Unholy Alliance: The Agenda Iran, Russia, and Jihadists Share for Conquering the World by Jay Sekulow
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Category: General Non Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of ISIS exposes the dangers of radical Islam and the effects it has on the American way of life in this informative and eye-opening new book. In Unholy Alliance, Jay Sekulow highlights and defines the looming threat of radical Islam. A movement born in Iran ...Show more
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
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Category: General Non Fiction
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller
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Category: General Non Fiction
The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But f ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
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Category: General Non Fiction
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
Dr Karl's Short Back & Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: General Non Fiction
Lean back and settle in for cutting-edge scientific snippets from the trend-setting Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. In Short Back Science, Dr Karl combs through some of the greatest scientific conundrums of our age, such as what is killing half the bacteria on Earth every two days and why don't mole rats get canc ...Show more
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
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Category: General Non Fiction
A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from ...Show more
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
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Category: General Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair by Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Category: General Non Fiction
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency.Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters wri ...Show more
Defeating the Ministers of Death (The compelling story of vaccination) by David Isaacs
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Category: General Non Fiction
The compelling history of vaccination. We may fear terrorist attacks but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1950 there were an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox worldwide, which killed 10 million people. At the end of WWI, Spanish flu proved deadlier than the war t ...Show more
The Hunt for MH370 by Ean Higgins
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Category: General Non Fiction
Somewhere out in the wild seas of the southern Indian Ocean, in the underwater canyons of Broken Ridge near the alien sub-terrain known as the Seventh Arc lies the answer to the world's greatest aviation mystery.Why, on the night of 8 March 2014, did Malaysia Flight MH370 suddenly U-turn on the trip fro ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
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Category: General Non Fiction
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: General Non Fiction
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more