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Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015
Foreword by Oliver Sacks. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Following on from his groundbreaking ...
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The internet is everywhere. Those who control it, control us. As a gifted Ivy League student, Andrei Koss hit upon an idea that would revolutionise social networking and move it on by a generation.Enlisting the help of his best friends, Ben and Kevin, he turned their dorm room into an operations base, where flashes of ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-313-9
EAN 9781782393139
SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front. After being badly wounded he is fit only for administrative duty and his first and most pressing task is to improve flagging camp morale. He sets up a chess club which thrives, as the officers and enlisted men are allowed to gamble on the ...
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The Cooler King
The True Story of William Ash - Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W and World War II Greatest Escaper
- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-022-0
EAN 9781782390220
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated. ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-727-4
EAN 9781782397274
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation...This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.
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The Great Reformer
Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-348-3
EAN 9781760113483
Since his surprise appointment in March of 2013, Pope Francis has emerged as the most talked-about and most revolutionary pope in living memory. He has become a subject of fascination, conversation, and headlines not only to the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world, but to virtually everyone. This biography of Pope Francis describes how this ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-550-8
EAN 9781782395508
What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with at the Neurology Unit of Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Neurologists diagnose ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-925266-79-5
EAN 9781925266795
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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ISBN 978-1-78239-634-5
EAN 9781782396345
Maya wants Nick to be less of a workaholic, to come home earlier, to spend some time with his children. Nick wants a divorce. With his mind made up, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity, but it comes as an unpleasant shock to realise how much it will cost him to walk ...
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She closed her eyes and saw, as if on a loop, a repeating backdrop of square windows, blue sky and concrete spinning and passing, passing, passing. She could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge.A long-serving beat cop in ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 21,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-674-1
EAN 9781782396741
Hendrickje, a girl from a strict Calvinist family leaves her provincial home to find work as a housemaid. She enters Rembrandt's flourishing workshop five years after the death of the great artist's wife, an event that continues to haunt him. It is a house full of secrets and desires, and Hendrickje soon witnesses a sexual ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-220-1
EAN 9780857892201
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an ...
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Chase Your Shadow
The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-329-0
EAN 9781782393290
In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John Carlin tells the gripping story of Oscar Pistorius's tragic journey from sporting icon to accused murderer.Before Valentine's Day of 2013, Pistorius was best known as an extraordinary athlete, the 'Blade Runner' who became the first amputee in history to compete in the Olympics. Everything changed after he ...
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Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-559-1
EAN 9781782395591
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be morality ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-359-9
EAN 9781760113599
Christmas Livingstone has formulated 10 top rules for happiness by which she tries very hard to live. Nurturing the senses every day, doing what you love, sharing joy with others are some of the rules but the most important for her is no. 10 - absolutely no romantic relationships! Her life is good now.Creating her ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-365-8
EAN 9781782393658
A mother's nightmare: her children taken from her because of unexplained injuries all over their bodies. Who will believe her story? When lawyer Daniel Connell receives a visit from his trouble-making old flame Victoria pleading for his help, he looks for any excuse not to get involved. But no one else believes her pleas of ...
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A year ago, Judd Ryder retired from US military intelligence. As he walks home one evening to his house on Capitol Hill, a man steps out dressed in his clothes. Moments later, the man is killed in a hit-and-run.Was the man the intended victim - or was it Judd himself? Judd finds a phone on ...
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What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole? Oxford, 1862. As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is poor and plain and desperate for change but the little girls in her care see and ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-208-9
EAN 9780857892089
What would Germaine do?' This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jane. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germaine Greer, and twelve-year-old Skip trusts her clever big sister to ...
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