The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama.From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the United States is redefining its role in international affairs. Alliance building, public diplomacy, and eschewing traditional warfare in favour of the focused use of hard power such as drones and special forces are all hallma...

If the looming war between the Aurelian Empire and Thracian barbarians goes unchecked, inexorable tyranny will tip the balance of world order and confront the world. Torn apart by rebellion, organized crime, and supernatural forces, three defending factions must join forces if the country is to survive prior to the Thracian god of war reaching Aurelia.

Tristan Hart, an Institute VI mercenary, must confront his deeply rooted beliefs in order to halt a global conquest initiative by the world’s most ruthless nation. Freedom from tyranny becomes impossible. This trilogy parallels two sister trilogies: Order of Avalon and City of the Fallen, completing a broadly scoped saga that takes place during the same time period.

**Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE AUTHOR OF PIECES OF HER, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES.**A heart-racing thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author.A missing girl.A family torn apart.An unsolved mystery.Twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia Scott's older sister vanished without a trace. Her disappearance had a devastating effect on their family.Now another teenage girl is mi...

Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James. She finally calls him and he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke.James is a lawyer, persuasive and gorgeous and Lucy adores him. So why, at the wedding in Sydney ...

Relic, a Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent PendergastJust days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.Museum research...

The international bestseller about friendship, second chances, and a tiny glow-in-the-dark pink elephant‘The most enjoyable novel I’ve read all year’ Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen'I loved Elefant! It was a complete tonic' Seni Glaister, author of The Museum of Things Left Behind‘It's easy to fall in love with this novel because it's easy to fall in love with its main character, a tiny, glowing, p...

The third novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series, and winner of the Edgar award.Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence.Robicheaux reluctantly ...

*Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture**Winner of the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director*Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking audiobook.The Shape of Water is set in Cold War-era Baltimore at the Occam Aerospace Research Center, which has recently rec...

With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous insecurity — along with much of the world’s oil supply. Others argue t...

Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional threats — but is it just...

The mythbuster and bestselling popular science author of A Grain of Salt tackles questions that show the scientific underpinnings of our culture.Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know acts as both the source and satiation of scientific curiosity through a series of 177 chemistry-related questions and answers designed to both inform and entertain. From the esoteric to the everyday, the topics Dr. Joe Schwarcz tackles range from Beethoven's connection to pl...