This book is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 & the winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012. My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead & every day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down." In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares the characters face a battle between public persona & inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices each struggling to tell their own kind of truth a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry vulnerable all-too human it captures the language & spirit of rural Ireland & with uncanny perception articulates the words & thoughts of a generation. Technically daring & evocative of Patrick Mc Cabe & J.M. Synge this novel of small-town life is witty dark & sweetly poignant. Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in literary fiction." ...

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment & the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method religious sentiment & secular science he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral & intellectual demands of his epoch & to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity & eternally free. In this book Roger Scruton presents a clear & systematic analysis of Spinozas thought & shows its relevance to todays intellectual preoccupations. ...

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmasters office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech he is forced as punishment to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe his idol was a great admirer of the Jewish seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Long after graduation Rosenberg remains haunted by this Spinoza problem" how could the German genius Goethe have been inspired by a member of a race Rosenberg considers so inferior to his own a race he was determined to destroyspinoza himself was no stranger to punishment during his lifetime. Because of his unorthodox religious views he was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656 at the age of twenty-four & banished from the only world he had ever known. Though his life was short & he lived without means in great isolation he nonetheless produced works that changed the course of history. Over the years Rosenberg rose through the ranks to become an outspoken Nazi ideologue a faithful servant of Hitler & the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich. Still his Spinoza obsession lingered. By imagining the unexpected intersection of Spinozas life with Rosenbergs internationally bestselling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist he explores the inner lives of Spinoza the saintly secular philosopher & of Rosenberg the godless mass murderer." ...

If you thought the Limiters were nasty think again. Theyve brought their females with them this time. & all that stands in their way are Will & his friends & a rag-bag team of retired commandos. Its a smoking spiral of chaos & not everyone is going to survive. ...

The Spiral Draw Book" comes with cool translucent drawing wheels that make it easy to create zillions of dizzying designs right the pages of the book. The book itself is packed with tons of on-the-page drawing ideas plus inspired instructions for swirly projects like spiral scrach art spiral stationery spiral soak art & more
- the range of activities will make your head spin."
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Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless the spire rises octagon upon octagon pinnacle by pinnacle until the stone pillars shriek & the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below & on Dean Jocelin in particular. ...

Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. & she made the wrong one... After a long & heartbreaking journey to Dimitris birthplace in Siberia Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimirs Academy
- & to her best friend Lissa. But Roses heart still aches for Dimitri & she knows hes out there somewhere. She failed to kill him when she had the chance. & now her worst fears are about to come true- Dimitri has tasted her blood & now he is hunting her. Only this time he wont rest until Rose joins him...forever.
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Lethal undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kills a man
- & twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. Thats
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In this hip self-transformational book Bernstein shows how to make happiness a way of life & shares the life-changing lessons that she has lived & learned in the hope that other young women will be guided to do the same. Spirit Junkie" shows readers how to tap into their own spirit in their search for happiness. This is not a book on how to get happiness; rather its a guide to releasing the blocks to the happiness that already lives inside. Marianne Williamson has passed the baton to Gabrielle by telling her own followers " Check out the woman they call the young Marianne Williamson." Gabrielle Bernstein is the founder of the Womens Entrepreneurial Network & Herfuture.com a modern-day life guru & the author of " Add More ~ing to Your Life"." ...

Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone" is the most influential & talked-about book on society in the last decade
- now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book based on years of research provides hard evidence to show: How almost everything
- from life expectancy to mental illness violence to illiteracy
- is affected not by how wealthy a society is but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich & poor are bad for everyone in them
- including the well-off; how we can find positive solutions & move towards a happier fairer future. Urgent provocative & genuinely uplifting " The Spirit Level" has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves & our communities & could change the way you see the world. "A big idea big enough to change political thinking". (" Guardian"). "A remarkable new book.. .the implications are profound". (Will Hutton " Observer"). " The evidence is hard to dispute". (" Economist"). Richard Wilkinson studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology & is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School & Honorary Professor at University College London. Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York & a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. Her work with Richard Wilkinson on " The Spirit Level" was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the " Times Higher Education Supplement" & their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the " New Statesman"."



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