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Jesus Lived In India

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His unknown life before and after the crucifixion. Why has christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the east, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that jesus spent a large part of his life in india? This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that jesus did indeed live in india, dying there in old age.

Breathless

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You were my first. Not just sex, although that was part of it, but the first to look past everything else into me. Some of the names and places have been changed, but the story is true. It’s all here because one day this will be the past, and i don’t want to forget what i went through, what i thought, what i felt, who i was. I don’t want to forget you. But most of all, i don’t want to forget me.

Heroes of Olympus The Demigod Diaries

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You must prepare yourself for a difficult future: fighting monsters, adventuring across the globe, and dealing with temperamental greek and roman gods. You’ll join your favorite demigods from the percy jackson and the heroes of olympus series as they face dangerous foes and perilous tasks. What you learn from their experiences could very well save your life!

Digital Fortress

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When the national security agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, susan fletcher, and a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The nsa is being held hostage – not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple u.s. Intelligence.

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An Abundance of Katherines

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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has $10,000 in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun – but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove the theorem of underlying Katherine predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead austro-hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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When bruno returns home from school in berlin, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in a crate. It is 1942 and the entire country is under the control of the nazis. Bruno’s family is being moved since his father was promoted. They must now live within the confines of an odd camp, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence divides them from the outside, and there is nowhere for bruno to go. The young boy decides to explore his new neighbourhood, and soon runs into a curious young boy who is very similar to himself

Will Grayson Will Grayson

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Two guys with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high-school stage.

9 from the Nine Worlds (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

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Travel the nine worlds with your favourite characters from the world of magnus chase in a brand-new series of adventures. Find out why amir fadlan hates clothes shopping in midgard, see how mallory keen learns in icy niflheim that insulting a dragon can be a good idea, and join alex fierro as they play with fire (and a disco sword) in the home of the fire giants, muspellheim.

Black Leopard Red Wolf

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Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter – and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy.

The Night Country

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The new york times bestselling sequel to melissa albert’s beloved the hazel wood! In the night country, alice proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of the hazel wood.

Into The Fire

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The gripping new sunday times top 5 bestseller from the bestselling author of out of the dark and orphan x evan smoak – former government assassin, ‘orphan x’, turned white knight of last resort – is planning on hanging up his gun. Then he gets one last call. Max merriweather has lost his wife, home and career. Now it looks like he’s going to lose his life. A murdered cousin has left him a package and a team of assassins on his trail . . . Nothing evan can’t handle

God Of Small Things

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The god of small things offers a keen insight into human nature with sensuous prose and dreamlike style. It is set in kerala, india, during the late 60s where communism rattled the ancient caste system. The story starts off with the funeral of young sophie mol, who is the cousin of the protagonists – the twins, rahel and estha. In a serpentine and suspenseful narrative, arundhati roy unveils local politics, social taboos and historical aspects that lie underneath family tensions which leave the relationships irrevocably shattered. In this poignant novel, roy captures the children’s candid observations, while showing an adult’s clouded understanding and complex emotional life

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

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So begins percy jackson’s greek gods, in which the son of poseidon adds his own magic–and sarcastic asides–to the classics. He explains how the world was created, then gives readers his personal take on a who’s who of ancients, from apollo to zeus. Percy does not hold back. “if you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a golden age for all that.”

The Hazel Wood

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Seventeen-year-old alice and her mother have spent most of alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the hazel wood, alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “stay away from the hazel wood.”

She’s With Me

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Moving to a new town to escape her dark past, amelia collins is determined to keep her head down and finish her senior year. But her plan is proving difficult when she runs into aiden parker – the school’s hottest bad boy. Initially she can’t imagine anyone worse than aiden – his good looks can’t possibly excuse his bad attitude. But soon she’ll realise there’s more to him than meets the eye.

The House We Grew Up In

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Meet the picture-perfect bird family: pragmatic meg, dreamy beth, and towheaded twins rory and rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite. Craft supplies, too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin.

