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such as science and technology - when we attempt to tackle other, more human, issues - like climate change and war - we make no progress at all. By examining the way we think from a historical perspective, and suggesting 23 reasons why thinking is so poor, and by answering the questions: What Can I Do? What Can You Do? What Can Society Do? he reveals that, if we can get our thinking right, we will be able to solve problems more easily.


Absolutely packed with new


ideas to show us how to strengthen our ability to think differently, this book will inspire you to change the way you think… before it is too late. 258 paperback pages with useful websites, De Bono Thinking Systems and details of The Edward De Bono Foundation. £12.99 NOW £4.50


72128 SLEEPYHEAD’S BEDSIDE COMPANION by Sean Coughlan


The body and brain undergo a series of changes night after night and begins with the first steps into sleep. You take an undercover mystery tour into the history of the bed, gourmet sleep recipes, pyjamas, sleeper trains, the Big Sleep and best sleep movies, bed testers, lullabies, Pepys’s erotic dreams, futons - the bed of torture - water beds and why children like frightening bedtime stories before we get hot in bed with the electric blanket and Einstein, find out how much Edwardian children slept, insomnia, counting sheep, sex, drugs and overdoses, shift workers, light pollution, REM sleep, Freud and Jung, Surrealism and dreams, dream poetry, sleep walking and death. Illus. 256pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75


RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY


The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbours no harm.


- George Bernard Shaw


73672 WHEN GOD SPOKE ENGLISH: The Making of the


King James Bible by Adam Nicolson


The making of the King James Bible in the seven years between its commissioning by James VI and I in 1604 and its publication by Robert Barker (printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majestie) in 1611 remains something of a mystery. The men who did it, who pored over the Greek and Hebrew texts,


comparing the accuracy and felicity of previous translations, arguing over fine details of chapter and verse, were obscure at the time and generally forgotten now, although around 50 in number. It is often said that the translators, particularly in the New Testament, did little more than copy out the work of William Tyndale, done over 80 years before the dawn of the Reformation. The truth of their relationship to Tyndale as it will emerge is complex. A fine piece of history, ecclesiology and literature all rolled into one, this is history at its best. James VI of Scotland, now James I of England, came into his new kingdom in 1603, a net of complex currents flowing across Jacobean England. Under the sponsorship and guidance of the King himself, some 50 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London created a text which has never been equalled and has survived virtually unaltered in its 400 years. How did this group of near anonymous divines - muddled, scholarly, drunk, self- serving, ambitious, pedantic, ruthless and obsequious - manage to bring off this astonishing translation? Finely detailed and full of characters and characteristics, this is a curious and fascinating 284 page paperback with 16 pages of photos, some in colour and some facsimile pages of the first Booke of Moses called Genesis. £9.99 NOW £4


73182 GENESIS ENIGMA: Why the Bible is Scientifically


Accurate by Andrew Parker It takes just one page in the Bible to describe the creation of the Universe, the Earth, the sky, the seas and all life on our planet. For thousands of years, Judeo-Christian belief has accepted this progression as truth. But the author or authors could not have known that these things happened in this order, and in the detail that evidence-based


science has come to recognise. So how is it that the very latest discoveries of science correspond in unerring detail with the creation account in Genesis? In his fascinating and controversial detective story, the author reveals an answer that is so obvious that he wonders how it could ever have been missed. Could it be that scientific study will ultimately lead human beings to a greater understanding of God? 431 paperback pages with appendix: Who Wrote Genesis? £8.99 NOW £3.50


72621 MEDITATIONS ON LIVING, DYING AND LOSS: The Essential Tibetan Book of the


Dead edited by Graham Coleman The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the world’s spiritual classics and this anthology provides an introduction for those who want to go deeper into Buddhist teachings about dying, bereavement and the after-death state. Himalayan children hear poetry and songs describing the fragility of the human journey through life. Buddhist philosophy teaches a continuity of consciousness after death, while belief about the nature of personality places more emphasis on community and interdependence than in the west. The introduction of inner radiance for the dying person at the time of death is something that must be done by a spiritual teacher or friend. 188pp, line drawings. $23.95 NOW £3.50


