Inside Pepys' London" reveals a vivid picture of London at a critical point in history
- poised to become a major centre of international
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious & important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb
- a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind & made Oppenheimer the father of the Bomb. Oppenheimer was a man of diverse interests & phenomenal intellectual attributes. His talent & drive allowed him as a young scientist to enter a community peopled by the great names of twentieth-century physics
- men such as Bohr Born Dirac & Einstein
- & to play a role in the laboratories & classrooms where the world was being changed forever. But Oppenheimers was not a simple story of assimilation scientific success & world fame. A complicated & fragile personality the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two Oppenheimers attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties
- & set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph Mc Carthy & his witch hunters. As with Ray Monks peerless biographies of Wittgenstein & Bertrand Russell Inside the Centre" is a work of towering scholarship. A story of discovery secrecy impossible choices & unimaginable destruction it goes deeper than any previous work in revealing the motivations & complexities of this most brilliant & divisive of men."



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Throughout the 1960s Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang. He had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organisation whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day. But he was not just an observer & his role in the Kray story ultimately led to him serving 15 years in prison. Inside the Firm tells with searing honesty his violent history with the Krays
- & the horrors of his subsequent imprisonment in top security institutions. In exorcising his ghosts he reveals an account that is more impartial & more terrifying than Ronnie & Reggie ever could have written. From the murder of Jack The Hat Mc Vitie
- & the mystery of his undiscovered body
- to the role of the Kray legacy in Britains prisons today Inside the Firm is the last confession of a gangster determined to turn his back on his brutal past.


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The Inbetweeners are Will Simon Neil & Jay
- brought together at Rudge Park Comprehensive through their sheer lack of popularity
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Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world & yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology & yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs & practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammed over a thousand years ago. In a world where events in the Middle East continue to have geopolitical consequences far beyond the region's boundaries an understanding of this complex nation is essential. With Inside the Kingdom" British journalist & bestselling author Robert Lacey has given us one of the most penetrating & insightful looks at Saudi Arabia ever produced. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis at the end of the oil boom Lacey has returned to find out how the consequences of the boom produced a society at war with itself. Filled with stories told by a broad range of Saudis from high princes & ambassadors to men & women on the street " Inside the Kingdom" is in many ways the story of the Saudis in their own words." ...

Nicolas Roche has a famous surname to all fans of cycling. The son of legendary Irish & World Champion Stephen Roche Nicolas had to fight to make it as a professional & even harder to make his mark as his own man in this toughest of competitive sports. His rise up the ranks has been meteoric with top 15 finishes in both the Tour de France & the Vuelta a Espana but his attitude to his chosen profession has remained undimmed. Honest eloquent & passionate about the cycling world Nicolas gained acclaim & a devoted fan following for his Tour diaries serialised in the Irish Independent. Now a major contender for a podium finish in a grand tour in the award-winning Inside the Peloton" Nicolas tells in full the story of life as a professional cyclist & of the remarkable events that have brought him this far. From furious spats with teammates & exhilarating races against the worlds best this is a gripping cycling adventure & tale of a fiercely competitive sportsman." ...

Thirty years ago the mysterious Priory of Sion revealed to the world that Jesus & Mary Magdalene were married & created a bloodline of descendants. Since then the Priory has remained silent...until now. In this book the Priory of Sion has a last chosen to reveal its secrets. Supported by exclusive interviews with Priory members as well as historical sources Inside the Priory of Sion proves he existence of an underground stream of secret knowledge & wisdom accessible only to adepts that flows through history. Clues to this knowledge lie hidden in symbolism found in tombs temples churches manuscripts & paintings by the Old Masters. This book reveals that The Priory of Sion is releasing this information into the public domain not for its own purposes but to prepare the world for a catastrophe of global proportions. This apocalyptic event foretold in the book of Revelation culminates in a Second Coming
- the emergence of a world saviour figure belonging to the bloodline of Christ. In making this knowledge public the Priory faces great risks from those who do not want this sensational information to come to light. In the past people who have sought to reveal the truth have faced persecution...and even death. This book takes the reader into the heart of a mystery on an adventure through secret societies religious heresy alternative history & the esoteric arts. In the process we come to understand the nature of the future cataclysm & the Second Coming.
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'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle National Socialism as a whole the area of wartime production & the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses even by implication & is unrelenting toward himself & his associates... Speer's full-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Fuhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magic' NEW YORK TIMES ...

Jake Humphrey has one of the best jobs in the world. Flying around the world presenting Formula One to six million people is not a bad occupation. & there is plenty that the viewer doesn't get to see quite a lot of it rather surprising too. Travelling around the globe in the F1 bubble Jake brings you close to the action. With his unique access to the key characters in the sport he reveals a side of figures such as Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton rarely seen before as well as showing what it is like to work with F1 legends David Coulthard & Eddie Jordan. From techie heaven driving the Red Bull simulator to witnessing moments of great sporting triumph Humphrey takes the reader behind the scenes in the paddock to unveil the changing face of F1 as well as recounting the pitfalls faced by a TV presenter permanently walking the tightrope of public humiliation. ...

Pippa Hutchison is an aspiring young trainer certain that given the right horses she is as good as anyone in the business. Until that is an owner removes two horses to another yard & one shows dramatic improvement. She enlists the help of her brother Jamie once a star flat jockey now trying to revive his racing career over fences after a harrowing term in prison. But former wild boy Jamie has his own demons to deal with like the new challenge of jumps riding the hostility of those who can never forgive him for a young lads death
- & the black wall within him that separates him from his past.
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