Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
"She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…

NEWS FLASH: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)

DOWNER: Dad can't have any more kids. (So there's no heir to the throne.)

SHOCK OF THE CENTURY: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material.

THE WORST PART: Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmère, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne.

Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal–blue in the face about her princessly duty—no way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind.

But what's a girl to do when her name is PRINCESS AMELIA MIGNONETTE GRIMALDI THERMOPOLIS RENALDO?"

Journeys of the Great Explorers
by Glyndwr Williams narrated by the author
Lecture 1 The World Before Columbus
Lecture 2 The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Lecture 3 The Voyage of Vasco da Gama and the “Sea Road” to the East
Lecture 4 The First Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan
Lecture 5 The Second Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Francis Drake
Lecture 6 The Tools of Discovery
Lecture 7 Life at Sea
Lecture 8 Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage
Lecture 9 The Pacific Ocean: The Great Unknown
Lecture 10 The “Rambling Voyages” of William Dampier
Lecture 11 Vitus Bering and the Russian Discovery of America
Lecture 12 The Pacific Voyages of James Cook
Lecture 13 The Revolution in Navigation and Health
Lecture 14 The World After Cook
http://www.wfhowes.co.uk/catalogue/titles.php?&t=1892

United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 8593

Taught by Salim Yaqub
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Yale University

Format: MP3, 64 kbps, Stereo, ~320 MB

This lecture series is a narrative history of U.S. political involvement in the Middle East from World War I to the present day. Presented from a historian's perspective, it is meant to strengthen your ability to place today's headlines into historical context, evaluate what is most likely to happen next, and understand those oncoming events when they do occur.