Science & Technology audiobooks

Knocking on Heaven's Door

By: Lisa Randall

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.



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Public Parts

By: Jeff Jarvis

Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

International bestselling author and optimistic internet thinker Jeff Jarvis examines the way the Internet has changed the way we form communities, create identities, engage in commerce, and live our lives.

A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create... Read more

The Digital Divide

By: Mark Bauerlein

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot & Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of... Read more

The Concussion Crisis

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its consequences out of the shadows.



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The Mismeasure of Man

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.



Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively... Read more

Blood Feud

By: Kathleen Sharp

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Blood-boosting Procrit is Johnson & Johnson's biotech superstar. Behind its various brand names, it ranks as Medicare's most reimbursed drug. But Procrit performs frighteningly well, and can stimulate so many blood cells that thousands of patients die in unexplained and painful ways. And that's not all: Cancer patients, who often receive... Read more

Oink

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris Hilton carries one around like a Chihuahua, while Posh and Becks own a pair. The minipig, for reasons unknown, has become the latest celebrity accessory, but what's it really like to invite little livestock into the living room?



Matt Whyman, a successful novelist, enjoys a quiet writer's life in the English countryside . . . until his... Read more

Following Atticus

By: Tom Ryan

Narrated by: Tom Ryan

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Following Atticus is the remarkable true story of a man and a dog embarking on the challenge of a lifetime. This is author Tom Ryan’s inspiring tale of how he and his miniature schnauzer companion, the “Little Buddha” Atticus M. Finch, attempted to scale all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four thousand foot White Mountains twice in the dead of... Read more

Your Medical Mind

By: Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Cotter Smith

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Cutting through the confusion caused by the healthcare system, the media, and gaps in our reasoning, the bestselling author of How Doctors Think gives listeners essential tools for making the medical decisions that best suit their own needs.

“This important and riveting book could change—and perhaps even save—your life.”
—Daniel Gilbert, author of... Read more

Liebe - Wie sie gelingt (Ungekürzt)

By: Wilhelm Schmid

Narrated by: Andreas Keller

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum lieben wir? Und kann man Liebe erlernen? Bestsellerautor Wilhelm Schmid zeigt, wie es gelingt, die Liebe erfolgreich und erfüllend zu leben. Amüsant, leicht hörbar und teils sehr persönlich erzählt er darin von seinen Erkenntnissen über die Liebe, stellt sich den großen Fragen von Macht, Sex und Geld und unterschlägt auch nicht den... Read more

Evolutionary Psychology II

By: Allen MacNeill

Narrated by: Allen MacNeill

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first course in this lecture series, Professor Allen MacNeill delved into the exciting new field of evolutionary psychology, the scientific study of how human nature has evolved. In part two, the esteemed professor continues to investigate why humans do the things they do. Questions raised and answered in this course include the... Read more

Poetry: The Unfolding of What Is Hidden

By: Jane Hirshfield

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Hirshfield points out that many people turn to poetry in times of great life transitions. She says, “You know when people fall in love, or when they lose love, or lose someone they loved, that is when they want a poem. When they get married, they want a poem. These great transitions are larger than the normal, ordinary consciousness. And... Read more

The Man Who Couldn't Eat

By: Jon Reiner

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest. The medical... Read more

India

By: Patrick French

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dogs have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our canine friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. In this audiobook, dog lovers share what they have learned from our greatest heroes and healers. Chicken Soup... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Cats have always been wonderful companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also amazing teachers. In this audiobook, cat lovers, both lifelong and reluctant, share what they have learned from their furry companions. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat will delight listeners with humorous,... Read more

The Design of Everyday Things

By: Donald A. Norman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came science. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how—and why—some products satisfy customers while... Read more

The Sacred Acre

By: Mark Tabb

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When tragedy devastated a small town, an unlikely source of inspiration pieced the community back together in this dramatic true story. On a Sunday in May 2008, an F5 tornado hit the town of Parkersburg, Iowa, killing eight people and destroying 250 homes and businesses within a span of 34 seconds. The next day, Parkersburg's beloved football... Read more

The Sunflower

By: Simon Wiesenthal

Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to—and obtain absolution from—a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth,... Read more

Failure Is Not an Option

By: Gene Kranz

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured... Read more

Broadsides from the Other Orders

By: Sue Hubbell

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us think of bugs as pesky creatures we squish under our shoes or bat away with our hands. Under the microscope of Sue Hubbell's keen eye emerges an exciting world we rarely take the time to see. Author of A Country Year, Hubbell writes regularly for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Discover magazines, bringing to her delightful essays... Read more

Albert Einstein

By: Banesh Hoffmann

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable study is a model of what the biography of a scientist should be. Its author, a noted scientist himself, was a friend of and collaborator with Albert Einstein. On these pages, we come to know Albert Einstein as the “backward” child; the academic outcast; the reluctant world celebrity; the exile; the pacifist; the philosopher; the... Read more

Counterstrike

By: Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way.



In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times tell the story of how a... Read more

Without Conscience

By: Robert D. Hare, PhD

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the... Read more