Science & Technology audiobooks

Return of the Primitive

By: Ayn Rand & Peter Schwartz

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1960s and early ’70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.While the New Left achieved limited political success, it brought about vast cultural changes that remain with us to this day.... Read more

Going Rogue - Abridged

By: Sarah Palin

Narrated by: Sarah Palin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America’s most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves. Read more

Green Metropolis

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares—as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, David Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all,... Read more

A Brave New World for Our Brave New Brains

By: Judith Horstman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Not too long ago neuroscientists believed we were born with an assigned number of brain cells, and as they died they were never replaced-we were doomed to get along with ever decreasing cognitive abilities. But as Judith Horstman tells us, more current research tells us that our brains are constantly adapting to our experiences, and new neuronal... Read more

The Secret History of the War on Cancer

By: Devra Davis

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The war on cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease—but it has left untouched many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the global environment. Evidence of how these things affect our chances of getting cancer has been either overlooked or suppressed. And this has been no accident. The... Read more

Why Women Have Sex

By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.



Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more

The Curse of the Good Girl

By: Rachel Simmons

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good." Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the... Read more

Now or Never

By: Tim Flannery

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Now or Never, internationally acclaimed author Tim Flannery has written a book that is at once a forceful call to action to combat global warming and a deeply and often surprisingly pragmatic road map toward sustainability.



Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Flannery examines the environmental challenges we face and their... Read more

Our Choice

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: John Slattery & Linda Emond

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates... Read more

The Beach

By: Lena Lenček & Gideon Bosker

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Here for the first time is the full story of the seashore: its natural and social history, spectacles, and scandals. The turquoise surf and sugary sand of the beach make it a favorite retreat today, but this wasn’t always so. The oceans of antiquity engendered contradictory feelings. Greek and Roman myths filled it with bellicose monsters and... Read more

Reawakening To Life's Great Adventure

By: Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the dark terror of his own breakdown, Kirk Schneider has come to live in a state of awe. He explored the roots of his nightmares and anxiety, and the habits that kept him depressed and disengaged, and found that life is something to marvel at. Now he shares the long, winding road he traveled from there to here, and offers guideposts each of... Read more

The Machiavellians

By: James Burnham

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and... Read more

A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy

By: René Descartes

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This three-part work includes A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words “I think, therefore I am,” his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that... Read more

The Department of Mad Scientists

By: Michael Belfiore

Narrated by: Michael Belfiore

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars
America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive,... Read more

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Thomas Cathcart

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too). Read more

Wired For Thought

By: Jeffrey Stibel

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected... Read more

Me and the Orgone

By: Orson Bean

Narrated by: Orson Bean

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

After spending ten years and thousands of dollars for psychoanalysis, actor Orson Bean was divorced, depressed, and dissatisfied with life. Then he discovered medical orgone therapy, a unique method of treatment developed by Wilhelm Reich, MD. This therapy is centered on the concept that sexual feelings must be integrated with tender feelings of... Read more

Highest Duty

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie & Chesley B. Sullenberger

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15,... Read more

Bright-sided

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism

Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key... Read more

Kernfusionsforschung - Die Sonne auf die Erde holen - Abridged

By: Hartmut Zohm

Narrated by: Hartmut Zohm

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unsere Sonne macht es vor: Leichte Atomkerne verschmelzen zu schwereren. Gewaltige Energiemengen werden bei dieser Kernfusion freigesetzt: Es herrschen Temperaturen von mehr als 100 Millionen Grad Celsius. Forscher vom Max Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (ipp) arbeiten daran, diese nahezu unerschöpfliche Energiequelle auf der Erde nutzbar zu... Read more

Einführung in die Relativitätstheorie - Abridged

By: Harald Lesch

Narrated by: Harald Lesch

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Relativitätstheorien gehören zu den herausragenden Leistungen der Physik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch Albert Einstein sind unsere Vorstellungen von Raum, Zeit und Materie grundlegend revolutioniert worden. Die Einführung in dieses Thema behandelt die Eckpfeiler der Theorien und beschreibt in leichter Art und Weise wesentliche Effekte und... Read more

The Wolf in the Parlor

By: Jon Franklin

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the things hidden in plain sight, dogs are one of the most enigmatic. They are everywhere, but how much do we really know about where they came from and what the implications are of their place in our world? Jon Franklin set out to find out and ended up spending a decade studying the origins and significance of the dog and its peculiar... Read more

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region

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

Narrated by: Lang Elliot

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of western North America. It includes more species, more time per species, and more sounds per species than any other audio guide to Western bird songs. In addition, the recordings are accompanied by an informative pdf booklet... Read more

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region

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

Narrated by: Lang Elliot

Length: 3 hours 27 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