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On a university campus in rural Qixian, Lin and Liz make an improbable pair: Lin, a Chinese student closer to her menagerie of pets than to her peers, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grieving her mother’s sudden death. They’re each met with hostility—Lin by her classmates, who mock her for dating a white foreigner; Liz by her fellow English teachers, who exploit their privilege—and forge an unlikely friendship. After a startling betrayal that results in Lin’s expulsion, they swap places. Lin becomes convinced to pursue her degree at a community college near Liz’s Ohio hometown.

Beyond Barron, the second volume of a memoir initiated by the publication of Back to Barron (in 2008), encompasses captivating humor and telling detail to narrate the story of author Van Tassel and his wife’s life together and their kindred careers. It focuses on schools and colleges and universities attended, taught at, and visited; homes purchased, built, modified, and redecorated; vehicles and pets acquired; and travels and forms of recreation that served as accompaniments to their academic careers and enhancements of family life.

Solipsum follows the adventures of Charlie, young photo assistant who works for one of the top photographers in the world. She gets the assignment of a lifetime and soon finds herself working on a print campaign that takes over all the print-based advertising in thirty cities around the world.

Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

Fii alături de noua generație de pisici războinice în încercarea de a face față profeției sumbre care amenință nu numai clanurile, ci soarta întregii păduri. Noile volume au apărut pe lista "New York Times" a celor mai vândute cărți și au fost nominalizate pentru o multitudine de premii literare.

Cartea a X-a surprinde aventurile prin care trec clanurile de pisici după sosirea în pădurea de pe malul lacului, iar fanii seriei sunt invitați să descopere alături de personajele preferate pericolele ascunse ale unei lumi necunoscute.

Detective Lola Harris is called to a local park where the body of a woman has been pulled out of the river. On the victim’s wrist is a tattoo. A dolphin and a heart. Lola knows who she is instantly – the woman half the Glasgow force have been searching for: missing juror, Kathryn Main. Kathryn was on the jury that convicted reality TV star Carter Craig of a double murder. Just weeks later, the verdict was overturned. Carter walked free. Three jurors were arrested for misconduct. A fourth, Kathryn Main, disappeared. Then, a witness comes forward with shocking new information.

In The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges, editors Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict, along with a team of international scholars, contextualize Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century listeners and critics.

Dalle strade di Rozzano agli Stati Uniti, da Danielino a King Toretto, dalla gloria al KO più difficile. Per la prima volta Daniele Scardina rivive l'infortunio che lo ha visto lottare in bilico tra la vita e la morte, e ripercorre le tappe più importanti della sua vita e della sua carriera. Una storia di ricordi, amore, fede, ferite e voglia di rivalsa, in un ring di emozioni continue e parole che arrivano dritte al cuore. "Hai avuto un'emorragia cerebrale. L'hanno definito ematoma sottodurale post-traumatico".

Trenton, in New Jersey, è il tipico buen retiro, un angolo di provincia tranquillo circondato dai boschi, dove l'hobby preferito è annoiarsi col sorriso. È dunque uno shock per tutti quando Scott Hicks viene rinvenuto ormai cadavere in casa, il volto tumefatto, devastato da centinaia di punture di vespe. Pochi sapevano che lo psichiatra fosse allergico, ma sicuramente ne era a conoscenza il suo assassino. Perché di omicidio si tratta, non ci sono dubbi: Hicks aveva il viso cosparso di aceto e zucchero, una mistura perfetta per attirare le vespe e procurargli così un letale shock anafilattico.

Internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Născut anxios este cea mai cunoscută lucrare a psihologului și pediatrului american Daniel P. Keating. Una dintre tezele fundamentale ale cărții este aceea că stresul la care este expusă o persoană în primul an de viață poate avea o influență hotărâtoare asupra dezvoltării ei ulterioare. Keating argumentează, invocând o serie întreagă de studii din diverse domenii, că nivelul de stres la care sunt expuși părinții este transmis, printr-un soi de conta­minare, copilului, printr-un proces epigenetic descris, pe larg, în carte.

In a world where time can feel increasingly scarce, we find ourselves in a dilemma: should we prioritize ourselves or others? Yet as psychologist and compassion scientist Jordan Quaglia demonstrates, this choice is based on a false dichotomy. The emerging science and practice of we-care reframes the very concept of care as a social force that includes both self and other.

Hey there, future GMAT conqueror! Let me tell you, you've just taken a fantastic first step. Right now, you’re holding a book that isn’t just another long, dry list of vocabulary words. This is your personal key to mastering the language of the GMAT — but with a twist. Instead of memorizing and forgetting, we're making vocabulary unforgettable. Think mnemonics, stories, even a bit of humor. This book makes each word something you'll understand, remember, and actually know how to use — not just for test day but long after.

Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and for companionship, intimacy and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives—can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book, Alone explores how we want to live.

Investigative reporter Hope Walker is hitting her groove. She's running a small town newspaper, solving complex mysteries, and things are heating up between her and the local sheriff. But trouble is in the air. A dark mystery swirls around why her mother abandoned her so many years ago. New and confounding murders pop up. And Gemima Clark, Hope's enemy since birth, is up to something nefarious and it might just ruin everything Hope has tried to build.

It was a feverish adrenaline-fueled act of pure hatred. When a friendly game between neighbors and classmates suddenly turned violent, one player is forced to carry the weight of a careless decision for the rest of his life.

A new way to consider patterns of personality, with the combined application of neurobiology and traditional wisdom, Personality and Wholeness in Psychotherapy applies the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to a traditional wisdom framework widely known as the Enneagram of Personality. This framework describes a lifespan developmental personality model of nine distinct, key strategies that people use to make sense of and cope with their experiences and interactions with the world. These strategies can be understood as nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs.

The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in. In this book Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself.

Investigative reporter Hope Walker doesn't have a problem. She's got lots of them. The mayor is out to get her. The hunky guy she likes just left town. The local bank's been robbed. And now the new sheriff is doing everything to get in her way. And that just might be the biggest problem of all. Because there's been another murder in Hopeless. And as usual, Hope's the only one who can solve this mystery.