Science & Technology audiobooks

Sisterhood Heals

By: Joy Harden Bradford, PhD

Narrated by: Joy Harden Bradford, PhD

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the licensed clinical psychologist behind the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls comes “a roadmap for personal growth and improved connections with others, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling and joyful life” (Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free)

“Inspiring, wise,... Read more

All We Can Save

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
 
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more

Frostbite

By: Nicola Twilley

Narrated by: Nicola Twilley

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times

“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and Stiff

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific... Read more

Between Us

By: Batja Mesquita

Narrated by: Mikhaila Aaseng

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together.“How are you feeling today?” We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in... Read more

Biomimicry

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This ""valuable and entertaining"" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are... Read more

Work, Retire, Repeat

By: Teresa Ghilarducci

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook version of this book. A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States—and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead,... Read more

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

By: Rheeda Walker & Na'im Akbar

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis—and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can’t deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and... Read more

The Age of Wood

By: Roland Ennos

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires—in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt.

As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made... Read more

Poisoner in Chief

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: James Linkin

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.

The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind... Read more

Climate

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
 
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change... Read more

The Whole-Brain Child

By: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 1 million copies in print! • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book.
 
“Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D.
 
In this pioneering,... Read more

By the Time You Read This

By: Cheslie Kryst & April Simpkins

Narrated by: April Simpkins & Emana Rachelle

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life.The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own... Read more

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

By: Katherine Angel

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Women are in a bind. They are told that in the name of sexual consent and feminist empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Sex researchers tell us that women don't know what they want. And men are on hand to persuade women that what they want is, in fact, exactly what men want. In this environment, how can women... Read more

The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

By: Peter Wohlleben, Translation by Jane Billinghur...

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us."
—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an... Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?

“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more

Evolve Your Brain

By: Joe Dispenza, DC

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Dispenza, DC, has spent decades studying the human mind—how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolves—by learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos,... Read more

Assembling California

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the... Read more

Saving Ourselves

By: Dana R. Fisher

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in... Read more

How Fast Did T. rex Run?

By: David Hone

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Tom Lawrence describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs

In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the... Read more

The Open Society and Its Enemies

By: Karl Popper

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 23 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New... Read more

The Emotional Life of the Toddler

By: Alicia F. Lieberman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Now updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman’s The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three.

Anyone who has followed an active toddler around for a day knows that a child of this age is a whirlwind of explosive, contradictory, and ever-changing... Read more

The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

By: Keith Ammann

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 25 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters.



In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It's... Read more

Teaching with AI

By: Jose Antonio Bowen & C. Edward Watson

Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing invaluable insights into what AI can accomplish in the... Read more

Of Orcas and Men

By: David Neiwert

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The orca—otherwise known as the killer whale—is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories, and their capacity for echolocation is nothing short of a sixth sense. They are also benign and gentle, which makes the story of the captive-orca industry—and the... Read more