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 America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America. 

In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in the Conejo Valley. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a pile-on, via Twitter, by fellow porn professionals - punishment for her tweeting something deemed homophobic. A month later, August’s husband, Kevin, connected with Jon Ronson to tell the story of how Twitter bullying killed his wife. What neither Kevin nor Ronson realized was that Ronson would soon hear rumors and secrets hinting at a very different story - something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.

This audiobook explains how Bill O’Reilly’s career at Fox ended and contrasts the working-class, on-the-ground style of O’Reilly with the class and subtlety of Tucker Carlson. Both conservative hosts are in touch with the common-sense principles of the modern conservative movement, but they come from very different places. 

Hater begins from a simple premise: that it's good to hate things. Not people or groups or benign belief systems, but things. More to the point, it's good to hate the things everyone seems to like. Scan the click-baiting headlines of your favorite news or pop-culture website, and you're likely to find that just about everything is, supposedly, "what we need right now." We are the victims of an unbridled, unearned optimism. And our world demands pessimism. It's vital to be contrarian - now, as they say, more than ever. 

The Earth is not flat, and I will prove it. Flat-Earthers can't be bothered with such proof, however, because theirs is more of a faith than a science. In No Globe: Understanding Flat-Earth Logic, Adams gets to the root of this insanity. Is NASA lying to you about the shape of the Earth? Some people believe not only are the photos of the round Earth fake, but it is all part of the Illuminati's plan to keep God hidden from humanity. After all, if we find out what's behind the dome, we might never trust Big Brother again. Or perhaps this runaway cynicism is due to decades of secretive behavior on the part of the US government....

The most enigmatic and universally known UFO incident in history needs only one name: Roswell. Roswell will never fade as it represents the true ushering in of the UFO phenomenon for time immemorial. Dwarfing Orson Wells' War of the Worlds in national and then international hysteria, Roswell was an unparalleled turning point for all of mankind because for the first time almost every man, woman and child on earth was faced with the reality that we are not alone in the universe.

Alles über Dr. House: Die Jagd nach dem Zebra. Welche Krankheiten sind besonders schwer zu diagnostizieren? Lügen alle Patienten? 10 Dinge, die man über Dr. House wissen sollte.

Alles über Akte X: Werden wir jemals Außerirdischen begegnen? Der Roswell-Zwischenfall - ist die Wahrheit irgendwo da draußen? 10 Dinge, die man über Akte X wissen sollte.

Alles über True Blood: Kann man synthetisches Blut herstellen? Gibt es echte Vampire? 10 Dinge, die man über True Blood wissen sollte.

Alles über Battlestar Galactica: Wie sehr gleichen uns die Zylonen? Künstliche Lebensformen. Auf der Suche nach einer zweiten Erde. 10 Dinge, die man über Battlestar Galactica wissen sollte.

Alles über The Walking Dead: Was tun bei einer Zombie-Epidemie? Was spielt sich im Gehirn eines Zombies ab? Gibt es Zombies wirklich? 10 Dinge, die man über The Walking Dead wissen sollte.

Alle über Star Trek: Wie schnell ist die Warp-Geschwindigkeit? Wann erfinden wir endlich die Teleportation? Wie funktioniert ein Traktorstrahl? 10 Dinge, die man über Star Trek wissen sollte.

Alles über The Big Bang Theory: das Echo der Ausdehnung. Das Cooper-Hofstadter-Paradoxon. Die Asperger-Hypothese. 10 Dinge, die man über The Big Bang Theory wissen sollte.

Wissenschaftlich geprüfter Stoff für alle Serienjunkies: Wie reagiert man nach neusten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen am besten auf eine Zombie-Epidemie à la Walking Dead? Könnte jeder Chemielehrer einfach so Crystal Meth produzieren wie Walter White in Breaking Bad? Wann ermöglicht die Wissenschaft das Teleportieren wie in Star Trek? Und was für eigentümliche klimatische Bedingungen herrschen eigentlich in Game of Thrones?

Une plongée sans précédent dans les eaux troubles du "quatrième pouvoir" ! Aude Lancelin, ancienne directrice adjointe de L'Obs et de Marianne, raconte de l'intérieur un système médiatique français à la dérive... et en miroir, une gauche en pleine déliquescence qui a perdu tous ses repères. Un an avant une élection présidentielle, la "numéro deux" du plus célèbre hebdomadaire de la gauche française est brutalement licenciée.

Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.

In this meticulously researched classic of the JFK conspiracy genre that Library Journal calls "sensational", Mark North argues convincingly that President John F. Kennedy died as the result of a plot masterminded by Louisiana Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello - and, more importantly, that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover learned early on about the plan but did nothing to stop it. Hoover warned no one - not the Dallas police, not the Secret Service. His motives, North suggests, stemmed from a fervent hatred of Kennedy and fear that the President would eventually fire him.

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.

In an age of PR, public protest and other forms of dissent have lost their meaning and impact. The intense media interest in rioting and political violence, as well as an existing obsession with youth culture, have led to an oversaturation and misrepresentation of what these movements are about. Political protest has become a pantomime where activists are always villains, and therefore the politics of these groups are routinely ignored.

With security scares like the Heartbleed bug (which compromised even supposedly safe internet behemoths like Google and Yahoo!) becoming more commonplace, this book is a must-listen for anybody who values their privacy in a wired world.