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Dreizehn atemberaubende Geschichten. Ein sagenumwobener Tag. Eine Verbindung, die alles verändert. Am Tag des Dreschens hoffen alle Kadetten des Basgiath War College, von einem Drachen gebunden zu werden – oder sie sterben bei dem Versuch. Trotz gnadenlosem Wettbewerb und Drachenfeuer stellen...

Every morning, you receive twenty-four hours. What will you build with yours? In 24 Hours in America: How Freedom, Opportunity, and Personal Responsibility Shape Lives and a Nation, entrepreneur Gail Corder Fischer delivers a candid call to stop drifting and start living with intention. Drawing...

Um Tiras kritischen Zustand zu heilen, bringt Vael sie auf dem schnellsten Weg nach Solcaria und geht damit ein Risiko ein, dessen Folgen selbst er nicht abschätzen kann. Während die Priesterinnen des Lichts sie in den Tempel führen, treffen beunruhigende Nachrichten aus Taloren ein. Vael...

As the “science of humanity,” anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world’s varied human societies, including our own.

Read by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey with exclusive bonus material contributed by Rainn Wilson, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery and Jennifer Garner. An intimate, behind-the-scenes celebration of beloved The Office co-stars...

In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

'MOONFLOW will sink its tendrils into you and infest you with its spores . . . and you'll enjoy it' Drew Huff Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella's debut horror novel - a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of...

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.

Five hundred years ago, a band of adventurers known as the Roseguard defeated a powerful sorcerer named Belcorra Haruvex, foiling her plot to destroy the teeming metropolis of Absalom. But this victory came with a great sacrifice, and the surviving members of the Roseguard founded the town of...

Er ist ihr Untergang. Sie ist seine Rebellion. New Found Haven ist in Ringe aus Reichtum und Elend geteilt und wird von einer maskierten Elite beherrscht. Greyson Serel gibt sich als perfekter Sohn des Präsidenten – doch er hütet Geheimnisse, die das System zu Fall bringen könnten. Das letzte, was er jetzt braucht, ist eine arrangierte Ehe mit einer Frau, die ebenso gefährlich wie attraktiv ist.

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care. 

Mein Stift wird sich nicht an dich erinnern. Aber meine Klinge wird es ganz sicher... Das Finale der Near-Future-Dystopie-Trilogie von Alexis Patton Khalani Kanes kennt nur das Überleben. Sie ist aus dem tödlichsten Gefängnis der Welt geflohen und gehört zu den wenigen Menschen, die jemals...

A boy wins $100,000 in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw it all away to be a singer-songwriter. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. A new arrival in heaven, overwhelmed by infinite options, procrastinates over his long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet a vengeance-minded hare. We learn why wearing a red T-shirt is the key to finding love; how February got its name; and why the stock market is sometimes just...down.

Eine Nacht, die alles verändert Jaxon Riley lebt für Eishockey, unverbindliche Abenteuer und seine Katze – feste Beziehungen? Keine Chance. Lennon Hayes hingegen sollte eigentlich ihre Flitterwochen genießen, aber stattdessen landet sie nach ihrer gescheiterten Hochzeit als frischgebackener...

Willkommen zum Threshing Day, dem brutalen, hochriskanten Wettkampf, bei dem angehende Drachenreiter des Basgiath War College um die Bindung zu einem Drachen kämpfen — oder dabei sterben. Inmitten erbarmungsloser Konkurrenz und Drachenfeuer müssen diese dreizehn Kadetten auf einem...

Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all", Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life.

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

Pummel hat mit Sport nicht viel am Hut. Beim großen Sportfest will er lieber Süßigkeiten mampfen. Doch dann fordert der geheimnisvolle Meister Wu Pummelomi zum Pummel-Fu-Duell heraus und versetzt sie mit einem verbotenen Schlag in Schlafstarre. Nur wer ihn besiegt, kann sie wecken. Für...

»Keine Verurteilung heißt nicht, dass du unschuldig bist.« Eine junge Richterin muss sich entscheiden – zwischen dem Gesetz und ihrem Sohn. Nach ihrem Bestseller »Prima facie« legt Suzie Miller mit »Inter alia« erneut den Roman der Stunde vor. »Wenn du Veränderung erleben willst...