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There is one point that contemporary psychology and centuries old Eastern Buddhist and Taoist teachings agree on: if you wish to experience less suffering, you must change the way you see yourself. But what if the change that is needed is to let go of our selves entirely? What does this mean for those of us living in an increasingly self-obsessed and individualistic society? In this compassionate and galvanizing book, Dr. Tom Davies gently invites you to consider the basic elements that define who you are.

The creator of Slinky, Dick James, was an engineer who took a mistake in his workplace and saw the potential to make a mark on the world and increase his fame and fortune. But he sacrificed and gave up his family, and even his creation, to chase after mere vapors of what he thought he wanted.

Welcome to the thirty-seventh volume of Haunted Liverpool, written by Tom Slemen, a cult author and one of the world’s most respected researchers in the realm of the supernatural. In this long-awaited book, Tom presents a variety of spine-chilling stories about ghosts, werewolves, vampires, demons, doppelgangers, terrifying abductors, dream entities, faeries, witches, timeslips, baffling curses, and frightening predictions about the future of the UK, among many other accounts of the unknown.

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive offered him a chance to call NFL games on the spot.

Collaborative Disruption is an insider’s account of the relationship between two of the most successful companies on the planet—Walmart and Procter & Gamble—and the transformative impact their collaborative strategy has had on their business for more than thirty years, particularly in the retail industry. Their innovative partnership produced what has come to be known as the “one-company model,” an approach that has fundamentally changed how suppliers and their retail customers interact with each other.

Ein heroisches Epos über einen Mann und seinen Kampf um das Überleben. Das Leben von Dace Tolman wurde vollkommen auf den Kopf gestellt. Gerade war er noch in seiner Wohnung, doch im nächsten Moment finden sich er und der Rest der Menschheit in einer seltsamen Welt voller Monster und Magie wieder. Eine neue Welt. Die neue Heimat der Menschheit ist alles andere als harmlos. Die Feuerprobe ist eine Welt, die jene bereichert, die ihrer Gaben würdig sind … und den Rest tötet. Jeder Tag ist ein Kampf gegen das System und dessen Kreaturen. Kann Dace seine Herausforderungen überleben?

The forces of evil are weakening as the conspiracy which set a civil war in motion is exposed. Those in the dark recesses of power face their greatest test as do the prepared men and women who will do anything to save their homeland. But is it enough to stitch together a nation torn apart.

La Imitación de Cristo, escrita por Tomás de Kempis en el siglo XV, sigue siendo una obra sorprendentemente vigente para quienes buscan bienestar interior en medio del ritmo acelerado y superficial de la vida moderna. Aunque nacida en un contexto religioso y monástico, su esencia conecta profundamente con los principios contemporáneos de la autoayuda: introspección, equilibrio emocional, vida consciente y desarrollo personal.

Mystery. Humor. Happy stories. Sad stories. The unusual. This little book of short stories covers it all. And overall, you meet a range of interesting, real-life people. You will identify with the residents of a small town, probably not unlike your own. You will laugh as you follow an elderly couple on an overnight getaway trip. You will empathize with a young girl who becomes a woman under some of the harshest circumstances you could imagine. You will follow another young mother who does what mothers do, anything to protect the safety of her daughter.

Freuen Sie sich auf den 5. Band der brachialen Military Science-Fiction-Serie über einen anderen 2. Weltkrieg jetzt als rundum überarbeitete Neuausgabe! Nie war Alternativweltgeschichte aus Deutschland besser! Synopsis: Die Invasion Nordfrankreichs ist abgeschlagen, doch die Regierung unter Kanzler Halder hat im Inneren des Reiches nach wie vor Feinde. Während sich die Wehrmacht auf den entscheidenden Schlag gegen die Sowjetunion vorbereitet, tritt der gefährlichste Mann der Opposition in Aktion – der von NS-Widerständlern aus dem Gefängnis befreite frühere "Reichsführer SS“ Heinrich Himmler.

