Science & Technology audiobooks

Bioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy

By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media

By: Peter Montague, Mark Sommer & Elise Hoeg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Read more

Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more

Authentic Happiness - Abridged

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.

According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on... Read more

The Joy of Pi

By: David Blatner

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Hank Jacobs & Laura Dean

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi—or ? as it is symbolically known—is infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores... Read more

21 Dog Years

By: Mike Daisey

Narrated by: Mike Daisey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler is the stuff... Read more

Shark Trouble - Abridged

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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 amount... Read more

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

Bioneers Series 1-01: Working with Nature to Heal Nature

By: Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Amory Lovins, Anna ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature" introduces us to the past half-century's most visionary designers, practitioners and pioneers of sustainable living. Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-02: Climate Change and the Next Industrial Revolution

By: Bill McKibben & Amory Lovins

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and climate change expert Bill McKibben takes us into the unstable future that is already showing itself. Amory Lovins presents inspiring industrial design innovations that are capable of shrinking human impacts on the biosphere by over 90%. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-03: Natural Capitalism and Green Design

By: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins & Will...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account? Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-04: The Original Instructions: It's All Related

By: Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Malcol...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What were the Original Instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-05: Quantum Jazz: It's All Connected

By: Mae Won Ho, Fritjof Capra & John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Biochemist Mae Won Ho, physicist Fritjof Capra, and John Mohawk discuss an organic revolution that is emerging in the field of science that spells good news for the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-06: Bioremediation: In Nature, Everybody is Somebody's Lunch

By: Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets & John Todd

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bioneers Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets, and John Todd show how cows, mushrooms, fungi and "living machines," are being used to restore Superfund sites, "eat" diesel spills and decontaminate soil and water. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-07: Wise Women of the Earth: It's All Intelligent

By: Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Kirstin Wilson, Marta ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides, and Kirstin Wilson. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-08: Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette?

By: Kenny Ausubel, Andrew Kimbrell & Luke Anderson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate, and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-09: Biodynamic Growing: Sacred Cows and Cosmic Science

By: Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor & Fred Kirschenmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment. Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor and Fred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-10: World Trade with a Human Face

By: Anita Roddick, David Korten & Kevin Danaher, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Alert to the human rights violations and ecological damage being sown by the "Economization of the Globe," Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-12: Wisdom at the End of a Hoe: Farming as if Biology Mattered

By: John Jeavons, Starhawk, Bob Cannard, Catherine ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like living at a planet's pace? Is the gardener growing the garden or is the garden transforming the gardener? John Jeavons, Starhawk, Catherine Sneed, Bob Cannard and Penny Livingston point to genuine solutions for farming harmony with the earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-13: Overview: Bioneers-Creating New Solutions

By: Paul Hawken, Fritjof Capra, Amory Lovins, Ana E...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bioneers recognize that technical solutions to the ecological challenges we face must be accomplished by a change of heart. 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