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Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results.

Written in 1948 and made into a popular film the same year, Just William's Luck is the only novel Richmal Crompton wrote featuring her famous hero. The action takes place throughout one extraordinary day in William's life. It begins harmlessly enough in the old barn and soon develops into a riotous comedy-thriller as the invincible schoolboy hatches a plot to marry off the elder brothers of The Outlaws.

Menschen verändern sich. Sie verändern ihre Gestalt - plötzlich bricht es aus ihnen heraus. Da, wo eben noch Haut war, sprießt plötzlich Haar. Gesichter, eben noch menschlich, verformen sich - werden zu entstellten, hässlichen Fratzen, die einem Affen ähneln. Und sie werden brutal. So brutal, dass keiner vor ihrem tief in ihnen brodelnden Zorn mehr in Sicherheit ist.

While we cannot predict every question that Amazon will ask in an interview, the process is fairly structured. This makes the interview process transparent and easy to prepare for because we know many of the themes they will cover and questions they will ask. Imagine if your teacher in university told you most of the questions that were going to be on the test beforehand - all you would have to do is practice. Consider this book your study guide.

You see it all over the casino and on gaming websites. Your favorite team has the odds stacked against them. But what does that mean? You should bet on your hometown team to win, right? What if you wanted to place a real wager to win real cash? Would you even know where to start? My book, Sports Betting for Beginners, will show you, the first-timers, the ins and outs of sports betting. It takes all of the information about the different wagers, odds, and sportsbook systems and breaks it down into information that is understandable and useful.

Cinderella meets Fifty Shades. An erotic tale of love and lust in the office. Kali goes to a masquerade party dressed as a sexy sub. She shouldn't let her friend talk her into it, but behind the anonymity of the mask, Kali's inhibitions fade away.

Some people are convinced they can do anything; Evan Orgell is one of them. So when his company president sends him off-world to investigate a breakdown in communications from a small research station on a newly discovered planet, he's all in. The planet's resources could mean massive profits for the company-and a successful mission could mean massive advancement for Evan. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Invisible tells the story of the investigation into the missing person’s case of a Northern Arapaho woman named Jade Wagon who disappeared in January 2020.

Un examen minucioso del comportamiento humano y una respuesta a la pregunta: ¿por qué hacemos las cosas que hacemos? Sapolsky analiza los factores en juego, desde el momento previo hasta los factores arraigados en la historia de nuestra especie y su legado evolutivo. Partiendo de una explicación neurobiológica -¿qué sucedió en el cerebro de una persona un segundo antes de que se comportara así?, ¿qué visión, sonido u olor hicieron que el sistema nervioso produjera ese comportamiento?-, pasamos a pensar en el mundo sensorial y la endocrinología.

En ouvrant ces pages, vous découvrirez des moyens de renforcer les liens familiaux perturbés par les distractions numériques. Il vous permettra de réengager vos enfants et vos adolescents dans le monde réel qui les entoure. Grâce à une approche fondée sur une saine communication, vous apprendrez à établir un dialogue ouvert et respectueux avec vos enfants. Vous transformerez les conflits autour du temps d’écran en opportunités de connexion et de compréhension mutuelle. Découvrez comment créer un espace où chaque membre de la famille peut s'épanouir, au-delà des écrans.

Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horse racing takes place on the frozen lake, Miles gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins to search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop him—and they’ll go to any lengths to do it.

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States - by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey, Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time.

Pardonnez-leur, mon père, car ils ne savent pas ce qu’ils ont fait. Pardonnez à ces sept hommes victimes d’étranges maléfices, venus chercher dans le confessionnal une oreille attentive au récit de leur infortune et implorer le salut de leur âme souillée par la curiosité et la faiblesse de la chair. Pardonnez aussi à cette femme calomniée, emmurée dans un cruel silence, car elle sait bien ce qu’elle a fait.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that. But what if modern technology was... literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine? Prepare to travel through the bad gateway as acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Tom Neenan (The Mash Report) finds out what horrors may be lurking in our apps and gadgets.

Les hurlements terrifiés de Jimmy et Flavien en pleine classe n'inquiètent d'abord pas Jacob. Il n'est pas comme sa mère, une excentrique enquêteuse qui voit des drames et des mystères partout. Mais les deux élèves blagueurs sont-ils de si bons acteurs? Quand d'autres personnes sont victimes de ces mêmes crises de frayeur, Jacob ne peut plus faire comme si tout était normal. Quelle est la cause de ces terreurs? Une série télévisée de zombis? Le fantôme d'un ancien concierge? Son enseignante madame Patricia?

Published in 1797, the Critique of Pure Reason is considered to be one of the foremost philosophical works ever written. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant explores the foundation of human knowledge and its limits, as well as man's ability to engage in metaphysics.

Christopher Lee's highly acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.

Oliver Scott is the reclusive genius and trillionaire behind countless world-changing breakthroughs. How does he innovate at such a furious pace? While most hail him as a savior, what if he's actually the most dangerous tyrant humanity has ever seen? A man who will stop at nothing to gain absolute power.

Discover the practical, fail-proof tools that will help you to fine-tune your leadership skills, solidify respect among your workforce, and ensure your company's lasting success.

The world’s most powerful and profound entheogen, 5-MeO-DMT, “The God Molecule,” is rapidly spreading around the globe, due to its unique ability to provide reliable access to nondual states of consciousness and embodied experience. Attracting the attention of philosophers, therapists, researchers, celebrities, and spiritual seekers the world over, this radical entheogen is quickly changing the landscape of humanity’s ability to experience itself as the divine without the need for religion or even spirituality.