A User’s Guide to E-Cigarettes

Philippe Presles

In the 20th century alone, tobacco caused over 100 million deaths. Research shows that over 70% of smokers want to quit, but fail because of the cravings, stress, and fear of weight gain. A new and in…

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Letter to a Western Muslim

Mourad Benchellali

French-born nineteen-year-old Mourad lived a quiet life, working in a suburb of Lyon and planning to get married. He had no complaints about his life except for its routine. So when in 2001 his older…

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The Tyranny of Silence

Flemming Rose

Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness-it casts a shadow over their ability to te…

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Spice at Home

Vivek Singh

A collection of fantastic spice dishes for the family from one of the UK’s top Indian chefs. Vivek Singh’s simple recipes for spice at home are a brilliant marriage between Indian spicing and Western…

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The Only Girl in the World

Maude Julien

Maude Julien’s parents were fanatics who believed it was their duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor – raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills de…

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How to be Parisian Wherever You Are

Anne Berest Audrey Diwan Caroline de Maigret Sophie Mas

From four stunning and accomplished French women, a fresh and spirited take on what it really means to be a Parisienne: how they dress, entertain, have fun and attempt to behave themselves. In short,…

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Bombay Nights

Michele Fitoussi

These were the last words Michèle Fitoussi would ever hear from her friend Loumia Hiridjee. Just a few hours later on November 26, 2008, Bombay would be paralyzed by a series of terrorist attacks-a ma…

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Surf Mama

Wilma Johnson

Gone surfing. Pizza in freezer. Back at high tide. Love Mum x With her marriage in tatters and her career in freefall, artist Wilma Johnson needed a plan. She’d spent the last decade in a remote Irish…

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Happy as a Dane

Malene Rydahl

For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys.How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months out of th…

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The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring…

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