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Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day.

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins - turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother....

Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem grausigen Mord an einem Lumpensammler und dem geheimnisvollen Verschwinden des jungen Maurice Beaumont? Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson reisen nach Paris und machen im dortigen Polizeiarchiv eine überraschende Entdeckung...

Grimms Märchen sind keineswegs nur kindgerecht und harmlos. Im Gegenteil! Hier wird von Hexen, Teufeln und Bösewichtern aller Art gemordet, zerstückelt, verbrannt und verzaubert. Die unheimlichsten und blutrünstigsten Schauergeschichten der berühmten Märchensammlung gibt es nun endlich als aufwendige Hörspiel-Neuvertonungen. Enthält die Hörspiel-Versionen der Märchen "Blaubart", "Das Mädchen ohne Hände", "Der Räuberbräutigam" und "Der Liebste Roland". Das bereits 7. Abenteuer von Alwyne und Colin Hargreaves, unserem sympathischen Geisterjäger-Ermittler-Team im Gruselkabinett!

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerk-face bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

Willkommen in Stallen, der elitären Magierschule! Bis vor kurzem wusste die 16-jährige Ashkana noch nichts von ihrer Existenz. In Ashas Leben gibt es immer wieder neue Enthüllungen. Timothy, ihr mysteriöser Vampirfreund, nimmt sie mit zu dem Herrenhaus, in dem sein Schwarm lebt. Und sie trifft Yrul, ihren mutmaßlichen Vater, der ihr eine beunruhigende Nachricht überbringt. Unterdessen verkünden Thresh und Heather auf der Party zu Ehren von Maximus Stargar das Datum ihrer Hochzeit. Dennoch sind die beiden nicht mehr so richtig auf der gleichen Wellenlänge.

Schizophrenia has become a recognized psychotic disorder in modern day psychology and research has shown that one in 100 people suffer from this disease in some proportion or degree. It is a dreaded disease and comes as a near death blow to those who are diagnosed with this condition. This fear does not necessarily arise from the scary disease it actually is, but various misconceptions, myths, and misunderstanding that surround it. This disorder has been very thoroughly misunderstood and misrepresented.

As the "science of humanity," anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world's varied human societies, including our own.

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care.

What do you do when you discover your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian lit professor? You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!  

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

In spite of the hyper-connected culture we live in today, women still feel shamed for oversharing and being publicly vulnerable. And no matter how many friends we seem to have, many of us are still desperately lonely. Laura Tremaine, blogger and podcaster behind 10 Things to Tell You, says it's time for something better. Openness and vulnerability are the foundation for human growth and healthy relationships, and it all starts when we share our stuff, the nitty-gritty daily details about ourselves with others.

Best buds Milo Manganiello and Alice Hooper have been the one constant in each other's lives for over 15 years. The charismatic and compassionate physics professor was there when Alice got married, and he was there 10 years later when she got divorced. Likewise, the candid and kind computer science professor has always been there for Milo. She babysits his apartment and plethora of houseplants when he's traveling, and they share breakfast together every day he's in town.

What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.

Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all", Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life.

In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.

Liz fürchtet nur zwei Dinge: den Anblick von Blut und die Vorstellung, von Vampiren gebissen zu werden. Schlechte Voraussetzungen für ihre neue Anstellung als Blutmagd. Nun muss sie es regungslos über sich ergehen lassen, wenn von ihr getrunken wird. Sonderbarerweise verabscheut der hochmütige Vampir Aydan, für den sie eingestellt wurde, die Vorstellung, von ihr zu trinken, ähnlich wie Liz. Aus ihrer Abneigung zueinander entwickelt sich schon bald eine verbotene Faszination. Mit jeder gemeinsamen Nacht wächst eine neue, noch tiefere Angst in Liz heran: ihr Herz an einen Vampir zu verlieren.

London, 2023: Professor Hunt, Historiker der Cambridge University, wohnt beschaulich am eleganten Gordon Place. Doch die Idylle trügt. Als ein Nachbar ermordet aufgefunden wird, noch dazu in Hunts Wohnung, schaltet sich der Geheimdienst ein. Schnell wird klar, dass das Haus eine dunkle Vergangenheit verbirgt und seine Bewohner sich schon lange kennen. Wien, 1948: Daphne Parson, britische MI6-Agentin, operiert in der geteilten Stadt, deren Bewohner unter Hunger und Kidnappings leiden.