Product Description: Featuring a big name cast including, Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Richard Johnson,Tom Allen, and James Bachman. Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil, and badly named Mr Gently Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher brothers...read more

Product Description: The sound of history in the making...This program focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history -- and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together dispatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of these events to the listening public...read more

Examines how these incredible structures were built in ancient times with a look at their role in history from their creation to the present day, complete with a computer-graphic reconstruction, glossary, and archival photos. Simultaneous.

Revealing the many mysteries that lurk beneath the sea, an authoritative guide, from the Pacific Ocean to the icy waters surrounding the poles to lush tropical seas, examines the life and animal behavior that exists in these underwater worlds.

More than 270 full-color photographs, along with illustrations, maps, and diagrams, trace the history of human civilization from the earliest days of human settlement to the grandeur of the great empires of the Old and New Worlds as they bring to life the ideas, events, people, and accomplishments of the world's great civilizations.

The companion volume to the August television series on The Learning Channel takes a close-up look at the human face to reveal a myriad of complex expressions that shed light on the nature of human personality.

Reviews classical music compact discs and includes discussions on composers as recording artists and the importance of historical recordings