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He is perhaps most well-known for being exiled from the league for praying—instead of standing and saluting the flag–during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games throughout the 1995-96 season. Abdul-Rauf’s protest sent shockwaves through the NBA that can still be felt today. With wit and candor, Abdul-Rauf tells the story of how he rose to the top of his game—only to have his career taken away in the blink of an eye when he stood up for his principles.

For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight-how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise.

Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity - and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn’t about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood.

In 1980, a UFO was tracked on military radar in Rendlesham Forest, England. It landed near two of the most strategically important military bases in NATO, and was approached by military witnesses who touched the hull. This explosive new book tells the full story of this incident, which is set to become better-known than Roswell.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to be Good by Nick Hornby, read by Claire Higgins. According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway.

Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, where it came from and how to harness its power for a better world. Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smartphones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the 21st century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the 19th.

In their acclaimed best seller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they've turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject - customer loyalty - with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty.

Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingnue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process.

With more than 10 stories from exciting new voices and a few veterans of the universe, the second anthology highlights the lives and struggles of humanity's best and worst years after system advent.

They are the Lost Legions. Famed warriors in the annals of military history, made famous when they struck out for the stars to fight a Savage invasion ... never to return or be heard from again. Until new evidence is uncovered that a Lost Legion sleeps in the pocked craters of a distant mining world. Sergeant Carson Metzger, a replacement pilot for a Republic HARD HK-PP mech unit, is sent to act as security for the science team seeking to confirm the discovery of the fabled missing legion. But when the local miners object to the arrival of Republic forces, tensions simmer to an all-out boil.

Percy the park keeper tries to help when a cross rabbit complains that the mice are being too noisy, playing in the snow. But the peace doesn't last long. Will the poor rabbit ever get any sleep? Percy and his animal friends have delighted readers around the world for over thirty years!

This not your grandmother’s leadership book. Heck it isn’t even Ted’s grandmother’s leadership book. This book feels like having your own personal Ted Lasso breaking down leadership lessons in a way that will make you smile—inspiring action you can take right away.

I Wish I Knew This Years Ago by small business entrepreneur Nick Warren teaches you what the wealthy know that the little guys don’t that has the potential to slice and dice your tax liabilities. This step-by-step process has the extreme benefit of passive income creation that is most owner’s day dreams and can become your dream come true, granting you and your family unshakeable confidence in the future.

The story of General Montgomery's appointment to command the British 8th Army in Egypt is well know. But, the political and military twists & turns that brought about that appointment are not so well known. In this podcast, we reveal the truth about what really happened. It also includes a re-voicing on his speech on arrival, a speech that influenced much of the narrative of the Desert Campaign during the Second World War.

Short, Accessible Guide to Biblical Theology Helps Churches Avoid Heretical Doctrine.

From Nick Roberts, the best-selling author of The Exorcist's House and Anathema, comes fifteen dark tales that are as horrific as they are moving. Witness absolute evil in “Sally Under the Bed” and “It Haunts the Mind.” Endure vengeance and violence in “The Noose” and “The Bitter End.” Face the realities of addiction and grief in “Thanks for Sharing” and “The Weeping Wind.”

Cold calling is painful and uncomfortable for every single salesperson on Earth. The average seller makes a couple dials, hits 6 voicemails, and gives up the moment a prospect hits them with a nasty objection. But every time you decide to pick up the phone in spite of the suck, you separate yourself from the folks who quit. That's when you get ahead on the leaderboard. Cold calling sucks. And that's why it works. While most books are a 400-page exercise in academia, we have 4 promises to make this the most actionable sales book you've ever heard of.

Seit Jahrhunderten durchstreift die Weltraumarche »Genesis Europa« das All auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat für die Menschheit. Konflikte zwischen der technokratischen Elite und der Rebellengruppe der »Unsichtbaren« erschüttern das Schiff. Der Shuttlepilot David Blue möchte von all dem nichts wissen, denn er geht voll in seiner Arbeit auf. Als er beauftragt wird, einen Asteroiden zu bergen, freut er sich über den Auftrag seines Lebens. Doch dann werden darauf Spuren einer fremden Zivilisation entdeckt – und plötzlich steht das Überleben der Menschheit erneut auf dem Spiel.

Unfiltered Faith is where raw truth meets real grace. Join us as we strip away the clichés and dive into honest, unscripted conversations about life, doubt, purpose, and the messy, beautiful journey of following Jesus. This isn’t your polished Sunday sermon, this is faith with the filters off. Whether you're wrestling with questions, rediscovering your spiritual path, or just craving something deeper, you're not alone. Every episode brings heartfelt stories, challenging perspectives, and authentic dialogue that invites you to lean in, wrestle well, and walk boldly in truth.

This is a podcast about having it all. From health and money, through to entrepreneurship, creativity, sex, mindset and more, these no-holds-barred insights will help you seriously move the needle in your day to day, and expand outside your comfort zone. Because the truth is, change isn’t just *possible*... it’s much closer than you think. Join Nick Broadhurst — recording artist, entrepreneur and life-long learner — for radically honest conversations about the stuff that matters most.