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  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

  by Jon Krakauer

  Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive, gripping work of non-fiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour. 'A provocative look at the twisted roots of American fundamentalism' - Will Self, "Evening Standard... (more)
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  Them

  Adventures with Extremists

  by Jon Ronson, Jon Ronson

  A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room. As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of "Them" but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place. Was he just not... (more)
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  La Sangre de Los Inocentes

  by Julia Navarro

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  What We Know About Climate Change (Boston Review Books)

  by Kerry A. Emanuel

  The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—most dramatically since the 1970s. In February 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that global warming is "unequivocal" and that human-produced carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are chiefly to blame, to a certainty of more than 90 percent. Yet global warming skeptics... (more)
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  On the Heels of Evil

  by D. E. Daum

  Does Kelly Rogers have a relationship with The Almighty? One could interpret the fact he lives as corroboration of a Godly connection. Perhaps his survival is just an uncanny twist of fate, propelling him to be the greatest single fighter of world terrorism. Kelly begins to believe it - why shouldn't he? He was dead, practically cut in half by an assassin's bomb, but woke in the hospital as Saleem Rhamsy.... (more)