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Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.

After saying goodbye to his life on earth, he never expected to find a brand new world still awaiting for him. One where immortals flew through the clouds and ancient evils hid below the surface. One where fables, myths, and legends filled every corner. One where he could finally start anew. Now, however, John is about to learn a valuable lesson, for any place humanity rules will always be the same - a domain where sin and ambition can only be tamed by power. Will he have the strength to walk this road on his own or will he be unable to heal the old wounds hidden deep within his heart?

In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. The peace is kept by a team of smooth, well-dressed negotiators called The Men in Fancy Suits. Meanwhile a young girl is caught in the middle and thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. Zoey, a recent college graduate with a worthless degree, makes a reluctant trip into the city after hearing that her estranged con artist father died in a mysterious yet spectacular way.

In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the best-selling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life. In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the outside stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse - and shows you how you can mitigate the devastating effects on your relationships.

Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, former journalist-turned-author and famed survivor of a plane crash that sparked a nationwide tour promoting her book.

In The Devil and Communist China, Steven Mosher lays out in great detail the diabolical self-aggrandizement with deep roots in Chinese ancient political theory, called Legalism, which established the prototype for the totalitarian rule that the Chinese people suffer under today.

Nicht ein einziges Mal habe ich deinen Namen gesagt. Denn du bist nicht mehr der Gleiche von einst. Deswegen sollst du vor dem Herrn auch nicht mehr Jakob heißen, sondern Israel. Denn du hast mit Gott und mit Menschen und mit dir selbst und deiner Angst gekämpft und hast obsiegt.

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.

Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : Lutin Tamarre chez les dragons ; Flammèche a trouvé sa princesse ; Felix et le dragon bleu ; Gédéon, le dragon et le bébé ; Le dragon qui ne savait pas dire non ; Le dragon des pluies ; Le secret du dragon. Depuis 1972, Les Belles Histoires est le magazine préféré des 4/8 ans : contes initiatiques, histoires d'ogres et de sorcières, aventures sur terre comme sur mer, voyages dans des mondes imaginaires, il y en a pour tous les goûts.

Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.

Dans Super Airbnb, Julien distille de nombreuses techniques pour débuter mais aussi de nombreuses stratégies pour optimiser sa location saisonnière sur le moyen et long terme. Que ce soit la gestion des messages, le check-in automatique ou la corvée des ménages, ce livre regorge de nombreuses astuces et conseils.

Le dernier volet de la trilogie Les Filles de Caleb nous transporte à l'hiver 1958, alors que Blanche franchit le cap de la cinquantaine, entourée de ses deux filles, Élise et Micheline. Avec elles, nous traversons les trépidantes années 1960, puis les turbulentes années 1970, pour suivre leur destinée jusqu'en 1992.

We often think we know what “the virtues” are, and perhaps we even dismiss them as being dry or abstract. But in The Traditional Virtues According to St. Thomas Aquinas, Jason Craig shows us how the insights and teachings of the Angelic Doctor can rescue Catholics from the common distortions of relativism, overpromising self-help programs, and impotent platitudes that reduce good living to “being nice.”

Love is the most common topic in tarot, and Elliot Adam takes the fear out of romance questions. He helps you identify issues and uncover solutions, guiding you in not only finding a partner, but also in healing and improving current relationships.

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products. 

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system.

Denise and Hugh have it all... mostly. Glorious, high-paying jobs at the most illustrious VC firm in San Francisco and expense accounts that let them wine and dine their clients. At a client party, surrounded by the glitz and glam of the one percent, Denise's problems come to a head, and she has to decide which path she wants to take forward: accepting her life and relationships as they are, or something that makes her feel something she hasn't felt in years—ravenous desire.

Can a hot summer fling mend the hearts of two broken women? Morgan Donovan had everything she ever wanted: A dream job as a large animal veterinarian, awesome friends, and a loving and supportive fiancée. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancée dumps her after realizing that Morgan’s job will always come first. And, while Morgan still has the job and friends, her heart is broken into a million tiny pieces Emilia Russo is a burned-out shelter vet.

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work. 

The human heart’s greatest longing is to see God as he is. And yet, many people simply want to escape hell’s pain, or even worse, they follow our disordered fallen nature in choosing sinful pleasures. Our Lord said the road to heaven is narrow, but the road to hell is wide (see Matt. 7:13). Is choosing the road to heaven merely wanting to avoid pain, or is it actively pursuing the greatest good beyond imagining?