Unapologetic is a brief witty personal sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief taking on Dawkins' The God Delusion & Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great. But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true
- because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable drawing on the deep & deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore. It's a book for believers who are fed up with being patronised for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century & for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong literalistic anti-imaginative & intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made. Fresh provoking & unhampered by niceness this is the long-awaited riposte to the smug emissaries of New Atheism.
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An expert account of potentially lifesaving combat information Over 300 easy-to-follow artworks & pullout lists With the aid of superb ...

Alan Sugar is a business legend. When it comes to business Sugar is both feared & fearless. Shrewd businessman inspirational figure & sweet-talking star of The Apprentice this man knows how to strike a deal. The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Alan Sugar Way draws out the universal lessons from Alan Sugars remarkable success & identifies 10 strategies that can be applied to any business or career:* Dont push or shove* Start a revolution* Know your customer* Stay true to your values* Learn from your mistakes* Drive a hard bargain* Invest in the right people* Lead from the front* Win as a team* Hire in haste repent at leisure Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Richard Branson; Duncan Bannatyne; Jamie Oliver; Bill Gates; & Philip Green. ...

Richard Branson the international powerhouse entrepreneur is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Branson is the ultimate brand builder & never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods & services. So how does he do it? The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Richard Branson Way draws out the universal lessons from Richard Bransons remarkable success & identifies 10 strategies that can be applied to any business or career: 1. Pick on someone bigger than you 2. Do the hippy hippy shake 3. Haggle: everythings negotiable 4. Make work fun 5. Do right by your brand 6. Smile for the cameras 7. Dont lead sheep herd cats 8. Move faster than a speeding bullet 9. Size does matter 10. Never lose the common touch Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Jamie Oliver; Duncan Bannatyne; Alan Sugar; Bill Gates; & Philip Green. ...

I didnt decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics I didnt want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. & weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose Portia de Rossi reveals the pain & illness that haunted her for decades. She alternately starved herself & binged putting her life in danger & lying to herself & everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point Portia began the painful climb back to health & happiness ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen De Generes. In this remarkable & landmark book she tells a story that inspires hope & nourishes the spirit." ...

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her & his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses & her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera's first since The Book of Laughter & Forgetting." In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices & by fortuitous events a world in which everything occurs but once existence seems to lose its substance its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions but also in the public sphere & the two inevitably intertwine." ...

There is nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walks into private detective Louie Knight's office. Apart from the fact that he has lost his memory. & his monkey is a former astronaut. & he is carrying a suitcase that he is too terrified to open. & he wants a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about the murder is that it took place a hundred years ago. & needs solving by the following week. Louie is too smart to take on such a case but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue & terror tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns gangsters & waifs & haunted by the loss of his girlfriend Myfanwy who has disappeared after being fed drugged raspberry ripple ...

To the casual observer the great enlightened city of Edinburgh home of no-nonsense philosophers & cream teas might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street as Matthew & Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. & soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle & confronts rejection; & Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts.. . ...

For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie is like living a fairytale. Often she has simply wished that she had never been born for Kim has overcome horrific emotional & physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother & her philandering sexually abusive father. In her brave & revealing story Kims memories of growing up are not of love & cuddles but of beatings & random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents a succession of miserable childrens homes & a grim convent
- Kims past has cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her sixteenth birthday she finally made her escape. It has taken decades of hard work & a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she has emerged unbowed & unbeaten as Britains Queen of Clean.
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Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger. She wakes from a coma in hospital with no memory of how she got there or of the bizarre accident that caused the deaths of her best friends & her boyfriend yet left her mysteriously unharmed. The doctors suggest that starting over in a new city a new school would be good for her & just to let the memories gradually come back on their own. But Mara's new start is anything but comforting. She sees the faces of her dead friends everywhere & when she suddenly begins to see other people's deaths right before they happen Mara wonders whether she's going crazy! & if dealing with all this wasn't enough Noah Shaw the most beautiful boy she has ever seen can't seem to leave her alone...but as her life unravels around her Mara can't help but wonder if Noah has another agenda altogether... ...