Science & Technology audiobooks

The Spirit of Laws

By: Baron de Montesquieu

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s... Read more

Project Rebirth

By: Courtney E. Martin & Dr. Robin Stern

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The images of the burning towers, the heartbroken friends building memorials, the minute-by-minute accounts of the horrors of that day—all are indelibly etched on our collective consciousness. But what of those left behind after 9/11? What have they, and we, learned from the gift of time?



In Project Rebirth, a psychologist and a journalist... Read more

Redirect

By: Timothy D. Wilson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Why might some sex education programs result in more teen pregnancies? Why did reading that self-help book make you feel less happy? What’s the best way to recover from trauma? Can we actually improve our lives by redirecting our thinking?
 
 We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. These stories ultimately determine if we will lead... Read more

The Science of Evil

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common—lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world.



In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has... Read more

Transcendence

By: Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and treatment of Season Affective Disorder (SAD), brings us the most important work on transcendental meditation since the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Science of Being and Art of Living—and one of our... Read more

Haiti After the Earthquake

By: Paul Farmer

Narrated by: Meryl Streep

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former... Read more

Evolutionary Biology, Part 1

By: Allen MacNeill

Narrated by: Allen MacNeill

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With Evolutionary Psychology I and II, Allen D. MacNeill of Cornell University led a thought-provoking series of lectures on why people do the things they do. In Evolutionary Biology I, MacNeill addresses a different side of the coin by examining the biological component, from Charles Darwin's and Gregor Mendel's "dangerous ideas" to... Read more

Future Science

By: Max Brockman

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the very latest theories and discoveries in science, editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young researchers. 
 
Future Science features eighteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their work and ideas to a general audience for the... Read more

The Penguin and the Leviathan

By: Yochai Benkler

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower than ever before,... Read more

50 Psychology Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Thinking Person's Guide to Popular Psychology

We would all like to know the secrets of human nature - who we are, how we think, and what we do. In a journey that spans 50 books, hundreds of ideas, and over a century in time, 50 Psychology Classics explores important contemporary writings such as Gladwell's Blink and Seligman's Authentic... Read more

Doctor Explores History of Cancer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Betty Ann Bowser talks with oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Read more

You Can Read Anyone

By: David J. Lieberman

Narrated by: David J. Lieberman

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wished you could peer into someone's mind to find out what he or she is really thinking? Now you can...really.

This audiobook is not a collection of recycled ideas about body language. It does not suggest that a woman's hairstyle will give us unprecedented access into her soul; neither does it spout wildly ambiguous generalities... Read more

Theory of Pyschoanalysis

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known... Read more

Hope and Glory

By: Stuart Maconie

Narrated by: Stuart Maconie

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In Hope and Glory Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment... Read more

Super Mario

By: Jeff Ryan

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possibleNintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has... Read more

InSideOut Coaching

By: Joe Ehrmann, Paula Ehrmann & Gregory Jordan

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL standout, is a dynamic motivational speaker and seminar leader, addressing audiences nationwide about the unparalleled platform, power, and position coaches have to transform their players' lives and impact families, schools, and communities. Recognized for his revolutionary concepts of teambuilding, mentoring, and... Read more

Never Fear Cancer Again

By: Raymond Francis

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Most cancer research dollars have been wasted asking the wrong questions, looking in the wrong places, and using the same failed approaches while expecting different results. Conventional cancer treatments damage health, cause new cancers, lower the quality of life, and decrease the chances of survival. In fact, most people who die from cancer... Read more

Excitotoxins

By: Russell L. Blaylock

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex•cí•to•tox•in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid.Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins explores the... Read more

The Now Revolution

By: Amber Naslund & Jay Baer

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

TODAY, business moves at the speed of thought. The web enables a perpetual cycle of interaction and feedback, and every status update or tweet that mentions your company or brand either helps or hurts you reputation in real-time. Customers expect a level of attentiveness and responsiveness that most companies can’t live up to. Can you?

In The Now... Read more

The Beginning of Infinity

By: David Deutsch

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers.

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues... Read more

La vie avant la naissance

By: Josette Stanké

Narrated by: Josette Stanké

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Il semble que la vie en se donnant dépose à la nôtre le désir de devenir tout ce que nous pouvons être ; mais aussi celui d'éprouver le sentiment d'être nous-mêmes et de nous connaître. Read more

In Sheep's Clothing

By: George K. Simon, Jr., Ph.D.

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. George K. Simon knows how people push your buttons: your children—especially teens—are experts at it, as is your mate. A coworker may quietly undermine your efforts while professing to be helpful, or your boss may prey on your weaknesses. Manipulative people have two goals: to win and to look good doing it. Too often, those they abuse are... Read more

Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 23 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes’ answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry.Written during the turmoil of the... Read more

Copper: A Dog's Life

By: Annabel Goldsmith

Narrated by: Geoff Annis

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A loveable local legend and true character to all who knew him, Copper was no ordinary dog. With more stories to tell than you could count on the pads of one paw, this curly-tailed, shaggy-bearded mongrel (but don't let him hear you call him that) led a truly astonishing life. Famed for his remarkable wanderlust, canine curiosity took him all... Read more