Science & Technology audiobooks

You: On a Diet - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and over a hundred recipes.

For the first time in our... Read more

Dancing In The Rain

By: Brad Lancaster

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

By returning the water to the same watershed, Brad Lancaster creates a cycle of abundance that sustains not just one family, but the neighborhood and the entire ecosystem as well. He adds solar power into the mix, and plants food-bearing native shade trees to cool the home. The result is an oasis in the desert, with a model that can be applied... Read more

Gender Difference-It Begins With the Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know from personal experience that men and women see the world differently and interact differently. Now we know why. Louann Brizendine, M.D., is a neuropsychiatrist who shares some eye opening revelations based on extensive medical and scientific research about our brains and how they function. Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Bob Balaban

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of... Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

The Color of Love

By: Gene Cheek

Narrated by: Gene Cheek

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and only a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a judge in the Forsyth County Courthouse of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrenched twelve-year-old Gene Cheek from the security of his mother's devotion. Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism. At... Read more

For the Love of a Dog

By: Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed author of "The Other End of the Leash" offers fascinating insights into the canine mind—critical tools for a healthy relationship with a well-trained dog.



In this remarkable book, renowned canine expert Patricia McConnell answers the questions of dog lovers everywhere. Do dogs have emotions like we do? More to the point,... Read more

Imagine The Possibilities

By: Marc Allen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc Allen has a found a way to have everything he wants, and attain success and fulfillment-the easy way. This Type-Z entrepreneur, business guru, and life coach will explain the simple steps you can take to turn your life in the direction of your goals. Because, as he says, "We all have our unique strengths, and we all have what we need to... Read more

Entretiens du maître avec ses disciples

By: Confucius Confucius

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Confucius, dit-on, vit le jour en 551 avant notre ère, non loin de la ville de Qufu, dans la province de Shandong. Après la mort de sa mère en -527, il enseigna sa connaissance des textes anciens au petit groupe de disciples qui le suivait. Bien qu'il n'ait jamais développé sa pensée de façon théorique, on peut dessiner à grand traits ce... Read more

She Comes First: Introduction - Abridged

By: Ian Kerner

Narrated by: Ian Kerner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Every man’s must-read. Tell your guy to put down the remote and pick up She Comes First.”
—Cosmopolitan Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First—an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest—You’re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner’s “cool sense of humor and an... Read more

Shopportunity!

By: Kate Newlin

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie—and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisition of the okay, available, and cheap. Why are we willing to pay $3.50 for a latte at Starbucks, but bristle at a... Read more

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

By: D. T. Max

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter.... Read more

The Passion Test

By: Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood

Narrated by: Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You create the life you choose to live. There are no victims. Take the Passion Test and start moving your life in the direction of your dreams. Learn what will make you happy and what will make your life fulfilled, as you look forward to what comes next.
Chris and Janet Attwood wrap fascinating stories of the ups, downs, twists, and turns of... Read more

Even God Believes In Evolution

By: Martinez Hewlett & Ted Peters

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters explore the facts and the ideology that surround questions of good versus evil, competition versus cooperation, nature versus nurture. The coming together of science and theology may be at the core of a new model of cooperation. Peters puts it this way: "The grandeur and the magnificence of the universe is... Read more

From Exploitation to Friendship: Creating Eco-Tourism

By: Doug Thompson, Robin Kobaly & Diana Hart

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As Robin Kobaly explains, "When we come back from wilderness, that's when we seem to bring our best inspirations to help humankind, and our own selves, too. If we don't have that wilderness to go to, that refuge and that wellspring, we will not be as good a people, a society, or a race." Read more

Refreshing and Deepening Relationship

By: Sidra Stone & Hal Stone

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sidra & Hal Stone remind us that relationships are an energetic event.  The Stones are the creators of Voice Dialogue and have been teaching thousands of people for several decades how to keep that glow in your partnerships as you mature into fullness and head into the stormy complexities of life. Read more

Organizations Organizing Themselves

By: Saul Eisen

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Saul Eisen is a brilliant innovator with the unassuming demeanor of a gentle mentor. He travels the world empowering employees to recreate the institutions they work for. This man, who bridges divergent traits in his own character and work, is himself a bridge between the often disparate viewpoints of psychology and business, and is a conduit to... Read more

Professors' Guide (TM) to Getting Good Grades in College - Abridged

By: Lynn F. Jacobs & Jeremy S. Hyman

Narrated by: Lynn F. Jacobs & Jeremy S. Hyman

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five ""grade-bearing"" moments of the semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper and (5) The Last Month of... Read more

Italian in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Italian language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

The Art of Raising a Puppy - Abridged

By: The Monks of New Skete

Narrated by: Michael Wager

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been involved in every facet of dog care: breeding and raising German Shepherds, training dogs of all breeds, and counseling dog owners on the many aspects of life with their dogs. What sets their program apart is the monks' compassion, respect, affection, and understanding of canine... Read more

Creating Your Afterlife

By: Carter Phipps

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happens after you die? Will you walk through a tunnel toward a white light? Will you be joined by Jesus? Or Krishna? Will you be reincarnated? Everyone has an opinion about the afterlife, but most conclude we'll never really know for sure. Or will we? Recent studies have produced some hard data that reveal some intriguing clues about... Read more

The Language of God

By: Francis S. Collins

Narrated by: Francis S. Collins

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.

It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational, while science restricts us to a life with no meaning... Read more

Of Animal Grace And A Spa For A Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the wonders of the animal world, and rediscover your own. Sy Montgomery is in love with animals, but more than that, she is in awe of who they are and what they have to teach us. Read more