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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the best-selling series, Younger Next Year for Women now includes two new chapters on the link between physical exercise and brain health. Their message is straightforward: A program of consistent exercise and eating right not only helps us physically but improves memory, cognition, mood, and more.

The Victorian-era writers featured in this collection are known for their power of invention and command of horror and the supernatural. Included are "A Watcher by the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce; "The Body Snatchers" by Robert Louis Stevenson; "The Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving; "Dickon the Devil" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; and "The Open Watcher" by Saki.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

A stunning collection of the most significant short stories by some of the world's greatest writers. Each story packs a great tale into around 20 minutes of concise and evocative narrative. Perfect for the 20-minute commute, the jog around the block, or the bed-time wind down.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

It took a brain surgeon who’s spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

Catch the Sky is the first in-depth look at the life of a police helicopter pilot. Kimball pulls no punches, unfolding his nail-biting personal story in enthralling detail. From death-defying rescues to stories both bizarre and humorous, Catch the Sky puts you inside the helicopter cockpit for a breathtaking ride you'll never forget.

A wonderful collection of spine-tingling, imaginative, terrifying but beautifully written tales to keep you hiding under the bedclothes this Halloween.

What are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted 30 years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, and more, in The Case for Impeachment - a deeply convincing argument for impeaching the 45th president of the United States.

Zehn Jahre nachdem die Keymon von der Erde vertrieben wurden, geht der Krieg gegen die Insektoiden Kreaturen dem Ende entgegen. Im gleichen Maße wie die Siegesmeldungen eintreffen, mehren sich jedoch die Anzeichen von Streitigkeiten um den Thron, der noch von Ulan Mestray, dem Anführer der Akkato, besetzt ist. Unvermittelt findet sich Dominic Porter mit der Frage konfrontiert, wie es mit den Millionen Menschen weitergehen soll, die den Akkato im Kampf gegen die Keymon nützlich waren, nun aber einen kostspieligen Ballast darstellen.

Nachdem die Mission der Zora ein unvermitteltes Ende gefunden hat, beschließt Dominic Porter, der Flotte den Rücken zu kehren und ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Zusammen mit Ellena Green und Monica Simmons macht er sich auf den Heimweg, zurück zu seiner Familie. Doch die Reise birgt unzählige Gefahren, mit denen weder er, noch seine beiden Begleiterinnen rechnen konnten.

Nach dem fehlgeschlagenen Angriff auf die Welt Barathan, flüchten sich Zurak und seine Gefolgsleute auf einen entlegenen Stützpunkt, inmitten eines riesigen Ozeans. Schon bald finden Dominic Porter und seine Kameraden heraus, dass die scheinbar so wohlgesonnenen Akkato dort ein schreckliches Geheimnis hüten.

In the distant future, Spaceways Incorporated detects a scarce and expensive mineral on a planet far beyond our galaxy. They send a well-trained crew on the spaceship Odyssey to mine the minerals; however, a major malfunction changes everything. The crew must escape the ship and head for the nearest planet. They find themselves marooned on a world that is millions of years younger than earth and have to fight for survival on the Planet of Dinosaurs.

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

Die Vorbereitungen eine Kriegerelite zu erschaffen, sind in vollem Gange. Eine Kampfeinheit unter dem Kommando der Akkato, in der ausschließlich Menschen dienen sollen. Auch wenn Dominic diesem Plan nur widerwillig zugestimmt hat, bietet er doch die einzige Überlebensmöglichkeit für die sterbene Menschheit. Es scheint sogar, als seien die Menschen die letzte Hoffnung für die pferdeköpfigen Akkato. Auch die Keymon haben das offenbar erkannt und nehmen die Erde ins Visier.

Nachdem einige schreckliche Geheimnisse ans Tageslicht gelangt sind, müssen die Menschen ihr Verhältnis zu den Akkato neu überdenken. Nichts weniger als der Fortbestand der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel. Werden sich Dominic Porter und seine Kameraden dazu entschließen neue Allianzen zu schmieden, auch wenn das bedeuten mag gegen das Gewissen zu handeln.

Dostra ist eine Bergbauwelt mit extremen Wetterbedingungen. Es herrscht ein Winter, mit Kälteperioden von minus 180 Grad Celsius und ein Sommer, in dem die Temperaturen Blei zum Schmelzen bringen können. Schwer bewaffnet, stehen Dominic und seine Kameraden den Arbeitern der Akkatos zu Seite. Diese werden immer wieder von Keymon angegriffen und benötigen den Schutz der Menschen, die die Gegenwart der Keymon spüren können. Der Winter geht zu ende und die Schneeschmelze beginnt. Eine turbulente Zeit, von Springfluten und Feuerstürmen, die den Planeten überziehen.