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Blessed are the Peacemakers

I’m thrilled to be here with you in Copenhagen tonight, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. You know, for a while I thought you were going to give it to Greta Thunberg!

Just kidding. It’s a truly great honour, really great, and I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but I gotta say, what took you so long? Because I love peace. I really do. Nobody loves peace more than me. All my friends and family kno

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	The Devils of Cardona 3.71 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس by Matthew Carr (Goodreads Author), ماثيو كار, أحمد خريس (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Sun Rising 3.52 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent 3.57 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War 3.52 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination 3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle Scars (16pt Large Print Edition) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Matthew Carr liked Jane Stanley's review of The Owl at the Window: A Memoir of Loss and Hope: "Read for a book group. A memoir about Gorham's wife's diagnosis, treatment and death from cancer, interwoven with chapters about his life, with their 6 year old daughter, as a widower. Gorham is a writer of comedy shows and TV adaptations of the chil" Read more of this review »
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Matthew Carr liked Jane Stanley's review of Mildred Pierce: "I picked this up in a free community library and galloped through it. James M Cain is said to be one of the several 'Kings of the Hardboiled Noir genre' and he deserves this title. A pacy, gripping novel written in an extremely enjoyable clear, punch" Read more of this review »
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Matthew Carr and 1 other person liked Jane Stanley's review of The Glass Palace: "An utter triumph! What a book! A brilliant, soaring and wide-ranging inter-generational family story set across several countries and more or less 100 years, from the late 19th century to the late 1990s. Ghosh writes beautifully with fabulous descrip" Read more of this review »
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Excellent and sobering corrective to green new deal Utopianism. Pitron painstakingly reveals the environmental costs of EVs and green technologies in the countries where the metals and minerals that build these technologies are sourced. He also shows ...more
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Matthew Carr rated a book it was amazing The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Detailed in-depth reporting on the difficulties in resolving local environmental concerns and the global rush for ‘green’ minerals. Though mostly concerned with American mining, the issues it raises are also relevant to other countries as the Fourth ...more
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Witty, funny, and extremely well-informed and knowledgeable antidote to ‘ Mars or Bust’ SpaceX fantasies. Well worth reading, and not only for space geeks.
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Witty, funny, and extremely well-informed and knowledgeable antidote to ‘ Mars or Bust’ SpaceX fantasies. Well worth reading, and not only for space geeks.
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Matthew Carr rated a book it was amazing One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A blistering assault on the West’s collusion in the Gaza genocidal that is also a lament and an indictment of the moral collapse of liberalism itself. So much is covered here, and with such searing eloquence: the West’s collusion with Israeli barbari ...more
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“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Matthew Carr, Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

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