Science & Technology audiobooks

Chain of Command - Abridged

By: Seymour M. Hersh

Narrated by: Peter Friedman

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the... Read more

Enjoying Success In Every Moment

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Too often we feel caught in a maze where we endlessly search for success and happiness and try to avoid fear and anxiety. Guy Finley has discovered a way out of that maze. "Until we redefine the purpose of our being," he says, "we're caught in a race in which we cross a finish line only to hear a starting gun go off again." Read more

Receiving Love - Abridged

By: Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt

Narrated by: Helen LaKelly Hunt & Harville Hendrix

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find comes illuminating and inspiring advice on one of the most complicated issues facing couples today: receiving love.

Many people know how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. We don't... Read more

Learning as if People Really Mattered

By: Debora Hammond, Francisco Vazquez & Tony Mountain

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is facing more problems than we can count, and it's often difficult to see how we'll find the solutions. Many fear our education system is not producing the creative thinkers we'll need in the times ahead. But an innovative approach to education goes beyond traditional courses and classrooms to emphasize creativity and inspiration, so... Read more

Best of Bryson City Tales

By: Walt Larimore, MD

Narrated by: Walt Larimore

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"We walked out onto a side porch, with woven-seat rocking chairs strewn across it, to look out at the hills that were literally ablaze with color--reds and yellows were painted across the promontories, with amber and orange hues specked the bluffs. The spectacular view all the way to the peak of the distant Frye Mountain reminded us of why so... Read more

Exuberance - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind–and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders–now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.

John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession... Read more

Navigating Nature Naturally

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brenda Peterson finds her spirituality in the soulfulness, humility, and forgiveness of the natural world. With a voice as gentle as her heart, she shares her first mystical encounter with the spirit of a river, and points the way to a sacredness grounded in the natural world, the wisdom of women, and the love of family. Read more

Basin and Range

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the... Read more

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

By: Jean Fritz

Narrated by: Jean Fritz

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun historic tale by Newbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz!No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas: a remote-control lock (so he could lock his door without getting out of bed), a rocking chair with a fan over it (to keep flies away), and a windmill (to turn his roast meat on its spit). Aside from... Read more

On the Wing - Abridged

By: Alan Tennant

Narrated by: Alan Tennant

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon -- an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths.
On the Wing transports us from the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands -- where the tundra falcons pause during their... Read more

How to Work a Room - Abridged

By: Susan RoAne

Narrated by: Susan RoAne

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over a million copies of this networking classic have been sold worldwide! Now Susan Roane's invaluable advice is available in audio

You enter a crowded room. For a moment every eye is on you. And a little voice inside you cries, "HELP!" If this has ever happened to you, you're not alone! Walking into a room full of people you don't know can be... Read more

Confidence - Abridged

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Narrated by: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work—the... Read more

Delivered From Distraction

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

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

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 sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Warren St. John

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Meditation Made Easy - Abridged

By: Lorin Roche

Narrated by: Lorin Roche

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I prefer it to any other guide, including the one I wrote.” - James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of Personality and Personal GrowthMeditation: It's Easier than you think. You've probably heard about the benefits of meditation: Sharper thinking, reduced stress, improved concentration, lower blood pressure, even increased sexual pleasure. So what's... Read more

Mind Wide Open

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.



Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Seeing the Bible Anew

By: Bishop John Shelby Spong

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Increasingly, theological positions on war, women, and discrimination against the gay community are at the heart of contemporary American political debate. At the center of these controversies is the Bible. Based on a cultural and historical context of the Bible, Spong gives us a worldview that promotes respect and love for each other, our... Read more

Psychosomatic Wellness

By: Candace Pert & Michael Ruff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Candace Pert and Mike Ruff are researchers at the forefront of immunology, and their work has led them to explore the measurable relationship between our emotions and the way our bodies heal. They've even discovered a link between the chakras and the presence of chemicals vital to the functioning of the immune system. The implications are exciting. Read more

Healthcare Under Duress

By: Swannee Rivers

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In an emotional story that details one woman's struggle within a medical organization that was filled with massive illegal billing, her faith shines through. Healthcare Under Duress:An Inside look at the University of Washington Billing Scandal presents one woman's personal account and experience within a prestigious University Hospital... Read more

Rumsfeld's War

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The man in the cockpit fighting the war on terror.



When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is... Read more

Merging Science and Spirituality

By: Martinez Hewlett

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades Martinez Hewlett has been exploring the places where the seemingly disparate worlds of science and spirituality meet. A scientist who once thought he could understand everything in terms of atoms and quantum physics, he now recognizes that even rocks may have the capacity to experience the sacred. Read more

Rediscovering our Own Wildness

By: Jesse Wolf Hardin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The natural world may be our most valuable aid to finding the greatest meaning in our lives. Jesse Wolf Hardin rediscovers this every day with the help of the wild canyon that is his home in New Mexico. Read more

Fear and Other Uninvited Guests - Abridged

By: Harriet Lerner

Narrated by: Harriet Lerner

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Harriet Lerner is at her provocative best in this examination of fear as the key motivating force in our lives. Often unrecognised, fear and shame drive our choices and attitudes in ways that most of us never figure out. As Lerner explains, fear is not an amorphous unknown to be transcended or overcome but an emotion to be... Read more