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Great Ideas: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the...
The Haunted Hotel
"An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question- am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and sud...
Brisingr (#3 Inheritance Cycle)
Experience the bestselling phenomenon of Brisingr, now in a deluxe edition This deluxe edition includes deleted scenes, never-before-seen art by the author, and a guide to dwarf runes. Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, ha...
The Kings of Cool
In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers in recent memory, Savages was a Top 10 Book of 2010 selection in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and in publications...
Hairy Maclary, Hide and Seek: A Lift the Flap Book
An interactive lift-the-flap book starring Hairy Maclary and Friends.Greywacke Jones was hunting a bee.But where was Hairy Maclary?Hairy Maclary is playing hide and seek. Can you find him?In this lift-the-flap book the loveable and mischievous Hairy Maclary is hiding from the neighbourhood cats. But the...
Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned - and Have Still to Learn - from the Financial Crisis
In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven years There have been many books that have sought to explain the...
High Output Management
In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be summed up in a single...
The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts
"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W...
Peppa Pig: Practise with Peppa: Wipe-Clean Telling the Time
"Peppa is learning to tell the time. Would you like to practise, too? Draw in the times and clock hands with the special pen, then wipe them off and try again! This brilliant wipe-clean book helps children learn to tell the time on both analogue and digital clock faces and teaches whole hours, half hour...
The Beach
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wr...
The Drawing Lesson : A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw
Read This Comic and Start Drawing Today Nominated for a 2017 Eisner AwardFor the first time ever, drawing instructor and graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy-to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists in the form of a comic book, providing you with a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. In ...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
In the Trenches of HellOn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral...
Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney
An investigation into an intriguing murder case and an unprecedented account of how the decisions made by organs of government can be defended and mistakes covered up. Anna-Jane Cheney worked at the epicenter of the conservative Adelaide legal community. She was vivacious, popular and talented with an i...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-...
Being Happy
'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. His hugely influential lessons on happiness are a cal...
Call Us What We Carry
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing...
The Rock & Roll A Level: A very hard pop quiz
No one knows more obscure and entertaining facts about music as legendary music journalist David Hepworth. The perfect gift for any music lover . . . The Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who know the chart position of everything and the value of nothing.I...
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the...
How to Stay Safe Online - A Digital Self-Care Toolkit for Developing Resilience and Allyship
Digital spaces are a positive force for change, connection and community, but left unregulated, they are not always safe. Globally, women are 27 times more likely than men to be harassed online. This is worse for Black women who are 84% more likely to face online abuse than white women. There has been a...
Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)
The 31st Discworld novel - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans.'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!'In the small yet aggressive country of Borogravia, there are strict rules citizens must follow. For a start, women belong in t...
We All Want Impossible Things
'One of my favourite books ever' Marian Keyes; 'Dazzling' Rachel Joyce; 'You'll devour every word' Katherine Heiny; for fans of Nora Ephron and Sorrow and Bliss, a heart-wrenching, laugh-out-loud celebration of friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.'Nora-Ephron-style wit...comforting, so funny, m...
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