Science - General
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
By: Daniel J. Siegel
• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can't shake? • Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down? • Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how...
Published: Dec 2009
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Daniel J. Siegel
Discs: 8
The Canon
By: Natalie Angier
A playful, passionate, ebullient guide to the science all around us by a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author. Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Nike Doukas
Discs: 11
Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day
By: Peter J. Bentley
Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy's Law? Sometimes even the smallest mishap can ruin your day. Esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley wants to help. In Why Sh*t Happens, he takes listeners on an informative and amusing tour through the least...
Published: Mar 2009
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
By: Stephen W. Hawking
With a title inspired as much by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series as Einstein, The Theory of Everything delivers almost as much as it promises. Transcribed from Stephen Hawking's Cambridge Lectures, the slim volume may not present a single theory...
Published: Dec 2005
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Michael York
Discs: 4
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
By: Stephen W. Hawking
Hawking reviews the great theories of the cosmos and all the puzzles, paradoxes, and contradictions still unresolved. He explains Galileo’s and Newton’s discoveries and takes the reader through Einstein’s general theory of...
Published: Dec 2005
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Michael Jackson
Discs: 5
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
By: Jeffrey Kluger
Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's? How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease? Why do bad teams win so many games? ...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Darwin and Evolution
By: Michael Ghiselin
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind...
Published: Oct 2006
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Edwin Newman
Discs: 3
Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of Mishaps
By: Peter J. Bentley
Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy's Law? Sometimes even the smallest mishap can ruin your day. Esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley wants to help. In Why Sh*t Happens, he takes listeners on an informative and amusing tour through the least...
Published: Mar 2009
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 7
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
By: Richard Panek
Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely...
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: TBA
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Richard Dawkins
Discs: 5
Twinkie Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What Am
By: Steve Ettlinger
Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label without a clue as to what most of it means. So when his young daughter asked, Daddy, what s polysorbate 60? he was at a loss...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Science - General
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Mark Lund
Discs: 5
Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversational Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflicts, and Increase Intimacy
By: Andrew Newberg M. D. and Mark Robert Wal
Sometimes it feels as if the more we talk, the less we are heard. But in groundbreaking research, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman have discovered a powerful strategy called Compassionate Communication that allows two brains to work...
Published: Jun 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 6
The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live - and How You Can Change Them
By: Richa Davidson Ph. D. and Sharon Begley
Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while others put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Richard J. Davidson Ph. D. and Sharon Be
Discs: 1
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
By: George Dyson
p"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
By: Chris Impey
n this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang.What if we could...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: David Drummond
Discs: 2
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
No recent futurist has been more influential (or, in some quarters, more controversial) than Ray Kurzweil. His optimistic vision of the Singularity — the point at which man and machine are melded into a new entity, expounded in his bestselling The...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 12
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
No recent futurist has been more influential (or, in some quarters, more controversial) than Ray Kurzweil. His optimistic vision of the Singularity — the point at which man and machine are melded into a new entity, expounded in his bestselling The...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Imagine: How Creativity Works
By: Jonah Lehrer
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the best-selling author of How We Decide comes a...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Imagine: How Creativity Works
By: Jonah Lehrer
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the best-selling author of How We Decide comes a...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 8
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
By: Mario Livio
Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi,...
Published: May 2013
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 8
The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Program for Personal Transformation
By: Kelly McGonigal Phd
If anything were possible, what would you like to see in your life?brHow would you like to grow? And what's stopping you? In ThebrNeuroscience of Change, Dr. Kelly McGonigal weaves the newest findingsbrof science with Eastern contemplative wisdom to...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Abridged
The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us
By: Lynne McTaggart
Lynne McTaggart, the bestselling author of The Intention Experiment, reveals the latest science that proves the extensive connectedness of mind, matter, and consciousness.
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 9
The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us
By: Lynne McTaggart
Lynne McTaggart, the bestselling author of The Intention Experiment, reveals the latest science that proves the extensive connectedness of mind, matter, and consciousness.
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
By: Richard A. Muller
We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential world, we need to know-truly understand, not just rely on television's talking heads-if...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Pete Larkin
Discs: 1
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
By: Richard A. Muller
We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential world, we need to know-truly understand, not just rely on television's talking...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Pete Larkin
Discs: 9
The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
By: David Owen
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Patrick Girard Lawlor
Discs: 1
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
By: Lisa Randall
The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
Discs: 2
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
By: Lisa Randall
The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
Discs: 14
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
By: Daniel J. Siegel
• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can't shake? • Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down? • Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how...
Published: Dec 2009
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
By: Unspecified
Produced by Climate Central — a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008 — and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes,...
Published: Jul 2012
Genre: Science - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 4