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FEB 2014

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9780007555123THE LOST CHILDREN(Soft Cover)MARY MACCRACKENHARPER UKS$18.00 BIO

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9780854501790FILM FREAK(Soft Cover)CHRISTOPHER FOWLERTRANSWORLDS$20.00 BIO

It's the late 1970s and 20-

something. Christopher Fowler is

a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit

cinemas. He longs to be a

famous screenwriter and put his

dreams on the big screen. And so

he heads for Wardour Street, Britain's equivalent of Hollywood.

But he's made a spectacular

mistake, arriving just as the

nation's filmmakers are falling to

their knees, brought low by the arrival of video and the

destruction of the old movie

palaces.

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9780062293435WE ARE INDIE TOYS(Soft Cover)LOUIS BOUHARPER USS$44.00 ART

The indie world is producing

extraordinary toy characters but

little is known about the designers creating them or the processes

used to make them. We Are Indie

Toys! profiles the most interesting

toymakers and reveals how they

turn their unique ideas into one-of-a-kind collectibles.

BIOGRAPHY

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9780062270153THE AWESOME GUIDE TO LIFE(Soft Cover)JASON ELLISHARPER USS$41.00 BIO

From the New York Times

bestselling author, pro skater,

satellite radio star and host of The Jason Ellis Show comes

The Awesome Guide to Life,

a hilarious follow-up full of no-

holds-barred advice to help

you get the most out of life.

This timeless classic is an exciting

true story of survival against all

odds. 'There was a sudden sickening sense of disaster. I felt a

great lurch and heel, and a

thunder of sound filled my ears. I

was conscious, in a terrified

moment, of being driven into the front and side of my bunk with

tremendous force.

9780007535101ONCE IS ENOUGH(Soft Cover)MILES SMEETONHARPER UKS$20.00 BIO

Meet Union J - the X

Factor's newest boy band

sensation. This is the full account of George, JJ, Josh

and Jaymi's story so far.

From childhood stories and

dreams of stardom to the

week by week rollercoasterjourney to the X Factor

semi-finals and their first

tastes of fame, a full

account of what it was like

getting signed to recording their first single and going

on tour for the first time.

97800075529506UNION J:THE INAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY(Soft Cover)REBECCA GREYHARPER UKS$18.00 BIO

9780062228963ADIOS MOTHERFUCKER(Soft Cover)MICHAEL RUFFINOHARPER USS$33.00 BIO

A blend of This Is Spinal Tap

and Fear and Loathing in Las

Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched

rock 'n' roller and his

adventures in excess on the

'80s hair-metal nostalgia tour

through Middle America—available again, and now

revised and updated.

9780062267559CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER(Soft Cover)JOHNNY WALKERS$35.00 BIO

In this illuminating and informative

memoir, an Iraqi translator who

risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle

and the Navy SEALs tells his

remarkable and inspiring story,

offering a refreshing new

perspective on the Iraq War.

9780007520640CYCLE OF LIES: THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY OF THE FALLLANCE ARMSTRONG(Soft Cover) JULIET MACURHARPER UKS$26.00 BIO



9780062038197OUTLAW(Soft Cover)MICAHEL STREISSGUTHHARPER USS$23.00 BIO

Outlaw by acclaimed author

Michael Streissguth follows

the stories of three legends as

they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie

Nelson, and Kris

Kristofferson.Streissguth

delves into the country music

scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels

found themselves in Music

City writing songs and vying

for record deals.

9780061967597COOLIDGE(Soft Cover)AMITY SHLAESHARPER USS$26.00 BIO

Amity Shlaes, author of The

Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant

and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin

Coolidge, and the decade of

unparalleled growth that the nation

enjoyed under his leadership. In

this riveting biography, Shlaestraces Coolidge’s improbable rise

from a tiny town in New England to

a youth so unpopular he was shut

out of college fraternities at

Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics.

A fly-on-the-wall account of the

greatest drama in modern

sporting history by the New York Times cycling

correspondent. As Lance

Armstrong's precipitous fall

from grace continues, New

York Times sports reporter Juliet Macur takes the reader

behind the scenes to bring to

life the astonishing twists and

turns of the scandal that has

rocked the world of cycling.

