Science & Technology audiobooks

A Small Furry Prayer

By: Steven Kotler

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Kotler was forty years old, single, and facing an existential crisis when he met Lila, a woman devoted to animal rescue. "Love me, love my dogs" was her rule, and Steven took it to heart. Spurred to move by a housing crisis in Los Angeles, Steven, Lila, and their eight dogs—then ten, then twenty, and then they lost count—bought a... Read more

Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar

By: Martin C. Libicki

Narrated by: Erik Sandvold

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The protection of cyberspace, the information medium, has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It... Read more

Self Comes to Mind

By: Antonio Damasio

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The arrival of neurons and their unique ability to transmit and receive messages was the radical break in the course of the human brain’s evolution. This led to the development of the self. Neurons organize themselves in complex circuits and networks. Networks that serve to represent events occurring in the body, influence the function of other... Read more

Trust Agents (Revised and Updated)

By: Julien Smith & Chris Brogan

Narrated by: Chris Brogan & Julien Smith

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller
Trust Agents has been widely acclaimed for its new approach to online marketing. Now, in this revised and... Read more

The Mesh

By: Lisa Gansky

Narrated by: Lisa Gansky

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Mesh is reshaping how we go to market, who we partner with, and how we invite participation and engage new customers. . . . If you embrace the Mesh you’ll discover how your business can inspire customers in a world where access trumps ownership.” —lisa gansky

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell... Read more

Absolutely Small

By: Michael D Fayer

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Our intuition about how things should behave is usually right in the everyday world. We see the baseball soar in the air, arc, drop, and lie stationary on the ground. Through data gathered by our senses and basic knowledge of the laws of classical mechanics, the motion of a ball makes perfect sense.
But enter the world of the tiniest particles on... Read more

The Concept

By: Bo Bennett, PhD

Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Maybe you were born to Christian parents and raised as a Christian.

Or maybe you are just a part of a Christian nation.  You might have attended church regularly, or maybe just on special occasions.  If asked, you say that you believe in God, but you really never thought about what that means exactly.  You are a well-educated person who... Read more

Harmony

By: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Narrated by: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with nature. In the vein of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and Van Jones’ Green Collar Economy, Prince Charles presents the compelling case that solutions to our most dire... Read more

What a Difference a Dog Makes

By: Dana Jennings

Narrated by: Dana Jennings

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for every dog lover—a short, tender, and uplifting tale of a cancer survivor and the life lessons shared with him by his beloved family dog.

Our dogs come into our lives as “just the family pet,” but before we know it they become drinking buddies and fuzzy shrinks, playmates and Cheerios-munching vacuum cleaners, alarm clocks and... Read more

Atlantic

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon... Read more

A Talk Based on "Program or Be Programmed"

By: Doug Rushkoff

Narrated by: Doug Rushkoff

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Rushkoff is widely considered to be one of most cutting-edge thinkers of our time. In his book, Program or Be Programmed, Rushkoff asks the question: Do we direct technology or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? BetterListen! is delighted to make a available a talk Rushkoff gave on his fascinating new... Read more

The Great Penguin Rescue

By: Dyan deNapoli

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing that 41 percent of the world's population of African penguins could perish, local conservation officials... Read more

The Mind's Eye

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Oliver Sacks & Richard Davidson

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of... Read more

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern and Western Box Set

By: Lillian Q. Stokes, Donald Stokes, Lang Elliot &...

Narrated by: Donald Stokes, Lillian Q. Stokes, Lang Elliot &...

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, Eastern and Western Bird Song audio guides from the famed team of Donald and Lillian Stokes will be available in one comprehensive box set with new premium packaging. An incredible 923 species from all of North America are included in this marvelous audio companion to the bestselling Stokes Field Guides. Bonus... Read more

Impermanence And Interconnectedness

By: Bodhipaksa

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How can mindfulness allow us to by-pass reactivity? How do we cultivate a sense of spaciousness? Buddhist teacher and author Bodhipaksa helps us find a sense of oneness, stillness, and perfectness. Read more

Into the Storm

By: Andrew Tilin & Reed Timmer

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed Timmer is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world. His is a job that requires science and bravado, knowledge and instinct just to survive, never mind excel. It's a job some people would kill for. But most prefer to let Timmer take the risks while they watch from the safety of their homes. Reed Timmer is a star... Read more

What Technology Wants

By: Kevin Kelly

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid... Read more

The Man Who Invented the Computer

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a  David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.

One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary... Read more

Hirnforschung: Warum Menschen glauben - Abridged

By: Rüdiger Vaas

Narrated by: Peter Veit & Claus Brockmeyer

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Forscher sind dem Geheimnis des Glaubens auf der Spur: Soziologen finden heraus, unter welchen Bedingungen Religion gedeiht. Hirnforscher und Psychiater entdecken, was im Kopf gläubiger und nichtgläubiger Menschen vor sich geht. Genetiker suchen nach der Religiosität im Erbgut. Evolutionspsychologen entschlüsseln den Ursprung des Glaubens und... Read more

In Deep Water

By: Peter Lehner

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive... Read more

You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know

By: Heather Sellers

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness.Heather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people’s faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion... Read more

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics

By: James Kakalios

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things didn't turn out that way. But the world we do have is actually more fantastic than the most outlandish predictions of the science fiction of the... Read more

Oogy

By: Larry Levin

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Rescuing Sprite comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted.

In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible... Read more

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog

By: Tamar Geller & Jonathan Grotenstein

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as the anti-Cesar Millan by dog owners and experts, Tamar Geller's nonaggressive approach to dog training is based on love, play, and mutual respect between dog and owner—much like how a wolf plays with its young. Using a combination of child psychology and animal behavior science, Geller revolutionized the way Americans train... Read more