Science & Technology audiobooks

The Accidental Billionaires

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic... Read more

Travels in Time

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you travel to the past and visit Julius Caesar? Could you travel to the year 4000 and see what the future is like? Find out about the possibilities and paradoxes of time travel.Time marches on except in astrophysics. Einstein taught us that time is a coordinate in space, and it’s all relative. Learn about the weird physics of our universe... Read more

On the Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Erik Sandvold

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired worldwide political reforms, most notably the American and French... Read more

Say Everything

By: Scott Rosenberg

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral,... Read more

Summer Skies

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Joe Rao

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Star light, star bright, what will I find over the rainbow? Take a tour of the summer skies of the day and night.Starry starry nights, stormy and sun-filled days. Long summer days of picnics and ballgames are played out under a vast and gorgeous canvas of astronomical and meteorological curiosities. From the stories of the stars told by the... Read more

Overcoming the Power of Difficult and Dangerous People

By: Shirley Hancen

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Men are not disturbed by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen. Epictetus Blessed is the man who fi nds wisdom, the man who gains understanding for she (wisdom) is more profi table than silver or gold. She (wisdom) is more precious than rubies – nothing you desire can compare with her – her ways are pleasant... Read more

Space Spin-Offs

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology tuned to the stars, brought down to Earth. Learn about the many products in our lives that were developed because of the space program.Space is now big business. Technology originally developed for the space program sometimes ends up in products for use on Earth, often in surprising ways. The 40,000 certified “Space Products” range... Read more

Rocket Men

By: Craig Nelson

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."
-The Wall Street Journal

Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16,... Read more

Winter World

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd... Read more

Getting Green Done

By: Auden Schendler

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing “green” buildings. What’s more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the... Read more

Magnificent Desolation

By: Buzz Aldrin & Ken Abraham

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective... Read more

The E-Myth Enterprise

By: Michael E. Gerber

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“This excellent book is a must-read for current and aspiring entrepreneurs.”
—Booklist
Discover how to turn a great idea into a thriving business with The E-Myth Enterprise, using the proven methods that bestselling author Michael  E. Gerber has developed over the course of his more than forty years as an entrepreneur and coach. Michael  E.Gerber... Read more

Biology, Second Edition

By: Eli C. Minkoff

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures... Read more

The Science of Star Trek

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Star Trek imagines a future for humans in space where we explore alien worlds using advanced technology. As writers tried to include as much realistic science as possible, the stories have been an inspiration for students, scientists, inventors.The Star Trek TV and movie series imagine a bright future for humans in space, one in which we explore... Read more

The Challenge For Africa

By: Wangari Maathai

Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai has campaigned for environmental activism in Africa for more than three decades. In The Challenge for Africa, Maathai delivers an insightful call to action, presenting a realistic look at the diverse problems facing Africans. Maathai's ability to dissect cultural problems and... Read more

The Game - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his... Read more

The Search for Aliens

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to believe? Seth Shostak of SETI talks about his hunt for aliens in this show about the search for life beyond Earth.Scientists have been searching for aliens in our solar system and beyond, but have not yet found evidence that life exists beyond Earth. SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been scanning the stars... Read more

The Last Man On the Moon - Abridged

By: Eugene Cernan

Narrated by: Eugene Cernan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career spanned the entire Apollo program, from the tragic fire that killed three of his comrades on Apollo 1, through the moment when he left man's last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17.This... Read more

In Pursuit of Elegance

By: Matthew E. May

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people... Read more

Would You Be A Space Tourist?

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Branson has formed Virgin Galactic and is now taking reservations aboard the maiden voyage of SpaceShipOne. Would you spend the estimated $200,000 for a 45-minute trip into space? Neil and Lynne also discuss the mechanics of sex in space.Co-host:
Lynne KoplitzGuests:
Robert K. Weiss: President and Vice Chairman of the X Prize Foundation,... Read more

Life Inc.

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This didn’t just happen.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer... Read more

Science Matters

By: Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers.“Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book Review

Knowledge of the basic... Read more

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do... Read more

The Doors of Perception

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it... Read more