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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.  

At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general listener, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man.  

What would you do if you had to kill one of your own? The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – is in trouble. While the US administration ignores the death of a Special Forces soldier, the dead man's brother cannot. He'll use all his knowledge from the Taskforce for...

You'll never find him. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – weren't meant to get involved. The ex-Mossad agent, Aaron Bergman, has gone missing. Even if it goes against the Taskforce's direct orders, Pike Logan is determined to locate his friend. Yet Aaron's...

The attack will strike fear into the heart of America. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – faces public exposure. The release of the Panama Papers left a trail that could compromise the organisation. Yet there's even more at stake than the Taskforce's own anonymity. A...

his danger is far greater than a single attack. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – is on edge. Tensions are boiling over between the East and the West. One strike forces nations to start taking sides and seeking revenge. Only the Taskforce knows the escalation was a...

They'll commit an act of unthinkable barbarity. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – has confronted countless attacks, but never one of this magnitude. ISIS has set in motion an attack that no airstrike can defeat. It's off the radar, can penetrate all parts of the...

A friendly, rotund cat visits six diverse people in an busy urban neighborhood, receiving snacks and love. When a near-accident threatens the cat, the neighbors pull together as a community. Told from the point of view of each of the neighbors, this heartfelt story reflects the universal desire for connection and companionship.

The story the Vanguard Group as told by its founder, legendary investor John C. Bogle, Stay the Course traces the history of Vanguard - the largest mutual fund organization on Earth. An engaging blend of company history, investment perspective, and personal memoir, this book provides a fascinating look into the mind of an extraordinary man and the company he created.    

In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple draws from Traubel’s extensive interviews an extraordinary gathering of Whitman’s observations that conveys the core of his ethos and vision. Here is Whitman the sage, champion of expansiveness and human freedom. Here, too, is the poet’s more personal side - his vivid memories of Thoreau, Emerson, and Lincoln, his literary judgments on writers such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Tolstoy, and his expressions of hope in the democratic promise of the nation he loved.

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived". This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever, and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written.

More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply...

No one thought that MacTrump - Lord of MacTrump Towers, Son of New York - would ascend to the highest position in the kingdom. Yet with the help of his unhappy but dutiful wife Lady MacTrump, his clever daughter Dame Desdivanka, and his coterie of advisers, MacTrump is comfortably ensconced in the White Hold as President of the United Fiefdoms, free to make proclamations to his subjects through his favorite messenger, McTweet. The Democrati, mourning the loss of their cherished leader O'Bama, won't give up without a fight.

In October 1958 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest mine on the planet collapsed, killing hundreds of coal miners. Long after hope was gone, diggers found a dozen men walled-in, alive, and, two days later, six more. The fantastic rescue received global coverage, the first of the television...

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank?

In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern South. Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day's docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of something on the morning he's accosted by Ruth Esther English.

Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell into years, Dick finds purpose instead by studying his fellow residents, chronicling their odd obsessions and their nasty arguments, their breakdowns, their drunken debaucheries—and yes, even their sexual escapades.

The hunters are about to become the hunted... Russia has supplied Islamic fundamentalists with a weapon of mass destruction. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – must neutralise it. Otherwise millions of unsuspecting innocents will be wiped out. Yet the Taskforce has...

One secret can destroy everything. The US brokered an uncertain peace between Israel and Palestine. The American envoy sent to solidify the treaty was almost killed. Now the Taskforce – a highly classified Special Forces unit – devotes every resource to protect the envoy's life. Pike Logan...

How much is a single life worth? The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – suffers a personal blow. The niece of their commander has been taken. He sends Pike Logan to find her, but she isn't the only one who's disappeared. An unknown and professional force is taking...