Science & Technology audiobooks

Crazy

By: Pete Earley

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over thirty years, and the author of several award-winning—even bestselling—nonfiction books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd always been on the outside looking in. He had no idea what it was like to be on the inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared mentally ill,... Read more

God Is Alive And Well In The Cosmos

By: Bernard Haisch, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientist and former priest Haisch says, “I see God as a macro-designer, one whose ideas become the laws of physics.” He presents a theory of how the gap between science and religion is thinner than one might believe. Read more

A Brief History of God

By: Richard Smoley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Smoley is one of the world's most distinguished authorities on the mystical and esoteric teachings of Western civilization. He's at home with intriguing and complex questions about the history and evolution of Christianity, and how it reflects teachings of the other great wisdom traditions. Read more

The First Human

By: Ann Gibbons

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.



The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most... Read more

Weaving the Web - Abridged

By: Tim Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Tim Berners-Lee

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of... Read more

A Deep Ecology of the Heart

By: John Seed

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, he’s noticed that “we speak of ‘the environment,’ which makes it sound as though this is something that’s far away from us. But if we hold our breath for a few minutes while we consider the matter, we quickly realize that ‘the environment’ is... Read more

The Good Fight - Abridged

By: Peter Beinart

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11,... Read more

Dispatches from the Edge

By: Anderson Cooper

Narrated by: Anderson Cooper

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly... Read more

Deep Medicine, Deep Healing

By: William Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

William Stewart says, "Everything we think, everything we say, everything we do is either health-creating or health-negating. When we begin to look at health and healing that way, we can enter the realm of health creation from anywhere - nutrition, exercise, contemplative practice, relationship." Read more

Change the Story: Change the Future

By: David Korten

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We now stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future.  As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future holds great peril and great promise. Read more

Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage - Abridged

By: John Gottman, PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD ...

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser & Anne Gartlan

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, marital psychologists John and Julie Gottman provide vital tools—scientifically based and empirically verified—that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication.

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a... Read more

The Tao of Willie

By: Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin & Willie Nelson

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice?the gentle but unmistakably honest sound... Read more

Stumbling on Happiness

By: Daniel Gilbert

Narrated by: Daniel Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.

Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely... Read more

The Mighty and the Almighty

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Does America have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a... Read more

Everything Bad is Good for You

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly... Read more

Before the Dawn

By: Nicholas Wade

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.



Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings—driven by revelations discovered in... Read more

Salt

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and... Read more

Hiking For Dreams to Come True

By: Jeff Alt

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How does taking a 218 mile hike in the wilderness help relieve depression and grief?  Jeff Alt, author and motivational speaker, excels at combining outdoor adventures with worthy causes, having trekked the 2,160 mile Appalachian Trail as a fundraiser for people with disabilities and the 218-mile John Muir Trail as a depression awareness campaign. Read more

Aging Gracefully

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With engaging candor and practical common sense, Dr. Andrew Weil shares stories of his mother, who died at age 93; centenarians from Okinawa and Sardinia; and myths and legends. He explores common Western beliefs and attitudes about aging and urges listeners to develop healthier perspectives. Read more

The Wild And Timeless Poet

By: Thomas Rain Crowe

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“You don’t need to go looking for answers. Probably the best way to find them is to stop looking for them, in the sense of being still and being in one place.” These words from Thomas Rain Crowe come straight from his own experience. After following the poet’s path through Ireland, France, and the beat neighborhoods of San Francisco, he found a... Read more

Henry Ford, Consumerism, Consciousness and a New America

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

After five years culling through Henry Ford's lifetime collection of personal notes and documents, and records of interviews with his colleagues and employees, Mr. Watts brings us a picture of a man whose impact on our society extends far beyond the automobile and the assembly line. Read more

Eminent Lives: The Presidents Collection

By: James Atlas, Michael Korda, Paul Johnson & Chri...

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent LivesMichael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the... Read more

Motherless Mothers - Abridged

By: Hope Edelman

Narrated by: Hope Edelman

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Hope Edelman published Motherless Daughters about the long-term effects of early mother loss, the book touched a nerve in women across the country, and went on to become an enduring New York Times bestseller. Edelman, who was seventeen when her own mother died, told the collective story of mother loss with such candor, empathy, and informed... Read more

Cod

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The cod has played a vital part in livelihoods, diets, and health in general—as well as roles in national economies and international wars. Drawing on his love of food and food culture, Mark Kurlansky leaps into history and folklore to explore how this innocuous fish had such an impact over the centuries. Kurlansky recounts how the cod spurred... Read more