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Why have our conversations become so polarised? What does "woke" mean? How do we challenge bad ideas? Fantastic Fallacies: And Brilliant Biases is the second book in the Fantastic Fallacies series. With this book, you can identify frustrating arguments and learn how to effectively challenge them. It describes 50 of the most common fallacies and biases, how to find them and how to refute them.

Zu seiner Überraschung erhält Walter Piefke Besuch von Professor Laufenbach. Dieser berichtet ihm, dass das Geheimnis des Labors der Bruderschaft vor seinen Augen explodiert ist. Gemeinsam mit Lena Reiser versucht er zu überprüfen, ob Professor Laufenbachs Erzählungen der Wahrheit entsprechen. Doch schon bald bemerken Piefke und die Reporterin, dass jemand in Lebensgefahr schwebt.

A stunning adaptation of a First World War masterpiece showing man's inhumanity to man German playwright Karl Kraus's early twentieth-century satirical play about the First World War was originally 15 hours long, but his classic satire The Last Days of Mankind, has been deftly distilled into a...

Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect recipe for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Men is the perfect—and only—collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best male writers inside—and out—of the mystery field provide compelling listening in this distinctive collection.

Norman Tait und seine Freunde suchen vor der Küste Floridas den Schatz zweier vor vielen Jahrhunderten im Meer versunkenen spanischen Galeonen. Da hört er von einer Frau mit dem Namen Doreen Carlyle, die in den Sümpfen lebt und als Hexe verschrien ist. Und tatsächlich: die Alte übergibt ihm eine Karte, mit deren Hilfe der Schatz zu finden ist. Doch der Preis, den Norman Tait und seine Freunde für das Gold und die Münzen zahlen müssen, ist hoch.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.

Graham Carpenter has big dreams of being a serious journalist, but he doesn’t quite have the skills to match. Starting a new job as local cub reporter for the Butterthwaite newspaper is Graham’s big chance. With pad and pencil in hand, he’s willing and ready - what could possibly go wrong? Follow Graham’s (mis)adventures as he tries to land the ultimate scoop. In the first week of the job he gets a lucky break and an unexpected story lead when there’s whispers of royalty coming to town, but can he get the front page?

Als Mason nach Greenville zurückkehrt, hat er ein klares Ziel: die Beerdigung seiner geliebten Grandma überstehen und danach sofort wieder aus seiner Heimatstadt verschwinden, mit der er so viele schlechte Erinnerungen verbindet. Ein unerwartetes Erbe zwingt ihn, seinen Aufenthalt zu...

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of...

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back.

The author of the international bestseller Shantaram takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and devotion. Drawing on sacred traditions, rigorous logic and the six-year instruction of his spiritual teacher, Roberts describes the step-by-step...

Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria. A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and stories are short but beautifully honed works. His tragically curtailed life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us. Undoubtedly a full life would have given the world a very gifted literary force.

Ein Geheimauftrag des Vatikans führt Padre Manzoni nach Jerusalem, wo er einer Archäologin bei der Suche nach einem vorchristlichen Tempel behilflich sein soll. Doch schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft versuchen dunkle Mächte, ihn ins Jenseits zu befördern. Der seit Jahrtausenden verschollene Tempel birgt den Schlüssel zum Schicksal der gesamten Menschheit und Padre Manzoni muss verhindern, dass die Diener des Bösen das Tor zur Hölle aufstoßen.

In the Wild-West wilderness of the Frontier, a sheriff has been tasked with escorting the captured servant of the vampire Nobility to the authorities in the Capital. Unfortunately, the stagecoach route they must follow crosses into the territory of the servant’s master, the dread Duke Sinistre!

Full-cast dramatisations of three insightful novels by Christopher Isherwood, plus a bonus interview Novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood is best known for The Berlin Stories of pre-Hitler Germany, which inspired the musical Cabaret. Many of his works have been adapted for stage and...

Der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt in Europa zwischen England und Deutschland. An Bord eines Fischkutters erlebt der junge Kean Chadburn das Grauen, welches auch die Mannschaft in den Wahnsinn zu treiben scheint.

A persistent dumbing down of religious faith and the perception that science is the only path to truth are key reasons the Nones, those with no religious affiliation, represent nearly fifty percent of all young adults in America today. God and science are falsely portrayed as conflicted and innately incompatible. Afraid to offend this new status quo, and unable to defend religious beliefs against increasingly aggressive intellectual bullying, the young have flocked to the safety of no belief.