Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 111 (audiobook)

Time brings changes to places, politics, and perceptions of accepted behavior. This theme underlies many of the reader-chosen selections in Volume 111. Place topics include Cities Beneath the Sea; The Poet and the Cheese; Baghdad and Hormuz; Some Notes on Horticulture; and the Nobile Flight. Politics includes the Spanish Armada; A Letter to American Workingmen; and Roosevelt's 1942 State of the Union Address. Human behavior is addressed in Going to See a Man Hanged; The Man and His Newspaper; and Habits as Social Functions. Other topics in the collection include Chess Openings, Reading and Eyesight, a bio of Marie Dressler, and a new variety of squash described in a 1928 seed catalog.