Science & Technology audiobooks

Summer World

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As the snow melts and the spring approaches, the animal kingdom awakens. In Summer World, Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, brings us an up-close and personal view of that awakening and rebirth.



Almost all life on the surface of the earth derives its energy from the sun, either directly through photosynthesis or indirectly... Read more

Rapt

By: Winifred Gallagher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Your world, and even your self, is largely constructed from the thoughts and feelings, people and things you’ve focused on throughout your life. Much more than you probably suspect, you can, as you move forward, actively direct your attention to create the kind of experience you want and become the person you want to be. Drawing from the latest... Read more

Ecological Intelligence

By: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to its solution.

Ecological Intelligence argues that... Read more

Dreams of a Final Theory

By: Steven Weinberg

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a grand scientific quest: the quest for a unifying theory of nature—one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and the earth. Writing with dazzling elegance and clarity, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg retraces the steps that have led... Read more

Ecological Intelligence - Abridged

By: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to its solution.

Ecological Intelligence argues that... Read more

Environmental Overkill

By: Dixy Lee Ray

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dixie Lee Ray exposes of the truth behind the frightening headlines of ecological disaster, illustrating how scientific honesty and our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being endangered by environmental extremists, scare-mongering journalists, and rapacious lawyers. She tells what actually happened at the Earth Summit,... Read more

Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken

By: Mike Robbins

Narrated by: Mike Robbins

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The pressure comes from all around (our parents, teachers, spouses, co-workers, and friends) telling us it’s more important to be liked and to fit in than it is to be who we truly are. We are also constantly bombarded with messages telling us that we aren’t good enough and need to be fixed.Now, best-selling author and motivational speaker, Mike... Read more

Masters of Sex

By: Thomas Maier

Narrated by: Dorie Barton

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate—in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation's top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look... Read more

Dis papa, l'amour c'est quoi - Abridged

By: Jacques Salomé

Narrated by: Jacques Salomé

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mon propos s'adresse essentiellement à des femmes et à des hommes qui souhaiteraient, dans leurs réponses ou leurs tentatives d'exploration du vaste sujet de l'amour, ne pas leurrer leurs enfants, ou veiller à ne pas entretenir des mythologies et des fables, des songes et des mensonges, autour de ce qui est peut-être la plus belle aventure... Read more

Feel First/Think Later, Finding Your Way to Emotional Freedom

By: Raphael Cushnir

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are there places in your life where you feel blocked? Is your career or your relationship not what you thought it would be? Are you still struggling with an addiction to smoking or food? Raphael Cushnir believes that whenever we struggle, or whenever we feel unable to accomplish the things that matter to us, there’s an emotion waiting to be... Read more

Phineas Gage

By: John Fleischman

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1848 Vermont, railroad foreman Phineas Gage sat above a hole, preparing to blast through some granite. A 13-pound iron rod fell from his hands into the hole, triggering the explosion and sending the rod straight through Phineas' head. Thirty minutes after this terrible accident, Phineas sat on the steps of a hotel, patiently waiting for the... Read more

Prehistory

By: Colin Renfrew

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory-human existence that predates the development of written records-while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself. Read more

The Mirror Effect

By: Drew Pinsky & S. Mark Young

Narrated by: Drew Pinsky

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Drew Pinsky takes a hard look at the profound changes blogging, tweeting, tabloids, and reality TV are having on the American way of life. An important wake up call for... Read more

Green Hell

By: Steve Milloy

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Everywhere you look, all you see is green. People are "living green," businesses are"going green," and consumers are "buying green." But soon, this trendy "green"lifestyle won't be voluntary. It will be mandatory.InGreen Hell,Steve Milloy shows how the government and environmental eliteswill soon have you under their green thumb, controlling the... Read more

Die Psychologie des Geldes - Abridged

By: Rüdiger Dahlke

Narrated by: Rüdiger Dahlke

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welche Macht hat Geld wirklich? Nach welchen Gesetzen funktioniert Reichtum? Der bekannte Arzt und Therapeut Ruediger Dahlke entlarvt Geldprobleme auf psychologischer Ebene und zeigt die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen auf. Mit seinen praktischen Ratschlägen und Übungen kann jeder wieder ein gesundes und entspanntes Verhältnis zum Geld... Read more

The Natural Mind - Waking Up

By: Alan Orr

Narrated by: Alan Orr

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Imagine if just by reading one book you could transform your thinking, open your mind to new possibilities and embark on a mind adventure on a voyage of self discovery that will not only benefit you, your loved ones, friends and family but has the power to benefit humanity. This is that book.
The journey of personal deconstruction is not an easy... Read more

The Yoga of Christianity

By: Russill Paul

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people bridge the spiritual traditions of East and West, of the yogi and the Christian, as Russill Paul does. He is a native of India raised as a Catholic, with deep ties to Hinduism and the yogic tradition, and studied as a Benedictine monk at an ashram near Madras. From his perspective, neither tradition is better than the other-only unique. Read more

A Lion Called Christian

By: Anthony Bourke & John Rendall

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.

A Lion Called Christian tells the... Read more

The Virtue of Selfishness

By: Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The provocative title of Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness introduces an equally provocative thesis about ethics. Traditional ethics has always been suspicious of self-interest, praising acts that are selfless in intent and calling acts that are motivated by self-interest amoral or immoral. Ayn Rand’s view is exactly the opposite.This... Read more

Emotional Freedom

By: Judith Orloff

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, Emotional Freedom is a road map for those who are stressed out, discouraged, or overwhelmed as well as for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel even better.

Picture yourself trapped in a traffic jam feeling utterly calm. Imagine being unflappable and relaxed when your supervisor loses her... Read more

Emotional Freedom - Abridged

By: Judith Orloff

Narrated by: Judith Orloff, M.D.

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times bestseller, Emotional Freedom is a road map for those who are stressed out, discouraged, or overwhelmed as well as for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel even better.

Picture yourself trapped in a traffic jam feeling utterly calm. Imagine being unflappable and relaxed when your supervisor loses her... Read more

Agile Project Performance Management

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

With the widespread growth of agile project management and agile development methods, we face challenges when these projects don't (or can't) provide us with our standard performance metrics for project health assessment and project portfolio management. Join Kevin Aguanno, a well-known expert on the agile methodologies, as he explains how... Read more

Raus aus der Angstfalle

By: Cornelia Dehner-Rau & Harald Rau

Narrated by: Anja von Hübbenet, Michael Holz & Katrin Hildeb...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Das bekannte Autorenpaar erklärt zunächst, wie Ängste entstehen und was die Auslöser sind. Mit den praxiserprobten Übungen und dem bewährten 8-Schritte-Programm kann sich der Hörer seiner Angst stellen und gewinnt an Selbstvertrauen und SicherheitGrundlagen 01 Einführung 02:49 02 Angst hat viele Gesichter 09:51 03 Formen der Angst 11:44 04... Read more

The Second Book of the Tao

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating." -Pico Iyer

The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of... Read more