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Wer zur "Krokodil"-Bande von Olaf und seinen Freunden gehören will, muss eine gefährliche Mutprobe bestehen und gut Radfahren können. Aber was soll Kurt tun, der im Rollstuhl sitzt? ...

A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast."...

Während einer Lesereise lernt Max Frisch in New York die halb so alte Verlagsangestellte Lynn kennen...

Eine Frau, ermordet in einem Baumhaus. Ein männliches Opfer, getötet in seinem Auto. Eine Schauspielerin, tot aufgefunden in ihrer Badewanne. Profilerin Carlotta Weiss und Kommissar Nils Trojan tappen im Dunklen: was ist die Beziehung zwischen diesen Menschen, die einem scheinbar wahllos wütenden Mörder zum Opfer gefallen sind? Einen ersten Hinweis erhalten sie, als auch noch der Maler Robert Lumen gewaltsam ums Leben kommt: auf dem Speicher seines Hauses ist das Bildnis einer mysteriösen jungen Frau mit einer Eule versteckt.

Today more than 100 small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. Using case studies, Manwaring outlines vital survival lessons for leaders and organizations concerned with national security in our contemporary world. The insurgencies Manwaring describes span the globe.

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments - also known as randomized controlled trials - designed to test the impact of different online experiences. In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world.

Tom Fuller - a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength, and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame - is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his spirit soars.

Most people think of retirement as taking an extended vacation. In fact, it’s more like running a marathon. But all too often, people only realize that after they start running.

Heart Meditations includes three guided imagery programs, each of which gently guides you into your spiritual heart, and then helps you to explore a different aspect of your heart-space. The meditations are warm, healing, and inviting, encouraging you to connect deeply within, and let go of anything in the way. Also included is an explanation and guidance for doing a heart meditation technique that you can practice daily. This simple, yet profound technique can help you become more and more heart-centered over time, and explore all that your heart holds for you.

Entre as cinzas de um mundo em ruínas, uma soldada encontra uma carta que diz: Queime antes de ler. E assim tem início uma correspondência improvável entre duas agentes de facções rivais travando uma guerra através do tempo e espaço para assegurar o melhor futuro para seus respectivos times. E então, o que começa como uma provocação se transforma em algo mais. Um romance épico que põe em jogo o passado e o futuro. Se elas forem descobertas, o destino será a morte. Ainda há uma guerra sendo travada, afinal. E alguém precisa vencer.

I never thought I'd see him again. We ended things on a horrible note, and it was all my fault. So when I bump into Colton at a local coffee shop, I'm convinced it's some kind of prank. But it wasn't. Colton was back in town, and he needed help. His mom was killed in a burglary gone wrong, and he's convinced there's more to the story.

Legendborn meets The Da Vinci Code in this “inventive, compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) light academia contemporary fantasy and “whirlwind romp” (Publishers Weekly) following a teen who infiltrates a secret school for the descendants of exiled Renaissance masters to steal their long-lost...

Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Metis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research—an anticolonial science laboratory—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land.

Bei der Durchreise durch die Schweiz wird der Amerikaner James White von der Grenzpolizei festgenommen. Es besteht der Verdacht, bei ihm handle es sich um den seit sechs Jahren vermissten Bildhauer Anatol Ludwig Stiller. Im Gefängnis wird White mit der Vergangenheit Stillers konfrontiert, mit Freunden und Ehefrau, die ihn alle zum Selbstbekenntnis drängen. Sein Tagebuch, seine Lebensbeichte, beginnt der Häftling mit den berühmten Worten: "Ich bin nicht Stiller".

A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports.  

It’s 1954, and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case - a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative to settle scores and push political agendas?

Real Japanese is a blend of short stories, key phrases, and language learning tips to get you started in Japanese. It also shows you the key differences between formal and everyday Japanese, which is a game changer and completely lacking from most Japanese language books.

Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward journey for Christopher Royal, who is convinced he is a coward and flees a confrontation with Harry Main, who is a gunfighter. There comes a time in this story - when Christopher encounters the aged Indian, the old wise man - that the terrain shimmers with the multiple affinities of meaning conjured by the unconscious, which Vergil once sought to capture within an image both awesome and sinister: numina magna deum [the great divine power of a god].

He was still a young man, but he'd used that handful of years effectively, building a bad reputation that spanned the West, his villainy taking different forms everywhere it took roost. Denver knew him as the Doctor; Texans called him Montana; and folks in Idaho called him Texas. On account of his youth, most everywhere else called him the Lonesome Kid.

These days, we often find ourselves stuck in an overcomplicated busy lifestyle, walking around not knowing who we are and what our purpose is. Life is getting faster and more complicated every day. As a result, we often get overwhelmed and forget about what really matters to us and what our purpose is.