El 13 de agosto de 1944, el joven piloto estadounidense Joe Moser, de solo 22 años, despegó para cumplir su misión número 44 sobre la Francia ocupada. Moser, quien pasó de ser un chico de granja a cumplir su sueño de pilotear un Lockheed P-38 Lightning, una de las armas más letales de las fuerzas aéreas estadounidenses contra la poderosa Luftwaffe alemana, muy pronto descubriría los horrores de la guerra: su avión fue derribado para posteriormente ser capturado y enviado a Buchenwald, el terrible campo de concentración nazi.

Windsor Kraft Strategies is a shadow empire in the murky world of private intelligence and corporatized warfare. Their "Special Mission Troops," staffed by former military operators and intelligence specialists, are able to discreetly deliver surgical force around the globe, making them a silent partner in American foreign policy. In the failing nation-state of Daristan, NATO’s long-running counterinsurgency campaign begins to falter when the country’s fundamentalist spiritual leader returns from exile with an army of devout fighters.

Jack Ryan Jr. hat sich geschworen, den Mörder einer alten Freundin ausfindig zu machen – doch dieser Fall ist eine Nummer größer als gedacht. Jack Ryan Jr. wird in Barcelona Zeuge eines Selbstmordattentats. Unter den Opfern befindet sich auch seine alte Freundin Renée, die mit dem CIA zusammengearbeitet hat. Kurz bevor sie in Jacks Armen stirbt, flüstert sie ihm noch ein einziges Wort zu: "Sammler". Der spanische Geheimdienst vermutet eine katalanische Terrorgruppe hinter dem Anschlag, doch Jack Ryan Jr. hat seine Zweifel an dieser Theorie.

In "Tunnel to Tomorrow," hearts raced, and hands trembled as a group of children faced an unforeseen tragedy. Their once peaceful world transformed into chaos when a fire, fierce and unyielding, consumed everything they knew. Confused, scared, and drained, the children stood before the remnants of their lives, wanting to escape the haunting reality.

If you're like most people, you don't want to work forever. And if you're like most young adults, you probably have no idea how to make that happen. Enter: this book. Retirement for Young People is a fun, informative guide that reveals the smart decisions you can make now to beat the odds and achieve financial freedom in the future. Author Tom Wambaugh doesn't just explain why early retirement investing is crucial — he provides the practical steps to actually do it. He even shows how you can retire with over $2. 5 million... by working a minimum-wage job for one year. (Yes, seriously!

The eternal blood war between the vampire, shifter and wraith has been at a stalemate for centuries, but someone has just changed the rules of the game. Christian Grieco is a vampire hunter, working with an elite organization known as the Order to hunt down and eradicate the various creatures of the night. Together with Suzie Q, and Sammy, he stumbles upon Evilyn Strogovanna and her daughter Mina. She is a vampire, a killer, he should eradicate her without a second thought. But something about her is different, something about her is special. She is more than a vampire, more than a monster.

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction** This is the definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe – as it’s never been told before. 'Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political...

Lewis, one of the town's few artificers, was recently working on a routine job at Sunhampton School when he stumbled upon old enchantments in the basement. Enchantments that confound even an adept-ranked artificer like him, and will need some creative thought and clever use of skills to break. But that isn't all. It is commonly said that an artificer's work is never done, and Lewis finds himself with more enchantment and disenchantment riddles than he can keep up with. The question is, with the next ranking in his artificery class within reach, how quickly can he solve them?

The Practical Guide to Becoming the Least Boring Person in the Room delivers over 80 chapters of fascinating and entertaining tales about the world we live in. Learn something new and feed your curiosity with intriguing and captivating stories about people, history, culture, science, food and drink, business, sports and recreation, technology, nature, and much more.

This ground-breaking book presents the revolutionary idea that your values are the essence of who you are and by mapping them you will answer the number one global question, “WHO AM I?”