Audiobooks Narrated by John Curless

In this fast-paced epic, best-selling historian and master storyteller Arthur Herman spotlights two giants of the 20th century.

How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds - into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?

From the bestselling author of "Cicero" comes a sweeping, panoramic biography of Rome's first emperor.

The author of Seven Daughters of Eve returns with a lively account of how all dogs are descended from a mere handful of wolves.

Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution.

To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history.

In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history's greatest thinkers....

John Adams said of Cicero, "All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.

Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey.

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history