There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries & find an eager audience. What has happened? Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present Karen Armstrong shows that meaning of words such as belief faith & mystery has been entirely altered so that atheists & theists alike now think & speak about God
- & indeed reason itself
- in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing. Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled & dangerously polarised world.

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The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israela s rights supported by indisputable evidence. * Presents a passionate look at what Israela s accusers & detractors are saying about this war--torn country.* Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry & backs up his argument with hard facts.* Widely respected as a civil libertarian legal educator & defense attorney extraordinaire Alan Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. ...

On 4 CDs. In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to life with Crawford Logan & Gerda Stevenson as Paul & Steve. Using the original scripts & incidental music & recorded using vintage microphones & sound effects the production of Paul Temple & the Sullivan Mystery aimed to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so popular with the audience that it was soon followed with equal success by two more revivals Paul Temple & the Madison Mystery & Paul Temple & Steve. ...

Cambridge is sweltering during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie former police inspector turned private investigator the world consists of one accounting sheet
- Lost on the left Found on the right
- & the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge & has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death intrigue & misfortune his own life haunted by a family tragedy he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories & begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity everything is connected...

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When the young Charles Dexter Ward becomes fascinated by the history of his wizard ancestor Joseph Curwen who gained notoriety for haunting graveyards he attempts to duplicate Curwens cabbalistic & alchemical feats. It is Wards doctor who bears witness to the full horror of Wards results as Lovecrafts psychological mystery unfolds before him. ...

There are two stories/TV episodes in each book so they are flipper books with a front cover for each story. THE CASE OF THE FUDGIE FRY PIRATES: Theres more to Shelter Island than a puffin refuge! THE CASE OF THE PLANT THAT COULD EAT YOUR HOUSE: A dangerous plant is on the loose! ...

Yseut Haskell a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying mens lives is found dead in a college room just metres from unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fens office. The victim is found wearing an unusual ring a reproduction of a piece in the British Museum featuring a gold gilded fly but does this shed any light on her murder? As they delve deeper into Yseuts unhappy life the police soon realise that anyone who knew her would have shot her but can Fen discover who could have shot her? The Case of the Gilded Fly" is the first Gervase Fen mystery & is the perfect introduction to this most idiosyncratic eccentric & entertaining detective." ...

Early one morning on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali appears & strikes one of their number dead. The goddess disappears without trace & soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic & rationalist Dr Suresh Jha enemy of all gurus & mystics & he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters. As the media go into a frenzy it becomes clear that the case goes to the heart of the battle between superstition & rationality in modern India. But the fact remains that a murder has been committed. & as it becomes clear that powerful forces are at play one man is perfectly placed to investigate: the portly detective Vish Puri. In fact the idea that he could resist getting involved in such a tantalizing murder is preposterous. There is as much chance of him going without his lunch. ...

Meet Vish Puri Indias most private investigator. Portly persistent & unmistakably Punjabi he cuts a determined swathe through modern Indias swindlers cheats & murderers. In hot & dusty Delhi where call centres & malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life Puris main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners a job once the preserve of aunties & family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant it takes all of Puris resources to investigate. How will he trace the fate of the girl known only as Mary in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking pot shots at him & his prize chilli plants? & why is his widowed Mummy-ji attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows Mummies are not detectives? With his team of undercover operatives
- Tubelight Flush & Facecream
- Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago
- long before that Johnny-come-lately Sherlock Holmes donned his Deerstalker. The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur & the remote mines of Jharkh&. From his well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live Puris adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.


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In late 1923 the newly married Daisy Dalrymple & her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip however both work in a bit of business
- Alec travels to Washington D. C. to consult with the U.S. government Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazine editor. While in New York Daisy stays at the famed Chelsea Hotel which is not only close to the Flatiron Building offices of Abroad magazine where she'll be meeting with her editor but home to many of New York's artists & writers. After her late morning meeting Daisy agrees to accompany her editor Mr. Thorwald to lunch but as they are leaving the offices they hear a gun shot & see a man plummeting down an elevator shaft. The man killed was one of her fellow residents at the Chelsea Hotel Otis Carmody who was a journalist with no end of enemies
- personal & professional
- who would delight in his death. Again in the midst of a murder investigation Daisy's search for the killer takes her to all levels of society & even a mad dash across the country itself as she attempts to solve a puzzle that would baffle even Philo Vance himself. Critical Praise for The Daisy Dalrymple novels" by Carola Dunn: ' Replete with well-drawn characters snappy dialogue & interesting plot twists... Easily the best entry in a charming series'
- " Booklist" on " Mistletoe & Murder." ' The period sense remains vivid the characterizations are excellent & the mysteries are if anything more perplexing than ever'
- " The Oregonian" on " Rattle His Bones." ' Daisy & her husband spring into action surrounded by historical armaments secret rooms hidden treasure & family secrets. For fans of British cozies & Dorothy Sayer's novels this is a very inviting situation'
- " Library Journal" on " Mistletoe & Murder." ' Styx & Stones is a swift deeply enjoyable read. While Dunn's influences are many she ultimately makes this territory her own'
- " The Register-Guard." ' Reading like an Agatha Christie thriller " Rattle His Bones" is a charming look at life after the first World War'
- " Romantic Times." ' Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations & a vivid sense of place & with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure'
- " Publisher's Weekly" on " The Case of the Murdered Muckraker.""








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