How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous "smart" house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny...

She was four city blocks long, boasting the latest, most ingenious safety devices of the age, a French sidewalk cafe, a grand staircase worthy of an opera house, private promenade decks--but only 20 lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board...

In 1935 the eccentric Durrell family moved from South London to Corfu. This play shows his family's life there, and Gerald's early researches into the natural world...

A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions...

After Worlds Collide picks up the story of its predecessor, When Worlds Collide. This sequel tells the story of the survivors' progress on the new world Bronson Beta after the destruction of Earth by a rogue planet.

Gwenda Reed arrives from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband with the task of finding the perfect place to make their base. In the quiet village of Dilmouth, she finds a house with immediate appeal. A few renovations will convert it into her ideal home...

Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman on his way home from a good night out. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines...

Why do we eat? It's more than just a hunger for more food, teaches Geneen Roth. Your relationship with food is a microcosm of your relationship to being alive, and to your beliefs about trust, pleasure, deprivation, and nourishment. Now, Roth offers listeners When Food Is Food and Love Is Love?...

Faced with the unspeakable possibility of losing a loved one, the parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo were thrust into the international spotlight during their desperate attempt to preserve a life they valued as deeply as they did their own...

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer.Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief...

The Chakra Balancing Meditation Program is a personal seven day meditation program. Chakras are the power stations of your body, bringing it to life, and keeping it healthy. This series of self hypnosis meditation MP3s has been designed to improve your health and wellbeing, physically, mentally and emotionally...

Based on 15 years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as America's gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike...

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Cultural Anthropology, 3/e and listen to them on your mp3 player...

Follow the escapades of America's ultimate backwoods hero as he travels the frontier in his trademark coonskin cap, in search of adventure, and brags his way into history at the Battle of the Alamo...

Complete with more than 50 poems, vocals, pan flute, harmonium bells, and hand drums, this audiobook presents an inspired evening featuring works by three literary legends of the 14th-century Middle East: Jelaluddin Rumi; Hafiz, the all-time favorite poet of the Persian world; and Lalla, the astonishing Kashmiri woman poet, singer, and dancer...