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Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Leonard Mlodinow
• Narrated By Robert Blumenfeld

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.

Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Thomas C. Foster
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

From the author of the New York Times best-selling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative new book on the 25 works of literature that have most shaped the American character. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and Americans.

It's Not Rocket Science

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Ben Miller
• Narrated By Ben Miller

Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep, and he has returned to his roots, to share with you all his favourite bits of science. This is the stuff that you really need to know, not only because it matters, but because it will quite simply amaze and delight you.

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Richard J. Foster
• Narrated By Lloyd James
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Written in the same warm, accessible style as Richard Foster's best-selling Celebration of Discipline, Freedom of Simplicity articulates a creative, more human style of living and points the way for Christians to make their lives "models of simplicity."

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Anthony Pagden
• Narrated By John Lee

In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.

The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans - creating the modern Middle East along the way - and on to the present struggles in Iraq.

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Michael Brooks
• Narrated By James Adams
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Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Science's best-kept secret is that there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. If history is any precedent, we should look to today's inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet 13 modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow's breakthroughs.