70550 PROPHETS, SEERS AND VISIONARIES by Melanie King


Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Moses and Abraham, charismatic cult leaders such as Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Mormon Church, and Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard, spiritualists like Madame Blatavsky, psychics like the American Edgar Cayce, John Wroe and his virgins, “time traveller” John Titor and David Icke. They range from the credible (or, at least, interesting) to the crackpot and/or fraudulent. King offers entertaining, readable, highly informative, eye-opening and occasionally shocking profiles of 50 men and women who have been regarded as prophets from 2000BC to 2000AD. Photos, 192pp. £15 NOW £6


71161 SAINTS: A Visual Guide by Edward and Lorna Mornin St Benedict, St David of Wales, St Wendelin, St Korbinian, St Olaf, St Zita, St Roch, St Joan of Arc, St John of the Cross, St Joseph of Copertino - here are more than 130 of the most popular saints from the Archangels to St Bernadette and Padre Pio. Each saint is pictured in colour or beautiful wood engraving and an invaluable key enables the reader to identify saints by their attributes. 296pp in 2006 first edition, paperback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


71610 COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CATHOLICISM AND THE CATHOLIC SAINTS by the Revd Ronald Creighton-Jobe and Tessa Paul


The Directory of Saints alone begins with Archangel Raphael and Archangel Michael and ends with Katherine Drexel, Padre Pio and includes child saints, religious orders and the saints in art. Art is the strength of this fantastic compendium, and with over 1,000 photographs and fine art paintings in colour, the book offers fresh insights. 500 saints are featured in the encyclopedia. Begins with the life of Jesus and how the early church developed following on to medieval Catholicism and the Crusades, the foundation of monastic orders, the middle ages and the Renaissance, the Holy Trinity, the role of Mary, and Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, Mass, Baptism, Holy Matrimony as well as the important days and festivals in the Catholic year. Biographies of much- loved saints. 512 glossy pages, softback. ONLY £7


71611 COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY


OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE by Lawrence Joffe This epic 4,000-year story of the Jewish people begins with an excellent introduction, timeline and explanation of the many Jewish traditions and festivals throughout the year. It traces the origins of the Jews back to the ancient Hebrews who emerged in the Middle East some 4,000 years ago, traditionally said to be direct descendants of Abraham. Slavery in Egypt, Moses’ deliverance, the great kings and united kingdoms all followed, but by 721BC, with 10 of the 12 tribes driven from Judea and lost forever, Judaism seemed doomed, but despite exile, return and further dispersal it survived. In exile Jews developed new scribal and proto-rabbinical traditions, producing the final version of the Hebrew Bible. 2,000 years have seen the Jews become a wandering people, setting down roots all over the world where they have been welcomed, tolerated and despised. 500 colour and b/w photos of artworks, statues, illuminated manuscripts and maps. 256pp softback, 9" x 11¾”. ONLY £7


71886 SUTTON COMPANION TO CHURCHES by Stephen Friar


A superb encyclopedia of church architecture, history, customs, furniture, folklore, ritual and much else. Church administration is fully explained, and the entry for “Diocese” is accompanied by a map, list and dates. Festivals and services are covered, as are technical terms such as buttress, piscina, crypt, Palatinate, Green Man or plainsong. Architectural details are well illustrated and the section on brasses has a superb collection of examples. Diagrams, drawings and photos. 517pp, paperback. £16.99 NOW £5


72653 INNER JOURNEY: Views from the


Christian Tradition edited by Lorraine Kisly


The Christian devotional path has a long history, and this anthology draws on those spiritual directors and mystics who have kept the flame of belief shining in times of secularisation and scepticism. Elaine Pagels describes the “round dance of the cross” which features in the Acts of John, condemned as heresy by the early church but kept alive in Gnostic tradition. The mystic Thomas Merton describes the way the monk is truly himself within the cloister, and Helen Luke looks at the transition between the world and eternity in Dante. 316pp, paperback, colour plates. £14.99 NOW £5


SCIENCE


The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.


- Elbert Hubbard 73632 AFTER THE ICE: Life, Death and


Politics in the New Arctic by Alun Anderson There has recently been an explosion of dramatic and often terrifying headlines about events in the Arctic, which seems to have become the epicentre of climate science and climate politics. This astonishing volume opens readers’ minds to the real economic, geopolitical and environmental developments taking place in that part of the world, which are leading to the emergence of a ‘new Arctic’. According to the author, what we are about to see is the fastest and biggest man-made change to planet Earth - ever. A 6,000,000 square mile dome of pure, white winter ice, 65 times the area of Britain, will soon melt away each summer, creating a new and


unknown sea. Meanwhile, disputes rage as to who controls the region. Oil, gas and mineral companies are searching for the new Arctic’s wealth, while its older indigenous people continue their long fight for control of their circumpolar lands. The top predator, the polar bear, will most likely vanish, to be replaced by the killer whale, and other creatures will also struggle to survive the coming change. This hypnotic book puts forward the viewpoints of the scientists battling to understand Arctic change, the people and creatures that must adapt or die, the explorers seeking riches, and the politicians who must urgently create rules for this rapidly changing region - described in a vivid metaphor as ‘the canary in the coal mine of climate change’. An eye-opener of a book. 298 pages, maps. £20 NOW £7


