Science & Technology audiobooks

From Monastery to Marketplace

By: Jan Phillips

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A friend put Phillips in pursuit of her spiritual practice which involves deep listening and resulted in a flood of creative outpouring that fueled her imagination. This deep dialogue covers such topics as quantum physics to fear, from "erosphere" to "infosynthesis." Read more

The Untouchable

By: Gerald Seymour

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Called "the finest thriller writer in the world today" by the Daily Telegraph, Gerald Seymour is the author of several acclaimed best-sellers. A novel of riveting suspense, The Untouchable is the tale of Mister, the supreme crimelord of London, and his scheme to expand his illicit enterprises into the Balkans. Only one man stands in his... Read more

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of 24 essays is a perfect introduction to the world of Lewis Thomas. Topics ranging from the riddle of smelling to nuclear proliferation carry the gentle, unassuming persuasiveness that characterizes the author's work. Here we are also introduced to the concerns that have distinguished Thomas' literary career: the natural... Read more

Ensuring Your Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In working with people in the helping professions who are most in danger of burnout or traumatic stress, Wicks has made many discoveries on how we can live our fleeting days with meaning, peace, compassion, and contentment. His reflections include many unforgettable stories that will live in your heart for years to come. Read more

Das Buch von der Zukunft (Ungekürzt)

By: Andreas Eschbach

Narrated by: Peter Veit

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer möchte nicht in die Zukunft blicken können und erfahren, wie die Welt in fünfzig, hundert oder zweihundert Jahren aussieht? Wie werden wir leben? Und wohnen? Werden Nanoroboter und Menschenklone zum Alltag gehören? Was passiert, wenn die Menschheit die Ölreserven aufgebraucht hat? Und wenn das Klima tatsächlich umschlägt - werden wir dann... Read more

Trashing the Planet

By: Dixy Lee Ray

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a commonsense grasp on the contentious issues of environmentalism, where science and politics overlap and well-meaning idealism turns to counterproductive ecoterrorism. Dixy Lee Ray, a marine biologist and former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, calls for environmentalists to regain a... Read more

A Most Dangerous Method

By: John Kerr

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 22 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named... Read more

Plastic Ocean

By: Capt. Charles Moore & Cassandra Phillips

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore... Read more

Creating The New Dream and The New Future Of The Earth

By: Elisabeth Sahtouris, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Biologist Sahtouris is optimistic about the future and points to biology saying, “Life gets creative in a time of crisis.” She explains how the survival of bacteria, which have been on the planet for over four billion years, has given us a model of how we may evolve into a mature species. She’s co-author, with the late Willis Harman, of Biology... Read more

The Fragile Species

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether he is discussing our origins as archaebacteria or the politics of trench warfare, physician-scientist Lewis Thomas is always insightful and exuberantly engaged in his world. This collection of essays deals with everything from AIDS to ozone depletion, and reveals the author's clear thinking and his ability to cut through the fog of... Read more

Yellow Fever Black Goddess

By: Christopher Wills

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Yellow Fever Black Goddess, popular author and biology professor, Christopher Wills, brings the latest scientific developments to the page in entertaining, dramatic form. Through meticulous yet riveting research, he pens a vivid account of deadly microbes struggling for survival in hostile hosts. Beginning with ancient illnesses like the... Read more

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Walter Isaacson, longtime journalist and author, tells the story of Apple co-founder and inventor Steve Jobs in a new biography titled Steve Jobs. Jeffrey Brown and Isaacson discuss the life and work of the technology giant. Read more

Children of Prometheus

By: Christopher Wills

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Wills is Professor of Biology at the University of California. In his popular books, which include Yellow Fever, Black Goddess, he offers fascinating insights into the world of biological science and how it affects our daily lives. Children of Prometheus answers three basic but intriguing questions: Are we still evolving? If so, how?... Read more

Free Ride

By: Robert Levine

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.

On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This memorable phrase shaped the online business... Read more

Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

Steve Jobs - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

How the Dog Became the Dog

By: Mark Derr

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.



The natural temperament and social structure... Read more

Über das Sterben - Abridged

By: Gian Domenico Borasio

Narrated by: Andreas Wilde & Gian Domenico Borasio

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was uns allen zu wünschen ist, ist ein nüchterner und gelassener Blick auf die eigene Endlichkeit. Dies erfordert eine ruhige und wiederholte Reflexion, am besten im Dialog mit Menschen, die uns am nächsten stehen. Das passiert leider im Leben eher selten, und wenn, dann oft sehr spät. Nehmen wir uns die Zeit dafür". (Gian Domenico Borasio) Read more

Socrates in the City

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Eric Metaxas & the contributing authors

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas’ latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today.The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Taking this as a starting point, Eric... Read more

The Puppy Diaries

By: Jill Abramson

Narrated by: Beth MacDonald

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An instructive and marvelously entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the executive editor of The New York Times

One sparkling summer day, Jill Abramson brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their adorable new puppy, Abramson wrote a hugely popular column for... Read more

Flatland

By: Edwin A. Abbott

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

With this satirical novella, English schoolmaster Edwin A. Abbott provides both a mathematical fantasy and pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. The narrator, A. Square, resides in the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland. When he is visited by a sphere, he is suddenly faced with proof of the existence of... Read more

The Viral Storm

By: Nathan Wolfe

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic.

Wolfe's research... Read more

County

By: David A. Ansell

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the health-care provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. County covers more... Read more

In a Dog's Heart

By: Jennifer Arnold

Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What our dogs need to live a good life, and why we must come through for them
 
Over the two decades she has spent raising and training service dogs for people with disabilities, Jennifer Arnold has come to a unique and profound understanding of the human-dog bond. Though it may seem simple and instinctive, the friendship and devotion we share... Read more