King Arthur’s Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England by Jim StorrRequirements: .MP3 reader, 326 MBOverview: The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation’s cultural identity.We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, […]
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will StorrRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 395.7 MBOverview: Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them? Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour […]
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing To Us by Will Storr, Shaun Grindell (Narrator)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 295.7MB Overview: We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular, and flawless. We have […]
The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 by Christopher StorrsRequirements: PDF Reader | 3.3mbOverview: Christopher Storrs presents a fresh new appraisal of the reasons for the survival of Spain and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700). Hitherto it has been largely assumed that in the "Age of Louis […]
Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs HallRequirements: .MP3 reader, 771 MBOverview: From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future. The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: We’d vacation in geodesic […]