Science & Technology audiobooks

How We Learn

By: Benedict Carey

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives.

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re... Read more

The Copernicus Complex

By: Caleb Scharf

Narrated by: Caleb Scharf

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014
An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014
A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick

In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its... Read more

The Narcissist Next Door

By: Jeffrey Kluger

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kluger

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning senior writer at Time, an eye-opening exploration of narcissism, how to recognize it, and how to handle it. 

The odds are good that you know a narcissist—probably a lot of them. The odds are also good that they are intelligent, confident, and articulate—the center of attention. They make you laugh and they make you think.... Read more

Virtually Human

By: Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness—simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology—becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of... Read more

The Village Effect

By: Susan Pinker

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other human beings. Face-to-face contact matters: tight bonds of friendship and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives, and make us happy. Looser in-person bonds matter too, combining with our close relationships to form a personal "village" around us, one that exerts... Read more

Exploring The Intersection Between Science And Shamanism

By: Claude Poncelet, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Physicist Poncelet resides in two seemingly different worlds: the world of physics and the world of shamanism. He inspires us with the story of the universe as told by modern science, and also reaffirms indigenous methods and wisdom that ancient spiritual traditions have always taught. Read more

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
 
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when... Read more

The Kindle Publishing Bible

By: Tom Corson-Knowles

Narrated by: Greg Zarcone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

If you're a self-published author without a large platform or following, you will never be able to promote more than the published authors with huge marketing budgets. But you can outrank them on Amazon search every time! Why? Because 99% of Kindle authors don't know how to increase their search engine rankings in Amazon and Google. But I do -... Read more

Glimpsing Heaven

By: Judy Bachrach

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life?Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the moment when the heart stops beating and brain... Read more

In Real Life

By: Nev Schulman

Narrated by: Nev Schulman

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the host of MTV's #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today's increasingly digital world.


In Real Life:Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age

As the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or... Read more

Seeing What Others Don't

By: Gary Klein

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about... Read more

What If?

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and... Read more

Intros und Extros

By: Sylvia Löhken

Narrated by: Gabi Franke & Gilles Karolyi

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Das Thema "leise Menschen" hat seit Erscheinen des ersten Buches von Dr. Sylvia Löhken eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Da sowohl privat als auch im Beruf "Intros" und "Extros" in gemischten Teams vorkommen, stellt sich die Frage: Wie können intro- und extrovertierte Menschen so zusammen leben und arbeiten, dass es für beide... Read more

Artemis

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jean Shinoda Bolen’s bestselling, game-changing Goddesses in Everywoman, myths came to life in a whole new way that resonated with our own lives. Even fictional character Bridget Jones was reading that book.Now comes Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, a groundbreaking new audiobook that explores the archetype of the activist.... Read more

30 Minuten Selbstvertrauen

By: Hans-Georg Willmann

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Gisa Bergmann & Heiko Grauel

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ob in der Familie, am Arbeitsplatz oder in der Freizeit - täglich werden wir mit Herausforderungen konfrontiert, die wir meistern müssen. Dann müssen wir uns selbst vertrauen, d. h. an unsere Fähigkeiten und Möglichkeiten glauben. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie Sie Ihr Selbstvertrauen wirksam im Alltag stärken können. Sie erfahren, weshalb... Read more

30 Minuten Flow

By: Markus Hornig

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi & Gisa Bergmann

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Arbeit ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unseres Lebens, aber auch ein zweischneidiges Schwert: Sie kann zufrieden, gesund und glücklich machen oder in Erschöpfung, Krankheit und Burnout münden. 30 Minuten Flow zeigt, wie Sie Ihre Arbeit so strukturieren und organisieren, dass der Job mehr ist als eine notwendige Pflicht, Geld zu verdienen.... Read more

Das schaffst du schon

By: Barbara Messer

Narrated by: Sonngard Dressler

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Krisen stehen derzeit leider hoch im Kurs. Dabei sind Krisen nichts Ungewöhnliches. Das Leben besteht aus Höhen und Tiefen und wir können uns nicht nur die Höhen nehmen. Entscheidend ist, dass wir uns nicht unterkriegen lassen, sondern gestärkt aus den Lebenskrisen hervorgehen. Dieses Hörbuch vermittelt Methoden, um die eigene Lebenssituation... Read more

The Price of Silence

By: Liza Long

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Liza Long is the mother of a child with an undiagnosed mental disorder. When she heard about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, her first thought was, "What if my son does that someday?" She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal posted as "I Am Adam Lanza's... Read more

Happiness by Design

By: Paul Dolan

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over time and it depends on what we actually pay attention to.... Read more

The Organized Mind

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then,... Read more

Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow

By: Dr. Jan Pol & David Fisher

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised on a dairy farm in the Netherlands, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's 20,000-plus patients have ranged from white mice to 2,600-pound horses and everything in between.




From the... Read more

Unthink

By: Chris Paley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Your life is dominated by your unconscious mind: by thoughts you're unaware of and movements you don't realise you are making. Words, colours, mannerisms and other cues you don't realise are affecting you, change what you think. The confidence you have in your ability to reason and to consciously choose what to do is caused by a series of... Read more

Working Stiff

By: Judy Melinek, MD & T. J. Mitchell

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving... Read more

Wagging Tales: Every Animal Has a Tale

By: Tim Link

Narrated by: Tim Link

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people have a special bond with animals, but few have the ability to understand the innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires of different creatures. Author Tim Link is one such individual - a man blessed with the ability to communicate with animals telepathically.In this audiobook, the author details some of his most dramatic and moving... Read more