9780062203991RADICAL(Soft Cover)MICHELLE RHEEHARPER USS$24.00 BIO

In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a

fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform,

draws on her own life story

and delivers her plan for better

American schools.Rhee's goal

is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making

students--not adults--our top

priority, and she outlines

concrete steps that will put us

on a dramatically different course.

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9780062311962COOLIDGE (Soft Cover)AMITY SHLAESHARPER USS$

This brilliant and provocative

reexamination of America's 30th president reveals a man who

restored national trust in

government, lived by example,

suffered great tragedy, emphasized

the importance of presidential humility and inspired optimism.

Read by Terence Aselford.

Reissue.

9780062048998A GARDEN OF MARVELS(Hard Cover)RUTH KASSINGERHARPER USS$33.00 BIO

In the tradition of The Botany of

Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and

engaging history of the first botanists

interwoven with stories of today’s extraordinary plants found in the

garden and the lab.

In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth

Kassinger recounted with grace and

humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned

from building a home conservatory in

the wake of a devastating personal

crisis.

9780062190840I DREAMED I WAS A VERY CLEAN TRAMP(Soft Cover)HARPER USS$22.00 BIO

The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-

barred autobiography of the

iconoclastic writer and musician

Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and

misadventures of an artist in an

indelible era of rock and roll...

From an early age, Richard Hell

dreamed of running away. His father died when he was seven,

and at seventeen he left his

mother and sister behind and

headed for New York City, place

of limitless possibilities.

9780062316950SCOTT FITZGERALD(Soft Cover)JEFFREY MEYERSHARPER USS$25.00 BIO

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic

and tragic figure who exquisitely personified the decades between

the two world wars, was a gifted,

acclaimed author who

nonetheless "could neither change his domestic life nor stop

writing about it." Jeffrey Meyers

offers a frank, ambitious foray

into Fitzgerald's private affairs,

discussing his family (particularly his troubled, schizophrenic wife

Zelda), extramarital liaisons, and

alcoholism in Scott Fitzgerald: A

Biography.



9780007543021UNDER ONE ROOF:HOW A TOUGH OLD WOMAN IN A LITTLE OLD HOUSE CHANGED MY LIFE (Soft Cover)PHILIP MARTIN AND PHILIP LERMANHARPER UKS$24.00 BIO

The heart-warming true story of

the bond between a feisty

octogenarian and the man in charge of building a shopping

mall on top of her home - which

inspired the opening scene of the

Pixar movie Up! .

A renowned business expert

examines decision-making in critical,

big-time situations where the

outcome shapes the destiny of companies, countries, sports teams,

political campaigns, or the military

"Left Brain, Right Stuff" is the book

about decision making that takes off

where others--"Thinking, Fast and Slow," "Predictably Irrational," and

"Decisive"--leave off. It captures the

essence of real-world decisions,

where success only comes to those

with the wisdom to push boundaries.

9781610393072LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT STUFF(Soft Cover)PHIL ROSENZWEIGPESREUS GROUP WESTS$47.00 BUS

BUSINESS

9780465018444MINDLESS(Soft Cover)SIMON HEADPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$44.00 BUS

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems

(CBSs)—the highly complex,

computer-intensive

management programs on which large organizations

increasingly rely. In Mindless,

Simon Head argues that these

systems have come to trump

human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide

array of businesses, and de-

skilling the jobs of middle class

workers in the process.

CHILDCARE

9781612431208HOW TO RAISE A BILLIONAIRE GENIUS(Soft Cover)SEAN CAMPBELLPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$27.00 CHD

From attachment-parenting

hugs to Tiger Mom discipline,

the so-called experts offer plenty of contradictory advice

on how to raise the perfect

child. So don’t bother with

their boring theories and

instead follow the hilarious, if not so expert, suggestions in

this book and surely (well,

maybe) your precious

offspring will turn out to be

exactly what you want.•

9780738216812HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH(Soft Cover)JEAN ILLSELY CLARKEPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$30.00 CHD

