Science & Technology audiobooks

Bionik

By: Werner Nachtigall & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Werner Nachtigall

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Inhalt: Bionik - Was ist das? 01 Technische Biologie und Bionik 02 Die Natur liefert keine Blaupause 03 Leonardo da Vinci, der erste Bioniker 04 Haifischschuppen, ein modernes Beispiel 05 Definition Eine kurze Geschichte der Bionik 06 Stahlbeton 07 Stacheldraht 08 Schwingungsboote 09 Salzstreuer 10 Klettverschluss Bionik... Read more

The $1,000 Genome

By: Kevin Davies

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the conclusion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists have been racing toward a grand goal: offering individuals a decoding of their complete genetic makeup for just $1,000. As Kevin Davies reveals in this exquisitely reported account, the $1,000 genome will be a reality by 2011 and it will usher in a whole new era of... Read more

A Nose for Justice

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund. When Baxter and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's... Read more

When Our Faith Falters

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most all of us have experienced times of spiritual confusion and disconnection from Divine Presence. Where do we turn when we've lost our faith and are overwhelmed by feelings of loneliness? Cameron has gone through such times, and here she reflects on how to rediscover what has spiritually inspired her, and helped release her from an artistic... Read more

To You We Shall Return

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you.”This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III’s newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote,... Read more

The Story of Philosophy

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The product of eleven years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the world’s greatest thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. Written with exacting and scrupulous scholarship, it was designed both to command the respect of educators and to capture the interest of the layman.Durant lucidly... Read more

Evolutionary Psychology I: The Science of Human Nature

By: Allen MacNeill

Narrated by: Allen MacNeill

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why do we do what we do?" In this thought-provoking series of lectures, Allen D. MacNeill examines the surprising-and sometimes unsettling-answers to this most basic of human questions. The remarkable new field of evolutionary psychology takes a scientific approach to the evolution of human nature. Analyzing human behavior in relation to food,... Read more

New Orleans Clinic Caring for Underinsured

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Betty Ann Bowser reports from New Orleans on one doctor's success in establishing clinics for the under-insured after Katrina wiped out the city's main charity hospital. Read more

The Lost Dogs

By: Jim Gorant

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man’s best friend in the aftermath of the nation’s most notorious case of animal cruelty.Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick’s brutal dogfighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As acclaimed... Read more

It's The Questions Not The Answers That Make Life Exciting

By: Jonathan Stedall

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a filmmaker, Stedall has worked with people from all walks of life, including scientists, artists and poets. He has found it quite exciting to come at the question of "where is heaven?" from many different angles and perspectives. Read more

Composing a Further Life

By: Mary Catherine Bateson

Narrated by: Sevanne Kassarjian

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new... Read more

Psychiatry

By: Thomas Szasz

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness... Read more

The Wave

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws of... Read more

On Second Thought

By: Wray Herbert

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Our brains are marvels, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to boast a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to negotiate our complicated lives without overthinking every choice and decision we have to make. Unfortunately, those ancient shortcuts don't always work to our advantage in our modern lives—when we don't... Read more

Katie Up and Down the Hall

By: Glenn Plaskin

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal memoir by bestselling author and celebrity journalist Glenn Plaskin, KATIEis a moving story about a man who discovers the true meaning of family after adopting a cocker spaniel puppy. Through the magnetic personality of his mischievous dog, the author soon makes powerful connections with several of his down-the-hall neighbors in a... Read more

The Grand Design

By: Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles Times

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of... Read more

Ah-Choo!

By: Jennifer Ackerman

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed.... Read more

Twilight of the Mammoths

By: Paul S. Martin

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As recently as 11,000 years ago—"near time" to geologists—mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time... Read more

Shaping Our Reality

By: Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannaford has studied the scientific foundations of quantum physics to human biology. She shares with us that there is a big shift going on in science in the way we conventionally think of ourselves. Fundamentally, we are dynamic, boundaryless, self-organizing systems open to a unified field of information that is vibrational in nature.... Read more

30 Minuten Selbstcoaching

By: Stefanie Demann

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Gabi Franke & Heiko Grauel

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Einen persönlichen Coach zu haben, das wäre toll!" Haben Sie das auch schon mal gedacht? Aber ob mit oder ohne Coach: Jeder Mensch ist für seinen persönlichen Erfolg selbst verantwortlich. Was kann ich? Was will ich? Wie erreiche ich das? – Das sind die zentralen Fragen eines Selbstcoachings. Dieses Hörbuch hilft Lesern dabei, zu engagierten... Read more

The Genial Gene

By: Joan Roughgarden

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universial sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book... Read more

Confessions of an Alien Hunter

By: Seth Shostak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the first Martian “canals” were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated sky-gazers, night travelers, and television watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and many are convinced they’ve visited Earth. A fair number of scientists also suspect that aliens exist, and for decades... Read more

Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google

By: Aaron Goldman

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Want Market Share? Google It!

“Google is a once-in-a-generation company. Aaron Goldman has written an essential book that goes beyond telling us how Google became so important to explaining why the revolution it’s leading will affect everyone in media and marketing.”

-Brian Morrissey, Digital Editor, Adweek

“An insightful tour of the elements that... Read more

The Tiger

By: John Vaillant

Narrated by: John Vaillant

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that... Read more