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Making a Good Brain Great
by Daniel G. Amen
Formats: Digital Download ($16.50)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do—learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days!
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Complications
by Atul Gawande
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Average Rating:  (4.5 Stars)
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...
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Stiff
by Mary Roach
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
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Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
by Jim Murphy
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.96)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...
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Mind Wide Open
by Steven Johnson
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines.
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The Tao of Physics
by Fritjof Capra
Formats: Audio Cassette ($15.26)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs them both. These are the words of Fritjof Capra...
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Don't Know Much About Geography
by Kenneth C. Davis
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned...
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Wandering Home
by Bill McKibben
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
The acclaimed author of The End of Nature takes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope....
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Dr. Quantum and the Spiritual Laws of Physics
by Fred Alan Wolf
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Average Rating: (1.0 Stars)
Step into the world of physics-but bring your spirituality along. Fred Alan Wolf is a theoretical physicist and firewalker who sees the sacred in everything-and can give you a theorem to prove it.
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Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Sonny Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers...
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Addiction
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
Drugs, alcohol and cigarettes: Top experts reveal the latest research on the sometimes fatal attraction of substance use and abuse.
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Addition & Subtraction Country
Formats: Audio CD ($12.99)
Original songs feature today's rockin' country sound to teach addition and subtraction facts. Includes an activity book with puzzles, worksheets and games.
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Addition & Subtraction Rock
Formats: Audio CD ($10.39)
An entertaining approach for learning beginning addition and subtraction concepts and developing accurate recall of facts.
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Addition Rap
Formats: Audio CD ($10.39)
Addition facts with sums through 18. A variety of rap songs holds attention and gets results.
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Addition Unplugged
by Emad Girgis
Formats: Audio CD ($11.66)
This musical approach to math was created by teachers and is a great alternative to heavier rock and rap programs…
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Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
ADD affects more than children -- doctors know it's often a grown-up disorder that can cripple smart, creative adults.
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Alcoholism
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
Chances are that you have a close family member who has a drinking problem. But if alcoholism is a disease, why is it that too often we look at the drinker as the problem?
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Anger
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
Anger can be the most natural emotion in the world. and the most destructive.
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Anxiety
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
With Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Mary Guardino of the national advocacy group Freedom From Fear and Dr. Michael Davis, a top anxiety researcher at Yale University Medical Center.
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Apollo 13: The Real Mission
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Features highlights of the actual voices and sounds of the Apollo 13 mission during the most critical times of their near disaster in outer space.
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Art and Madness
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
Images of the tormented artist, poet, painter and composer are familiar. but is there really a link between madness and art?
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Asperger's Syndrome, Part One
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
“Let’s not use the word ‘cure’ if you don’t mind… When you talk about cure you imply that we’re broken. I don’t feel broken.” So says Liane Holliday Willey, a woman who not so long ago would have been described as a “victim” of Asperger’s Syndrome.
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Asperger's Syndrome, Part Two
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
In one of our most important programs to date, this second of a two-part special report on Asperger’s Syndrome offers a groundbreaking and extraordinary look at Asperger's in children and young adults.
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At the Dangerous Edge of the Knowledge
by Michael Crichton
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Michael Crichton, the father of the “techno-thriller,” has sold over 100 million books worldwide in thirty different languages. While this would be an astonishing feat for any writer, what makes Crichton’s accomplishment unique is his commitment to the integrity of the human knowledge quest.
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Basic Brain
Formats: Digital Download ($8.00)
If you don't know your brain stem from your cerebellum, this is the show for you.
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