Science & Technology audiobooks

Ice Bound

By: Jerri Nielsen

Narrated by: Jerri Nielsen

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her... Read more

The Road Ahead - Abridged

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Rick Adamson & Bill Gates

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. Read more

The Courage to Raise Good Men - Abridged

By: Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum

Narrated by: Olga Silverstein

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more

When Food Is Love - Abridged

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God

“A life-changing book.”—OprahIn this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal... Read more

Buddha's Teachings

By: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all great religions, Buddhism teaches the importance of spiritual, or holy, values. This religion teaches that if a person has a pure mind, everything he does will be pure and decent, and that if he has a pure heart, all happiness will come to him.



First published in 1925, Buddha's Teachings was originally edited by Japanese scholars of... Read more

The Numerati

By: Stephen Baker

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves simply by living in the modern world: we click web pages, flip channels, drive through automatic toll booths, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls. Now, in one of the greatest undertakings of the twenty-first century, a savvy group of mathematicians and computer scientists is... Read more

Healing With Love and Light

By: Noah McKay

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As a practicing physician facing his own terminal illness at the age of thirty-three, Noah McKay went to Mexico to find sunshine. There, he learned that making the decision to live was the first step toward complete recovery. Read more

Human Anatomy

By: John K. Young

Narrated by: John K. Young

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Our bodies perform an amazing number and wide variety of tasks that we literally could not live without. Renowned scholar John K. Young provides a fascinating look at how the human body is constructed, how it employs its different parts to our advantage, and how it can malfunction if not properly maintained. Professor Young describes not only... Read more

Creating Humans

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Alexander McCall Smith

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. We will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology. Read more

Behold the Mighty Dinosaur

By: John Kricher

Narrated by: John Kricher

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Dinosaurs-the word means "fearfully great reptile"-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century. Aside from birds, all dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, yet, before then, they dominated Earth's terrestrial habitats for about 160 million years, far longer than primates, or... Read more

Bob Schieffer's America

By: Bob Schieffer

Narrated by: Bob Schieffer

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Unbridged CDs * 6 CDs, 7 hours

Wise, rueful, candid, graceful commentaries from one of journalism’s most stylish and respected writers. Read more

Everyday Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurence Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the lessons of our evolutionary history to overcome the hazards of everyday life. He finds that natural laws profoundly affect our actions, and he reveals the... Read more

Hurry Down Sunshine

By: Michael Greenberg

Narrated by: Michael Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most... Read more

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

By: Jonah Lehrer

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.Taking... Read more

Auch wenn es mich das Leben kostet! - Systemaufstellungen als Lösungshilfe bei Krankheiten und anhaltenden Symptomen (ungekürzt)

By: Stephan Hausner

Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt viele Gründe, warum Patienten, trotz aller ärztlichen Kunst, keine positiven Reaktionen auf die medizinische Therapie zeigen, warum Kranke mit chronischen Symptomen von einem Arzt zum nächsten laufen und dennoch keine Linderung erfahren. Stephan Hausner hat in seiner langjährigen Arbeit als Heilpraktiker erfahren, dass... Read more

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice - Abridged

By: Mark J. Plotkin

Narrated by: Mark J. Plotkin

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice has been called one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.As then-chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, Mark Plotkin spent almost 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today's most devastating diseases. This... Read more

Loneliness

By: John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context—a factor so strong that it can alter DNA... Read more

The World in Six Songs - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)
 
Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets... Read more

The Presence of a Timeless Light Within

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Finley shows us how to dissect those moments when we meet that inner wall of resistance that tells us we’re not good enough, will never be happy enough, and don't deserve a life free from struggle. Learn how to say no to that tyrant inside your mind so that you're no longer driven by your will, but guided by the deepest wisdom of your... Read more

The Origin of Species, with eBook

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 27, 1831, the young naturalist Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the HMS Beagle. For the next five years, he conducted research on plants and animals from around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind—the theory of evolution.



Darwin presented... Read more

Saving the World, One Mushroom At a Time

By: Paul Stamets

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Stamets tells stories of the healing power of mushrooms, and how they may play a key role in reversing the destructive impact our modern technology and industry have had on our planet. His passion for his work is clear, and he’s likely to inoculate you with a fascination for these organisms, which have so very much to teach us. Read more

Thank God for Evolution - Abridged

By: Michael Dowd

Narrated by: Michael Dowd

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged CDs * 8 CDs, 9 hours

A revolutionary perspective on the relationship between religion and science that builds a bridge between people of all beliefs. Read more

Science and the Rediscovery of God

By: Amit Goswami

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

According to physicist Amit Goswami, contrary to appearances, the split between science and religion may finally be on the verge of being healed. Science may at last be rediscovering God. Read more

13 Things That Don’t Make Sense

By: Michael Brooks

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense.Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial... Read more