Science & Technology audiobooks

Musicophilia - Abridged

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more

The Jesuit and the Skull

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors.... Read more

Switching Time

By: Richard Baer

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.



In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer... Read more

Break Through

By: Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of debate with their self-published essay, “The Death of Environmentalism.” In this eagerly anticipated follow-up, the authors expand upon their argument that the paradigms driving the environmental movement and much of liberal politics are outdated and... Read more

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

By: Matthew Blakeslee & Sandra Blakeslee

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?



The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point on... Read more

The Whale Warriors

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica.



For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its... Read more

Brehms Tierleben - Heimische Säugetiere

By: Alfred E. Brehm

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more

Brehms Tierleben - Vögel

By: Alfred E. Brehm

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more

Brehms Tierleben - Kriechtiere, Lurche, Fische, Insekten, niedere Tiere

By: Alfred E. Brehm

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more

Brehms Tierleben - Exotische Säugetiere

By: Alfred E. Brehm

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität... Read more

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the... Read more

The Awakening World Mind and the Mayan Calendar

By: Barbara Hand Clow

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Some will recall the Harmonic Convergence that took place on August 17, 1987 and which pointed to the final 25 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar and its multi-faceted possibilities. Combined with her own in-depth research and that of biologist Carl Johan Calleman, Barbara Hand Clow describes the implications for the earth and for our... Read more

Authentic Social Change

By: Marisa Handler

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A true global citizen, Marisa Handler was born in South Africa to a Jewish family. They moved away from the imposed apartheid to California's San Fernando Valley, when she was eleven years old. She has since become an activist for social justice, and is inspired by the wisdom of her spiritual convictions of compassion, and her understanding that... Read more

Red Moon Rising

By: Matthew Brzezinski

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed our world.



On October fourth, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its... Read more

Hurricane Season

By: Neal Thompson

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up." —J. T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots



On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late summer New Orleans sun, the air a visible fog of humidity.... Read more

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness

By: Allan Combs, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We all sense intuitively that reality is not a jumbled assortment of unrelated parts, but a dynamic, unified whole. Yet, as fields of knowledge become increasingly complex and specialized, it's often difficult to see how all the parts of this whole truly fit together. In this dialogue with consciousness researcher Allan Combs, we explore the... Read more

Finding Your Inner Compass

By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you get past the chatter in your mind to find the wisdom that comes from a deeper place, your truest inner guidance? Is there a way to filter out the false sense of knowing that comes only from the ego? In this beautiful and inspiring conversation, Joan Borysenko sheds light on the mystery of finding connection with your highest truth. Read more

The Stuff of Thought - Abridged

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language

Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have... Read more

Gut Feelings

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool.



Drawing on a decade of research at... Read more

Your Attitude Affects Your Health

By: Dawson Church

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Science is beginning to corroborate a link between one's beliefs, and which genes become activated for one's health. Thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, prayer, religious faith, a rich social network, and charitable acts all are factors in staying healthy. Read more

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

By: John Grogan

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an unforgettable collection of more than 75 newspaper columns by John Grogan, the New York Times best-selling author of Marley & Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in. Whether writing about animals (from dogs to elephants to geese!), life's... Read more

Earth in the Balance

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide... Read more

Storm World

By: Chris Mooney

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses readers in the world of those who study hurricanes. What was once an arcane branch of meteorology (itself an arcane science) has become embroiled in one of the most politicized and hotly contested... Read more

The Edge of Evolution

By: Michael J. Behe

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael J. Behe launched the intelligent design movement with his first book, Darwin's Black Box, by demonstrating that Darwinism could not account for the complexity of biochemistry. Now he takes a giant leap forward. In The Edge of Evolution, Behe uses astounding new findings from the genetics revolution to show that Darwinism is nowhere near... Read more