In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankind's darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners, and aided a partisan group planning a mass breakout.
In 1942, the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia, better known as Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end there. But he was determined to go down fighting. This shocking story sheds new light on the camp operations, exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS and presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there.
Inspiration for Anyone Who's Ever Wanted to Run
Running Like a Girl
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Alexandra had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run. Her first attempt did not end well. Six years later, she has run five marathons in two continents. But, as her dad says, you run with your head as much as with your legs.
Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Bored of the gym and yoga, she decided to run. Her first attempt did not end well. Six years later, she has run five marathons. Funny, honest and emotional, whether you're in training or just might run for the bus, this book will make you want to put on your trainers. 'If you've ever wept 'Why do I want to run?', your answer is here.' -- Caitlin Moran
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Mere Christianity
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2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of C. S. Lewis's classic, Mere Christianity. Having sold over half a million copies in the UK alone, his overview of Christianity has been imitated many times, but never outdone. Mere Christianity brings together Lewis's legendary broadcasts from the war years; talks in which he set out simply to '"explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times."
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
Even the Sun Will Die: An Interview with Eckhart Tolle
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When Eckhart Tolle agreed to be interviewed on September 11, 2001, he could not foresee the historic nature of this date or the suffering that would follow. As the day's events unfolded, in real time, he responded with a calm and clear voice, helping to make sense out of the fear and chaos that will forever define this date. Even the Sun Will Die documents this historic meeting with Eckhart Tolle and the comforting wisdom he revealed that day.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators - what Bill Gates was to Microsoft and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From
David Attenborough - Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
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David Attenborough
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His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited. Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series.
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders" meant to guide you through some of life's most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2007. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2007. Winner of the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007. As the author of many classic works on science and philosophy, Richard Dawkins has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now focuses his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Ben Goldacre
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Jot Davies
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'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology challenging the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields - including business, medicine, and politics - but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research in one book.
1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch" from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain.... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina?
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 people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
With robust clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which Hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. God Is Not Great marvels at the possibility of society without religion.
In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
Bonnie Meyer is by all accounts a regular housewife... who has been contacted repeatedly by aliens in UFOs for over three decades. Not all alien abductions are positive, but hers have been, she claims, and she also claims there are in fact two competing factions of aliens visiting Earth, one benign, one not so much. She tells us who the aliens are, where they come from and why they are here. She also tells us startling information about what the extraterrestrials have to say about Religion, Jesus, God, and our future on Earth.
Imagining witnessing what may be the most important event of the 20th Century and having to keep quiet about it for a lifetime. Warned, intimidated, called upon by the government to do one's patriotic duty and stay silent, dozens of eyewitnesses did just that. Having seen the crash of a UFO, the collection of dead alien bodies and even live, injured extraterrestrials, these ordinary New Mexicans kept those images to themselves, saying nothing to friends and family, only now coming clean with their tales at the end of their days.
In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman - who was relegated to special education as a child - sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person's personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.
Turn to Science News for the latest coverage of biology, astronomy, the physical sciences, behavioral sciences, math and computers, chemistry, and earth science. This 75-year-old publication is known for its sharp writing and up-to-date coverage of the latest scientific research. Since its debut in 1922, Science News has been committed to providing reports on scientific and technical developments that the layman would find interesting and easy to digest.
Deep within the Earth below the Bucegi Mountains in Romania is a holographic library left by an advanced civilization. Tunnels from this library lead into Inner Earth, where a long-buried culture once thrived along with what appears to be a time machine. Force-fields protect the place, designed for 16-foot-tall beings. Is this a thriving, as-yet undiscovered colony beneath our feet, evidence of extraterrestrial visitation of UFOs, or our own species in some earlier incarnation? Is Inner Earth a parallel universe intersecting across time and space, or is it something we as yet do not understand?
The foremost gatherer of physical evidence from UFO visitations and alien abductions, Derrel Sims shares his unique perspective on the subject. Sims believes abductees (he was one himself) have been subjected to medical experimentation and surgical intervention. His evidence indicates humans may have been the subjects of abductions since the 12th century and the current program may have been initiated 6,000 years ago! Is it possible we're all just lab-rats in a huge experiment by a superior, alien civilization and what we believe to be the basis for life on Earth is all a lie?
This audiobook contains engaging and interesting research by highly qualified high school students and junior high students. Listen to this book to hear the worldview of young people in the USA today.
Graves of the Golden Bear: Ancient Fortresses and Monuments of the Ohio Valley
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Rick Osmon
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One of the most incredible and longest-running political coverups in history is revealed here: the migration of thousands of Welsh colonists to North America over three hundred years before Columbus. Can the similarity between the structures found in the Ohio Valley and those in the British Isles from the same time-period be a coincidence? Is the story of Prince Madoc, widely circulated through Europe from the 12th Century on, merely myth and folklore, or is it the literal truth, and are the Mandan Indians direct descendents of this world-shaking voyage?
Second only to New Mexico in the sheer number of UFO sightings in the US, it's not surprising that Wisconsin has an organized, highly receptive army of UFO watchers. While some look up, others look to the ground, where strange footprints have been found in the soil. Are these a hoax or the real thing? Witnesses believe they're real and the fact they coincide with other extraterrestrial sightings and accounts of alien abductions help confirm the fact.
The more North America is explored, the clearer it is that a number of advanced ancient civilizations existed there, rivaling the civilizations of Mexico and Central and South America. Some of the most fascinating archeological finds are the sophisticated stone walls of Southern Indiana, built as fortresses for protection, as living quarters, enclosures for livestock, water management and erosion control. Built from local materials, these walls may have supported a large population with mining, sawmills, textile mills, or other processes.
Over and over, the Universe manages to create order out of chaos. What is little known is that humans themselves can duplicate these results by exerting a small amount of energy in a positive direction. Yes, you can travel through time and space and connect with the resonance of the larger world. Go beyond The Secret to the true source of cosmic energy through those Laws of Attraction which can deliver all you desire. It's true: you create your own future, if you only remember to.
An audiobook for children to start the talk about racism and equality for all. Letting kids know all races should live in peace on Earth, and that we should all work together to create beauty just like the shiny and happy rainbow does.