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The Man Who Knew Infinity: Life of the Genius Ramanujan

by Robert Kanigel.

 

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In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.

Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England.

Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled.

 

With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, 'the Prince of Intuition,' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, 'the Apostle of Proof'.

In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two and left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its Secrets today.

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg.

 

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In The Power of Habit, award winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.

With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

 

Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight.

We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains.

We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation's largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.

 

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

 

Habits aren't destiny.

As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

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Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs

by Jim DeRogatis.

 

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This biography chronicles the life of music critic Lester Bangs from stifling childhood as a Jehovah's Witness to his revels in the excesses of rock.

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Big Ron: A Different Ball Game by Ron Atkinson.

 

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Ron Atkinson is one of English football's most flamboyant characters.

In his autobiography, he offers a candid account of a career which has taken him to West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Atletico Madrid.

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The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo.

 

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Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcher is a gripping and disturbing fly on the wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four year hunt to bring down Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a drug dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family.

 

In 1992, Pitera was sentenced to life in prison for murdering six people and supporting a massive drug-dealing operation.

Yet this covered only a fraction of the crimes he committed. Pitera is thought to have murdered more than 60 people, cutting many of his victims into pieces before burying them on Staten Island.

 

Exhaustively researched and written with the cooperation of the DEA agents who hunted Pitera down, The Butcher will send shivers down the spine of the most hardened reader.

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We Got Him! A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein; by Steve Russell.

 

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In June 2003, two Iraqi businessmen approached an American outpost claiming to know important information.

What they revealed invigorated American soldiers to pursue the one of the world's most notorious dictators. Their journey is a grand saga of human experience, testing every element of character and fortitude in a six month manhunt that ended at a hole on the bank of the Tigris River.

This account exposes the blow by blow plays of the actual raids that netted Saddam with never before revealed information.

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Path of Blood: The Story of Al Qaeda's War on the House of Saud; by Thomas Small & Jonathan Hacker.

 

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Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to establish an Islamic Empire that could take on the West and win.

 

Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker use new insider evidence to expose the real story behind the Al Qaeda.

Far from the image of single minded holy warriors they present to the world, the bands of sol­diers are riven by infighting and lack of discipline.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Saudi govern­ment archives, interviews with top intelligence of­ficials both in the Middle East and in the West, as well as with captured Al Qaeda militants, and with access to exclusive captured video footage from Al Qaeda cells, Path of Blood tells the full story of the terrorist campaign and the desperate and deter­mined attempt by Saudi Arabia’s internal security services to put a stop to it.

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Saladin: Life, Legend, Legacy; by John Man.

 

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Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age.

As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world’s preeminent hero.

Ruthless in defence of his faith, brilliant in leadership, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes. He knew the limits of violence, showing such tolerance and generosity that many Europeans, appalled at the brutality of their own people, saw him as the exemplar of their own knightly ideals.

But Saladin is far more than a historical hero.

Builder, literary patron and theologian, he is a man for all times, and a symbol of hope for an Arab world once again divided. Centuries after his death, in cities from Damascus to Cairo and beyond, to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, Saladin continues to be an immensely potent symbol of religious and military resistance to the West.

He is central to Arab memories, sensibilities and the ideal of a unified Islamic state.

In this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life in vivid detail.

Charting his rise to power, his struggle to unify the warring factions of his faith, and his battles to retake Jerusalem and expel Christian influence from Arab lands, Saladin explores the life and the enduring legacy of this champion of Islam, and examines his significance for the world today.

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

by Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry.

 

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In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims.

A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LaBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men.

What was his hold over them?

And what was the motivation behind such savagery?

In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth.

The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi."

The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers... these elements make for a true crime classic.

Helter Skelter is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of The New Republic, a "social document of rare importance."

50 pages of black and white photographs.

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Shooting Balibo by Tony Maniaty.

 

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Thirty years after he was there with the Balibo Five, Tony Maniaty returns to East Timor to lay his ghosts to rest, in a beautifully written memoir.

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Where They Lay by Earl Swift.

 

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The US government has an unspoken pledge with every man and woman it sends into battle: you may be wounded doing your duty, you may even be killed, but you won't be left behind...

 

On 20 March 1971, during the largest helicopter battle in history, an American chopper on a daring rescue mission exploded in the skies over Laos.

Its scorched remains fell onto terrain about which allied forces knew little except that it was hostile Jungle so dense with North Vietnamese that going after the dead crewmen was out of the question.

And so two highly decorated pilots and a pair of gunners who had each earned the Silver Star for heroism earlier that day were left where they lay: four among the 2,583 US servicemen whose bodies remained unrecovered at war's end.

30 years later and a team of soldiers and scientists ventures back into that battlefield to dig among the unexploded bombs and landmines, in ground slick from monsoon rains, in Jungle infested with leeches, giant centipedes and poisonous snakes, to find those four crew and to bring them home.

Its mission is one of dozens conducted every year, in Asia, Europe and the scattered islands of the Pacific to locate and bury America's war dead and to put a name, the right name, on each headstone.

WHERE THEY LAY tells the story of this recovery team and its elusive employer: the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory, the world's largest forensic science lab.

Part history, part travelogue, part scientific adventure, it chronicles the years long effort to find the remains of those heroes, culminating in an expedition into a land that even today is virtually invisible to the world at large.

It has all the makings of a classic of modern warfare and its aftermath.

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Denial by Peter James.

