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Möchten Sie die englische Sprache beherrschen? Mögen Sie Urban Fantasy Romane? Haben Sie keinen Spaß daran, mit langweiligen Lehrbüchern Englisch zu lernen? Sollten Sie eine oder mehrere dieser Fragen mit „Ja" beantwortet haben, sollten Sie darüber nachdenken, sich dieses Buch anzuschaffen. Wir bieten Ihnen hier einen einzigartigen Weg zum Erlernen der englischen Sprache.

My name is Theo, and I'm a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It's meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us.

In the first book of the Star Crusades: Uprising series, the bloody struggle is told through the eyes of an illegal pit fighter named Spartan, who is forced to choose between incarceration or military service. Choosing the Confederate Marine Corps over servitude he begins his 30 long weeks of training. Together with his group of marines, they are honed into a force ready to be thrown into the meat grinder on the newest and greatest planet in the Confederacy, Proxima Prime.

The battle has raged for years, with each side gaining in both strength and potency. Bill must fight the alien humans on the battlefield and win, or die trying. Former allies have turned enemies, and trust is lost. When even deadlier threats emerge than ever before, can Bill hope to prevail, or will humanity lose the war?

Nach dem großen Erfolg der ersten Ausgabe von Lesend Englisch lernen haben wir uns entschieden einen zweiten Teil für Sie herauszugeben. Der Ausgangstext des zweiten Teils Teil ist gleichzeitig der zweite Band der Serie Gedankendimensionen. Sollten Sie das erste Buch nicht gelesen haben empfehlen wir Ihnen damit zu beginnen.

Dr. Jack Norris arrives at work one day to find out his best friend, Dr. John Connor, was gunned down by a patient gone mad. While helping the police uncover the reason for this calamity, Jack uncovers a ring of mass murders who will stop at nothing to become rich and famous, even if it means killing innocent lives.

The religious insurgency continues to spread through the weakened colonies of the Confederacy. Spartan, now a sergeant in the Marine Corps and his armored platoon is rushed to the defense of New Carlos on the planet of Prime. The massive city is besieged by the terrifying Biomech shock troopers, its fall is imminent. As the battles rage across the continent, enemy agents continue to foment revolt throughout the remaining colonies in their struggle to bring the empire crashing down.

During an attack on her home, a young woman must join with a cybernetic suit, and the being inside it, in order to survive.

"Valkyrie": A powerful, luscious woman can transform into a creature of the night. Jason tries to save her, but can he save himself from the bloodlust? "Forgotten": A slave woman uses the power of a cyber suit to save herself and finds herself bound to a ghost in the machine, Tcai.

When a psychic is forced to provide predictions to the Mafia in order to keep their crimes from being foiled, Helen Wilson must weigh the balance of her gift with the consequences of complying with the mob. When an underboss believes she is a threat to their criminal enterprise, he has the psychic killed. Her death causes a physical manifestation of the signs of the zodiac, who seek revenge for her murder. The signs begin a mission of revenge, as each creature targets those involved in the psychic's death.

Protagonist Sean Malone's journey begins at 14. He has an IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning streak on Jeopardy. However, he wishes he could just be normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker to pursue a covert operation and killing innocent people along the way. When Sean pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder. He flees to Europe to build a new life under a new name, hiding his mental gift from everyone.

When novelist Jim Eldridge receives an invitation to a writer's retreat on Washington State's Mount Misery, it seems like the perfect escape from the last days of his dead marriage. Jim accepts the invitation to the Hacks Club and joins the other guests including the legendary H. Casper and best-seller Heather Woods for a week of fun and relaxation. Someone in those woods is not happy to see them. The body count rises, and the survivors band together to fight the relentless killer.

"Having known and observed Jeremy for almost half a century, I have no doubt that his influence has been as great as that of all but the most senior figures in government. In his second book, Jeremy continues the recounting of his life's work, which he began in his early volume, Every Man Should Try. Jeremy has devoted his life to conflict resolution and to ending the nuclear arms race." - From the preface by Morton H. Halperin, Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State (1998-2001)

Un pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: il sesso, lo sballo, la rabbia, il vuoto delle giornate. Sono i dannati di un modernissimo inferno chimico, dalla vita sfilacciata e senza scampo. Alla ricerca di un riscatto, di un senso da dare alla propria esistenza - che non sia il vicolo cieco fatto di casa, famiglia e impiego ordinario - trovano nella droga e nella violenza l'unica risposta possibile. Sboccato, indiavolato, travolgente: l'esordio prodigioso di un grande talento letterario, il romanzo shock che ha fatto epoca e dato voce a una nuova generazione.

C'era una volta un taglialegna che aveva sette figli maschi. Il più piccolo e sveglio era lungo un pollice e si chiamava Pollicino. Venne la brutta povertà, e siccome non c'era da mangiare, il taglialegna decise di abbandonare i figli. Un mattino li portò nel centro della foresta, e li lasciò lì. Regia: Gaetano Cappa.

La perfida regina è gelosa della bellezza di Biancaneve e cerca in tutti i modi di sbarazzarsi di lei. Ma non sa che la fanciulla può contare su sette fedeli piccoli amici...

In che modo la dimensione digitale amplifica il razzismo? Perché le disuguaglianze sociali, ancora più evidenti dopo la pandemia, hanno riacceso i fuochi dell'America? Quali possono essere le nostre responsabilità di fronte allo scatenarsi della violenza contro gli immigrati? Sono solo alcune delle domande che si pongono Eraldo Affinati e Marco Gatto in questo animato dialogo sulla crisi socioculturale che ha travolto l'Occidente negli ultimi vent'anni.

La saggezza richiede la comprensione della vacuità di tutti i fenomeni, ma come raggiungerla? Che strada percorrere per eliminare l'attaccamento all'idea di un sé eterno e indipendente? E come armonizzare il proprio vivere con questa conoscenza? Le risposta a queste domande sono contenute in un testo sacro della millenaria tradizione del buddhismo Mahayana, la "Guida allo stile di vita del bodhisattva", scritto nell'VIII secolo dal saggio indiano Shantideva e venerato da tutte le scuole del buddhismo tibetano.

Che senso ha raccontare la storia della bomba atomica? Nessuno, in apparenza. Perché tutti sappiamo già come va a finire. Il mattino del 6 agosto 1945, la bomba viene sganciata sulla città di Hiroshima. E fa circa centosessantaseimila vittime. Eppure, c'è un eppure. Perché questa è una storia diversa da tutte le altre. La sorpresa non sta nel finale, ma nei singoli passaggi. Un presidente che sale al potere nel momento sbagliato. Una rete di falsi sospetti e informazioni top secret.

The story is set in Rome. What will be discovered through the adventure of a summer night along the small streets of Trastevere, one of his Historical areas? It' really impossible not being involved by the eternal city that drags everybody in its vibrant and vital spiral.