Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children a lovely house & a husband who travels a lot
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Niall Ferguson's The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred" re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century globalizing booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent frightening & brutalized in history with fanatical often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War & the end of the Cold War. What turned it into a bloodbath? From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia Niall Ferguson reveals how economic boom-&-bust decaying empires &
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- poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight not the triumph of the West. & he warns it could happen all over again. "A heartbreaking serious & thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating & dramatic". (Simon Sebag Montefiore " The New York Times"). " Unputdownable controversial compelling". (" Independent on Sunday"). "A big bold & brilliantly belligerent book". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Hums with energy "able insights & pithy summaries". (" Observer"). " Gripping". (Tristram Hunt). Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College Oxford & a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of " Paper & Iron" " The House of Rothschild" " The Pity of War" " The Cash Nexus" " Empire" " Colossus" " The War of the World" & " The Ascent of Money"."

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But planet Earth was not only being watched
- soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land
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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. ' Death!' I shouted. ' Death is coming! Death!' In this pioneering shocking & nightmarish tale naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon gigantic killing machines that chase & feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction " The War of the World's" journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly & closely by intelligences greater than mans... So begins H. G. Wells classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge they construct giant killing machines
- armed with heatrays
- that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology & powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars & soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age.

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Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchens & Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud & popular debate between aggressive atheists & religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas. Now the rock star of the new spirituality Deepak Chopra is entering this debate sparring with leading physicist Professor Leonard Mlodinow (the co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Grand Design). In War of the Worldviews Chopra argues that there is design in our universe & a deep intelligence behind life. Without defending organised religion he debunks randomness as an explanation for how Nature evolves & shows how consciousness comes first & matter second. On the other side Mlodinow argues the viewpoint of science specifically what modern quantum physics can tell us about our world. In his view physics genetics & cosmology will shed far more light on the big questions than rethinking ancient spiritual concepts can ever do. A major work of our time War of the Worldviews offers much food for thought for those fascinated by the two sides of this modern conundrum. ...

Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo. On land & at sea throughout the four corners of the continent from the frozen plains surrounding Moscow & terror on the Caribbean seas to the muddy low lands of Flanders & the becalmed waters of Trafalgar The War of Wars" tells the powerful story of the greatest conflict of the age." ...

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women
- Miss Elizabeth Arden & Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary
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This selection of Wilfred Owen's war poems is being published partly to provide an ideal edition of the poems for schools who essentially read the war poems & need a short thorough edition. It contains a new introduction by Jon Stallworthy which is aimed at a general audience but will be thorough & academic enough to work for schools as well. Constable have a similar edition planned but Chatto's will be out first & contains copyright material unavailable to other editions. ...

Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984 Jeremy Bowen first became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already both at home & abroad but it wasnt until he covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he had arrived. Armed with the fearlessness of youth he lived for the job was in love with it aware of the dangers but assuming the bullets & bombs were meant for others. In 2000 however after eleven years in some of the worlds most dangerous places the bullets came too close for comfort & a close friend was killed in Lebanon. This & then the birth of his first child began a process of reassessment that culminated in the end of the affair. Now in his extraordinarily gripping & thought-provoking new book he charts his progress from keen young novice whose first reaction to the sound of gunfire was to run towards it to the more circumspect veteran he is today. It will also discuss the changes that have taken place in the ways in which wars are reported over the course of his career from the Gulf War to Bosnia Afghanistan to Rwanda. ...