Science & Technology audiobooks

Social

By: Matthew D. Lieberman

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world—other people and our relation to... Read more

Dot Complicated

By: Randi Zuckerberg

Narrated by: Randi Zuckerberg

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.

Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook’s early days and her following six years as... Read more

The Aviators

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of... Read more

Coming to Our Senses - Abridged

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing.

"[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually mattered . . ." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the... Read more

The Frackers

By: Gregory Zuckerman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong.

Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War... Read more

8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships

By: Daniel A. Hughes

Narrated by: Tony Craine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Bringing attachment theory essentials to everyday life.



A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is known as attachment theory, and until now most of the cutting-edge insights have been... Read more

Divorce with Grace

By: Lori Anderson

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A step-by-step guide to healing, releasing & ultimately thriving



When you walked down the aisle and said, "I do," did you ever think you'd be saying, "I don't"? During a difficult divorce, author Lori Anderson set out on a quest for healing. Having witnessed too many victims of divorce, who were stuck in a rut and living only half a life,... Read more

The Psychopath Inside

By: James Fallon

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The memoir of a neuroscientist whose research led him to a bizarre personal discovery

James Fallon had spent an entire career studying how our brains affect our behavior when his research suddenly turned personal. While studying brain scans of several family members, he discovered that one perfectly matched a pattern he’d found in the brains of... Read more

Geology

By: Kate Zeigler

Narrated by: Kate Zeigler

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is... Read more

Play at Work

By: Adam L. Penenberg

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Do games hold the secret to better productivity?

If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft... Read more

Moral Tribes

By: Joshua Greene

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Moral Tribes is a masterpiece—a landmark work brimming with originality and insight that also happens to be wickedly fun to read. The only disappointing thing about this book is that it ends.” —Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University; author of the international bestseller Stumbling on HappinessOur brains were designed for... Read more

Pure Joy

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Here from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel is a charming love letter to the pet dogs that have enriched her life.In this funny, lovely, moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to... Read more

30 Days to Love

By: Diana Kirschner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know there’s a simple 60-second cure that can put the sizzle and the closeness back in your relationship? Even if: Your lover is getting on your nerves and driving you up a wall You’re living in a lonely, resentful, angry, or painful place in the relationship You feel uncertain about your future together, anxious and afraid that you’ll... Read more

The Gathering Wind

By: Gregory A. Freeman

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic—a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.



Crewed by an... Read more

Self-Help Messiah

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans "how to win friends and influence people"Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a bestseller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of the "most important Americans of the twentieth... Read more

Falling Upwards

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.Dramatic... Read more

You Just Don't Understand

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

Heart

By: Dick Cheney & Jonathan Reiner

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Edward Herrmann & Jonathan Reiner

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.

For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and... Read more

The Dynamics of Disaster

By: Susan W. Kieffer

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected.In 2011 there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars' worth of property in the United States alone. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and major... Read more

Average Is Over

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any... Read more

Life at the Speed of Light

By: J. Craig Venter

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create "synthetic life"—putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The... Read more

Transform

By: Christopher Morace & Sara Gaviser Leslie

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform . . . or Be Left Behind Create unprecedented business value with social technologies



Chief Strategy Officer at Jive Software, Christopher Morace was one of the first people to arrive at the intersection of social technology and business strategy. He has overseen more than 800 deployments of social technology in major corporations. A... Read more

The Everything Store

By: Brad Stone

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless... Read more

50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know

By: Tom Chatfield

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We are in the throes of a technological and cultural revolution, yet the rapid pace of change makes it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know provides a clear path through the misinformation surrounding the technologies that are transforming the world.

Leading technology writer Tom Chatfield provides a... Read more