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Two Revolutions and the Constitution describes how the American Constitution secured the gains of the American Revolution. It tells the story of how the American constitutional system drew on both Americans' experience of partial self-government in colonial America and their understanding of the British constitution. It also tells how, when they were drafting the Constitution, the Framers used what they had learned about effective constitutions since independence. This audiobook describes how the English started that struggle, and the American Constitution completed it.

In profound, uplifting verse, beloved author Matt de la Peña explores the endless possibilities each child contains: A young dancer may grow into a computer coder; a basketball player might become a poet; a class clown may one day serve as an inspiring teacher; and today’s quiet empath might be tomorrow’s great leader. Here's a profound and uplifting new classic with an empowering message for listeners of all ages: Your story is still being written.

Everyone has those difficult blank moments sometimes. Whether in your personal life, career or relationship or in a public situation, writer's block, social anxiety, imposter syndrome, being off-form or having an identity crisis can affect anyone at any time. It's part of the human condition, and yet it can throw us off course and make us feel helpless. Giles Paley-Phillips and Jim Daly host an informal, insightful podcast in which they chat to well-known people from comedy, acting, writing, broadcasting, politics and sports about their careers and how they get through these moments.

Chance Hale is more interested in running around with women than following in his father's footsteps as head of the billion-dollar tech company Halcyon Enterprises. Called home for an important announcement, Chance seeks to liven up the weekend by bringing along an alluring young lady named Cadence Turing, who claims to be visiting his home planet, Arrhidaeus, from the planet Paraesepe. But when someone turns up murdered, all evidence points to Chance. Of all the house's guests, his weekend companion seems to believe she can prove his innocence, though she's hesitant to admit how.

Meet Ellie. She's perfectly happy living a quiet life with her husband, Clive. (Well, she does sometimes wonder about the way he talks to her and about all the things she hasn't achieved yet. But she's happy enough.) Meet Dan. He's definitely content - content with his predictable, ordered existence, making harps in his isolated barn on Exmoor. Content being on his own, far away from other people and - crucially - far away from any risk of surprises.

Catherine Cook, unclaimed granddaughter of the great explorer James, Cook is on her way to America to re-connect with her mother’s family when fate intervenes and thrusts her into ultimate peril. All of her life, Kate has yearned to go to sea and to command a sailing ship in the Royal navy…an impossible dream for a young woman in 1797.

Written while he was serving time in a Russian prison, Dostoyevsky was heavily influenced by the novels of Charles Dickens. A frustrated love affair, an orphan girl in jeopardy, a scheming aristocrat, and an angry father who casts his daughter out of his life are just a few of the ingredients that make this witty and poignant novel a delight to listen to.

When it comes to women, the Duke of Danby is an audacious rake...but when it comes to ridding the kingdom of smugglers, he’s leading the charge. The Prince Regent has bankrupted the country more than once, and Danby isn’t about to go down with a sinking ship. The Honorable Eleanor Kent hides behind the image of a self-proclaimed spinster...though in truth she’s one of England’s most sought-after privateers. When their paths cross at a royal dinner...Danby suspects the stunning redheaded woman is more than she seems.

Clever Heifer wants to enjoy her most favorite fantabulous farmyard fun...Laying underneath the shade of the Snotty Gobble tree. But...Clever Heifer can't lay underneath the shade of the Snotty Gobble tree; not until she finds a way to get rid of Fester the Cow-Pie-Fly, who keeps skittering around on top of her moo-cow hind end. Clever Heifer ask her farmyard friends for advice how to get rid of Fester the Cow-Pie-fly...Will Clever Heifer ever come up with a way to get rid of Fester the Cow-Pie Fly?

An asylum is a prison, a state of isolation of the mind and the body. It is where one goes to think; to be incarcerated. An asylum is a place to forget and to be forgotten. It is a haven as well as a nightmare, both physical and mental. James Callaway found himself in just this kind of place. He has no idea who put him here, or why. All he knows for certain is that he needs to escape if he wants to see his family again.

Boy rides across the desert on a "borrowed" horse. His destination? The great city of Cherabim. He carries with him the Book of Secrets, which contains his late father's brilliant inventions, one of which could change the world forever. But Boy falls in with brigands who rob him and leave him for dead in the harsh desert sands.

The young bodybuilder found himself alone in a strange city, homeless, where he knew no one. Would he survive the concrete jungle when all his pleas for help fell on deaf ears? The alien world Will visited every night in his dreams had its own perils too. He must find the blue orchid he had placed on the dead girl’s chest before he had pushed her body into the lava flow. He had been told that the flower couldn’t perish in flames, but would he be able to find it? Would he find the narrow path to his love? Would the blue orchid melt the ice in her heart?

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a professional auctioneer, he thought he was embarking on a sensible and safe career...a quiet life in the country with no surprises. How wrong he was.

Kraken, the first colony of Earth - an Earth-twin that never suffered the dinosaur extinction meteor strike and subsequent entry into radical cycles of climate. A world that should have been paradise for those first colonists is on the brink of war...with its own motherland. Kraken citizens are split in their loyalty. Hostile acts against the colony by a desperate motherland are rising. Jankin Decatur takes a desperate peace mission to Earth to appeal to the NAU Senate on what may be their final hope for survival.

The Silence of God is a classic written by Sir Robert Anderson in 1897. In it, the Scottish theologian discusses the oft-answered question, "Why does God not intervene in the affairs of men"?

Once a week, three women get together for book club in Kingsland, a private, gated community full of neighbors looking to do their business away from prying eyes. On the same night, their husbands meet up to play poker, where much more is being planned than anyone could guess.

Kennen Sie das? Sie fragen sich, ob es wirklich sinnvoll ist, permanent Zeit gegen Geld zu tauschen. Das Sparprodukt Ihrer Bank bringt Ihnen nicht das Gefühl, wirklich abzuräumen, und die Alternativen sind so zahlreich, dass Sie gar nicht wissen, wo Sie anfangen sollen. Dabei schwebt Ihnen die ganze Zeit dieses magische Stichwort im Kopf herum: Freiheit! Es gibt unzählige Schlagworte, die uns bei dem Gedanken an die "finanzielle Unabhängigkeit" einfallen.

The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickens' career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the world is becoming.

Vom Sortieren der Post über den OP-Saal bis zu Siri und Alexa, von selbstfahrenden Autos über Smartphone-Gesichtserkennung bis hin zur Corona-App: Künstliche Intelligenz bestimmt unseren Alltag schon heute. Aber was steckt eigentlich hinter diesen ganzen Techniken? Anschaulich und voller Enthusiasmus gibt der promovierte KI-Spezialist und Wissenschaftsjournalist Philip Häusser eine Einführung in die faszinierende Welt der künstlichen Intelligenz. Sein Buch ist eine facettenreiche Entdeckungsreise in die unbekannte Welt der Algorithmen und neuronalen Netze.

Luke Frankland, a junior intelligence officer just home from the Iraq War, finds himself cast into a world of cyber espionage and state-level politics. Out of his depth and with no one in the government heeding his warnings, he forms a makeshift team and tries to establish who is waging a new kind of war from behind a keyboard. The truth will leave him plunged into an arena he little expected, and where the real cost is not measured in 1s and 0s but in human life.