer

Narrated by: Ellen J. Langer & Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of... Read more

Arrival the Fittest

By: Andreas Wagner

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate, its innovability.”

Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution... Read more

Everyone's a Critic

By: Bill Tancer

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

How businesses can harness the power of online consumer reviews

More than seventy percent of consumers now consult online reviews before making purchases, and they take those picks and pans very seriously. A disgruntled but ignorant customer on Yelp might have more clout than any expert guidebook, magazine article, or newspaper critic. No wonder... Read more

God Spelled Backwards

By: Sylva Kelegian

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award2015 Gold Medal winner at Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook AwardsWhen newlywed actress Sylva Kelegian shows up at a Manhattan veterinary clinic to walk a rescue dog, a strawberry-blonde puppy stumbles down the stairs and into her heart—opening it to the plight of hurt and abandoned dogs everywhere. After a... Read more

Top Dog

By: Maria Goodavage

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, moving story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated and highly skilled military working dog. An... Read more

Grace's Guide

By: Grace Helbig

Narrated by: Grace Helbig

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.

Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for... Read more

Mars Rover Curiosity

By: Rob Manning & William L. Simon

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.Here, Rob Manning, the... Read more

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

By: Lance Pettiford

Narrated by: Mysti Jording

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

If you suffer from anxiety, depression, addictions and other problematic disorders you can treat and overcome them with cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of... Read more

Faith Without Religion: Bowing to the Mystery of Life

By: Roger Housden

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Housden shares with us that keeping faith does not require a religious code or practice. “Faith is a wholehearted bodily knowing,” he says. Faith is an aliveness that doesn’t have an explanation. The purpose of life is revealed gradually. Simply by trusting the present moment as it opens up to the next, we are expressing faith, love, and... Read more

Winners Dream

By: Bill McDermott

Narrated by: Bill McDermott

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.

In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to... Read more

Me, Myself, and Us

By: Brian R. Little, Ph.D.

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature—and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies of the nineteen sixties, which gave rise to... Read more

The Quantum Moment

By: Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstreamThe discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an... Read more

The Invisible History of the Human Race

By: Christine Kenneally

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going.


While some books explore... Read more

The Soul of All Living Creatures

By: Vint Virga, DVM

Narrated by: Vint Virga, DVM

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired... Read more