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The featured speaker is Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. His topic is: "Is There Really A Digital Revolution?" Smith defines his concept of "digitality", and discusses its impact on our notions of technology and the world around us. A panel discussion follows the presentation. This is the fourth lecture in the Library of Congress Digital Future series.

Juan Pablo Paz, a quantum physicist from Buenos Aires currently working at Los Alamos, discusses how quantum computing, now in its development stages, will eventually change again the way we collect, store, and distribute information. A panel discussion follows the presentation. This is the third lecture in the Library of Congress Digital Future series.

The featured speaker is David Levy, author of Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age. He discusses the shift of reading from the fixed page to movable electrons and the effect that has had on language. Levy holds degrees in both computer science and calligraphy. A panel discussion follows the presentation. This is the fifth lecture in the Library of Congress Digital Future series.

We all possess one common desire: the need for happiness and a meaningful life. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. Now, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and best selling author helps you begin the path to enlightenment in this easy-access reference for daily practice.

Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 best selling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this audiobook.

A New York Times best seller and one of the best selling science books ever written, Chaos looks at the birth of a new science - one involving physicists, biologists, astronomers, and economists seeking a way to understand the growth of the complexity in nature.

Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.

George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, and "the man who put the 's' in telecosm" according to Telephony magazine. His long-awaited Telecosm is a bible of the new age of communications. Equal parts science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in our lives.

In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield, drawing on his experience as a journalist and a historian, explores two centuries of history in the Middle East. He forms a picture of the historical, political, and social history of the meeting point of Occident and Orient, from Bonaparte's marauding invasion of Egypt to the start of the Gulf War. For more than four thousand years, the Middle East has provided a setting for titanic struggles between great civilizations and religions.