Books on Tape

Thrilling tale of murder, mayhem, and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for shaping the modern world.

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public.

True Notebooks is the story of Mark Salzman's eye-opening tenure as a writing teacher to a group of teenage boys in a juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts.

In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....

Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year....

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science....

Warren St. John decided to find out why people care so much about the outcomes of games they're not playing in....

Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography....