Science & Technology audiobooks

Magnet

By: Darcy Pattison

Narrated by: Josiah Bildner

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Pattison’s clear explication of magnets integrates facts into a story formatthat children will easily comprehend…An engaging account of scientific observation and experimentation for kids.” Kirkus Reviews “…inviting…appealing…interesting….” Booklist OnlineThe compass needle always pointed north.This simple observation sent William Gilbert deep... Read more

Commit to Win

By: Heidi Reeder

Narrated by: Heidi Reeder

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you need besides motivation and willpower?

In Commit to Win, Heidi Reeder, PhD, unpacks over forty years of research by psychologists and economists to show that the key to reaching any goal, whether it’s to hit the gym more often or to finally quit that dead-end job, isn’t motivation, willpower, or determination. It’s commitment. Busting... Read more

Nature's Nether Regions

By: Menno Schithuizen

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before

What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution.

Menno Schilthuizen invites readers... Read more

The New Rules of Marketing and PR

By: David Meerman Scott

Narrated by: David Meerman Scott & Sean Pratt

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and real-world examples of success

The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international bestseller with more than 300,000 copies sold in over 25 languages. It offers a... Read more

Middle School Makeover

By: Michelle Icard

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The audiobook helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face. Author Michelle... Read more

How Not to Be Wrong

By: Jordan Ellenberg

Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands

The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t... Read more

Proof

By: Adam Rogers

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains.Drinking gets a lot more interesting when you know what's actually inside your glass of microbrewed ale, single-malt whisky, or Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. All of them begin... Read more

iRules

By: Janell Burley Hofmann

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As Janell Burley Hofmann, mother of five, wrapped her 13-year-old's iPhone on Christmas Eve, she was overwhelmed by questions: "Will my children learn to sit and wonder without Googling? Should I know their passwords for online accounts? Will they experience the value of personal connection without technology?"



To address her concerns, she... Read more

The Seven Decisions

By: Andy Andrews

Narrated by: Andy Andrews

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Just one of these decisions can alter the course of a person’s life. What if you decided to master them all? Explore the seven decisions for success first introduced in the New York Times bestselling book The Traveler’s Gift, learning how you can turn life around—no matter how hopeless it seems.In this updated and repackaged edition of Mastering... Read more

Was ist das gute Leben? - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Hartmut Rosa

Narrated by: Hartmut Rosa & Gisela Steinhauer

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist das: ein gutes Leben? Immer mehr Menschen finden kaum die Zeit, sich diese Frage überhaupt zu stellen, womit wir direkt beim Kern des Problems wären: Der Beschleunigungstheoretiker Hartmut Rosa sieht in der allgegenwärtigen, aus der kapitalistischen Steigerungslogik resultierenden Rastlosigkeit den Hauptgrund dafür, dass wir heute... Read more

The Perfect Storm

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Man's struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world's most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best-seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating... Read more

The Big Fat Surprise

By: Nina Teicholz

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestsellerNamed one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that... Read more

Console Wars

By: Blake J. Harris

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.In 1990, Nintendo had a... Read more

Sergeant Stubby

By: Ann Bausum

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Told for the first time, here is the story of a stray dog who eventually became affectionately known as Sergeant Stubby, the most famous war dog of World War I. Beloved award-winning children's author Ann Bausum brings her friendly writing style and in-depth research to her first book for adults.Stubby's story begins in 1917 when America is... Read more

Think Like a Freak

By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their... Read more

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

By: Sam Kean

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was... Read more

A Boy and a Jaguar

By: Alan Rabinowitz

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages? Are they being punished? More than anything, he wants to be their champion--their voice--but he stutters uncontrollably. Except when he talks to animals... Then he is fluent. Follow the life of the man "Time Magazine" calls, "the... Read more

Birdmen

By: Lawrence Goldstone

Narrated by: Jonathan Fried

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the motorcycle, then turned his eyes toward the skies to become... Read more

The Humor Code

By: Peter McGraw & Joel Warner

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo conducted their own humor experiments along the way—to... Read more

A Troublesome Inheritance

By: Nicholas Wade

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story
 Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For... Read more

Tweet of the Day

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme. Then imagine that he is able to play half a dozen instruments - not one after another, but almost simultaneously, switching effortlessly between instruments and musical styles with hardly a pause for breath. If you can countenance that, you are halfway towards appreciating the extraordinary song... Read more

Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

By: Emile Coué

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1922, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion caused a stir throughout the scientific and religious communities. Émile Coué's assertions that the repetition of certain phrases, or mantras, can have a positive effect on the health and happiness of an individual challenged the existing reliance on chemicals and... Read more

Supercommunicator

By: Frank J. Pietrucha

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. Explaining what you do and why it's... Read more

Promote Yourself and Me 2.0

By: Dan Schawbel

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Career guru and personal branding expert Dan Schawbel knows what it takes to succeed in the world of business. This audiobook combines his bestselling books Promote Yourself and Me 2.0 to offer twice the advice on what you can do to find and build an outstanding career.The ability to brand and promote yourself effectively is essential for young... Read more