Meet Antimony Carver who is a precocious & preternaturally self-possessed young girl studying at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court
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Since the twin towers crashed to the ground on 9/11 there has been no end to claims that religion 'is dangerous' 'kills' or 'poisons everything'. & if religion is the problem with the world say the New Atheists the answer is simple: get rid of it. But are things really so straightforward? Tackling Hawking Dawkins Dennett Hitchens & a newcomer in the field
- the French philosopher Michel Onfray
- John Lennox points out some of the fallacies in the New Atheist approach arguing that their irrational & unscientific methodology leaves them guilty of the very obstinate foolishness they criticise in dogmatic religious folks. Erudite & wide-ranging Gunning for God packs some debilitating punches. However it also puts forward new ideas about the nature of God & Christianity that will give Dawkins' best friends & worst enemies alike some stimulating food for thought.

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With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story Antonia Fraser brings the characters & events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions & motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605 she unravels the tangled web of religion & politics that spawned the plot. Told with impressive scholarship & panache... The result is a narrative that is clear balanced & builds to its denouement with a sense of pace & tension worthy of a John le Carre novel John Adamson Sunday Telegraph ...

Fatal Fireworks on Guy Fawkes Night... Daisy Darlymple is delighted to accept an invitation from her old school friend. Gwen Tyndall lives at Edge Manor in the Cotswolds & Daisy's visit will coincide with their annual fireworks display on 5th November. But this year amid the festivities Gwen's father & another man are found dead. It would appear that Sir Harold turned the gun on himself after shooting his guest. But could this apparent suicide be murder? After all Sir Harold was notoriously bad tempered & there was no love lost between him & his children. & when Daisy & her husband uncover an explosive family secret it soon becomes clear that a trigger-happy killer will go to any length to keep it hidden... Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple series: Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece". (" Publishers Weekly"). " As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries". (" Booklist"). " For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels". (" Library Journal")." ...

This book answers the most obvious the most important yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography & biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans sub-Saharan Africans & aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology & linguistics Guns Germs & Steel is one of the most important & humane works of popular science. ...

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone vigilant savage & catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans & Italians an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory skllled saboteur trained mountaineer fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast impossible precipice of Navarone & to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war... ...

The Guns of Navarone & its three sequels in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book. THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Mallory Miller & Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the impregnable guns set in the tall cliffs of Navarone. On their success or failure rests one of the most critical offensives of the Second World War. FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans & fulfil a secret mission so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies. ...

Last seen in the award-winning Diamond Dove Emily Tempest has a new job: an Aboriginal Community Police Officer. A cop. Not quite what she had in mind when she returned to Central Australia. If anything her instincts & background would propel her in the opposite direction. But for an Aboriginal woman in a pissant mining & meatworks town the career options are limited. & theres a car attached. Her new boss the dour Superintendent Cockburn sees her role as making tea & rounding up the truants. But when one old friend is murdered out on the Gunshot Road & another one gets the blame Emily leaps into the investigation feet first mouth never far behind. Behind its veil of lyricism & quickfire wit Gunshot Road transports the reader into a world few have ever seen up close: the Australian outback where cultures collide & where temperatures
- & the odd bullet
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A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha's daughter tries to comprehend her father's complaints; two young Nepali-speaking immigrants meet in Manhattan. These are just some of the stories describing & dramatizing the experiences of the Nepalese people & the Nepalese diaspora
- the people whose culture & language is Nepalese but who are dispersed to India Bhutan & beyond. From every perspective & on every page Prajwal Parajuly blends rich colour & vernacular to paint an eye-opening picture of a unique world & its people.
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In June 2006 the Neue Galerie in New York purchased Gustav Klimts 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $135 million. This deposed Picassos Boy With a Pipe (sold May 2004 for $104 million) as the highest reported price ever paid for a piece of art sold at a public auction. However Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a controversial figure in his time. Far from being acknowledged as the representative artist of his age he was the target of violent criticism
- his work sometimes being displayed behind a screen to avoid corrupting the sensibilities of the young. Today Klimts works are recognized as masterpieces & stand out as some of the most significant paintings ever to come out of Vienna. The Byzantine luxuriance of form the vivid juxtaposition of colours & the rich symbolism sensuality & eroticism of his work have made Klimt one of the most popular artists in the world. Arranged thematically the 130 reproductions of Klimts most important work are accompanied by Rachel Barnes expert & insightful commentary on all aspects of the artists life influences & paintings
- from the inspiration & provenance of each painting to the technique used to create it & a list of exhibitions. Featuring some of the most iconic important (and valuable) artworks of the late 19th/early 20th centuries such as the Judith I Portrait of Adele-Bloch-Bauer I & II & The Kiss this is a book that Klimt enthusiasts & art lovers will cherish.

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