Product Description: A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of all forty-four presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the worldGrouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first year in office, The President's First Year takes listeners into the history, thought processes, and results on a case-by-case basis, including how the presidents' subsequent actions prove that they learned--or didn't learn--from their mistakes...read more

Product Description: "These United States" is the saga of America s twentieth century, told with commanding scope and intimate detail.It is a breathtaking story of war and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power, inspiring mass movements, and the rise and decline of a middle-class democracy...read more

Lacking the full skills of a wizard detective, Liam Rhenford nevertheless becomes involved in the case of a stolen magic jewel and is assisted by Fanuilh, his dragon familiar. Original.

When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the result is the creation of Caliban, a conscienceless robot that is not monitored by the Three Laws of Robotics that keep humans safe. Reprint.

Product Description: [Read by William Hughes]In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between north and south, east and west...read more

Doctor Who must stop a plot by the Cybermen to travel back in time, save their planet, Mondas, and destroy the Earth

Doctor Who must stop a plot by the Cybermen to travel back in time, save their planet, Mondas, and destroy the Earth

Product Description: [Read by William Hughes] An fascinating insider's account of a major cancer cover-up. Ralph W. Moss was assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City when he unveiled a cover-up of positive tests with America's most controversial anticancer agent, laetrile...read more

Product Description: Describes the world of the Incas, examining such aspects of their lives as herds and hunting, food, medicine, clothes, religion, legends, art and architecture, and wars.

Product Description: That Devil's Trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject. Drawing on the reports of mesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctors and serious physicians printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the Victorian fin de siècle, the book provides an insight into how Continental mesmerism was first understood in Britain, how a number of distinctively British varieties of mesmerism developed, and how these were continually debated in medical, moral and legal terms...read more

[LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by William Hughes] Drawing on interviews and personal papers, Wiest provides a fascinating look at a long-suffering group of soldiers. -- When the 160 men of Charlie Company (4th Battalion/47th Infantry Regiment/9th Infantry Division) were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to eighty thousand combat troops in Vietnam by the height of the war in 1968. In the spring of 1966 the war was still popular, and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company returned home, only thirty men were not casualties -- and they were among the first veterans of the war to be spit on and harassed by war protesters as they arrived back home. -- In The Boys of '67, Andrew Wiest, the award-winning author of Vietnam's Forgotten Army and The Vietnam War 1956-1975, examines the experiences of a company from the only division in the Vietnam era to train and deploy together in similar fashion to World War II's famous 101st Airborne Division. -- Wiest interviewed more than fifty officers and enlisted men who served with Charlie Company, including the surviving platoon leaders and both of the company's commanders. In addition, he interviewed fifteen family members of Charlie Company veterans, including wives, children, parents, and siblings. Wiest also had access to personal papers, collections of letters, a diary, an abundance of newspaper clippings, training notebooks, field manuals, condolence letters, and photographs from before, during, and after the conflict. -- As Wiest shows, the fighting that Charlie Company saw in 1967 was nearly as bloody as many of the better publicized battles, including the infamous battles of the Ia Drang Valley and Hamburger Hill. As a result, many of the surviving members of Charlie Company came home with what the military now recognizes as post-traumatic stress disorder -- a diagnosis that was not recognized until the late 1970s and was not widely treated until the 1980s. Only recently, after more than forty years, have many members of Charlie Company achieved any real and sustained relief from their suffering.

Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.] [Read by William Hughes] Drawing on interviews and personal papers, Wiest provides a fascinating look at a long-suffering group of soldiers...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.] The American approach to law enforcement was forged by the experience of revolution. Emerging as they did from the shadow of British rule, the country's founders would likely have viewed police as they exist today as a standing army and therefore a threat to liberty...read more