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  The Perfect Traitor - The...

  Steve B. Davis

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  Kim Philby was trusted by the men who knew him best. To his friends, colleagues, and the intelligence services he served, he seemed loyal, polished, and deeply committed to Britain’s cause. He moved with ease through the hidden world of espionage, earned the confidence of senior officers in MI6, built close ties with the CIA, and positioned himself at the very center of the West’s intelligence war against the Soviet Union. But behind that polished image was one of the most devastating betrayals in modern history.
   
  The Perfect Traitor uncovers the shocking story of the most dangerous Cambridge spy who fooled allies, misled friends, and quietly handed some of the West’s most sensitive secrets to Moscow for years. This book follows Philby’s rise from privileged Cambridge insider to powerful intelligence officer, showing how charm, intellect, and deception helped him escape suspicion while operation after operation collapsed around him. As lives were destroyed and missions failed, the truth remained hidden behind a carefully built mask.
   
  More than a story of spying, this is a portrait of loyalty twisted into betrayal, friendship poisoned by lies, and institutions too confident to see the danger in front of them. It explores the relationships Philby used, the trust he abused, and the Cold War system that allowed him to thrive for so long.  
   
  For readers who enjoy true espionage, Cold War history, and the psychological drama behind real life betrayal, The Perfect Traitor offers a gripping account of a man who deceived MI6, outwitted the CIA, and escaped into the Soviet Union while the world watched too late.

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  Aggression War and Conflict -...

  Bhikkhu Khantipālo

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  Aggression is rampant almost everywhere nowadays, sometimes in its legal and approved form and increasingly in illegal activities. Where it is approved, it may be called “getting on in the world,” that is, stepping on others’ heads so that you can get to the top. This is success in a worldly sense, but not in a Buddhist one. It is also approved of for men (though not by them for women!) as being a mark of mastery and virility, yet it will never bring happiness. For if people are mastered forcibly, then how will happiness follow for the one who inflicts suffering? The rationale is that “progress,” that materialistic god so widely worshipped, will not come about unless force and power are used. But this argument does not take into account the fact that, sooner or later, what is won by aggression will surely be lost through conflict. 
   
  The three essays in Bodhi Leaves No. 108 are: 
  1. Dealing with Aggression 
  2. War and Peace 
  3. Settling Conflicts

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  The Heavy Water War - Beating...

  John Stadler

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  During the course of the Second World War, the Allies mounted a series of attempts to prevent Germany from manufacturing heavy water utilising hydroelectric plants in occupied Norway. These efforts comprised a mix of bomber and Commando raids. The overall aim was to stop Nazi Germany building a nuclear bomb. In fact, Hitler was never as close as the Allies thought, but the idea that his regime could construct and deploy such a device was the ultimate doomsday scenario, one that would have tilted the balance in favour of the Nazis. The mere threat might have been sufficient to force a negotiated peace with the perception of a Nazi bomb hanging over the world like a nuclear-powered sword of Damocles. 
   
  Production, and therefore the Allied target, centred on the Vemork Power Station standing by the Rjukan Waterfall at Telemark. A series of daring raids – Operations Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside – neutralised the plant’s capacity. In Operation Freshman, every single glider-borne paratrooper was either captured or killed. In February 1943, a force of SOE-trained Norwegian Commandos succeeded in sabotaging the plant’s production capacity. Further manufacturing effort was abandoned, and the Nazis attempted to spirit away the heavy water they had on the ferry SF Hydro. The Norwegians managed to sink the vessel in the deep waters of Lake Tinn. Using primary source material and published on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the Hydro, The Heavy Water War tells a story of extraordinary courage and endurance. The stakes in any special forces raid in history have never been higher.

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  Neurodiversity - A Very Short...

  Sue Fletcher-Watson, Robert Chapman

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  Neurodiversity is the idea that human brains function in a variety of ways. By understanding that people take in, process, and respond to information differently, we can appreciate how these profound differences affect the ways in which we experience the world and form relationships with one another. In spite of the central simplicity of this concept, the consequences of fully understanding and exploring neurodiversity can be transformative. 
   
  This Very Short Introduction looks at how neurodiversity has been understood in a variety of settings including education, research, workplace, health and social care, and criminal justice. Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher-Watson also draw out interesting connections to models of disability, human rights, anti-capitalism, and intersectionality. Alongside this, they discuss how issues of gender, sexuality, neuroqueering, and decoloniality bear on neurodiversity. The book is an engaging listen for students, thinkers, and practitioners interested in neurodiversity and its links to philosophy, psychology, sociology, political theory, medicine, and biology.

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  Becoming a Cosmopolitan - What...

  Jason D Hill

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  The philosopher and author of Beyond Blood Identities offers a new paradigm of persona freedom and moral self-possession. As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan.   In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill argues that we need a new understanding of the self. He revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home. Arguing for the right to forget where we came from, Hill proposes a new moral cosmopolitanism for the new millennium.

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  Sky Warriors: British Airborne...

  Saul David

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  THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
  From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. 
  The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the 1st, 6th and 44th Indian, each composed of parachutists and glider-borne troops. Wearing their distinctive maroon berets, steel helmets and Dennison smocks, they served with distinction in every major theatre of the conflict – including North Africa, Sicily, mainland Europe and the Far East – and played a starring role in some most iconic airborne operations in history: the Bruneval Raid of February 1942; the capture of the Primasole, Pegasus and Arnhem Bridges in July 1943, June 1944 and September 1944 respectively; and Operation Varsity, the biggest parachute drop in history, near Wesel in Germany in March 1945. 
  Sky Warriors by Saul David is a Sunday Times bestseller that provides a modern, non-fiction account of Britain's military aviation history in the 20th century. This autobiography of the Red Devils is a compelling read for anyone interested in World War II. 
  For fans of Joseph Wheelan (Bitter Peleliu), Antony Beevor (Arnhem), Al Murray (Watching War Films With My Dad), Geoffrey Wawro (A Mad Catastrophe), and Bob Drury (Throne of Grace). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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