Science & Technology audiobooks

Science Set Free

By: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.

In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... Read more

Rooftop Revolution

By: Danny Kennedy

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of their power grid on clean, local energy, yet the U.S is still under 1%. Solar pioneer Danny Kennedy has written this rallying cry for the solar industry and policy makers--the only obstacle to solar power is our ignorance. Read more

David Attenborough In His Own Words

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews: Parkinson (broadcast on BBC One, 2th December 1975, featuring Michael Parkinson), Profile (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1st July 1976, featuring Kathleen Cheesmond), Desert Island Discs (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1th March 1979, featuring Roy... Read more

Wallace

By: Jim Gorant

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be... Read more

The Ravenous Brain

By: Daniel Bor

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be... Read more

The Ocean of Life

By: Callum Roberts

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)

Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s... Read more

What Einstein Didn't Know

By: Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do ice cubes crackle in your glass . . . And how can you keep them quiet?

They are the questions that torment all of us. Now Robert L. Wolke, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, provides definitive—and amazingly simple—explanations for the mysteries of everyday... Read more

Energy for Future Presidents

By: Richard A. Muller

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The near-meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil rig explosion, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply of and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more than any other... Read more

Trauma heilen (Hörbuch)

By: Luise Reddemann & Cornelia Dehner-Rau

Narrated by: Karl Michael Vogler, Bettina von Websky & Annet...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Alles Wichtige zum Thema Trauma, dessen Bewältigung und wie man an den Folgen wachsen kann - informativ und spannend aufbereitet. Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe erlebt man durch schnell umsetzbare, in der Traumatherapie erprobte Übungen sowie geführte Imaginationen. Die gezielten Methoden der modernen Trauma-Therapie helfen, neues Zutrauen zu sich und... Read more

The Depression Cure

By: Stephen S. Ilardi

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past decade, depression rates have skyrocketed, and one in four Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen S. Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us that our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of... Read more

Re-Creating the World

By: Michael Meade

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though it may seem like the end of things, Meade reminds us there are always beginnings embedded in the endings. He takes us on a mythological journey that tips the world towards renewal and says, “Why not find our own thread even in the midst of uncertainty and pain and learn how to weave and create?” Read more

Gravity's Engines

By: Caleb Scharf

Narrated by: Caleb Scharf

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012

Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer"

Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012

We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it... Read more

January First

By: Michael Schofield

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and harrowingly honest memoir, January First is the extraordinary story of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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The Oath

By: Khassan Baiev

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chechen rebels took Moscow theatergoers hostage in October 2002, it tragically highlighted the ongoing conflict between Russia and its breakaway republic, Chechnya-a war that has claimed an estimated 200,000 Chechen lives in the past decade. Yet the true nature of the debacle lies behind the headlines. In The Oath, a heroic Chechen doctor... Read more

What’s Wrong with the World

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the importance of the child, and other issues, using... Read more

Rover’s Tales

By: Michael Z. Lewin

Narrated by: Michael Z. Lewin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of short stories, Michael Z. Lewin gives Rover, his canine narrator, a voice that speaks for dogs everywhere. He endows Rover with enough intelligence, spunk, and compassion to combat the injustices committed against his fellow canines by fate, unthinking humans, and even other dogs.Rover is a dog with street smarts, a bit of... Read more

Life after Television

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkably prescient book, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and... Read more

Confessions of a Male Nurse

By: Michael Alexander

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty... Read more

In the Blink of an Eye

By: Pat Milton

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 mysteriously fell from the sky, claiming the lives of all 230 people aboard. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton offers a rare inside look at the investigation of the unexplained explosion and the experts who struggled to find the truth behind one of America's most disturbing aviation disasters. Early in the... Read more

The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It's Our Choice

By: Joanna Macy

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy. Read more

Teach Your Children Well

By: Madeline Levine

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.Teach Your Children Well is a toolbox for... Read more

Global Weirdness

By: Climate Central

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we already know about the science of climate change; explains... Read more

Climate Change Strikes

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday’s NewsHour, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan moderated a panel discussion on how Native American tribes are coping with climate change.The panel included four native leaders representing their communities at the First Stewards symposium: Jeff Mears – Oneida tribe, Wisconsin, Environmental Area Manager Micah McCarty – Makah... Read more

Rabid

By: Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating... Read more