Science & Technology audiobooks

iDisorder

By: author

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology, resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and... Read more

The Conundrum

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at... Read more

The Infinity Puzzle

By: Frank Close

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a scientific gold rush as physicists raced to chart the inner workings of the atom. The stakes were high: the questions were big, and there were Nobel Prizes and everlasting glory to be won. Many mysteries of the atom came unraveled, but one remained intractable—what Frank Close calls the... Read more

Psychology of the Unconscious

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques... Read more

Ein Plädoyer fürs Loben, Hymnen und Preisen - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht & Joseph Vogl

Narrated by: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht & Joseph Vogl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Deutsche Intellektuelle haben sich so leidenschaftlich darauf verpflichtet, "kritisch" zu sein, dass man sich manchmal versucht fühlt, das Wort mit zwei "t" zu schreiben. So ist mit der rhetorischen Tradition des Lobs auch die Preisrede verloren gegangen. Ist es an der Zeit, diesen Verlust auszugleichen? Wie können die verschwundenen Traditionen... Read more

The Finest Hours

By: Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer,... Read more

Gossip

By: Beth Gutcheon

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.”
—Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book ReviewThe critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things... Read more

The Great Animal Orchestra

By: Bernie Krause

Narrated by: Bernie Krause

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged... Read more

The Monkey Wrench Gang

By: Edward Abbey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the... Read more

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of... Read more

Taming Your Alpha Bitch

By: Rebecca Grado & Christy Whitman

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In many areas, we, as women, have earned the equality we've been fighting for. We've broken through glass ceilings and achieved great success. We've shown that we can prosper by our own means. And we've become influential, respected leaders. Yet many of us find ourselves unhappy, anxious, and overwhelmed. Where's the pot of gold at the end of... Read more

I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did

By: Lori B. Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; participate in crowd-sourced scientific research; and become investigators, helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have even helped to bring... Read more

Cancer Is Not a Disease!

By: Andreas Moritz

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Cancer Is Not a Disease!, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed health expert Andreas Moritz argues that cancer is the physical symptom of the body’s final attempt to eliminate specific life-destructive causes. He claims that removing such causes sets the precondition for complete healing of the body, mind, and emotions. This book... Read more

Soldier Dogs

By: Maria Goodavage

Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs’ extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impact they have on those who work with them.People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. A... Read more

Better Than Normal

By: Dale Archer, MD

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior—long perceived as liabilities—can be important hidden strengths.

What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future as an entrepreneur? What if the shyness in groups that you... Read more

What's Going on in There?

By: Lise Eliot, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

As a research neuroscientist, Lise Eliot has made the study of the human brain her life's work. But it wasn't until she was pregnant with her first child that she became intrigued with the study of brain development. She wanted to know precisely how the baby's brain is formed, and when and how each sense, skill, and cognitive ability is... Read more

Urknall, Weltall und das Leben - Abridged

By: Harald Lesch & Josef M. Gaßner

Narrated by: Harald Lesch & Josef M. Gaßner

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Universum verstehen? Vielleicht ist das zu hoch gegriffen - aber eines können Harald Lesch und Josef M. Gaßner versprechen: Sie erklären die Geheimnisse des Kosmos so verständlich wie nur möglich, ziehen dabei alle Register bis an die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Vorstellungskraft. Von Hefeteig und Honig wird ebenso die Rede sein wie von... Read more

Turing's Cathedral

By: George Dyson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first... Read more

Free Will

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Sam Harris

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion.

A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy,... Read more

Immortal Bird

By: Doron Weber

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Doron Weber delivers an affecting, unforgettable account of his struggle to protect his remarkable son. Born with a congenital heart defect, Damon Weber proves a source of constant inspiration to his parents even as his father Doron searches relentlessly for a breakthrough to resolve a condition that seems destined to claim Damon's life. Living... Read more

SuperSense

By: Bruce M. Hood

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol, Bruce M. Hood has been a research fellow at Cambridge, a visiting scientist at MIT and a professor at Harvard. SuperSense is a fascinating exploration of the forces that shape people's beliefs in the irrational-and also a compelling look at how these beliefs bind... Read more

Le prince

By: Nicolas Machiavel

Narrated by: Michel Galabru

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

C'est pour entrer en grâce auprès des Médicis, que Machiavel écrit en 1513 Le Prince, traité politique où il est question de l'art de prendre possession du pouvoir et de le maintenir. Bien que les références utilisées par l'auteur remontent à Platon et Plutarque, l'action politique n'est jamais subordonnée à la morale, et la seule exigence... Read more

The Emotional Life of Your Brain

By: Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while others put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down?In this hotly anticipated audiobook, award-winning, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J.... Read more

The Noonday Demon

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more