Science & Technology audiobooks

Bioneers Series 1-11: Environmental Health and the Politics of Cancer-

By: Kenny Ausubel & Samuel Epstein, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

While the medical establishment has been losing the celebrated war on cancer, it has conducted a very successful campaign against promising alternative approaches. Kenny Ausubel and Samuel Epstein, M.D. present one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century and call attention to the rising tide of alternative approaches. Read more

The Future of Spacetime - Abridged

By: Richard H. Price

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.

Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here... Read more

Consciousness: Bridging Science And Spirit

By: Peter Russell, D.C.S.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What is consciousness? Where do thoughts come from? These mysteries of mind and thought perplexed world-renowned futurist and best-selling author Peter Russell when he was a young student at Cambridge University. Russell tells the story of how an epiphany sent him on a journey of exploration into the nature of consciousness and led him to his... Read more

The Power Of One: Making Choices For A Better World

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving dialogue, Julia speaks about her heart-wrenching experiences in the redwood tree she named Luna, and the work she has been doing since she ended her tree sit.  Julia continues to speak out for the Earth, and acknowledges how easily we can become overwhelmed by the problems of the world. Read more

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives.

Everything we think and everything we choose to do alters our brain and fundamentally... Read more

The Next Fifty Years - Abridged

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie, Oliver Wyman & S...

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.

Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a... Read more

Last Train to Paradise

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more

The Demon in the Freezer

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more

Beyond Survival: Darwin's Lost Theory of Love

By: David Loye

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Systems scientist and evolutionary theorist David Loye argues that Darwin was misunderstood and misinterpreted.  After years of research, Loye discovered two things: less than a dozen people understood what Darwin was writing about; and Darwin spoke far more about love than he did about selfishness and the survival of the fittest. Read more

Revenge - Abridged

By: Laura Blumenfeld

Narrated by: Laura Blumenfeld

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.
Traveling to Israel, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers as she plots to infiltrate... Read more

What Just Happened

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Here’s some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to bedside tables and office desks. No one was out of touch, or wanted to be out of touch. Instant... Read more

Psychic Phenomena: Fact Or Fiction?

By: Dean Radin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Radin reveals high-tech strategies used in his controlled laboratory experiments to amass extensive and irrefutable data that demonstrate psychic phenomena do indeed exist: remote viewing, distant healing, intuition, place memory, and more. Radin is encouraged that interest in this field among scientists is growing quickly, especially in the... Read more

The Pact

By: Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins

Narrated by: Sampson Davis & George Jenkins

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt were three African American kids living in the inner city of Newark, all from broken homes, all living amid poverty, crime, and drug abuse. Two served time in juvenile detention centers. They met in high school and together they made a pact: they would support each other for as long as it would take... Read more

E=mc2

By: David Bodanis

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

E=mc2 was born in 1905, the brainchild of Albert Einstein.



In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts. Ranging widely from Exit signs in theatres to the future fate of the earth, from smoke detectors to black holes and the structure of the atom, David Bodanis... Read more

Being American in a Changing World

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence…belongs to all of us…as members of humanity." Read more

Losing my Mind - Abridged

By: Thomas DeBaggio

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was embarking on the golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, and the herb garden he spent decades cultivating.
One winter day, he told his doctor during a routine exam that he had been stumbling into forgetfulness. After it subsequent battery of tests,... Read more

The Future of Life

By: Edward Wilson

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is infinitely richer than previously guessed, yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. In this dazzlingly intelligent and ultimately hopeful work, biologist E.O. Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever— in many cases... Read more

The Noonday Demon - Abridged

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more

From the Literal to the Luminous

By: Mikela Tarlow

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Balancing the intuitive with the rational, the wonders of technology point to a limitless field of possibilities in the 21st Century world of work and business, which includes moving quickly, being flexible, changing directions, and deep trust. Read more

The 1960'S Live On In The 21St Century

By: James Fadiman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dynamic conversation, James Fadiman revisits that seminal moment in our history, and talks about the power and impact of the sixties and why the decade was so important. "Most of everything that we're doing that we're proud of today - the ecology movement, civil rights, and alternative medicine, feminism and more began then. Without... Read more

Walking the Indigenous Way in Contemporary Times

By: Leslie Gray

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you find balance and inner peace in a world rocked by instability? In the telling of her story, shamanic psychologist Leslie Gray speaks to the importance of learning from our past, and takes us on a journey to an indigenous world, where the earth is honored and people live together in peace on the great turtle island. Read more

Shark Trouble

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous... Read more

How Can I Get Through To You? - Abridged

By: Terrence Real

Narrated by: Terrence Real

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

"What happened to the passion we started with?
Why aren't we as close as we used to be?"

PROBLEM: If you are a woman who is unfulfilled in your marriage...if you feel unheard or overburdened...if you quietly live in a state of slow-burn resentment...
PROBLEM: If you are a man unhappy that your partner seems so unhappy with you...if you feel... Read more

Rediscovering America's Founding Principles

By: Jacob Needleman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

American democracy has existed for more than two hundred years, surviving challenges, betrayals, bashing, bloody wars, and the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001.Here Jacob Needleman explores the sacred meaning of America. Read more