Science & Technology audiobooks

Autobiographical Reflections

By: Eric Voegelin

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of Eric Voegelin, a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness; his key intellectual breakthroughs; his theory of history; and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age.The book also... Read more

For the New Intellectual

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn RandOne of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a... Read more

iWoz

By: Gina Smith & Steve Wozniak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.



Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a... Read more

Final Exam

By: Pauline Chen

Narrated by: Pauline W. Chen

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's... Read more

All in the Family, Doctor Included

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more

Ten Hours until Dawn

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and... Read more

Capitalism

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the... Read more

Objectivism

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliantly conceived and well-organized book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976, prepared with the help of Ayn Rand and entitled “The Philosophy of Objectivism.” Ayn Rand said of these lectures: “Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my philosophy, Dr. Peikoff’s course is the only authorized... Read more

Bathing In The Intelligent Force Of The Universe

By: Gregg Braden

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

At the crux of Braden’s experience is the observation, now scientifically verified, that there is an intelligent field of energy that bathes all of creation and connects everything in ways most of us in the West are only beginning to understand. Read more

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts

By: Bryan Sykes

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists.



Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Bryan Sykes has traced the true genetic makeup of... Read more

Le moi et le çà

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud, le père de la psychanalyse, expose dans les Essais de psychanalyse ses théories concernant la structure psychique humaine. Après avoir posé l'existence de l'inconscient, il s'interroge sur le Moi conscient, et ce qui en lui émane des mécanismes de refoulement : le ça. Le ça et le Moi est la dernière partie des Essais. Tout... Read more

The Ghost Map

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.

From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a... Read more

The Integral Perspective

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

But as fields of knowledge become increasingly specialized, it gets harder and harder to see how disparate strands of understanding could possibly integrate into a unified whole. How do science and religion fit together? Is one right and the other wrong? Or are they both telling us truths about different aspects of a single reality? Is there a... Read more

Evolving Spirituality

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In our quest for for meaning, we have turned first and foremost to the great wisdom traditions of the world. Yet, in modern times, these great traditions, and the very notion of spirituality itself, have come under fierce attack by some of our most respected intellectual institutions. Read more

Marte Y Venus En El Dormitorio - Abridged

By: John Gray

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el libro Los Hombres son de Marte, Las Muieres son de Venus, en el primer puesto de la lista de bestsellers del New York Times el doctor John Gray ha ayudado a miles de parejas a mejorar sus relaciones, haciéndolas más amorosas y afectuosas. Ahora examina el lugar donde la buena comunicación más se necesita pero donde muchas veces falta: en... Read more

Feeding the Starved Marriage

By: Matt Townsend

Narrated by: Matt Townsend

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether your marriage is feeling the affects of full blown starvation or just suffering from the munchies, this presentation will help you lift your relationship to an entirely new level. With his humorous and energizing presentation style, Matt Townsend will help you and your partner to connect your heads, hearts, hands and hopes. You will... Read more

Commitment...The Flame Focused Passion

By: Edwene Gaines

Narrated by: Edwene Gaines

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audio recording of the Commitment workshop recorded at Unity of Dayton, Ohio, focusing on the intense power of commitments, how to make them, how to keep from over-committing, and how to determine which are ours to make.
Mastery begins with self-examination. Find out what is running your life. Take charge of the process. Achieve your... Read more

The Day the Universe Changed - Abridged

By: James Burke

Narrated by: James Burke

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

James Burke's examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him in The Day the Universe Changed.

When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope.... Read more

From Science to Spirit In Healing

By: Joyce Whiteley Hawkes

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Joyce Whiteley Hawkes is a healer. She arrived at this calling, surprisingly enough, via a doctorate in biophysics and a stellar career in cellular biology. Now she uses her intimate knowledge of the intricate workings of the body's hundred trillion cells to inform and inspire her work. Read more

It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump

By: John O'Hurley

Narrated by: John O'Hurley

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny, profound book about the enduring wisdom of dogs, from the host of the enormously popular National Dog Show.

Unabridged CDs - 3 CDs, 3 hours Read more

The Old Way

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it



When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as... Read more

Die Evolution (Teil 1)

By: Manfred Grasshoff

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie entsteht das Leben auf der Erde? Wie ist es möglich, dass aus einzelnen chemischen Bausteinen erste Lebewesen entstehen? Und wie ist es möglich, dass diese Lebewesen dauerhaft auf der Erde überleben können? Diese grundsätzlichen Fragen beantwortet Dr. Manfred Grasshoff, langjähriger Mitarbeiter am renommierten Senckenberg-Museum in... Read more

Entering Into Relationship With Everything

By: Derrick Jensen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jensen notes: a principal problem with Western thought is that it views the natural world as a metaphor and nature as a commodity. He argues that the key to change and life sustaining action is rooted in seeing nature as sentient – a being worthy and deserving of personal relationship. Read more

From High Tech to Higher Education

By: Steven Mayer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Steve Mayer and his colleagues began their careers in technology, they explored new ideas "with the knowledge that they were going to fail." This might sound like anything but a recipe for success, but it gave the young inventors freedom to try anything and everything. In the process, they created the world's first video games, and also... Read more