73197 EARTH IN 100 GROUNDBREAKING


DISCOVERIES by Douglas Palmer Geological dating into a series of “systems” was begun in the early 19th century, and much more sophisticated results were obtained when radiocarbon dating was introduced in the 1950s. The earliest rocks from the Hadean Eon


are about 4 billion years old, and fossils from three billion years ago have recently been discovered in a South African gold mine. The first cave art also comes from South Africa, about 75,000 years ago, in the form of cross-hatched patterns on stone lozenges. Following the extinction of most life between the Permian and Triassic periods, the first truly dinosaur-like animals appear in the Late Triassic, preserved in Argentina’s Valley of the Moon and New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch and discovered in the late 1940s. Human life began in East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, with the Leakey family assembling thousands of fossil remains and human related artefacts in the 1950s. This informative and beautifully-illustrated book is the perfect companion to the study of the planet. 415pp, softback. £15 NOW £6


72031 STEPPING STONES TO THE STARS: The Story of Manned Space Flight by Terry C Treadwell


The author begins with a fascinating short history of the evolution of the rocket and then goes on to detail the first manned flights by both the Americans and the Russians. The earliest manned rocket flight is said to have taken place in 1933 on the island of Rugen in the Baltic. The exciting account continues from Yuri Gagarin’s becoming the first person in space, through Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’ to the very first space stations, Skylab, Salyut and Mir. 220 paperback pages. Archive photos. £16.99 NOW £2.50


72032 UNNATURAL: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball


Can an artificially created person be truly human? From the legendary inventor Daedalus to Goethe’s tragic Faust, and from the automata-making magicians of E.T.A. Hoffman to Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein, the old myths are still subtly manipulating the current debates about assisted conception, embryo research and cloning, which have at last given the fantasy some kind of reality. 373 pages, illus. £20 NOW £3


72285 ARMAGEDDON SCIENCE: The Science


of Mass Destruction by Brian Clegg The term “weapons of mass destruction” was first used by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1937 as World War II became inevitable, and the words now seem to have a prophetic element. Science will always involve an element of physical danger and Marie Curie herself died as a result of working with radium. In 2008 an application was made to the European Court of Human Rights to block the use of the Large Hadron Collider on the grounds that its potential power was too great to risk. The author examines the element of sheer status attached to nations in the “nuclear club” and discusses earthquakes, the information highway, nanotechnology and chemical weaponry. 294pp. £18.99 NOW £4


72301 RED MOON RISING by Matthew Brzezinski


At the height of the Cold War on 4th October 1957, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth’s first ever artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, this tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet for all its simplicity, Sputnik transformed science fiction into reality, passing over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes and propelling the USSR from backward totalitarian state to cutting-edge superpower and pioneer of the Space Age. The US, desperate to catch up, trails the Soviets in the space race the following year, with a controversial space programme masterminded by former Nazi rocket scientists. Our book tells for the first time the full story and its colourful characters. 322pp, photos. $17 NOW £5


72316 BOY MECHANIC SAVES THE WORLD: 252 Earth-Friendly Projects and Tips by Popular Mechanics


A wealth of thrifty, environmentally-friendly projects from the early 1900s. Repair shoes, kitchen implements, tyres, garden tools, furniture and much more, make your own baskets, work benches, fertilizers, children’s garden toys and lighting, pest traps, and even construct your own windmill capable of making up to two horsepower! 207pp softback. £7.99 NOW £2.75


71627 BOGUS SCIENCE: Or, Some People


Really Believe These Things by John Grant People have believed (and, in some cases, still do) in perpetual motion, Bigfoot, Atlantis, extra-terrestrials walking amongst us, pyramidology, anti-gravity rays, mermaids, werewolves and all manner of unlikeliness. With delightful asides and deft skewering, Grant debunks the nonsense and shows how easy it can be to twist science to nefarious ends. 304pp, illus. £9.99 NOW £3