Today, overindulgence is

rampant--and on the rise. Media

attention to overindulgence is also

increasing as we become more aware of the impact it has on

relationships, employment, and

society in general. No matter the

circumstances, all parents want to give their kids the best of

everything. Despite good

intentions, the abundance heaped

on our kids is often more than

they need or can handle. In this tenth anniversary edition

(previously published as

9780007507009BILL’S EVERYDAY ITALIAN(Soft Cover)BILL GRANGERHARPER UKS$40.00 CKY

Bestselling TV cook Bill Granger

brings his trademark fresh flavours

and easy-going recipes to the well-

loved food of Italy. The

cornerstone of Bill's cooking is also the cornerstone of the best of

Italian cuisine: simple,

flavoursome dishes with short

ingredient lists and uncomplicated methods, centred on ingredients

that are easy to find and needn't

be expensive. And better yet,

those ingredients don't have to just

be tomato, mozzarella and basil, the usual suspects of Italian

cooking, but neither do they need

to be deli-sourced truffles or

champagne-priced olive oil.

COOKERY

9781612431246SLOW COOKER DESSERTS (Soft Cover)JONNIE BROWNINGPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$27.00 CK

A full-color collection of slow-

cooker recipes serves up a host

of warm desserts—including

Chocolate Lava Cake, French Vanilla Custard, Tropical

Pineapple Crisp, Apple Brown

Betty, cheesecake, simmered

pears and more—as well as

ideas for jams, marmalades and compotes. Original.

ECONOMY

9780465064731THE UPSIDE DOWN(Soft Cover)CHARLES KENNYPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$44.00 ECO

America is in decline, and the

rise of the East suggests a

bleak future for the world’s only superpower – so goes the

conventional wisdom. But what

if the traditional measures of

national status are no longer as

important as they once were? What if America’s well-being

was assessed according to

entirely different factors?



9781780576626PRISON TIME(Soft Cover)SHAUN ATWOODTRANSWORLDS$22.00 HIS

Prison Time, the sequel to Hard Time,

is the story of Shaun Attwood's journey

through the Arizona Department of

Corrections and his deportation to England. Sentenced to nine years in

Arizona's state prison for distributing

Ecstasy, 'English Shaun' Attwood finds

himself living among gang members,

sexual predators and drug-crazed psychopaths. After being attacked by a

20-stone California biker in for stabbing

a girlfriend, Shaun writes about the

prisoners who befriend, protect and

inspire him.

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9780552777896CRUEL CROSSING(Soft Cover)EDWARD STOUTONTRANSWORLDS$22.00 HIS

The mountain paths are as

treacherous as they are steep

- the more so in the dark and

in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable

challenge. Hundreds of those

who climbed through the

Pyrenees during the Second

World War were malnourished and exhausted

after weeks on the run hiding

in barns and attics.

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9780007457977EMPIRE OF SECRETS(Soft Cover)CALDER WALTONHARPER UKS$22.00 HIS

The gripping and largely untold

story of the role of the intelligence

services in Britain's retreat from empire. Against the background

of the Cold War, and the looming

spectre of Soviet-sponsored

subversion in Britain's dwindling

colonial possessions, the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a

crucial but top secret role in

passing power to newly

independent national states

across the globe.

9780593072943HAATCHI AND LITTLE B (Soft Cover)WENDY HOLDENTRANSWORLDS$29.00 HIS

On a bitterly cold night in January

2012, Haatchi the dog was hit over the head, and abandoned on a

railway line to be hit by a train. The

driver saw the adorable five-month

old Anatolian Shepherd moments

too late. Somehow, the terrified puppy survived the blood loss from

his partially severed leg and tail

and managed to crawl away to

safety. Fortunately, Haatchi was

rescued, although vets couldn't save his leg and tail.

HISTORY

9780062307552DARK INVASION(Soft Cover)HOWARD BLUMHARPER USS$33.00 HIS

Combining the pulsating drive

of Showtime's Homeland with

the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction

bestsellers as Double Cross

and In the Garden of Beasts,

Dark Invasion is Howard

Blum’s gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German

espionage and terror on

American soil during World

War I, and the NYPD

Inspector who helped uncover the plot—the basis for the film

to be produced by and starring

Bradley Cooper.

Drawing on the author's deep

understanding of military life and

the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a

myth-puncturing analysis of the

advent of the Second World War.

