'A fearless & important book The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas It also gives a genuine insider's account' Telegraph The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth & stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness Almost overnight belief turned into incredulity Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms & not the underlying causes of what went wrong But those events vivid though they remain in our memories comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism Alchemy explains why ultimately this was & remains a crisis not of banking
- even if we need to reform the banking system
- nor of policy-making
- even if mistakes were made
- but of ideas In this refreshing & vitally important book former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King
- an actor in this drama
- proposes revolutionary new concepts to answer the central question are money & banking a form of Alchemy or are they the Achilles heel of a modern capitalist economy?





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Our fate is in their hands The universe is a hostile place in John Scalzi's The End of All Things the sixth in The Old Man's War series The Colonial Union's Defence Force was formed to save humanity when aggressive alien species targeted our worlds Now Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an urgent new mission as a hostile universe becomes ever more dangerous He must investigate a sinister group which lurks in the darkness of space playing different factions against one another They'll target both humans & aliens & their motives are unfathomable The Defence Force itself is weakening as its soldiers fall
- without recruits to replace them Relations with Earth have broken down & it will send no more troops even as human colonies become increasingly vulnerable to alien attack Lieutenant Wilson & Colonial Union diplomats must race to keep the peace seek reconciliation with an enraged Earth & maintain humanity's unity at all costs If they don't it will mean oblivion extinction & the end of all things
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Rewriting the science of Alzheimer's Disease this book presents the first proven plan to reverse Alzheimer's Disease Revealing that AD is not one condition but in fact three it outlines 36 metabolic factors including micronutrients hormone levels & sleep which together can trigger downsizing in the brain 320 pages Bredesen Dale E ...

' Must the tyranny of the group rule us from cradle to grave? Absolutely not says Todd Rose in a subversive & readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual Readers will be moved' Abigail Zuger The New York Times' Groundbreaking The man who can teach you how not to be average' Anna Hart Daily Telegraph' Fascinating engaging & practical The End of Average will help everyone
- & I mean everyone
- live up to their potential' Amy Cuddy author of Presence' Lively & entertaining a cheering story of how the square pegs among us can build successful lives despite being unable or unwilling to fit into round holes' Matthew Reisz Times Higher Education' Heartening a worthwhile read for the aspiring nonconformist' Iain Morris Observer

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Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize From one of the most daring voices in European fiction this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult & dies beloved Or dies betrayed Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured Or she is forgotten by everyone Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century through pre-war Vienna & Stalin's Moscow to present-day Berlin Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch & 'fate' suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history character & pure chance The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny & allows us to see the present & the past anew ...

This important & timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith & reason in today's world Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour & sometimes heinous crimes He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another Most controversially he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion -- an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience & insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological brain-based need He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world ...

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY 20th anniversary edition of The End of History & the Last Man a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama author of The Origins of Political Order'A fascinating historical & philosophical setting for the twenty-first century'
- Tom Wolfe' Was Francis Fukuyama the first man to see Trump coming?'
- Paul Sagar With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished & with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty The End of History & the Last Man was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like Boldly outlining the challenges & problems to face modern liberal democracies Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened & then speculated what was going to come next Tackling religious fundamentalism politics scientific progress ethical codes & war The End of History & the Last Man remains a compelling work to this day provoking argument & debate among its readers' Awesome a landmark profoundly realistic & important supremely timely & cogent the first book to fully fathom the depth & range of the changes now sweeping through the world'
- George Gilder The Washington Post'A basic rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception to this rule'
- The Economist Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952 His work

Includes:: America at the Crossroads Democracy Power & the Neoconservative Legacy & After the Neo Cons Where the Right went Wrong He now lives in Washington DC with his wife & children where he also works as a part time photographer





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Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist & running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol Fearing for his life he immersed himself in AA rehab & therapy Nothing worked So he did the only thing he could; he took his treatment into his own hands Searching for a cure for his deadly disease he happened upon baclofen a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances Dr Ameisen prescribed himself the drug & experimented with increasingly higher doses until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol That was more than six years ago Baclofen as prescribed under a doctor's care could possibly help many addicts But as long as the medical & research establishments ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world we won't be able to understand baclofen's full potential This book is a plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction ...

Our politics is broken but it can be fixed A real democracy is not only possible
- it is an urgent necessity Provocative succinct
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Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling & inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy & explains why over the past 200 years wealth & poverty have diverged & evolved across the planet & why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia Poland Russia India China & Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face In the end readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are but how solvable they are
- & why making the effort is both our moral duty & in our own interests
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