Seek & ye shall find. With these words echoing in his head eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him & a young doctor Sienna Brooks into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdons knowledge of hidden passageways & ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers. With only a few lines from Dantes dark & epic masterpiece The Inferno to guide them they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance
- sculptures paintings buildings
- to find the answers to a puzzle which may or may not help them save the world from a terrifying threat. Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of historys most ominous literary classics Inferno is Dan Browns most compelling & thought-provoking novel yet a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one & not let you go until you close the book.

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This highly effective programme for women struggling to become pregnant draws on the proven centuries-old techniques of traditional Chinese medicine to cure infertility. Dr Lewis explains in clear accessible prose how any woman can identify the imbalances in her body
- & how these imbalances can then be treated with a simple plan that entails lifestyle changes diet herbs & acupressure. On its own or in conjunction with traditional Western medical treatments THE INFERTILITY CURE offers women hope
- & what they desire most: a healthy baby. Lewis simplifies many complex concepts such as the theory that there are four vital substances in the body (Yin Yang Qi & Blood) & that theyre likely to be suffering from imbalance caused by energy excess deficiency or stagnation
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired & controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller her life story INFIDEL shows the coming of age of this elegant distinguished -- & sometimes reviled -- political superstar & champion of free speech. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright curious dutiful little girl evolves into a pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures no other book could be more timely or more significant. ...

This historical study of the infinite covers all its aspects from the mathematical to the mystical. Anyone who has ever pondered the limitlessness of space & time or the endlessness of numbers or the perfection of God will recognise the special fascination of the subject. Beginning with an entertaining account of the main paradoxes of the infinite including those of Zeno A.W. Moore traces the history of the topic from Aristotle to Kant Hegel Cantor & Wittgenstein. Recent technical work is examined in the light of Cantors remarkable discovery that infinity comes in degrees: some infinite sets are much bigger than others. Moore also gives a crisp sketch of Godels celebrated proof his clear presentation enabling the non-mathematical reader to grasp deep mathematical issues. Drawing on these technical results & on the early work of Wittgenstein Moore outlines his own original account of the infinite. He argues that there are fundamental links between the infinite & the ineffable. In a final chapter on human finitude these & other links are traced out & the book concludes with a moving discussion of death & the poignancy of human finitude. ...

In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe past present & future showing how the very latest observations & theories are unlocking clues about its origin & structure: X-ray radio & high-energy views of space are revealing fossil radiation left over from the big bang & providing us with unprecedented views of the most distant reaches of the universe. Theories from the frontiers of current research seek to explain its structure from the first moments to the present day & we are beginning to understand its extraordinary nature & possible fate. This is a story involving the visible & the invisible; subatomic particles & unusual forces; long ages of darkness & spectacular & violent events. It tells of supernovae dark matter dark energy curved spacetime colliding galaxies & supermassive black holes. Weaving the ideas of poets & writers as well as scientists into the story from Kant & Keats to Einstein & Lemaitre Silk explains our present state of knowledge & how much more there is to understand about our infinite cosmos. ...

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts & students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced & expire in a state of catatonic bliss.. .' Wallace's exuberance & intellectual impishness are a delight & he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure.. .sentences & whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration.. . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood GUARDIAN ...

A truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girls life as her mum leaves home travellers set up camp in the familys field her older brother goes off the rails & she falls in love for the very first time. Opening with a funeral Iris is mourning the boy in the casket
- but who is it? Sam her tearaway brother or Trick her tentative boyfriend? Over one long hot summer we find out just how their three lives were turned upside-down.
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This book is the outcome of lectures given by Brian Thorne in Salisbury Cathedral & St Julians church in Norwich. It gives powerful insights into the passionate commitment of a bridge-builder between the worlds of counselling & psychotherapy & mystical theology. Readers will have glimpses of the author in the roles of army officer schoolmaster counsellor writer university professor & life-long member of the Anglican church. They will also learn much about American psychologist & psychotherapist Carl Rogers the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich & the remarkable British therapist & educator George Lyward. Lovers of Cyprus will be transported to the Mediterranean island whose history symbolises the yearnings the hope & the despair of a struggling humanity. This is a book which feeds the mind nourishes the soul & provokes a response. ...

Teenager Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything. Streetwise tough & savvy his quick sarcasm is renowned. But his whole world is suddenly turned upside down on the night his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters
- immortal vampire-slayers who risk everything to save humanity
- & he quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger & more dangerous one that's filled with all kinds of evil. However before he can even learn the rules of this new world his fellow students start turning into flesh-eating members of the undead. Nick knows he's in real danger & he soon has a lot more to deal with than starting high school: he's under pressure to hide his new friends from his mother & his chainsaw from the principal while trying to impress the girl he has a crush on
- all without getting grounded suspended...or killed. *** Also available as a manga adaptation***


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In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints rosters of soldiers catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants & hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch & cabinets of curiosities until we get to Andy Warhol & Damien Hirst in the 20th century. This illustrated essay is accompanied by a literary anthology & a wide selection of works of art illustrating the texts presented. ...