'Blood, Tears and Folly' offers a

sweeping and compelling historical analysis of six theatres of war: the

Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler's

conquest of western Europe, the

war in the Mediterranean, the

battle for the skies, Operation Barbarossa and the German

assault on Russia, and the entry of

Japan into a truly global war.

9780007531172BLOOD TEARS AND FOLLY: AN OBJECTIVE LOOK ATWORLD WAR II(Soft Cover)LAN DEIGHTONHARPER UKS$26.00 HIS

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9780062262011LORDS OF THE SKY(Soft Cover)DAN HAMPTONHARPER USS$35.00 HIS

The New York Times bestselling author

of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16

legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of

combat aviation—a unique,

entertaining, and action-packed look at

the aces of the air and their machines,

from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically

expert flying warriors in supersonic jets.

9781780576626MOTHER OF GOD (Soft Cover)PAUL ROSOLIETRANSWORLDS$31.00 HIS

Madre de Dios - 'Mother of God' -

is a place where the Andean

Cloud Forest intermingles with

the steaming tropical jungle at

the head of the Amazon river. Here can be found the greatest

proliferation of living species that

has ever existed on Earth, ever.

And it is a place which is now under grave threat. Paul Rosolie

has travelled to the very heart of

this wilderness in search of rare

flora and fauna. His adventures -

with giant anacondas, huge cayman, the mighty jaguar and

one very small anteater - are by

turn thrilling, terrifying and

revelatory.



HISTORY

9780007516568SEXTANT (Soft Cover)DAVID BARRIEHARPER UKS$34.00 HIS

With 2014 marking the

tercentenary of the Longitude

Act, this eloquent celebration of the sextant tells the story of

this elegant instrument and

explores its vital role in man's

attempts to map the world.

This is the story of an instrument that changed the

world.

9780593072714THE OWL WHO LIKED SITTING ON CAESAR (Soft Cover)MARTIN WINDROWTRANSWORLDS$29.00 HIS

A moving and informative

memoir of life with a much-loved tawny owl.

'Perched on the back of a sunlit

chair was something about 9

inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job.

It appeared to be wearing a one-

piece knitted jumpsuit of pale grey

fluff with brown stitching, complete

with an attached balaclava helmet. From the face-hole of the fuzzy

balaclava, two big, shiny black

eyes gazed up at me trustfully.

Kweep, it said quietly.

9780465031238THE TWO KOREANS(Soft Cover)DON ORBERDORFERPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$36.00 HIS

Ever since Korea was first divided

at the end of World War II, the

tension between its northern and

southern halves has riveted—and threatened to embroil—the rest of

the world. In this landmark

history, now thoroughly revised

and updated in conjunction with

Korea expert Robert Carlin, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer

grippingly describes how a

historically homogenous people

became locked in a perpetual

struggle for supremacy—and how they might yet be reconciled.

9780593071953WRITTEN IN BLOOD(Soft Cover)MIKE SILVERMAN WITHTONY THOMPSONTRANSWORLDS$29.00 HIS

As one of the UK's leading

forensic scientists, Mike

Silverman has helped to identify and convict dozens of

murderers, rapists, armed

robbers, burglars and muggers,

thanks to the evidence they - or

their victims - unwittingly left behind at the scenes of their

crimes. Mike Silverman started

his career in the days when

fingerprints were still kept on

card files and DNA profiling was just a pipe dream, so Written in

Blood is more than just a

casebook -

9780316277495BLOOD ROYAL: A TRUE TALE OF A DETECTIVE IN A MEDIEVAL PARIS(Soft Cover)ERIC JAGERLBUSS$23.00 HIS

A riveting true story of murder

and detection in 15th-century

Paris, by one of the most

brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly

November night in 1407, Louis

of Orleans was murdered by a

band of masked men. The

crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often

ruled in place of his brother

King Charles, who had gone

mad.

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9780307268174MAXIMALIST(Hard Cover)STEPHEN SESTANOVICHRANDOM HOUSES$40.00 HIS

From a writer with long and high-

level experience in the U.S.

government, a startling and provocative assessment of

America’s global dominance.

Maximalist puts the history of our

foreign policy in an unexpected

new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the

present and future.

