Science & Technology audiobooks

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Mean Genes

By: Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Narrated by: Pat Woodruff

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-09: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land

By: J.L. Chestnut

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more

Bioneers Series 2-06: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life

By: Dave Foreman & Dennis Martinez

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local

By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more

Bioneers Series 2-08: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine

By: Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Susan Griffin, Guji Co...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-10: First Nations and the Future of the Earth

By: Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D. & John...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers" who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship -- giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement

By: Michael Lerner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who doesn't know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance

By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design

By: Mark Hertsgaard & Francesca Vietor

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

By: Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann & Wes Jackson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

Ethnic Diversity:  A Time of Change

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley for over two decades, reflects on the past and the future of America's expanding ethnic diversity and how this diversity will affect the way we relate as individuals and as a nation to the rest of the world. Read more

A Galactic Adventure

By: Ken Croswell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the first grade, Ken Croswell, an astronomer and Ph.D. from Harvard, has been totally fascinated by our solar system. Get caught up in his extraordinary enthusiasm as he discusses everything from Black Holes, brown dwarfs, the Milky Way, the red giant, quasars and collisions with floating matter. Read more

The Power of Intention

By: Marilyn Schlitz & Elisabeth Targ

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Elisabeth Targ, M.D. and Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. discuss how the research and study of consciousness has progressed steadily to a new era of human possibilities. Read more

The 10-Second Internet Manager

By: Mark Breier

Narrated by: Mark Breier

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

All managers today are Internet managers, whether they're ready to admit it or not.  It doesn't matter if their business is large or small, old economy or new. In a faster, electronic, and more direct economy, every manager needs help. And here it is. The 10-Second Internet Manager offers quick, no-nonsense tips, tactics, and strategies for... Read more

Nothing Like It In The World

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more

Nothing Like it In The World - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more

The Gift of Giving

By: Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from her grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kaballah, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., tells with wit and inspiration of her emergence from a socialistic, atheistic upbringing to a life and medical practice filled with grace, mystery and wonder. Read more

Balance Through Bodywork

By: Jon Schreiber, Angela Porter & Denise Berezonsky

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Schreiber, America’s foremost Breema specialist and director of The Breema Center in Oakland, CA, discusses this unique bodywork based on nine universal principles that nurture the mind and body, guiding one towards a unified and harmonious state of well being. Read more