Archbishop Desmond Tutu is no stranger to controversy. From racism & social injustice to the threat of AIDS the continuing crisis in the Middle East & the importance today of 'ubuntu' (the concept of shared humanity) the Archbishop expresses his views powerfully & honestly showing how faith & politics are inextricably linked. A forceful opponent of apartheid & later a compelling leader of the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 & has remained a leading campaigner for human rights ever since. In 2009 he was awarded the highest civilian award in the United States the Presidential Medal by Barack Obama. This collection brings together some of the Archbishop's key speeches sermons lectures & exchanges from the past three decades charting the trajectory of his extraordinary career & showing why he remains one of the world's best-loved & most outspoken religious figures. Edited by John Allen a journalist & former aide of the Archbishop God is Not a Christian" reveals Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his own words." ...

God Is Not Great" is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made dangerously sexually repressive & distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity & proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'." ...

' They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved & how. & how much.' This is the story of Rahel & Estha twins growing up among the banana vats & peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory & amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely lovely mother their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron radical Marxist bottom-pincher) & their sworn enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun incumbent gr&-aunt). Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit & magic. ...

It began as a problem in one of Holmes beloved beehives led to a murderous cult & ended
- or so theyd hoped
- with a daring

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The first official tie-in novel to the hugely successful God of War series of action-adventure video games. This is an epic adventure set in the world of Greek mythology. This novel takes the mega-successful God of War franchise to a new level! Kratos is the new god of war but the other gods refuse to welcome him as one of their own. Zeus kills him but he is saved by the goddess of the earth Gaia. She sends him back to Mount Olympos
- where once again he will challenge the might of the gods... Written by Matt Stover the hugely popular bestselling writer of many Star Wars adventures gaming fans should not miss this br&-new God of War story!
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Eleven stories that add further colour & shape to the epic story of the Twilight Reign series
- this is an essential volume for
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Eleven stories that add further colour & shape to the epic story of the Twilight Reign series
- this is an essential volume for
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For millennia the spiritual science known as Kabbalah has not only been skewed towards men & their issues but women have literally been forbidden to study it
- & in many cases still are. Now Karen Berg co-director of The Kabbalah Centre the largest international organisation devoted to teaching & promoting Kabbalah wisdom breaks this barrier. This book contains the tools for women to dramatically increase their sense of fulfilment passion communication & understanding of life. The author covers such subjects as what it means to be a woman the meaning of life & love transforming potential attracting the perfect mate & how to create a better sex life. The book is structured around Kabbalistic 'tools'
- the Sharing Tool the Conflict Tool the Effort Tool
- which makes its ancient lessons intelligible & inspiring to modern readers.


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From the front page of The New York Times" to You Tube Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time she tells her story & what she learned first-hand about radical Islam in "A God Who Hates" a passionate memoir by an outspoken Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. ' How can such a culture be anything but barbarous?' Sultan asks. ' It can't' she concludes 'because any culture that hates its women can't love anything else'. She believes that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity & barbarism not a battle between religions. She also knows that it's a battle radical Islam will lose. Condemned by some & praised by others for speaking out Sultan wants everyone to understand the danger posed by "A God Who Hates"." ...

Pugin was one of Britains greatest architects & his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812 the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked bankrupted & widowed. Nineteen years later he died insane & disillusioned having changed the face & the mind of British architecture. Gods Architect" is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters & drawings to recreate his life & work as architect propagandist & romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages the bitterness of his last years & his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian & biographer." ...