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. ...

With two tours of Iraq under his belt Sergeant Dave Henley knows what modern war looks like. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri Helmand Province Afghanistan. This is a battlezone like he's never seen before. He's in charge of 1 Platoon a ragbag collection of rookies who he must make into a fighting force
- & fast. But this is a brutal unforgiving conflict which takes no prisoners. Their convoy is ambushed on the way to the FOB leaving two men grievously wounded
- before they've fired a shot. Back at home Dave's wife Jenny seven months pregnant must try to hold together the fragile lives of the families left behind who all wait for the knock on the door & the arrival of bad news...

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Again & again British politicians commentators & celebrities intone that The War on Drugs has failed. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious war on drugs since 1971 when a Tory government adopted a Labour plan to implement the revolutionary Wootton report. This gave cannabis the most widely used illegal substance a special legal status as a supposedly soft drug (in fact Hitchens argues it is at least as dangerous as heroin & cocaine because of the threat it poses to mental health). It began a progressive reduction of penalties for possession & effectively disarmed the police. This process still continues behind a screen of falsely tough rhetoric from politicians. Far from there being a war on drugs there has been a covert surrender to drugs concealed behind an official obeisance to international treaty obligations. To all intents & purposes cannabis is legal in Britain & other major drugs are not far behind. In The War We Never Fought Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the governments true attitude & the increasing recruitment of the police & courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives & contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever & whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britains drug policy it is not prohibition or a war on drugs for neither exists. ...

When you lose everything you love you need a friend... Nothing ever happens in sleepy Grimbleton. Until two strangers
- both claiming
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In the mist-shrouded haze of the past long before the beginning of recorded time there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man & all was at peace
- until the arrival of the demons & horrors of the Burning Legion & their baneful Lord Sargeras dark god of chaotic magic. Now Dragons Dwarves Elves Goblins Humans & Orcs all vie for supremacy across the scattered kingdoms
- part of a grand malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the world of WARCRAFT. The Guardians of Tirisfal: a line of champions imbued with godlike powers each one through the ages charged with fighting a lonely secret war against the Burning Legion. Medivh was fated from birth to become the greatest & most powerful of this noble order. But from the beginning a darkness tainted his soul corrupting his innocence & turning to evil the powers that should have fought for good. Torn by two destinies Medivhs struggle against the malice within him becomes one with the fate of Azeroth itself...and changes the world forever.

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