Get a clear understanding of Bad Science by Ben Goldacre in this concise and engaging guide. This summary explores how misleading statistics, flawed research, media exaggeration, and pseudoscience distort public understanding of health and science. It breaks down the book’s key ideas on how to critically evaluate scientific claims, recognize bad data, and avoid being misled by “expert” opinions that lack real evidence. It also highlights the importance of proper scientific methods and tran...

Get a clear understanding of No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler in this concise and reflective guide. This summary explores the book’s honest look at illness, mortality, uncertainty, and the search for meaning in a life that cannot be fully controlled or perfected. It highlights key themes such as accepting vulnerability, living with unanswered questions, and finding grace and humor amid suffering and imperfection. Ideal for readers seeking a simplified overview, this companion summary...

"A fascinating history . . . The Medieval conflict between Christians and Muslims has many similarities to the Middle East today."—FiretrenchThe Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. Under the powerful control of an enigmatic grand master, these devoted murderers often slayed their victims in public, cultivating their terrifying reputation. The...

With a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week TonightIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Monty Python—an insightful, in-depth portrait of the brilliant and hysterically funny show that transformed modern comedy.Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974, Monty Python's Flying Circus introduced something completely different: a new brand of surrea...

The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace.David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.Here he recounts his involvement in the first British air-strik...

With a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week TonightIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Monty Python—an insightful, in-depth portrait of the brilliant and hysterically funny show that transformed modern comedy.Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974, Monty Python’s Flying Circus introduced something completely different: a new brand of surre...

He is from the land of Odassy, she is from the land of the Dark Elves. When age old prejudices and hostilities threaten to tear their love apart, the word of a Knight has far reaching consequences no one can foresee.

The Dark Hound is a suspense-thriller and a man-to-man romance.A cop falls in love with a mysterious detective, tortured by his past, leaving him a changed man for life. It begins with historic events at the end of WWII, when deposed Nazis raided an infamous Air Defense tower in Berlin in May of 1945 to commit one of the most lucrative and secretive art heists in history...As the story moves to 1950s Los Angeles, the bodies pile up, and it becomes a race against the...

This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies. From getting started in the business to recording the soundtrack, from choosing a musical style to collaborating with directors, including Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, the Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, and Ken Russell, from learning to deal with editing to writing with time-sensitive precision, the leading practitioners in the field...

An Ancient Child Singing: A Celebration of Verse is poetry for everyone. Inspired by the classics yet modern in content, these poems explore themes of love, loss, and the joys and mysteries of being. The collection doesn’t ever hold itself back, unafraid to listen to what each poem wants and either stretch into freeform verses or stay true to a disciplined structure. Over six sections—Passion, Pain, Being, Beasts, Birds, and Family—award-winning author Dwight David Morgan contempl...

A man walks out of the morning mist and into the town of Xan. The townsfolk care not what secrets his past hold for they accept him for what he is.An incident in a tavern brings back values he had forgotten and with it the man he used to be.So his journey begins.

Glorious flower meadows were part of our life force for 2000 years or more before we swept them away last century on the altar of progress. Is there to be no more drinking from their font of well being? This book says not. Lavishly illustrated, it describes their history and, from the few remaining examples, it shows us how beautiful they are, how rich in plants and animals. It coaches us in their creation, even in small gardens, or their restoration in larger fields. It tells of the extra...