9781612431338DAZZLING DUCT TAPE(Soft Cover)TANARA BIYKINSPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$27.00 HOB

Duct tape is no longer just for

gaffing down cords, holding

together pieces of pipe, and fixing everything that's broken. Now

available in vibrant colors and

exciting patterns in craft stores

nationwide, it's at the center of a

wildly popular crafting craze. Teaching readers to take this roll-

of-fun phenomenon to the next

level, "Dazzling Duct Tape Designs"

shows how to turn duct tape into

adorable fashion accessories, cute home decor, and even entire

outfits.

HOBBIES

9780062282392THE BIG PICTURE(Soft Cover)TONY HORTONSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$36.00 HTH

Part Tony Robbins, part

Mehmet Oz, here is fitness guru

and creator of P90X Tony Horton’s wake-up call for

readers—a motivational and

practical guide to creating a

better life and a healthier body.

One of America’s best-known and most-loved fitness gurus,

"master of motivation" Tony

Horton shares his philosophy

that will help you live your best

life. In his first non-workout book, he offers 11 Rules that

provide a clear path and

purpose for achieving life goals

and obtaining optimal health.

HEALTH



9781583946732THE ART OF SOMATIC COACHING (Soft Cover)RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLERSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$30.00 HTH

The Art of Somatic Coaching

introduces the concepts and

principles of coaching with practices

that include body awareness,

bodywork, and mindfulness for both the coach and the client. Author and

expert coach, Richard Strozzi-

Heckler, PhD, explains that in order

to achieve truly sustainable changes

in individuals, teams, and organizations, it is necessary to

implement body-oriented somatic

practices in order to dissolve habits,

behaviors, and interpretations of the

world that are no longer relevant.

HEALTH

9780062225177AMERICAN CORNBALL(Soft Cover)CHRISTOPHER MILLERHARPER USS$25.00 HUM

American Cornball is Christopher

Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated

survey of popular humor—the

topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and

henpecked-husbands to

outhouses and old maids—and

what it tells us about our country

yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic

staples that have been passed

down through our culture for

generations, many originating

from the vaudeville age.

On the heels of her New York

Times bestselling book Drinking and Tweeting, Real

Housewives of Beverly Hills

star Brandi Glanville takes

readers on a wild ride through

her dating life in this highly-entertaining relationship book.

Drinking and Dating chronicles

Glanville’s misadventures

stumbling through today’s

dating world. From social media blunders to bedroom

escapades, Brandi withholds

nothing.

9780062296313DRINKING AND DATING(Soft Cover)BRANDI GLANVILLE HARPER USS$22.00 HUM

HUMOR

9780061436956AMERICA: OUR NEXT CHAPTER(Soft Cover)CHUCK HAGELHARPER USS$28.00 POL

Senator Chuck Hagel has long

been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for

his honesty, integrity, and

common-sense approach to the

challenges of our times. The Los

Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy

and national security" and

wondered, "What's not to like?" In

America:

POLITICS

9780062266736ADHD DOES NOT EXIST(Soft Cover)RICHARD SAULHARPER USS$33.00 PSY

In this groundbreaking and

controversial book, behavioral

neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws

on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled

with Attention Deficit and

Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the

fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today—to argue that

ADHD is actually a cluster of

symptoms stemming from over 20

other conditions and disorders.

PSYCHOLOGY REFERENCE

9780062301673HOW TO READ LITERATURELIKE A PROFESSOR REVISED(Soft Cover)THOMAS C. FOSTERHARPER USS$23.00 REF

A thoroughly revised and updated

edition of Thomas C. Foster’s

classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to

literature and literary basics,

including symbols, themes and

contexts, that shows you how to

make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and

enjoyable.

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9781743214305MAKING OF THE WORLD’SGREAT WONDERS 1ED(Soft Cover)LONELY PLANETS$54.23 REF

Lonely Planet: The world's

leading travel guide publisher*

Go beyond the visual spectacle of the world's 50 greatest

wonders, and discover what

makes them such amazing

places. With stunning images

and expert illustrations, experience and appreciate the

most famous sights on earth in

an exciting new way.

