Dragon Seekers, The (MP3)(English) Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world�a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary rem ...
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2004
The Medusa and the Snail (MP3)(English) Lewis Thomas has been compared to a philosopher who uses the language of biology. With the medusa as a metaphor for life, he continues the exploration of the world he began in The Lives of a Cell. Among his offerings are essays on ...
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2003
The Robe (MP3) Disk 1 of 2(English) A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe, a quest that reaches to the very heart of Christianity. Set against the vividly drawn b ...
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2003
The Robe (MP3) Disk 2 of 2(English) A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe, a quest that reaches to the very heart of Christianity. Set against the vividly drawn b ...
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2003
The Story Of King Arthur And His Knights (MP3)(English) For hundreds of years, the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world's most precious literary possessions. In 1902, the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and ill ...
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2003
The Vacant Throne (MP3)(English) Aglirta is known as the Kingless Land. Once a prosperous and peaceful river valley, it has fallen into lawlessness, studded with feuding baronies engaged in a constant state of war�but the land is kingless no more, for the Sleep ...