Science & Technology audiobooks

This Is Your Brain on Music - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves?
 
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how... Read more

Shaggy Muses

By: Maureen Adams

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum... Read more

The Female Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Louann Brizendine, MD

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound... Read more

Heaven Is Real

By: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Narrated by: Cecil Murphey & Don Piper

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

So how should we spend our time on Earth? Don Piper, the Minister of Hope who spent 90 minutes in Heaven, brings us God's message.

Hope for the here and now from the multimillion-selling author of 90 Minutes in Heaven.

Millions believe in Heaven. Don Piper's been there. He was pronounced dead after a car accident on January 18, 1989. Ninety... Read more

The Political Brain

By: Drew Westen

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into how the mind works, how the brain works, and what this means for why candidates win and lose elections. Scientist and psychologist Drew Westen has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more dispassionate notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political... Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Simon Blackburn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more

Merle's Door

By: Ted Kerasote

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Kerasote met and adopted Merle, a Laborador mix, while he was on a camping trip. Merle had been living in the wild, and after taking the dog home with him to Wyoming, Kerasote soon realized that Merle could not adjust to inhabiting exclusively in the human world. So he put a door in his house to let Merle live both outside and in.

A... Read more

The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and... Read more

Humanity's Potential to Consciously Evolve

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hubbard's research through history she realized that when a culture lost an image of its own future, which was positive to that culture, and they didn't believe in themselves anymore, the culture declined. Read more

Puppy's First Steps

By: Nicholas Dodman, Lawrence Lindner & Faculty of ...

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Based on cutting-edge research, real day-to-day clinical experience, and unparalleled expertise, the faculty of the Tufts University Cummings School, led by the renowned animal behaviorist Nicholas Dodman, provides the very best information on the health and behavior of puppies. Covering everything from how to pick a puppy, what to feed him, and... Read more

The Outermost House

By: Henry Beston

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more

The Loved Dog

By: Andrea Cagan & Tamar Geller

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

More than fifteen years ago, Tamar Geller began her
career as a dog trainer by observing a scientific study
of wolves in the wild. She realized that the
socialization and parenting techniques they used to
raise their cubs were rooted in bonding,
communication, and play—not in aggression,
dominance, or punishment. If people used these
techniques when... Read more

Crashing Through

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.

Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s... Read more

Crashing Through - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May

In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.

Mike May spent his... Read more

Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire – Promenades I à V

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire de J.J. Rousseau, promenades 1 à 5 - L'habitude de rentrer en moi-même me fit perdre le sentiment et presque le souvenir de mes maux, j'appris ainsi par ma propre expérience que la source du vrai bonheur est en nous, et qu'il ne dépend pas des hommes de rendre vraiment misérable celui qui sait vouoir être... Read more

Affirmations for Self-Healing

By: Swami Kriyananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientists now acknowledge that an individuals thoughts influence their physical, mental, and emotional health. People routinely enlist the help of psychologists and drugs to overcome their deeply rooted, harmful thoughts. This book contains 52 affirmations and prayers devoted to strengthening positive qualities such as will power, good health,... Read more

The Personality Code

By: Travis Bradberry

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Personality Code clearly and persuasively demonstrates how personality determines why we do what we do and how we can maximize our strengths, work smarter with others, and profit from better relationships in our careers. Based on the IDISC(tm) Personality Profile—an updated and rigorously validated proprietary version of DISC, the world's... Read more

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

The Canon

By: Natalie Angier

Narrated by: Nike Doukas

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Natalie Angier takes a joyride through the major scientific disciplines—physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Her approach is smart, funny, and sure to inspire a new appreciation of science. Read more

Die Evolution (Teil 2)

By: Manfred Grasshoff

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie kommt es zu der überwältigenden Vielfalt des Tierreichs? Wie entstanden die Tiere überhaupt? Warum gingen Fische ans Land, wie wurden sie zu Reptilien? Warum starben die Dinosaurier aus? Stammt der Mensch wirklich vom Affen ab? Diese und viele weitere Fragen beantwortet der Evolutionsbiologe Dr. Manfred Grasshoff im zweiten Teil dieses... Read more

Living In Meaningful Coincidence: Reflections Of A Physicist

By: David Peat, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Physicist F. David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers of our time. In this reflective look at the synchronicities of his life, Peat reminisces about his friendship with colleagues like fellow physicist David Bohm, brain researcher Roger Penrose, sculptor Anish Kapoor and high school physics teacher Dicky Blink. Peat's... Read more

Walter Isaacson: Einstein

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, rebellious, struggling patent clerk became the father of the Special Theory of Relativity and one of the most world renowned physicists. In this interview, Isaacson discusses why he decided to write about Einstein, the scientist's creativity and... Read more

Deal Breakers

By: Dr. Bethany Marshall

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book about men. Not all men, just emotionally unhealthy men. The ones who make you question, "Is it him or is it me? Am I making too big a deal out of this? I try to tell him how I feel, but he says I'm overreacting or needy or it's all my fault." Relationships are hard work, but how hard should they be? When do you know you are... Read more

Understanding Everything

By: Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the cosmos made of at its most fundamental level? Where does consciousness exist in the physical world? How does it fit into our understanding of evolution? What can you and I do to ensure the evolution of our species continues beyond the next generation? Ervin Laszlo has a mind as big as the cosmos, it seems, as his studies and writings... Read more