Science & Technology audiobooks

Climate Change

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A UN report warns that the effects of climate change -- flood, drought and food shortages -- have already caused harm, and will worsen quickly if we don't take immediate action. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at the global implications with two people who worked on the report: Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University and Patricia Romero... Read more

Unearthing the Past

By: Jeffrey W. Martz

Narrated by: Jeffrey W. Martz

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey W. Martz of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is widely renowned for his expertise in the field of paleontology, a science that lies at the crossroads of biology and geology. Paleontologists seek to unearth and re-create life hundreds of millions of years old, and the work of paleontologists offers us detailed glimpses of the... Read more

You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News

By: Cracked.com

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

You're going to wish you never picked up this book.

Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in:

A zombie apocalypse? It could happen. 50% of humans are infected with a parasite that can take over your brain.
The FDA wouldn't let you eat bugs, right? Actually, you might want... Read more

The Age of Radiance

By: Craig Nelson

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama” (The Christian Science Monitor).

When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they began a... Read more

The Myth of the Spoiled Child

By: Alfie Kohn

Narrated by: Alfie Kohn

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too... Read more

Innovations Aim to Help Elders Stay Healthy and Connected

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s a multi-billion-dollar market that has been largely overlooked by Silicon Valley. But a new wave of tech startups have begun developing products for seniors and their caregivers, from redesigning canes and pill boxes, to a web-based app that helps keep an eye on elderly relatives. The NewsHour’s Cat Wise has the story. Read more

Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

American author, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau was a passionate abolitionist. Inspired by his opposition to slavery, his illuminating essay "Civil Disobedience" presents the theory that "the government is best that governs least." A powerful testament that remains as important today as it was during its conception, this theory argues... Read more

Um Leben und Tod - Ein Hirnchirurg erzählt vom Heilen, Hoffen und Scheitern (Ungekürzt)

By: Henry Marsh

Narrated by: Dominic Kolb

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Der New York Times- und SPIEGEL-Bestseller. Wie arbeitet ein Hirnchirurg? Wie fühlt es sich an, in das Organ zu schneiden, mit dem Menschen denken und träumen? Wie geht man damit um, wenn das Leben eines Patienten von der eigenen Heilkunst abhängt? Und wie, wenn man scheitert? Mehr noch als in anderen Bereichen der Medizin ist es in der... Read more

Cathedral of the Wild

By: Boyd Varty

Narrated by: Boyd Varty

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star

Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on... Read more

Agriculture Course

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Peter Bridgmont

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Rudolf Steiner gave these lectures 80 years ago, industrial farming was on the rise and organic methods were being replaced in the name of science, efficiency and technology. With the widespread alarm over the quality of food in recent years, and the growth of the organic movement and its mainstream acceptance, perceptions are changing. The... Read more

Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Mary Oliver

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in... Read more

Trying Not to Try

By: Edward Slingerland

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being
 
Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who... Read more

The Rise

By: Sarah Lewis

Narrated by: Sarah Lewis

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors—from innovation to the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.

The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. The... Read more

Smarter

By: Dan Hurley

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter?

Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in... Read more

The Rise of Superman

By: Steven Kotler

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and firsthand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy... Read more

Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love

By: Giovanni Frazzetto

Narrated by: Giovanni Frazzetto

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel?

In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and... Read more

The Depths

By: Jonathan Rottenberg

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly... Read more

Idea to invention

By: Patricia Nolan-Brown

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling ...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes ...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia... Read more

Strange New Worlds

By: Ray Jayawardhana

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets—and alien life—beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars—thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to... Read more

Cured

By: Nathalia Holt

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Is the end of HIV upon us? Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind the discovery of a functional cure and what it means for the millions affected by HIV and the history of the AIDS pandemic.

Two men, known in medical journals as the Berlin Patients, revealed answers to a... Read more

The DIM Hypothesis

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments... Read more

Me 2.0, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Dan Schawbel

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Me 2.0 shows job seekers and established professionals alike how to leverage the power of online media for personal empowerment and career success.There is no job security anymore, which means that the way we manage our careers has forever changed. Now everyone in the world is your competition, and the single greatest differentiator you have is... Read more

Healing ADD Revised Edition

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

All-New Revised Edition

Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow—yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD,... Read more

The Future of the Mind

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Compelling….Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip”
—The New York Times Book Review


The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACEtackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human... Read more