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Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering.

In this thrilling story, Tommy, a former bad boy turned undercover agent, is tasked with infiltrating Maria's organization in Chicago. As he gains their trust and uncovers their plans, Tommy faces danger and risks his life to bring down the criminals.

The Light of Christ provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired by the theologies of Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, and John Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context, Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of the Christian religion in a way that is comprehensible for non-specialists: knowledge of God, the mystery of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the atonement, the sacraments and the moral life, eschatology and prayer.

The Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. What can we say about the divine nature, and what does it mean to say that God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, three persons who are one in being? In this book, bestselling author Thomas Joseph White, OP, examines the development of early Christian reflection on the Trinity, arguing that essential contributions of Patristic theology are preserved and expanded in the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Wenn die Retterin selbst Rettung braucht, wer wird dann antworten? Hauptmann Tanja Storm glaubte, endlich Frieden gefunden zu haben. Sie tauschte das Schlachtfeld gegen die Offiziersschule ein und konzentriert sich darauf, ihr Leben wieder aufzubauen und für ihren im Rollstuhl sitzenden Sohn William zu sorgen, dem eine experimentelle Behandlung in Seoul die Hoffnung gibt, wieder laufen zu können.

In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel Man Gone Down, a beautiful and devastating story of a Black father trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. Called “powerful and moving...an impressive success,” by Kaiama L. Glover on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, Thomas’s debut introduced a writer of prodigious and rare talent. In his long-awaited encore and first work of nonfiction, The Broken King, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, and soccer and baseball.

Você já deve ter ouvido muitas vezes que pode mudar sua vida modificando seus pensamentos e atitudes, mas já parou para pensar no que isso significa? Como podemos alcançar nossos objetivos e realizar nossos sonhos? Como nos transformar verdadeiramente? Quais são os segredos do sucesso, do autoconhecimento, da motivação e da felicidade?

Redeemed Unredeemable features a close look into the lives of infamous members of the Manson Family disciples such as Susan Atkins and Charles "Tex" Watson, as well as serial killer Ted Bundy, "Milwaukee Monster" Jeffrey Dahmer, "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, "Pickaxe Killer" Karla Faye Tucker, and parent-killer Sean Sellers.

Phocion (402-318 BCE) won Athens's highest public office by direct democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was officially honored as a "Useful Citizen." A student at Plato's Academy, Phocion gained influence and power during a time when Athens faced multiple crises stemming from Macedonia's emergence as an international power under Philip II and his son Alexander the Great. Following Athens's defeat by Macedonia, Phocion unsuccessfully sought mild terms of surrender. Oligarchy was imposed on democratic Athens, and more than twelve thousand "undesirable" Athenians were exiled.

Dos de los pensadores más influyentes de la actualidad reflexionan en este fascinante diálogo sobre el valor de la igualdad en todos los ámbitos. Thomas Piketty y Michael J. Sandel abordan aquí temas que abarcan la economía, la filosofía y la historia, y valoran cuánto hemos avanzado en la lucha por lograr una mayor igualdad entre las personas de todo el mundo. Al mismo tiempo, afrontan las profundas divisiones que aún persisten a causa de la desigual riqueza, el mal uso del poder y el deseo de estatus y muestran tanto sus acuerdos como sus discrepancias.

2050: Investigative journalist Marcus Tully is grieving his wife and unborn child ten years after they perished in a deadly heat wave that gripped the Persian Gulf. Now the whole planet is both burning and drowning, and the nations of the world decide to elect a global leader to steer humanity through the climate apocalypse. The final two candidates: a former U.S. president . . . and Solomon, the first Artificial Intellect to hold political office. But as election day races closer, Solomon’s creator is murdered, and it's up to Tully to find the culprit.

'Cão maior' é o nome da constelação que abriga a maior estrela visível no céu, Sirius. Uma menina usa sua paixão pela estrelas para fugir da dura realidade de abuso à qual é submetida.

Following the release of their first three international bestsellers Petrus Romanus, Exo-Vaticana, and On the Path of the Immortals Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam were swamped with interview requests from radio, television, and print media outlets around the world. When they accurately predicted the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI one full year in advance, even naming the very month and year he would step down, global shockwaves raised compelling questions regarding why the Vatican has an advanced telescope perched atop Mt.

Stai per fare il grande salto in una posizione dirigenziale e vuoi assicurarti che tutto vada secondo i piani fin dal primo momento? Oppure sei già in una posizione manageriale e vorresti perfezionare il tuo stile di leader? Cerchi un modo per tenere traccia della giungla delle strategie di gestione e scoprire quale si adatta meglio alla tua personalità? Allora prendi questa guida e imposta semplicemente la bussola della carriera su "successo"!

Too often, we assume that our trauma is an individual wound, and that we can only heal it through individual work. In truth, our trauma is shaped by so much more than our own experience—we’re impacted by ancestral trauma from previous generations as well as collective trauma from the world around us. Beloved teachers Thomas Hübl and Richard Schwartz bring together their wisdom to chart a new path forward that addresses all of these sources of pain, so we can heal ourselves and also our communities and world.

Rust in Peace revela os detalhes da produção do icônico disco do Megadeth, lançado em 1990, durante um período de incrível efervescência e criatividade no mundo do rock. Com a assinatura do próprio vocalista e guitarrista, Dave Mustaine, esse livro relembra o processo de contratação da banda (e da equipe de apoio), além da tentativa de lidar com o sucesso e, por fim, a pressão da fama e da fortuna – o que levou a banda a finalmente se separar.

The hidden side of the air travel industry from an insider’s perspective. What really goes on behind the scenes at the airport.

In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause of the Great Plague of London to be confirmed: a powerful bacterium called Yersinia pestis. In those centuries, our understanding of diseases was transformed. In So Very Small, Thomas Levenson reveals how human hubris led us to overestimate our own ability and underestimate the threat that microorganisms truly pose.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapses when her fiancé, Fritz, vanishes after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1933, Hedda is stunned to see Fritz's name in a photograph of an American monument to German POWs in Asheville, North Carolina. Determined to reclaim his body and bring closure to his ailing mother, Hedda embarks on a journey from Germany to the US. However, her quest takes a dark turn when Fritz's casket contains the remains of a woman who died under mysterious circumstances.

Sie glaubten, das Imperium wäre endgültig besiegt …. Fünf Jahre sind seit dem Sieg über den Imperator vergangen und die Galaxis versucht, sich von den Auswirkungen des Krieges zu erholen. Tausende von Lichtjahren entfernt aber hat der letzte der imperialen Kriegsherren, der brillante Großadmiral Thrawn, das Kommando über die zerrüttete Imperiale Flotte übernommen – und richtet diese auf die noch schwache Neue Republik.