 

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A young editor & a psychiatrist are devastated by the realisation that the man they considered to be mad actually holds the most terrifying truth of all.

The man believes that God does exist and what's more he has the proof.

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Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery by William Warren.

 

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On Easter Day, 1967, American businessmen and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H. W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands in Central Malaysia.

Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has ever been found, some twenty years earlier Jim Thompson had abandoned his former life to embark on an exotic business career in Southeast Asia.

After establishing the Thai Silk Company, Thompson built a house and an art collection which are among Bangkok's top tourist attractions today.

After vanishing, he became the subject of a massive search and investigation, and a mystery that has never been solved.

This definitive account of the life of Jim Thompson, written by a man who knew him well, gives the reader a first-hand glance into his private affairs and his alleged role as an agent for the CIA.

 

This true life mystery will keep you turning the pages to the final chapter.

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela.

 

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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule.

He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

 

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures.

Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life, an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

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Bangkok Boy: The Story Of A Stolen Childhood

by Chai Pinit.

 

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Chai Pinit had a normal childhood in Thailand until he was molested by a teacher.

Unable to confide in anyone or seek counselling for the abuse, he started drinking in his teenage years and became an alcoholic who sold his body for money.

The author now feels that it is time to tell his heartbreaking story.

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The Power of Kabbalah: Technology for the Soul
by Yehuda Berg.

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Is it possible to turn that rush that comes from closing a business deal or having a brief, passionate affair into an enduring sense of wholeness and peace? 
Kabbalah, according to its increasingly large group of practitioners, is the path from that fleeting feeling of pleasure that most people settle for to the lasting fulfillment that is their birthright as human beings. 
In The Power of Kabbalah, renowned teacher Yehuda Berg shows how to view and navigate through life by tapping Kabbalistic truths. He explains the key process of transforming from a reactive to a proactive being that will in turn trigger increased creative energy, greater personal power and a stronger and more satisfying sense of life. 
These teachings include embracing rather than avoiding problems and obstacles as true opportunities for spiritual development; making miracles through positive thinking and accepting responsibility for what happens in one's life.

 

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Terrace Legends by Cass Pennant & Martin King.

 

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Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind the biggest firms in football history; behind the rucks, the rules, and the respect.

In this groundbreaking book, the men behind the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most notorious terrace fights.

From the bovver boys of the sixties and seventies to the football casuals of the eighties, the names central to the biggest firms have all been tracked down and interviewed.

They tell their stories in this book.

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Clean Kill: A Sniper Novel (Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels) 
by Jack Coughlin & Donald A. Davis.

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At a 15th Century castle outside Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell is brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli Foreign Minister are scheduled to sign an historic peace treaty, that is, until their meeting is violently interrupted by a missile strike that leaves the Foreign Minister of Israel dead and Cornwell and the Prince injured.

Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is running covert missions in the mountains of Pakistan when he's called away from duty.
He leaves for the U.K, where he thwarts another attempt on the prince of Saudi Arabia's life. 
The attackers are Middle Eastern, but they aren't working for Al Qaeda, they're employed by foreign operatives opposed to the peace agreement and determined to claim Saudi oil reserves for themselves by whatever means necessary. 
Meanwhile, out of hiding and back from the dead comes Juba, one of the deadliest terrorists in the world and Kyle Swanson nemesis, who is determined to exact revenge on the man who nearly took his life.

With scenes of tremendous suspense that span the globe, Clean Kill puts Swanson in the sights of a group whose greed and vengeance know no limits.
But their deadly ambitions also bring them into his sights, which is the wrong place to be.

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The Far Corner by Harry Pearson.

 

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A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shackleton blight the lives of village shoppers and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle.

Celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ.

THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.

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You Are G8, We Are 6 Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests by Jonathan Neale.

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The G8 meeting in Genoa in July 2001 resulted in the biggest anti globalization demonstrations so far and saw the murder of an activist. 
You Are G8, We Are 6 Billion is the riveting truth about the protests, written by one of the organizers who was also a public spokesman. 
Besides giving his first hand account of the daily events, Jonathan Neale provides a devastating critique of global corporations and explains exactly why the protesters traveled from all over the globe to make their point to the world’s most powerful nations. 
This passionate account fully conveys the protesters’ rationale as well as the feel and smell of the protests.

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Derby Days: Local Football Rivalries and Feuds

by Eddy & Dougie Brimson.

 

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This is a look at all the derby matches, tracing the history of the hostility and showing the story from both sides United and City. Attention is paid not just to the famous derbies, like Liverpool versus Everton, but to less publicized confrontations such as Exeter and Plymouth.

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Shrapnel Wounds: An Infantry Lieutenant's Vietnam Memoir

by Tom Crowley.

 

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Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlisted and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid 1966.

Highly regarded by his infantry platoon and strongly encouraged by his superiors to become a professional soldier, Crowley almost inadvertently examines the system by which career officers are shepherded through to higher and higher rank and increasingly rejects that system over the course of his one year combat tour.

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Online Investing on the Australian Share market, by Roger Kinsky.

 

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In this complete guide to cyber investing, Roger Kinsky explains in plain English how you can become a proficient online investor and use the internet to increase your profits.

He demystifies the complexity of online investing and provides a comprehensive insight into the online trading process.

The book is written for Australian investors and is an informative, one stop guide to the investment information, services and resources available online.

It covers everything from finding the most appropriate broker to setting up an online trading account, placing orders, and much more.