Paper: Paging Through History by Mark KurlanskyRequirements: .MP3 reader, 752.7 MBOverview: From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the […]
Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox by Eugene M. Helveston / Narrated by Kyle SnyderRequirements: .MP3 player, 182 mbOverview: In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method […]
A People’s History of the Russian Revolution: Left Book Club by Neil Faulkner / Narrated by Douglas StormRequirements: .MP3 player, 182 mbOverview: The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People’s History of the Russian Revolution, Neil […]
Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers by Edward B. BurgerRequirements: .MP3 reader, 663.9 MBOverview: What is your definition of number? The question is a challenging one because defining the abstract idea of number is extremely difficult. More than 2,500 years ago, the great number enthusiast Pythagoras described number as “the first principle, a thing […]
The History of Love by Nicole KraussRequirements: .MP3 reader, 208 MBOverview: A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always […]