The National Health Service described by Nigel Lawson as Britains only national religion has never been more popular. So why is the government so desperate to reform it? Last year the Office of National Statistics reported higher public satisfaction with the NHS than at any time since its foundation. In a 2012 survey of developed countries the UK showed the highest public support of its health system. Politicians can hardly be surprised then when their plans to reforms are met with public dismay & professional fury. This year has seen one of the most bruising political battles ever fought over the future of the NHS. The twenty-two month fight to push the NHS & Social Care Act through parliament prompted the most widespread political campaign by doctors since Aneurin Bevan established the NHS in 1948. It cost the coalition government dearly & shredded the reputation of the Secretary of State for Health. So why did they do it? God Bless the NHS looks at the ideology behind the current reforms & the reasons why the government decided to take on the nations most treasured institution. Roger Taylor looks equivocally at those who support & oppose the new system & at the patchy history of attempts to reform the NHS & the likelihood of the success this time round. Finally it addresses the political failure at the heart of the problem & the inevitable conflict when politics & medicine mix. ...

God Bless You Mr Rosewater is a novel about people
- their pleasures pains & perversions
- & money. It is a penetrating satire

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If youre suffering from pain & worry you know how hard it is to write of peace & serenity within. The message of comfort & hope that breathes through the pages of this book was forged out of adversity & as a result has touched the hearts of millions. ...

Written over half a century ago by two ladies the Two Listeners" who wished to remain anonymous this has had proved one of the best selling devotional books of all time. With its companion volume sales are well over 10 million copies worldwide. Those who have suffered pain & worry know how hard it is to write of serenity within. The message of comfort & hope that breathes through the pages of " God Calling" was forged out of adversity & as a result has touched the hearts of millions." ...

In this book what we once believed of our past is about to change. Through a remarkable discovery linking Biblical alphabets to our genetic code the language of life may now be read as the ancient letters of a timeless message. During his extensive 12-year study of the most sacred & honoured traditions of humankind he has discovered tangible & unprecedented evidence that we are all part of a greater existence. ...

The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized the rise of religious fundamentalism whether in the Middle East or Middle America is dramatically & dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America & elsewhere a vigorous dispute between 'intelligent design' & Darwinism is seriously undermining & restricting the teaching of science. In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's & gay rights. & all from a belief in a God whose existence lacks evidence of any kind. Dawkins attacks God in all his forms. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion & demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war foments bigotry & abuses children. " The God Delusion" is a brilliantly argued fascinating polemic that will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional & important subject." ...

Tea...a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis & imbibed by all the great civilisations in the galaxy's history; a source of refreshment stimulation & above all else of moral fibre
- without which the British Space Empire must surely crumble to leave Earth at the mercy of its enemies. Sixty per cent of the Empire's tea is grown on one world
- Urn principal planet of the Didcot system. If Earth is to keep fighting the tea must flow. When a crazed cult leader overthrows the government of Urn Isambard Smith & his vaguely competent crew find themselves saddled with new allies: a legion of tea-obsessed nomads an overly-civilised alien horde & a commando unit so elite that it only has five members. Only together can they defeat the self-proclaimed God Emperor of Didcot & confront the true power behind the coup: the sinister legions of the Ghast Empire & Smith's old enemy Commander 462.

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More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides son of the prophet Paul Muad Dib & now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future & he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall.. . ...

This is a punchy humorous & probing look at the nature of religious belief by the author of the massively successful Whatever You Think Think the Opposite". In a series of brilliant visual episodes Paul Arden investigates the questions that have persisted since our earliest days. As ever he is a master of compression getting us to scratch our heads as he examines our relationship to the divine." ...

The new science of religion
- there is no bigger subject In this book were going to address head-on some of lifes biggest questions:
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