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Welcome to Story Party: The Complete Collection, a curated collection of some of the very best storytelling for kids. With live performances from the most imaginative storytellers around the country, children will feel like they’re a part of the audience as they listen, sing and clap along. This Complete Collection is filled with hours of great stories, tons of wonderful performers, and enough twists and turns for a long drive with the whole family.

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.

Take a tour behind the scenes at the NBC television special that relaunched Elvis Presley’s career as a stage musician. Author Steve Binder—who directed the TV special—provides exclusive “backstage” access that gives fans even more insight into the performance that many see as a high point in the King of Rock’s reign of American music. Learn how Binder gave us in this Comeback Special, the first MTV Unplugged with Elvis performing in an intimate acoustic musical setting.

The Dreamy Balloon Ride: Floating into a World of Sleepy Adventures by Gardner Binder is a gentle and magical bedtime story that lifts children into a sky of wonder. A colorful balloon carries little dreamers above twinkling towns, fluffy clouds, and starry rivers, where every turn reveals soft adventures and friendly surprises. With each slow drift, children discover peaceful lands filled with laughter, calm, and imagination. Filled with soothing words, this enchanting tale transforms bedtime into a serene journey, where dreams float as high as the sky and sleep comes effortlessly.

UX Management Methods is a guide for how to lead your UX team to greatness. Learn proven methods for hiring, managing, motivating, and aligning your UX team. Use these insights to focus your team with a road map of key deliverables, present actionable findings to stakeholders, and measure your team's success and return on investment with analytics. If you want to sharpen your user experience leadership skills and build a strong team of talented experts, then you can begin learning UX management methods today.

Who says Thor and Odin are the good guys? Loki Ragnarok is a story of betrayal, madness, and murder based on the Norse myth of the end of the world.

Elon Musk founded SpaceX with the mission of making humans a multiplanetary species. In the coming years, SpaceX will launch a crew of 24 people through space and onto Mars, in a new kind of rocket called Starship. Over 80 million miles away, Mars is both desolate, and at the same time, full of limitless potential. Mars holds limitless possibilities. Since the ideal alignment for Earth and Mars only happens once every two years, there is only a small window to get everything right.

In the classic Ancient Aliens and Other Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, Otto Binder takes us inside the world of ancient astronauts, using real science to make the case for their existence. Binder describes a cavalcade of astounding discoveries and superhuman accomplishments, such as: the 12,000-year-old stone disks discovered in China that describe the landing of spaceships; and the disappearance of the planet Vulcan, once familiar to 19th-century astronomers but now vanished without a trace.

Eine Leiche wird aus dem Götakanal geborgen. Sie kann nur wenige Tage im Schlamm des Schleusenbeckens gelegen haben – noch immer erkennt man, dass die junge Frau dunkelhaarig und hübsch war. Wie die Obduktion ergibt, wurde sie vor ihrem Tod misshandelt. Tatort: unbekannt. Die Kriminalbeamten stehen vor einem absoluten Rätsel, weil niemand die Frau zu vermissen scheint. Nicht einmal ihr Name kann ermittelt werden. Aber Kommissar Martin Beck gibt nicht auf. Und allmählich erwacht die Tote zum Leben.

Florian Eder und seine Schwester Bärbel haben die alte Schreinerwerkstatt ihres Onkels geerbt. Als sie die Werkstatt verkaufen wollen, bleibt Pumuckl am Leimtopf kleben und wird sichtbar. Eder traut seinen Augen nicht. Doch ein Koboldsgesetz besagt: Wenn Pumuckl für einen Menschen sichtbar wird, dann muss er für immer bei diesem Menschen bleiben.

A sweeping history of the United States' economy and politics, Shock Values reveals how the American state has been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived dangers of price fluctuations. Carola Binder narrates how the pains of rising and falling prices have brought lasting changes for every generation of Americans. And with each brush with price instability, the United States has been reinvented—not as a more perfect union, but as a reflection of its most recent failures.

From the introduction by John A. Keel: "At long last, a highly qualified science writer, NASA's Otto Binder, has reviewed the overwhelming mass of UFO material and organized it into a meaningful and lucid book. He has done a remarkable job of sifting fact from fantasy, and truth from nonsense. If there is a 'secret' to UFO mystery, it can be found somewhere in these pages."

Ever since the sudden death of her mother left Emma in charge of caring for her grandmother and the family’s French bakery, she has survived by rejecting change. The last thing she wants is an ex-boyfriend with commitment issues. But while making a delivery to the matchmaker sisters’ café, Emma opens a door and is transported to 18th-century Paris, on the eve of the French revolution.
Björn has made a mess of things. He returned from fishing in Alaska believing his relationship with Emma would go back to the way things were, only to have Emma smash a pie in his face.

Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.

Of course, Cinderella Charming, C. C. to the world, had heard of "marriages of convenience". After all, her parents had named her and her siblings after fairy-tale characters, even though she resembled one of Cinderella’s cute mice friends rather than a princess. She was also an avid romance reader. But when her boss, the insanely handsome star quarterback and playboy, Michael Campbell, proposed the fake marriage plan, her rational self screamed its objections.

In the Scottish Highlands, and with the last lines of the movie Brigadoon fresh in her mind, Irene Redmond signs up for a tour, hoping to uncover secrets hinted at in her mother’s diary. Instead, Irene is transported back in time to the thirteenth century, along with the rest of the tour group. Logan MacKinnon, confirmed bachelor, has put his life on hold to help his father care for his mother and honor her dying wish to tour Stirling Castle. Sparks fly when Logan and Irene meet, but their budding romance is tested when they learn the conditions needed for their return to the twenty-first century. Like Brigadoon, the castle is enchanted, and only a marriage between two people who truly love each other will break the spell— and vows must be said before midnight.

New Saucerian is pleased to reprint Flying Saucers Are Watching Us: An Astonishing New Theory That a Race of Ancient Aliens from Outer Space Is the Long-Sought "Missing Link" in Human Development by Otto O. Binder, the famous comic book artist and science writer who often ate lunch with Fortean researcher John A. Keel in New York City. Keel wrote that Binder was the "very first ufologist" because Binder began writing about UFOs and flying discs in the early 1930s.

Imagine a world with a robot in every home, office, and hospital. While many people may not yet be able to fully conceptualize it, this is the future that awaits us. The robot revolution will change our lives in ways we can't even yet imagine. With rapid advances in robotics technology, artificial intelligence, and battery energy storage, society is on the cusp of witnessing a breakthrough in a new kind of industrial revolution—one that will see intelligent robots playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives.

Das Versteck der kostbaren Schale aus dem Tempel ist zum Greifen nah. Kurz vor dem Ziel lauert höchste Gefahr! Währenddessen hat Jaron mit den Schatten aus seiner eigenen Vergangenheit zu kämpfen. Trägt er eine Mitschuld am Tod seines Vaters?

Amelia Glickman has it all: a trust fund, a shiny red Range Rover, a serious equestrian hobby, and a brand-new house on Wethersfield Road. But lurking in the basement of her existence is the ache of depression and the torment of life as an addict. At least she has her besties by her side: a bottle and a bong, the binge-purge cycle, and risky hookups. She's the cross-faded chaos queen of nobody's dreams. Despite feeling utterly lost, a deeply meaningful bond with her horse, Hope, seems to be the only reason for Amelia's will to live.