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Anyone can get started in astronomy, just by going outside on a dark night with a star chart and learning their way around. Timothy Ferris tells us what's been seen out there - the Ring nebula, the Silver Coin galaxy, the Virgo supercluster, and how to find them.

The complete first and second series of the Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and David Threlfall. In this parody of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, everyman Edward Wilson finds his life taking a sinister turn when he becomes embroiled in mysterious government machinations.

In these four supernatural dramas, first broadcast on radio in 1984, a house hides more than meets the eye; a B & B landlady helps her guests forget their troubles; a Japanese man inadvertently awakens a vengeful spirit; and a mother and baby become unsettled in remote mill.

Donna has it all - a generous husband, two healthy kids, a Jersey Shore home - but believes something is missing. When she signs up for yoga teacher training, her carefully cultivated life begins to crumble. Her husband is having an affair. Dangerous childhood secrets resurface. Her mother dies suddenly. And she doesn’t even like yoga...yet. As Donna reels and heals, she discovers love, rescues dogs, and confronts yet another crisis of faith when her new fiancé falls ill.

For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red Limit is the tale of this discovery, its ramifications, and the passionately competitive astronomers who charted the past, present, and future of the cosmos.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens' famous novel, starring Pam Ferris, Adjoa Andoh and Tim McInnerny with Edward Long as Oliver. Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach him the tricks of the pick-pocket's trade.

The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday.

The mystery of Rennes-le-Château has inspired treasure hunts, theories about the origins of Christianity, and the best-selling novel and film The Da Vinci Code. The mystery concerns Bérenger Saunière, the 19th century priest of an impoverished hilltop village in southern France who became immensely wealthy after apparently finding ancient parchments hidden in his church.

Fino a che punto possiamo andare contro noi stessi per amore? Fino a che punto si può concedere fiducia a chi ci inganna? Fin dove possiamo spingerci nel perdonare chi mostra indifferenza mentre andiamo in mille pezzi? Clara vive a Roma, dove gestisce una libreria. Ama il suo lavoro e crede che i libri non regalino solo sapere, ma a volte possano curare, persino salvare chi ne ha bisogno. Adesso però nemmeno lei riesce a trarre beneficio dalla lettura. La sua vita è una continua altalena da quando, tre anni prima, ha conosciuto Alessandro.

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In this intriguing recording, Professor Emeritus Timothy Ferris—one of the world's most respected science writers—explores man's search for life elsewhere in the universe. Ferris combines new discoveries about the origins of life as we know it on Earth with recent revelations about the sun's planets and their moons. Ferris explains why many scientists are convinced that life is abundant throughout the cosmos, and he considers how one day radio telescopes may be used to connect us to an intergalactic Internet and link us to alien civilizations in the far reaches of the universe.

Ash's dreams have come true—she's going to TENNIS CAMP for TWO WHOLE WEEKS! It's going to be so much FUN. On the first day, Ash meets her friend Zia, the coaches are great, and Ash is having the BEST time UNTIL the end-of-camp competition is announced. It's a DOUBLES tournament. Who will Ash get paired with? But that's not her only worry; there's a mean kid, and a talent show to deal with!

Ash and James have been invited to their friend's birthday. It's a fancy-dress party and of course, Ash is dressed as a tennis player! But when Ash loses her favourite tennis racquet, she is so worried. Even with James's help, will she ever find it?

Reminder: You were made to change the world. So what would it feel like to see the impact you can make and know you are making a difference - right here, right now? You: The Sting Operative is the essential guidebook for superheroes of all ages. As a ninja-next-door, you'll be equipped with 100 different Sting Ops Missions to make the world a better place starting today - with little to no cost, and right from your own neighborhive!

Tea, l'amica che nessuna vorrebbe. Ma se fosse lei l'unica in grado di salvare il mondo? Quattro giovani autrici comiche per un romanzo ironico, inaspettato e attualissimo. "Un libro scritto da donne ma che sanno parcheggiare" - Badfeminist.com. "Il peggior libro della storia" - Rivista maschilista italiana. "L'ennesimo disastro del 2020" - Tutti. Ci sono quattro ragazze. C'è Caterina che, senza nemmeno sapere bene come, è diventata una "influencer body positive". Posta le sue foto sui social, e grazie a lei molte ragazze e donne hanno iniziato ad accettare il proprio corpo.

What are the magnets? Do magnets have healing properties? How powerful are microwave magnets compared to the ones in hard disk drives? Are magnets the products of free energy? Why don't we use magnets now instead of oil or electricity? Were the Great Pyramids moved and set in place by magnetic energy? Did Latvian-born American Edward Leedskalnin, the builder of Florida's coral castle, master magnetic forces to move massive rocks without the aid of modern machinery? 

Chi ha detto che i milionari devono essere sempre solo belli e dannati? Esistono anche quelli romantici e sognatori e ve lo dimostreremo! Per sfuggire alla sofferenza di un amore finito, l'ereditiera Penny Hindmarsh-Firth scappa dalla vita mondana. Intrappolata da un'inondazione in una zona sperduta, è portata in salvo da un affascinante straniero a cavallo. Matt Fraser, un milionario sui generis, dopo essere stato tradito ha deciso di ritirarsi nella sua isolata tenuta, rinunciando a ogni forma di vita sociale. Due cuori spezzati, quando si trovano, si riconoscono.

This book's main characters are a boy named Edgar and a girl named Delilah. They have woken up in a strange place, and neither of them knows who they are, or where they are. Most of their memory is gone, and because of that, they are unsure what to do and how to act. As they try to figure out who they are, they are told by a note card that if they complete a number of tasks, they will have all of the answers they desire.

Dentro al porno ci siamo tutti. Gaudenti e bacchettoni, adolescenti e attempati, single e fidanzati. È il video hot che teniamo in sottofondo mentre scriviamo una mail al capo. È il messaggio sexy che ci compare sullo schermo del telefono alla fine di un appuntamento noioso. È il brivido che ci attraversa in metropolitana immaginandoci avvinghiati allo sconosciuto seduto davanti a noi.

Un cibo non troppo caldo e non troppo freddo, un letto non troppo morbido e non troppo duro: ecco cosa vuole la giovane protagonista della fiaba "Riccioli d'oro e i tre orsi", qualcosa di "proprio giusto". Sembra bizzarro, eppure l'astrobiologia usa lo stesso criterio nella ricerca di possibili forme di vita nello spazio. Tanto che si chiama "Fascia Riccioli d'oro" la zona abitabile di un sistema stellare, lo spazio in cui si trovano i pianeti che possiedono le caratteristiche necessarie allo sviluppo della vita: presenza di acqua, temperature non eccessivamente calde o fredde.