Katherine M. Howard

The year is 1912. A London newspaper reporter makes a horrifying discovery involving a member of the House of Commons: indeed, as the reporter gradually uncovers, Edward Lyons is in fact a vicious, bloodthirsty vampire. Sensing that fate is conspiring against him, Lyons decides it’s time to head for America. His means of escape is by traveling on what, to him, is just another ship. However, he makes a rather unfortunate choice: the ship he’s sailing on is the brand-new TITANIC. Meanwhile, TITANIC’S owner- J. Bruce Ismay- is a pampered, blessed “man about town.” As he prepares to ...

In the not too distant past, along the Mississippi River, North America tried to tear itself in half. It failed. It won’t the second time. The New Madrid fault zone, six times larger than the San Andreas in California, has generated a series of massive earthquakes thrusting the Atwood and Chandler families in a fight to survive. Will they arrive for Christmas? Will they arrive at all? Their lives are about to change forever. Prepare to be shaken.

East Antarctica: the coldest, most desolate location on earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a 6,000 square mile liquid lake, over 1,000 feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life-forms long believed extinct - and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.

In this series of 24 captivating lectures, an award-winning teacher and acclaimed scholar delves into the story of how, why, where, and when we became human. You'll gain a fresh understanding of the forces that have shaped our species, as Professor King synthesizes the best that more than a century of scientific scholarship has to offer across a variety of disciplines to gain the insights offered by fossils, ancient skeletal remains, and lifestyle information like cave art and stone tools.