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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.

Casey Kasem is best known as a radio icon and legendary voice behind America’s Top 40 who left an indelible mark on pop culture.

La reine Anna a du pain sur la planche : son royaume accueille des visiteurs, un ami a besoin de son aide, et le neveu du Duc de Weselton rôde dans les parages. Alors, quand les Esprits de la Nature commencent eux aussi à faire des leurs, elle sait qu’elle doit résoudre ce problème au plus vite, avant que la situation ne dégénère. Mais lorsque Elsa et Anna se rendent dans la Forêt Enchantée, elles découvrent de mystérieuses machines en cuivre qui semblent perturber l'ordre naturel des choses.

At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high.

It was supposed to be another boring day at the insurance office for Rico Kline, but powerful forces had other plans for him. Finding himself repeatedly summoned to other worlds as a disposable minion, Rico must face deadly foes, disarm insidious traps, become a test subject, and run the occasional errand for his various summoners. At least when each summoning is over, he’s rewarded and sent back home. But being back home has its own set of problems, and he'll need to grow stronger to face it all.

En 1984, la sociedad ha cambiado tanto que resulta irreconocible. La Franja Aérea 1, la antigua Gran Bretaña, está sometida a la implacable vigilancia del Gran Hermano. Nadie puede escapar de ella... salvo, tal vez, Winston Smith. En su puesto del Ministerio de la Verdad, donde trabaja reescribiendo la historia, sueña en secreto con ser libre. En un mundo donde el amor y el sexo están prohibidos, donde no es fácil diferenciar amigos de enemigos, conocerá a Julia y a O’Brien, y jurará rebelarse.

In a not-so-distant future, a deadly pandemic has forced the world into social isolation. Confined to their homes, millions now survive off drone-delivered food packages and online-only interactions. It’s an especially lonely life for John Chambers, a drone shipment coordinator for the monolithic Chum Corporation. Trapped in his dead-end job, John has started spending much more of his time grinding in virtual reality role-playing games.

A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches. Robert Graves, who went on to write I, Claudius, has given to posterity here one of the all-time great insights into the experience of war.

Chad Johnson built his following by being a troll. Online games, social media, you name it—he's there with a witty comeback. But when he goes too far during a televised stream, he's handed a punishment unlike any other. Instead of the usual ban or suspension, Chad's sentenced to thirty days of full immersion therapy in Isle of Mythos—a world of epic fantasy filled with dungeons and mythical creatures. The twist? He's forced to embody a forest troll, one of the most-despised races in Mythos.

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.

The Zhuangzi—an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC—is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist philosophy. It has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought, literature, and culture, inspiring philosophy, poetry, idioms, proverbs, and even visual art.

A seminal work on the astonishing power of the gospel by one of the most original thinkers of our time.

Fabi Fuchs nächste Station: Spanien. Dank Pollys Appetit auf Nusstorten landen Fabi, Polly, Pips und Hendrix zu ihrer großen Freude in der Markthalle von Barcelona. Wie toll es hier riecht und was es alles Leckeres zu essen gibt! Die Freunde schwelgen bis Polly sich an ein paar Nüssen vergreift, und sie sich schnell aus dem Staub machen müssen und an den Hafen flüchten. Dort entdecken sie Tiere im Meer, die ihre Hilfe brauchen - Fabis Bande sticht in See ...

Achats compulsifs, dépendance affective, addiction aux réseaux sociaux, incapacité à tolérer la solitude.... La pandémie de COVID-19 aura jeté une lumière sur ces comportements qui traduisent dans le quotidien notre sentiment de vide intérieur. La Dre Julie Desrosiers, ergothérapeute, puise dans ses propres expériences pour offrir ce guide d’autogestion accompagné, qui privilégie l’acceptation de soi et des autres, en particulier dans le contexte de crises individuelles ou collectives.

On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.

Essential CISM has been written with a single goal in mind - to present the CISM material in a way that is easy to absorb without leaving any content behind. Plenty of examples are included to drive the points home so that when it comes time to take the CISM exam, you are ready! The book is broken down into two sections. Section 1 covers basic concepts you will need to understand before hitting each domain. The CISM official exam guide is redundant across the domains, and so in this book you will encounter each topic once instead of having to rehash the same subject in different ways.

Les 50 Enseignements les Plus Puissants de Jésus" en version audio rend les leçons de Jésus accessibles et applicables à votre vie quotidienne. À travers des explications claires, des exemples concrets et des conseils pratiques, ce livre audio vous guide vers une compréhension profonde et une application facile des enseignements de Jésus.

Psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.

The best-selling Option Volatility & Pricing has made Sheldon Natenberg a widely recognized authority in the option industry. Clear, concise, and comprehensive, the second edition of Option Volatility & Pricing is sure to be an important addition to every option trader's library - as invaluable as Natenberg's acclaimed seminars at the world's largest derivatives exchanges and trading firms.

No pasa nada, estaba claro que esto terminaría de esta forma y esas ilusiones que me hice —porque me las hice, ¿vale?— tenían fecha de caducidad, como sus miradas, nuestros besos y el mejor sexo que he tenido nunca. La resignación es el primer paso para sacarlo de mi cabeza. Y tú dirás: «Ay, Nora, pero si hasta hace nada decías que no querías complicarte la vida y tampoco fastidiar la amistad que teníais, y vas tú y con un par de meneos.