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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Melvyn Bragg
• Narrated By Robert Powell

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

One Second After

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 21 mins)
• By William R. Forstchen
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a book all Americans should read, One Second After is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real. Based upon a real weapon - the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) - which may already be in the hands of our enemies, it is a truly realistic look at the awesome power of a weapon that can destroy the entire United States.

Improvisation, Inc.: Harnessing Spontaneity to Engage People and Groups

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Robert Lowe
• Narrated By Edward Lewis

This unique book enables communicators of all kinds to think on their feet, even when taken by surprise. It is the ideal book for corporate trainers, speakers, and teachers who do not want to be caught in a pinch. Lowe provides presenters with the basic skills necessary to incorporate improvisational thinking and speaking into their own presentational style. The pathways opened by this ancient theater form can transform a presenter's most fundamental approaches to teaching, training, and communicating.

Ethics

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Aristotle
• Narrated By Jim Killavey

Written in 350 B.C., Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics professes happiness as life's goal. How do we achieve this goal? Not through the satisfactions that come from pleasure, wealth, or fame. According to Aristotle, the true path to happiness lies in contemplation of philosophic truth.

Living History

• ABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Narrated By Hillary Rodham Clinton

You've probably heard clips from Senator Clinton's interview with Barbara Walters. But now you can listen to her full account of her years in the White House. Hillary Clinton vividly describes her pain over her husband's betrayal with Monica Lewinky saying that former President Bill Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted the nature of it to a grand jury.

Darwin on Trial

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Phillip E. Johnson
• Narrated By Frederick Davidson

Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as simple fact. This easy acceptance, however, hides from us the many ways in which evolution - as an idea - shapes our thinking about a great many things. What if this idea is wrong? What if "evolution" is just a word that covers up scientific ignorance of how the wonders of the living world could have been created? Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson looks at the evidence for Darwinistic evolution the way a lawyer would - with a cold dispassionate eye for logic and proof.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Edward Gibbon
• Narrated By David Case

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Karen Armstrong
• Narrated By Karen Armstrong

May 14 marks the anniversary of Israel's statehood. Learn more about this fascinating place as Karen Armstrong traces Jerusalem's beginnings during the third millennium BCE to the present, and discusses why it remains a vibrant, sometimes violent, political issue in the Middle East. Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun, is also the author of the best selling A History of God.