Science & Technology audiobooks

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?

As a species, Homo... Read more

Breaking Out

By: John Butman

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Breaking Out, idea developer and adviser John Butman shows how the methods of today’s most popular “idea entrepreneurs”—including dog psychologist Cesar Millan, French lifestyle guru Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don’t Get Fat), TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie, and many others—can help you take an idea public and build influence for it.

It isn’t... Read more

The Art of Thinking Clearly

By: Rolf Dobelli

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed the wrong horse? These are examples of what the author... Read more

Robert Oppenheimer

By: Ray Monk

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 35 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his... Read more

Permanent Present Tense

By: Suzanne Corkin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent a dangerous “psychosurgical” procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store... Read more

Brilliant Blunders

By: Mario Livio

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his... Read more

The Philadelphia Chromosome

By: Jessica Wapner

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity... Read more

Science and Nonduality Conferences (SAND)

By: Maurizio Benazzo & Zaya Benazzo

Narrated by: Glen Sebera

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

First held in 2009, the Science and Nonduality Conference was formed to bring together the two disciplines of science and spirituality in an open minded, non-dogmatic inquiry. Intrinsic to both of these modes of thought is the concept of nonduality. The concept of nonduality and the idea of this conference is explored by its founders. Read more

Mission to Mars

By: Buzz Aldrin

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary "space statesman" Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing with Apollo 11—and an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary... Read more

Whole

By: T. Colin Campbell PhD

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.Every apple contains thousands of... Read more

College (Un)bound

By: Jeffrey J. Selingo

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the value of a college degree?The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people are beginning to question that value. Is a college diploma still worth pursuing at... Read more

77 Questions for Skillful Living

By: Michael Finkelstein

Narrated by: Michael Finkelstein

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do with your life if your health were completely restored?Go beyond conventional medicine with this revolutionary guide to understanding wellness on a deeper level.Are you as healthy as you could be, as healthy as you would like to be?Do you wake up feeling rested? Do you feel physically attractive? Do you give yourself more... Read more

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide

By: David J. Miklowitz, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Kris Koscheski

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting an accurate diagnosis is the first step toward reclaiming your life from bipolar disorder. But if you or someone you love is struggling with the frantic highs and crushing lows of this illness, there are still many hurdles to surmount at home, at work, and in daily life. You need current information and practical problem-solving advice... Read more

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Jeff Crawford

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to... Read more

The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice

By: George Martin

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You will never see war the same way after reading this extraordinary retelling of an ancient Greek fable about a tragically unnecessary battle between mice and frogs. With haunting illustrations, this miniature masterpiece ranks with Animal Farm as one of the greatest parables of human foibles.  Originally published in 1962, The Battle of the... Read more

Mastery of Self

By: Frank Channing Haddock

Narrated by: Anthony Rogers

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio version of Frank Channing Haddock's Mastery of Self explains the importance of personal magnetism in your daily life and how it is a crucial ingredient on your journey to personal success. Haddock lays out a clear path on how to use this magnetism and how to cultivate his instructions in everything you do and want to achieve. Follow... Read more

Why Worry?

By: George Lincoln Walton

Narrated by: Anthony Rogers

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"The habit of worry is not to be overcome by unaided resolution. It is hoped that the victim of this unfortunate tendency may find, among the homely illustrations and commonplace suggestions here offered, something to turn his mind into more healthy channels. It is not the aim of the writer to transform the busy man into a philosopher of the... Read more

AfterLife

By: Hank Hanegraaff

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Are near-death experiences reliable?New York Times best-sellers on near-death experiences depict:
• A 3-year-old who meets Jesus and his rainbow-colored horse
• A neurosurgeon encountering Om and the Orb on the wing of a butterfly
• A real estate broker descending to earth’s center to discover hell is 300 degrees and zero humidityDo such exotic... Read more

As a Man Thinketh

By: James Allen

Narrated by: Anthony Rogers

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest and best-selling self-improvement books ever written is now available on audio! For anyone who wants an enriched life and a more meaningful existence, this is a must-listen. James Allen's teachings make absolute sense: "A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." Now you can... Read more

Radical Abundance

By: K. Eric Drexler

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result... Read more

In the Body of the World

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much... Read more

The Introvert's Way

By: Sophia Dembling

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For anyone who loved Susan Cain’s Quiet, comes this practical manifesto sharing the joys of introversion…

This clever and pithy audiobook challenges introverts to take ownership of their personalities...with quiet strength. Sophia Dembling asserts that the introvert’s lifestyle is not “wrong” or lacking, as society or extroverts would have us... Read more

The Anatomy of Violence

By: Adrian Raine

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies... Read more

Surfaces and Essences

By: Emmanuel Sander & Douglas Hofstadter

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 33 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Analogy is the core of all thinking.

This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making... Read more