Science & Technology audiobooks

The Men on My Couch

By: Dr. Brandy Engler & David Rensin

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes—and most of all, love.



Her patients were everyday guys from all walks of life. Among them were David, the Wall Street hotshot and... Read more

A Talk Based on "Present Shock"

By: Doug Rushkoff

Narrated by: Doug Rushkoff

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Rushko weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Guinea Pig Scientists

By: Leslie Dendy & Mel Boring

Narrated by: Jonathan Fried

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It's one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it's another thing entirely for them to use humans to test out a new vaccine or medical treatment-especially when the scientists are the subjects of their own experiments! Guinea Pig Scientists features brief but informative biographies of men and women who have changed the... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About God

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, whom The New Yorker describes as “one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country,” does for the concept of God what he did for heaven and hell in his book Love Wins: He shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and how to return vitality and vibrancy to lives of faith... Read more

Between Man and Beast

By: Monte Reel

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution

In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West... Read more

Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Researchers in the San Francisco Bay area believe genetic tests will help them find the best ways to treat and potentially prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, breast and prostate cancers. Spencer Michels reports on a giant data bank that houses genetic information on 200,000 people as part of a groundbreaking study. Read more

Japan Imagines Renewable Future

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Special correspondent Emily Taguchi has the story of Fukushima, Japan, a town aching for a comeback after an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. Once the home of the Fukushima Reactor, the town is looking towards renewable energy and other renewable sources to build a better future. Read more

5 Dinge, die Sterbende am meisten bereuen

By: Bronnie Ware

Narrated by: Maja Byhahn

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Was zählt am Ende wirklich? auf dem Sterbebett, wenn klar wird, dass das Leben sich dem Ende zuneigt? Nach vielen Reisen durch die ganze Welt, auf der Suche nach dem, was dem Leben Sinn gibt, findet die Australierin Bronnie Ware eine neue Aufgabe. Sie begleitet Sterbende in den letzten Wochen ihres Lebens. In ihrem Hörbuch erzählt sie von... Read more

Snowflake Bentley

By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Briggs Martin's Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents' Choice Award, and was picked as an ALA Notable Book for Children. Listeners of all ages will cherish this beautiful story about a real man whose discoveries changed the way the world saw snow. "There will be so many uses for this book-not the least of which is simply... Read more

Wave

By: Sonali Deraniyagala

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and... Read more

Decreasing Snowfall Sends Business Downhill

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

While winter storms have blasted parts of the Midwest and Northeast, a lack of steady and deep snow -- less accumulation and faster melt -- has had serious effects for the ski industry. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how winter sports businesses are navigating the season as part of the Coping with Climate Change series. Read more

Animal Wise

By: Virginia Morell

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
 
   Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or elephant?  Do they experience thoughts that are similar... Read more

Digital Disruption

By: James McQuivey

Narrated by: James McQuivey

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The barriers to entry in your market just vanished. Unexpected competitors are swarming in. Are you ready? You always knew digital was going to change things, but you didn’t realize how close to home it would hit. In every industry, digital competitors are taking advantage of new platforms, tools, and relationships to undercut competitors, get... Read more

Mindfulness Practice: Slowing Down - Tapping Into Our Inner Resources

By: Congressman Tim Ryan

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a Congressman, Ryan has a dream for America which includes healthcare for all, a sustainable eco-system, one that fosters creativity at the highest levels, and time to connect with family and friends. He sees us slowing down and becoming more kind and more aware. To help us do this, he advocates training ourselves in mindfulness awareness. Read more

The Last Best Cure

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife... Read more

The Age Edison

By: Ernest Freeberg

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other... Read more

Top Dog

By: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

Narrated by: Po Bronson

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as... Read more

Living and Dying in Brick City

By: Sampson Davis

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and the... Read more

ComPETability

By: Amy Shojai

Narrated by: Amy Shojai

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

STOP THE HISSES!Whether you share your home with a single cat or multiple felines, this new guide by a seasoned cat behaviorist and cat trainer teaches you about cats aggression, cat clawing, litter box problems and more. You'll find detailed prescriptive how-to advice focused in the most common cat behavior problems found in the multi-cat... Read more

Mars Direct

By: Robert Zubrin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The human race is at a crossroads. In the coming years, we will make decisions regarding our human spaceflight program that will lead to one of two familiar futures: the open universe of Star Trek, where we allow ourselves the opportunity to spread our wings and attempt to flourish as an interplanetary species—or the closed, dystopian, and... Read more

Reducing Gun Violence in America

By: Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for... Read more

Tierkommunikation mal anders lernen

By: Sarah Rogalski

Narrated by: Sarah Rogalski

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Die Fähigkeit mit Tieren zu kommunizieren wurde uns schon in die Wiege gelegt. Aber warum kommt sie uns abhanden? Wie funktioniert es und wo kann Tierkommunikation helfen? Das erlernen der Tierkommunikation ist vergleichbar mit einem unbenutzten Muskel der erst aufgebaut werden muss, bevor wir ihn wieder nutzen können. Du erfährst im Hörbuch... Read more

Inside Rehab

By: Anne M. Fletcher

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted New York Times bestselling
health and medical writer who visited fifteen addiction treatment
centers—from outpatient programs for the indigent to famous celebrity
rehabs; from the sites of renowned twelve-step centers to several
unconventional programs—to find out what really happens. What she
reveals ranges from... Read more

Asking Better Questions

By: Robert Fuller, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether Fuller is talking about the end of the cold war or the digitarian movement, he's constantly reminding us to ask better questions. It's the questions we are formulating that gives us a clue into solving our personal and our global problems. Read more