71903 FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores


the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner


The authors turn conventional economics on its head to explore the riddles of everyday life, from parenting to crime, sport to politics, health to traffic jams and fear to education. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming


pool? Also on the menu are topics as freakish as how chips are more likely to kill you than is a terrorist attack, and how the names with which you burden your children can give them an advantage in later life. 320 pages in slip case, revised and expanded edition. £30 NOW £4.50


72307 SUPERFREAKONOMICS: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitues


by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Following the global success of the best-selling Freakonomics, here is another instalment of challenges to received wisdom, backed up by facts, figures and fascinating stories. Data on the relationship between crime and TV shows the worst problem in children who watched a lot between the ages of one and four, so the content of programmes is presumably not the issue. The authors describe the Ultimatum and Dictator tests of self- interest versus altruism in which people make choices based on the distribution of cash, with results suggesting that we are not simply driven by pure greed. And finally - Budyko’s Blanket, designed to reverse global warming by pumping sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Will it work? 270pp, rough cut pages and remainder mark. $29.99 NOW £5


73745 FREAKONOMICS: Set of Two by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Buy both and save even more. Set of two. ONLY £8


72343 Q & A: Cosmic Conundrums and


Everyday Mysteries of Science by Robert Matthews


Why can we not tickle ourselves? Why are 90% of us right-handed? How much less do you weigh at the equator compared to at home? How do cats purr? Why does mixing your drinks worsen the hangover? Why do all the planets in our solar system orbit anticlockwise around the sun? How do we know that every fingerprint is unique? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? These are just a few of the baffling, intriguing and often downright odd questions sent over the years by Sunday Telegraph readers to award-winning scientist Robert Matthews for his weekly Q&A column. Some 300-odd here for the reader to enjoy. 237pp paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.75


72347 DEEP FUTURE: The Next 100,000


Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager Welcome to the Age of Humans, a new chapter in Earth’s history whose name has already entered into the lexicon of mainstream science, effectively the end of the natural world which is meaningfully distinct from humanity. But how long will this new epoch last? Professor Curt Stager has decided to take us well beyond what politicians consider “long-term climate change” - i.e. a few decades - and into what the next 100 millennia may hold. He predicts scenarios such as the ice-free, acidified Arctic being squabbled over as humans abandon the uninhabitable tropics and disappearing land, followed by their descendants retreating south again centuries later, as the seas refreeze. Later still, humans will be forced to burn whatever remains of our fossil fuels to survive a new Ice Age. 300pp. £20 NOW £6


72507 X-EVENTS: The Collapse of Everything by John Casti


Today’s advanced societies have grown over-complex and are highly vulnerable to extreme events that could topple civilisation. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, the modern industrialised world is a complex system that is as unstable as a pack of cards. When an X-event strikes - and scientists strongly believe it will - finance, communication, defence and travel will stop dead in their tracks. The flow of food, electricity, medicine and clean water will be disrupted. Readers will already be uncomfortably aware of the state of the world’s financial markets, and have seen what happens when some of them collapse. But just imagine if an electromagnetic pulse were to destroy all electronics, if there were a global pandemic, if the world oil supplies dried up. 326 arresting pages. £17.99 NOW £6.50


72762 EVERYBODY’S BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE: A Giant Compendium of Yesteryear’s Facts edited by Charles Ray


A charming and informative book in which, due to its extensive index, a veritable host of fascinating answers can be found quickly and easily. The nuggets of knowledge and intriguing illustrations herein were originally to be found in a two-volume 1930s encyclopaedia called Everybody’s Enquire Within and they still have the power to hold us spellbound. We now know what a singing mouse is, when it rains in the Sahara Desert and whether ice can burst bombs. 320 pages, 1,000 photos and diagrams, 8 colour gatefolds. £19.99 NOW £7


70445 BAD IDEAS?: An Arresting History of


Our Inventions by Robert Winston Britain’s much-loved popular scientist Lord Winston asks here, have our creative ideas always produced the results in line with their original intention, and have they always served us well? The consequences of the development of weaponry, are self-evident, but what about more apparently innocuous improvements in the fields of agriculture, communications, medicine and architecture? We meet with key individuals and examine their lives and their brainwaves, how they have been improved, hijacked or ruined by others. 417pp paperback.


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