Science & Technology audiobooks

Competability

By: Amy Shojai

Narrated by: Amy Shojai

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

STOP THE GROWLS!
People love dogs--and often "double their pleasure" by sharing their hearts (and pillows) with more than one. But dog behavior puzzles the most savvy pet owners especially when you add more pets to the furry equation. And behavior problems are the #1 reason pets lose their homes.
This book helps any dog lover (whether you share... Read more

The Sacred Geometry of Our Cells

By: Sondra Barrett, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cells can only thrive in community; they need to connect with one another, and will call on each other as allies. And, when a cell needs a certain molecule, it actually embraces that molecule; it actually reaches out and hugs the molecule. This embrace is a universal principle of design.Sondra Barrett speaks of the sacredness of our cells... Read more

What the Animals Taught Me

By: Stephanie Marohn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What the Animals Taught Me is the story of how a woman came upon farm animals that needed rescuing and what she learned from them as they gradually changed her home in Sonoma County, California, into an animal sanctuary.Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor Stephanie Marohn moved to rural Northern California in 1993.... Read more

Time Reborn

By: Lee Smolin

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What is time?



This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come... Read more

The Pipeline and the Paradigm

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline - a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

With enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands... Read more

A Piece of the Sun

By: Daniel Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and... Read more

The Shark’s Paintbrush

By: Jay Harman

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? What structural design is shared by a tornado and a blood vessel?Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have built things by a process known as "heat, beat, and treat." They use enormous amounts of energy to heat raw material, shape it with heavy machinery, and maintain its... Read more

The Human Spark

By: Jerome Kagan

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation—in skills, personalities, values—that results? How do... Read more

Frankenstein's Cat

By: Emily Anthes

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has... Read more

The Immune System Recovery Plan

By: Susan Blum, MD, MPH

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The most prevalent form of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune diseases affect nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic—a result of the toxins in our diet, our exposure to chemicals, heavy metals, antibiotics, and unprecedented stress levels—has caused millions of people to suffer from diseases like Graves' disease, rheumatoid... Read more

Second Suns

By: David Oliver Relin

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
 
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted... Read more

Clash!

By: Hazel Rose Markus & Alana Conner

Narrated by: Authors

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before:
East Asian students now dominate Western schools and workplaces, yet crash into the so-called "bamboo ceiling" before reaching the top.Women are getting stuck as they rocket up the corporate ladder, while men are falling off the ladder... Read more

Enterprise 2.0

By: Andrew McAfee

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The Power of Receiving

By: Amanda Owen

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Once in a blue moon an idea comes along that once heard seems so obvious that you wonder why somebody hasn't written about it before. Amanda Owen's The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve presents a new paradigm for the 21st century-a philosophy that values receiving as much as giving and... Read more

The Character of Physical Law

By: Richard P. Feynman

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have... Read more

Mémoire sur le paupérisme

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: Fabienne Prost

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexis-Henri-Charles Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville, né à Paris en 1805 et mort à Cannes en 1859, est un philosophe politique et un historien. Il est le précurseur de la sociologie. Toute l'œuvre de Tocqueville repose sur la foi qu'il a pour le progrès de l'égalité et des conditions entre les êtres humains. Read more

Creation

By: Adam Rutherford

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What is life?

Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole organisms to create new ones that could never have... Read more

What Do Women Want?

By: Daniel Bergner

Narrated by: Charles Pasternak

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's arousal and desire inside out. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioral scientists, sexologists,... Read more

The Astronaut Wives Club

By: Lily Koppel

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the true story of the women who stood beside some of the greatest heroes of American space travel in this New York Times bestseller that delivers "a truly great snapshot of the times" (Publishers Weekly) that inspired a limited TV series on ABC!

As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television... Read more

Balance Costa Rica's Farming With Preservation

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the NewsHour's series "Food for 9 Billion," special correspondent Sam Eaton reports on a push in Costa Rica to embrace forest preservation and biodiversity while keeping up with the demand for farming. Researchers are measuring the helpful roles of small animals like bats, birds and bees. Read more

Nice Is Just a Place in France

By: The Betches

Narrated by: Arika Rapson

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Look, maybe you're a nice girl, but we're guessing you're more like us or you probably wouldn't have picked up this book. Not that we have a problem with girls who are nice people. But being nice is just not the way to get what you want. And this book is about getting what you want. Not in a finding happiness, giving back to the world, being... Read more

Wild Life in a Southern County (Excerpted Essay)

By: Richard Jeffries

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Jefferies remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. Best known for his articles and stories published in the Live Stock Journal, he draws from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born. Here he examines the habitats of the Downs and the birds and animals that... Read more

Denial

By: Ajit Varki & Danny Brower

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans... Read more

The Possibility Dogs

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Scent of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return.For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search and rescue. In The... Read more