Magnus Chase and the Ship Of The Dead

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Magnus chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the hotel valhalla and one of odin’s chosen warriors. As the son of frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, magnus isn’t naturally inclined to fighting. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including hearthstone the elf, blitzen the dwarf, and samirah the valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating fenris wolf and battling giants for thor’s hammer, mjolnir. Now magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. His cousin, annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, percy jackson, to give magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough?

Still Me

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Lou clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in new york and her new boyfriend sam in london. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.what lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt

Me Before You

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Lou clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in the buttered bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend patrick. What lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.

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After You

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Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything.

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The House On The Lake

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Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend’s rambling old home in the wilds of yorkshire seems like the perfect place. Its miles away from the closest town and no one there know her or her little boy, joe. But when a woman from the local village comes to visit them, lisa realizes that she and joe aren’t as safe as she thought.

Let It Snow

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Let it snow is a charming tale of love, romance and unforgettable emotions. Christmas eve is a time when the snow falls on a very festive ground which is decorated with lights. Gifts with colorful ribbons are being gift wrapped for loved ones. This particular eve, however, has all of this and more. There is an air of romance in the air as a hike from a stranded train ends in a kiss from a beautiful stranger, and the way back to true love happens during an early morning shift at starbucks. Also, a trip to the waffle house leads to falling in love with an old friend.

The Trials of Apollo The Tower of Nero

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It’s time to face the final trial . . . The battle for camp jupiter is over. New rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the hunters of artemis. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Now apollo and meg must get ready for the final – and, lets face it, probably fatal – adventure

The Invited

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In a quest for a simpler life, helen and nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of hattie breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.

If I Stay

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For seventeen-year-old mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they’re all about a future full of music and love, a future that’s brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold february morning . . . A snowy road . . . And suddenly all of mia’s choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she’ll ever be, mia must make the most difficult choice of all.

Eve of Man

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Eve lives alone in the tower under the strict gaze of the mothers. She is prized and protected, because she is the last girl on earth. Eve has always understood that the survival of the human race is in her hands. Now she’s sixteen, and three males have been selected. Eve knows it’s time to face her fate. Until she meets bram. Eve sees a chance for something she never thought could be hers. But how do you choose between love and the future of humanity?

Huckleberry Lake

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Erin de laney came to mystic creek hoping that the slower pace might rekindle her enthusiasm for law enforcement. Instead she feels as frustrated as she did in the city and when her disillusionment with the job increases, she takes a position on her uncle’s ranch. Her life has enough complications without her attraction to handsome, deaf cowboy, wyatt fitzgerald, and the foreman on the ranch. Wyatt has sworn off dating, and erin fears that nothing she does will ever change his mind

Thirteen Reasons Why

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Clay jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by hannah baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice explains that there are 13 reasons she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Blindside

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Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in bennett an exceptional investigator who might be willing to take on a case that needs to be kept under the radar. The two men strike the deal. Sources lead bennett to a homicide in the bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation – and also to the mayor’s missing daughter. But this murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications

Turtles All The Way Down (Soft Cover)

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Aza holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire russell pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from pickett’s son davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

The Girl You Left Behind

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Another new york times bestseller by the author of me before you and one plus one?a spellbinding story of two women united in their fight for what they love most jojo moyes’s word-of-mouth bestseller, me before you, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and struck a chord with a wide range of readers everywhere

Heroes of Olympus Mark of Athena

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Annabeth is terrified. Just when she’s about to be reunited with percy – after six months of being apart, thanks to hera – it looks like camp jupiter is preparing for war. As annabeth and her friends jason, piper, and leo fly in on the argo ii, she can’t blame the roman demigods for thinking the ship is a greek weapon

The Giver of Stars

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Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.’ england, late 1930s, and alice wright – restless, stifled – make an impulsive decision to marry wealthy american bennett van cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving baileyville, kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife and is dominated by his overbearing father, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for.

The Rip

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A young woman living on the street has to keep her wits about her. Or her friends. But when the drugs kick in that can be hard. Anton has been looking out for her. She was safe with him. But then steve came along. He had something over anton. Must have. But he had a flat they could crash in. And gear in his pocket. And she can’t stop thinking about it. A good hit makes everything all right.

Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but as harari explains in his trademark style – thorough yet riveting – famine, plague, and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges

Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon

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With engrossing stories from the or and the lab, a leading neurosurgeon and neuroscientist explores the cutting-edge science that can be applied to everyday life for peak performance, improved memory, enhanced creativity, and much more. ..

Ikigai

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Finding your ikigai is easier than you might think. This book will help you work out what your own ikigai really is, and equip you to change your life. You have a purpose in this world: your skills, your interests, your desires and your history have made you the perfect candidate for something. All you have to do is find it.

Tess Of The D`Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)

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When tess durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy d’urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, angel clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Pride And Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of elizabeth bennet in austen’s beloved classic pride and prejudice. When elizabeth bennet first meets eligible bachelor fitzwilliam darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend bingley and her beloved sister jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

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Charles dickens’s great expectations charts the course of orphan pip pirrip’s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict abel magwitch in a graveyard on the wild kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit miss havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward estella at satis house

Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)

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A novel of intense power and intrigue, jane eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman’s quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, jane eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-quality that serves her well as governess at thornfield hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice

Rich Dad Poor Dad For Teens

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You’re never too young to learn the language of money… And the lessons that rich dad taught robert. Like it or not, money is a part of our everyday lives and the more we understand it, the better the chance that we can learn to have our money work hard for us—instead of working hard for money all our lives.

Outliers-The Story of Success

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Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, kahneman explains: system one is fast, intuitive, and emotional; system two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices.

Built To Last

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This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.’

Rich Dad`S Guide to Becoming Rich

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There are “financial experts” who advise people to take out their credits cards and cut them up. And that may be a good plan for someone who is financially irresponsible, it’s not great advice for someone who wants to build wealth and become financially free. Cutting up your credit cards won’t make you rich; learning to leverage and manage debt will.

Skin In The Game

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In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from hammurabi to seneca, antaeus the giant to donald trump, nassim nicholas taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.

The 80/20 Principle: Achieve More with Less

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Millions of highly effective people have become more successful by understanding the simple fact that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. All you have to do is identify the 20 percent that leads to 80 percent. The 80/20 Principle shows you how.Richard Koch’s million-copy-selling global bestseller is now completely revised and updated, and more powerful and essential than ever. He reveals how the principle works and shows how to use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase your effectiveness, and improve your career.The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what you spend your time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, you can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent. Discover how to identify the few methods that will lead to great results, and use them alone. Avoid hard work. Don’t push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.

The Personal MBA

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An mba at a top school is an enormous investment in time, effort and cold, hard cash. And if you don’t want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are it simply isn’t worth it. Josh kaufman is the rogue professor of modern business education.

Gandhi And Churchill

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The rivalry that destroyed and empire and forged our age revolves around the lives of two of the most universally renowned figures, mahatma gandhi and winston churchill. This book describes the arch rivalry between the two, and how it sealed the fate of the british empire and india. The two of them were born in completely different setups. Winston was born to an aristocratic family in britain, while gandhi was born in a small town in india to a middle-class family.

Letters from a Father to his Daughter

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The 30 letters in letters from a father to his daughter were written by nehru in the summer of 1928, when indira was in mussoorie, and he was in allahabad. To make up for his absence, he wrote these letters. He wanted to make his daughter aware of her circumstances, of her environment. Nehru’s intention was to nurture indira’s young and impressionable mind with an unprejudiced view of history, as well as the current state of affairs.

Educated

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Born to survivalists in the mountains of idaho, tara westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to harvard and to cambridge university. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

A Promised Land

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A promised land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective – the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a black american, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change”, and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making.

Mans Search For Meaning

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A prominent viennese psychiatrist before the war, viktor frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in auschwitz coped (or didn’t) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest – and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances

The Uninhabitable Earth

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The book fleshes out wallace-wells’ original magazine piece in more detail, dovetailing into discussions surrounding various possibilities for earth’s future across a spectrum of predicted future temperature ranges. It argues that even with active intervention, the effects of climate change will have catastrophic impacts across multiple spheres: rising sea levels, extreme heat events, extinctions, disease outbreaks, fires, droughts, and increased geopolitical conflict, among others.

Enlightenment Now  

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If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual steven pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.

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