9781743219768SPICY FOOD(Soft Cover)LONELY PLANETS$30.98 REF


leading travel guide publisher*The follow up to the

successful The World's Best

Street Food, this title presents

100 spicy dishes with

historical and cultural information, as well as

instructions on how to make it

at home. Smart and evocative

photography illustrate every

dish



9781937359072GET FUNDED(Soft Cover)NAZEEM ZAFARPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$41.00 SH

Stepping out onto the Barkhor

circuit, you're swept along by a sea

of chanting pilgrims. You go with

the flow as the intriguing

procession winds its way clockwise. You peer beyond the

whirl of spinning prayer wheels and

swirling prayer flags - is that the

Jamkhang you can see? Turning to

your neighbour on the circuit, you say? This pocket companion is full

of phrases to help you out in any

situation - not just discovering

Buddhist temples. You'll be talking

your way around Tibet in no time.

SELF-HELP

9780007412136THE SEA INSIDE(Soft Cover)PHILIP HOAREHARPER UKS$22.00 SCI

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip

Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick:

Big Read and winner of the 2009

Samuel Johnson Prize for

'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with

the air we breathe and the food

we eat. It is ceaseless change and

constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up

in our everyday lives, we barely

notice it. In 'The Sea Inside', Philip

Hoare sets out to rediscover the

sea, its islands, birds and beasts.

9781610393218SCIENCE LEFT BEHIND (Soft Cover)ALEX B. BEREZOWPERSEUS GROUP WESTSS$28.00 SCI

To listen to most pundits and

political writers, evolution, stem

cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth

mentioning--and the only people

who are anti-science are

conservatives. Yet those on the

left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean

energy programs, basic

biological research, and even

life-saving vaccines come

naturally to many progressives. These are positions supported

by little more than junk-science

and paranoid thinking.

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With the advent of the Internet

and the limitless information it

contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows

what, or even what it means to

know at all. And yet, human

knowledge has recently grown

in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable

directions. In "Too Big to

Know," David Weinberger

explains that, rather than a

systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental

change in the methods we have

for understanding the world

around us.

9780465085965TOO BIG TO KNOW(Soft Cover)DAVID WEIBBERGERPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$30.00 SCI

9780738216911WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUCAN’T GET PREGNANT(Soft Cover)DANIEL A. POTTERPERSEUS GROUP WESTS$34.00 SCI

"What to Do When You Can't

Get Pregnant" was lauded by

"Newsweek" for guiding readers through "the medical maze" of

infertility treatments. Now in its

second edition, world renowned

fertility expert Dr. Daniel A.

Potter and journalist Jennifer Hanin have revised their step-

by-step guide to walk readers

through the intricate process of

having a baby.

Most dating books tell you what NOT to do. Here's a

book dedicated to telling you

what you CAN do.

In his book, Get the Guy,

Matthew Hussey—relationship expert,

matchmaker, and star of the

reality show Ready for

Love—reveals the secrets of

the male mind and the fundamentals of dating and

mating for a proven,

revolutionary approach to

help women to find lasting

love.

9780062241757GET THE GUY(Soft Cover)MATTHEW HUSSEYHARPER USS$22.00 SH

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9780062270276THE ARTISAN SOUL(Hard Cover)ERWIN RAPHAEL MCMANNUSHARPER USS$23.00 REL

In The Artisan Soul, Pastor Erwin McManus, author, lecturer and lead

pastor of MOSAIC in Los Angeles,

reveals how we can craft our lives

into a work of art. There are no

shortcuts to quality, and McManus celebrates the spiritual process that

can help us discover our true

selves.

RELIGION

9780007476510FALLING UPWARDS:HOW WE TOOK (Soft Cover)RICHARD HOLMESHARPER UKS$22.00 SCI

'Falling Upwards' is a vivid group biography and adventure that tells

how men and women first felt as

they rose towards the clouds into a

new dimension - of science, exploration, warfare, literature,

discovery. Romantic biographer

Richard Holmes floats across the

world following the pioneer

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From the editor of the New York

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In 1939, fifty million

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This rollicking romp through the origins of sexual expression in

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Brian Castner served three tours

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When ordering a café au lait

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From Ram Dass, one of America’s most beloved spiritual

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SIMPLE STEPS TO A

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