Science & Technology audiobooks

Conduct Under Fire - Abridged

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

Galileo's Daughter

By: Dava Sobel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition,... Read more

109 East Palace - Abridged

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.

In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more

L'apologie de Socrate

By: Platon

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

L'Apologie de Socrate rapporte le procès qui a vu condamner Socrate. Le citoyen philosophe, accusé de ne pas croire aux dieux de la cité et de pervertir les jeunes, fait preuve, face à ses juges comme auprès des Athéniens, du même don pour révéler tant l'incohérence que l'immoralité de leur discours. Read more

Isaac Newton

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more

I Need Your Love - Is That True? - Abridged

By: Byron Katie

Narrated by: Byron Katie

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more

L'abondance dans la simplicité - Abridged

By: Sarah Ban Breathnach

Narrated by: Tania Kontoyani

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jusqu'à maintenant, spiritualité et mode de vie ont constitué, pour les femmes, des domaines distincts. Cet ouvrage inspirant démontre comment la vie quotidienne, dans les plus menus détails, peut devenir la voie d'expression du moi authentique... Au fil des jours, ce titre-audio vous conduira, à travers six principes spirituels - gratitude,... Read more

Pourquoi les hommes marcent-ils à la gauche des femmes ? - Abridged

By: Philippe Turchet

Narrated by: Philippe Turchet

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Le Syndrome d'amour. Le couple n'a jamais autant suscité l'attention qu'aujourd'hui. Les psychologues de tous horizons s'entendent sur le fait que les hommes et les femmes vivent un malaise amoureux sans précédent. Dans un essai percutant tiré de l'observation de près de 20 000 couples, Philippe Turchet fait la démonstration que les êtres... Read more

They Made America - Abridged

By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland & David Lefer

Narrated by: Harold Evans

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century. Read more

The E-Myth Revisited

By: Michael E. Gerber

Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compact disc edition of the totally revised underground bestseller -- The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy, through... Read more

I Need Your Love - Is That True?

By: Byron Katie

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more

Appel à l'amour - Abridged

By: Anthonu De Mello

Narrated by: Gérard Poirier

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Les dix méditations originales contenues dans ce titre audio sont aussi les mémoires d'un mystique qui a osé voir la réalité. Avec les années, leur auteur est devenu homme de compassion et d'amour, et ces réflexions jalonnent le chemin difficile qu'il a dû parcourir à la fin de sa vie pour se dépouiller de tout système de croyances, de toute... Read more

Controlling Your Genetic Blueprint

By: Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Lipton and other cellular biologists have discovered that our genetic blueprint is not static. While our genes do not change, the way they are expressed may be very much within our control. He tells us, “Cells need the brain to interpret the world and feed back to them what they should be doing to keep this whole system alive and floating.” Read more

Courage, Conversation and Changing the World

By: Margaret Wheatley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Never before in human history have we been exposed to so much data from so many sources, a veritable deluge. According to Wheatley, "We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life and it is... Read more

Electric Universe

By: David Bodanis

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.

For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that... Read more

Mother-Daughter Wisdom - Abridged

By: Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Narrated by: Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With such groundbreaking bestsellers as Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdomand The Wisdom of Menopause, Dr. Christiane Northrup is one of today’s most trusted and visionary medical experts. Now she presents her most profound and revolutionary approach to women’s health. . . .

The mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for our state of health and... Read more

Electric Universe - Abridged

By: David Bodanis

Narrated by: Adam Levy

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.

For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that... Read more

Against Depression - Abridged

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: Peter D. Kramer

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now Kramer offers a frank and unflinching look at the condition those medications treat: depression. Definitively refuting our notions of "heroic melancholy," he walks readers... Read more

A World Without Oil

By: Richard Heinberg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. Soon after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The impact on our culture will be extraordinary - in fact, as Heinberg warns, "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable." Read more

Delivered from Distraction - Abridged

By: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D.

Narrated by: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“If you read only one book about attention deficit disorder, it should be Delivered from Distraction.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has... Read more

We Are All the Same

By: Jim Wooten

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.



Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber - Abridged

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

Staying Centered in a Busy World

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Borysenko shares tools and techniques to help each of us avoid the inevitable burn-out that comes when we cross the line between compassion and codependence. Read more

Beating Back the Devil

By: Maryn McKenna

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES.

They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the... Read more