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Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris' upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

Brought to you by Penguin. How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood. When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always...

A missing girl. A case that's personal. A contract killer on Irish soil. Cat Connolly is back at work. Struggling to adjust to physical and mental scars, her workload once again becomes personal when her best friend, Sarah Jane, goes missing. Sarah Jane's a journalism student, the daughter of a decorated war correspondent, but what could she be working on that could lead to her disappearance? And how deadly will it get?

For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the increasingly large numbers of people who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds.

From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army...

Aged 12, Sam Walker Roberts was groomed online by a teacher who later sexually assaulted and raped her. Weeks later, she fell into the clutches of a paedophile ring and was raped repeatedly by a gang, only one of whom faced justice. Devastated at the failures in the judicial system, Sam launched: ‘You have not defeated me’, a campaign which demanded more support and understanding for grooming victims.

A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door", is enlisted in the CIA's...

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot - the Alsos Mission - meant to gather intelligence on and sabotage if necessary, scientific research by the Axis powers. What resulted was a plot worthy of the finest thriller, full of spies, sabotage and murder.

Uncomfortable questions. Honest conversations. No performative debate. Say The Question is a podcast about the uncomfortable questions people usually avoid. Hosts Joe Little and Sam Chaser take on taboo, controversial, and complicated topics with plain talk, honest pushback, and real perspective... without turning every conversation into a shouting match.

NUCLEAR WAR: HISTORY REPEATS (DAY ZERO • BOOK 10)An assassination attempt on the Monarch and the murder of the Prime Minister of Great Britain trigger events that cannot be stopped. What was meant to be a demonstration of strength turns into a public humiliation of the state. Belfast erupts. London loses its center of control. The royal family evacuates. Within hours, a local crisis becomes a struggle for power over the entire British state. Britain has survived nuclear strikes, hunger, epidemics, and years of brutal endurance. It held together where other states would have collapsed.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 15, 2012.Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.Foss used to write a poem a day for the newspapers, and his five volumes of collected poetry are of the frank and homely “common man” variety.Longtime baseball announcer Ernie Harwell alluded to one of Foss's poems whenever he described a batter taking a called third strike: "He stood there like the ...

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American ("Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new eras in their brains") were inscribed on a granite wall at the United States Air Force Academy to inspire cadets and officers, but they were removed in 2003 to harmonize in perception to the Air Force Academy's having become coeducational. - Summary by Wikipedia

Endlich ist es soweit – die Talentshow bildet das große Finale vom Pontypandy-Festival. Elvis kann es gar nicht erwarten, nun endlich zu erfahren, wer der Überraschungs-Gaststar sein wird. Er ist so aufgeregt, dass er Joes Kirsch-Limo über das Steuerpult für die Lichtshow der Drohnen kippt. Die Drohnen fliegen unkontrolliert durch die Gegend, schlagen Funken und im Nu steht der ganze Festplatz in Flammen. Nur durch den kühlen Kopf, den der erfahrene Hauptfeuerwehrmann Steele in dieser Situation bewahrt, gelingt es Sam und den anderen, das Fest doch noch zu retten.

Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience....Sam’s writing style is quite engaging and skillfully captures the pride, misery, glory, and horror experienced by the common foot soldier. Watkins is often featured and quoted in Ken Burns’ 1990 documentary titled The Civil War. (Introduction from Wikipedia)

The Power of a Dream audio book is a message of faith, hope, and inspiration, to encourage you to achieve your dreams and goals and to never give up when the going gets tough. The book gives examples of ordinary people just like you who, despite the hardships and challenges in life, went on to...

We are living through one of the most important technological inflection points in human history. Artificial intelligence is no longer a concept confined to research labs or science fiction—it is now embedded in our daily workflows, our businesses, our creativity, and even our decision-making processes. But every once in a while, a new release arrives that doesn't just improve the field… it redefines it.

WE ROCK — The Earth Sciences Media. Where Earth Sciences Meet Society. Geology is everywhere — in the water you drink, in your phone, in the disasters that make the headlines. Yet geoscientists remain invisible. We make Earth Sciences accessible to everyone. Every episode, we sit down with geoscientists — geologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and more — for honest, unfiltered conversations about their work, their journey and why it matters to all of us.

After the powerful testimony shared in The Whole Time, God Was There, Alexis Butler returns with an even more intimate story, the love that helped turn healing into wholeness. A Safe Place Called You is a raw, Southern, faith-filled love story about two imperfect people who chose each other again and again even when life tried to tear them apart.

A football podcast focusing on the Premier League and the talking points of the week from a simple passionate football fan who sees things through a calm measured thought out lens with the odd comedy too. He's an Arsenal fan who loves football more than his club and likes consistency and justice, even if it means his team is on the wrong end of a result. He very simply loves football and wants to talk/debate/argue with you about it.