Science & Technology audiobooks

Smart Change

By: Art Markman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful guide that shows how habits of behavior are formed, and how we can transform bad habits into positive behaviors in ourselves and others.

Smart Change explores the psychological mechanisms that form and maintain habits in individuals and groups and offers real, accessible and actionable advice for changing habits. In an engaging... Read more

Mindless

By: Simon Head

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)—the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of... Read more

Game-Changer

By: David McAdams

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & David McAdams

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals.

“The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation. Even seemingly certain defeat can be turned into... Read more

Fail Fast, Fail Often

By: Ryan Babineaux & John Krumboltz

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, psychologists, career counselors, and creators of the popular Stanford University course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” have come to a compelling conclusion: happy and successful people tend to spend less time planning and more time acting. They get out into the world, try new things, and make mistakes, and in doing... Read more

Me, Myself, and Why

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating survey of the forces that shape who we are and how we act—from the author of The Calculus Diaries

Following her previous tours through the worlds of physics (Black Bodies and Quantum Cats) and calculus (The Calculus Diaries), acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette now turns her attention to the mysteries of human identity and... Read more

The Lightness Being

By: Frank Wilcze

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate... Read more

Consciousness and the Brain

By: Stanislas Dehaene

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

How does the brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before.

In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive... Read more

Train

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again.

From the frigid Trans-Siberian Railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic maglev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring... Read more

Social Physics

By: Alex Pentland

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled... Read more

All Joy and No Fun

By: Jennifer Senior

Narrated by: Jennifer Senior

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom…[an] excellent book.” —Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review""[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny book.” —The Washington PostThousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children.... Read more

The Forest Unseen

By: David George Haskell

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.



Each of this book's short chapters begins with a... Read more

Designing with Nature In Mind

By: Sim Van der Ryn

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van der Ryn has been leading the way for a more regenerative, resilient, and sustainable future as a pioneer of the green building movement. This movement emphasizes the value to our health and well-being of a direct connection to nature. Designing in collaboration with nature is a major tool toward creating a vital new architecture for an... Read more

Eating Local Food As An Act Of Belonging

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin shares how industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. She explores why eating from your bioregion is good for you, good for your community, and good for the planet. As we commit, in some small way, to eating within a radius of where we live, we help turn the tide toward sustainable living and... Read more

Further Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less outrageous. Drawing on his time working as a medical student, a locum, and a general... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.

Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to... Read more

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me

By: David Stuart MacLean

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean.In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree


In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without... Read more

The Accidental Universe

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams and Mr. g comes a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.With all the passion, curiosity, and precise yet lyrical prose that have marked his previous books, Alan Lightman here explores the emotional... Read more

On a Beam of Light

By: Jennifer Berne

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light. This brilliant mind will one day offer up some of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived. From a boy endlessly fascinated by the wonders around him, Albert Einstein ultimately grows into a man of genius... Read more

Would You Kill the Fat Man?

By: David Edmonds

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A train is racing toward five men, tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. If a fat man is pushed onto the line, although he will die, his body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man?
As David Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex, and important, than it... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: David R. Dow

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist David R. Dow confronts the reality of his work on death row when his father-in-law is diagnosed with lethal melanoma, his beloved Doberman becomes fatally ill, and his young son begins to comprehend the implications of mortality.
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with... Read more

Left Brain, Right Stuff

By: Phil Rosenzweig

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig shows, for many of the most important, more... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."

In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

Tomorrow-Land

By: Joseph Tirella

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture,... Read more