Science & Technology audiobooks

The Upcycle

By: Michael Braungart & William McDonough

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from ten years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the... Read more

God's Hotel

By: Victoria Sweet

Narrated by: Victoria Sweet

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria... Read more

Diary of a Submissive

By: Sophie Morgan

Narrated by: Tatiana Sokolov

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In Diary of a Submissive, Sophie Morgan candidly explains what exactly an independent, twenty-first century woman gets out of relinquishing her power and personal freedom in a submissive relationship with a dominant man for their mutual sexual pleasure.

In the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey, here is a memoir that offers the real story of what it... Read more

Animals in Translation

By: Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With unique personal insight, experience, and hard science, Animals in Translation is the definitive, groundbreaking work on animal behavior and psychology.

Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field of animal science.... Read more

Two Cultural Cycles: Logos and Mythos

By: Joe McHugh

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture has two dominant ways of knowing: Mythos and Logos. Human civilization has moved through many eras where one or the other has dominated its thinking. It’s important to have a balance of both and to recognize and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each. McHugh is the author of Slaying the Gorgon: The Rise of the Storytelling... Read more

Raum und Zeit - Abridged

By: Harald Lesch

Narrated by: Harald Lesch

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ALLTAG Wenn man anfängt, über die Begriffe Raum und Zeit nachzudenken, kann einem schwindlig werden. ANFANG Für Physiker stellt sich der Anfang von Zeit und Raum als der Beginn der Kausalität dar. Sofort stellt sich die Frage nach dem "Davor". INVENTUR Einfache Bausteine verbinden sich zu immer komplexeren Dingen. Dazu braucht es Raum... Read more

Die dunkle Seite des Kosmos - Abridged

By: Harald Lesch

Narrated by: Harald Lesch

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DUNKLE MATERIE Es gibt sie, obwohl sie noch niemand gesehen hat. Sie gibt keinerlei Strahlung ab. Und zwar in Mengen. DUNKLE ENERGIE Sie macht gut siebzig Prozent des Energieinhalts des Universums aus und beschleunigt die Expansion des Weltalls. SCHWARZE LÖCHER Schwarz und unsichtbar reißen sie alles an sich. Bei den kosmischen... Read more

The End of Big

By: Nicco Mele

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Radical connectivity—our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally—is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele... Read more

Mind Whispering

By: Tara Bennett-Goleman

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"The road in life forks in every moment, with one path leading toward confusion, separateness, and entanglement, and the other toward clarity, connection, and mental freedom. With mind whispering, the choice can be ours."Why sometimes do even the smallest events send us into a downward spiral? Whether we're aware of it or not, our feelings and... Read more

Tell Me the Truth, Doctor Unabridged DA

By: Richard Besser

Narrated by: Richard Besser

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy award winning investigative journalist and medical professional Dr. Besser separates fact from fiction in this helpful healthcare guide that smashes harmful medical misconceptions.

"Hey, Doc--Got a Minute?"

No matter where Dr. Richard Besser goes, a day doesn't go by without someone stopping him to ask that question. Often, that person is one... Read more

Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

By: John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Narrated by: John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Every man has the potential for a great body, insane sex, and an unreal life. (Seriously) Want to lose body fat? That's easy—you can drop 20 pounds in 6 weeks. Want bigger muscles? Done. A 50-pound increase to your bench press, coming right up. Want to be smarter? Not a problem—the strategies in this book have been proven to increase brain... Read more

My Beloved Brontosaurus

By: Brian Switek

Narrated by: Brian Switek

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013

One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books

A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick

Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a... Read more

Boundaries for Leaders

By: Henry Cloud

Narrated by: Henry Cloud

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud leverages his expertise of human behavior, neuroscience, and business leadership to explain how the best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve performance and increase employee and customer... Read more

Another Insane Devotion

By: Peter Trachtenberg

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From "a genuine American Dostoevsky" (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.



When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many years into his past-- into the history of his relationships... Read more

Hen of the Woods & Other Wild Foods and Medicines

By: Steve Brill

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A living legend, "Wildman" Steve Brill leads us on a lively and entertaining tour through the Northeastern United States as he shares tips on foraging in densely populated areas like New York's Central Park and rural areas throughout New England. We follow the seasons: wild ramps in the spring, the first mushrooms of summer, and in autumn, wild... Read more

The Good Nurse

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing basis of the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain⁠—a “stunning book...that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood”—takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead. (New York Times)    
 
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of... Read more

The Weight Loss Mindset

By: Sarah Patterson

Narrated by: Kylie Stewart

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

I believe anyone can reach their ideal body weight by changing 10 basic thoughts about weight loss.

If you've tried diet after diet and exercise program after exercise program and still haven't lost weight, chances are you're sabotaging yourself subconsciously! Learn how to take back control of your thoughts, your health and your weight.

If you've... Read more

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

By: Richard P. Feynman

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science—a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to... Read more

How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick

By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some... Read more

The Spark

By: Kristine Barnett

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of... Read more

Superstorm Sandy

By: William Westhoven

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

WRITTEN AS A FUND-RAISING VEHICLE, THE AUTHOR PLEDGES TO DONATE ALL PAID ROYALTIES FROM THIS BOOK TO THE NONPROFIT HURRICANE SANDY NEW JERSEY RELIEF FUND. Written and published within a month of the worst storm to ever hit the New Jersey-New York area, "Superstorm Sandy: A Diary in the Dark" is a first-person account of one New Jersey's... Read more

The Undivided Past

By: David Cannadine

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict.Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference—religion, nation, class, gender, race, and... Read more

Erasing Death

By: Sam Parnia & Josh Young

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Contrary to popular belief, death is not a moment in time, such as when the heart stops beating, respiration ceases, or the brain stops functioning. Death, rather, is a process—a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Innovative techniques, such as drastically reducing the patient's body temperature, have proven to be effective... Read more

This Will Make You Smarter

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam & John Allen Nelson

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will... Read more